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Oakland Unified looks to higher teacher pay to improve student learning as teachers threaten to strike
Teachers' union has threatened to strike after rejecting the district's offer of a 5 percent salary increase. Both sides must first participate in a fact-finding with a three-member independent panel.
14 classroom management strategies to increase student learning
When the right classroom management tools are in place, students are able to learn more as their engagement increases.<br>Focusing on physical classroom management, behavioral management, resources…
5 ways teachers can improve student learning based on current brain research
Educators can positively influence students’ learning by understanding how the brain is shaped by their early experiences—and how it can be rewired and reorganized to work more quickly and efficien…
Important Must Have Educational Apps For Student Learning
Educational apps are useful for allowing students to memorize and learn new concepts.
Parents Need to Learn: Five Ways to Engage Parents in Student Learning
By Arina Bokas, Glenn Gualtieri, and Meredith Copland Research shows that children of engaged parents perform better in school. Yet, as many changes have been occurring in education (e.g., how schools approach curriculum, methodology, and student assessment), the gap between parents’ own educational experiences—stemming from decades ago—and their children’s learning is continuously widening. We believe that now, more than ever before, parents need to understand the…
Student Learning That Works: How brain science informs a student learning model
Student Learning That Works | Free white paper | Bryan Goodwin makes the case for incorporating brain science into the practice of teaching, using a model for learning.
Why Choice Matters to Student Learning
Giving students choice in how they learn and show their knowledge gives them greater ownership over the process.
25 Critical Thinking Apps For Extended Student Learning |
There are many apps that do promote critical thinking--and often extended critical thinking and learning at that. These aren't clinical "critical thinking building" programs either, but rather often enjoyable exercises in strategy, tactics, and problem-solving thought.
Study Shows How Classroom Design Affects Student Learning
A new study shows how color, lighting, and other classroom design choices can have a huge impact on student progress.
How Asking More Effective Questions Can Increase Student Learning in Math
Teachers who ask students questions while demonstrating how to solve problems increase engagement and facilitate a deeper understanding.
How to Create Deeper Student Learning Experiences Through Authentic Questions
When teachers give students the space to pursue inquiry, kids can take more ownership of their own learning and generate authentic questions.
How poorly designed classroom space puts student learning at risk
Space matters. For over 200 years we have been teaching in row-by-column seating. Many experts argue that this classroom style has conditioned both educators and students to ineffectively utilize space. Researchers have said that space affects human behavior in powerful ways. So it is striking to realize that in education, empirical research on space is …
Bolster Student Learning with STEM Enrichment
What are Enrichment Programs Enrichment Programs are all-in-one learning solutions developed to bridge the gap between the classroom and after-school or summer activities. Designed around 12 individual lessons which can be strung together or taught throughout a semester, Enrichment Programs spotlight a particular STEA
Listening In on Student Learning
Listening to student talk is one way that teachers can evaluate student learning in real time and use that information to inform their teaching.
Faculty Development and Student Learning
This book provides a careful study not only of the ways that faculty development changes teachers’ conceptions of student learning and how to foster it, but what those changes actually yield in student achievement.
Feedback for Student Learning Behaviors
I am currently working with a group of teachers and administrators who want to increase the effort of their students focused on critical learning behaviors. This focus matches my continual chorus that teachers do not cause student achievement…students cause student achievement. The real work of the teacher is to teach and model critical learning strategies …
Four Things Teachers Pay Teachers Taught Us
Teachers exist outside of Silicon Valley. No, really. Looking at what they download from Teachers Pay Teachers gives good insight into what teachers want.
Bozeman students learning social and emotional skills
Kids can’t learn if they’re upset about bullying on the playground, parents divorcing or similar problems.
Students learning real-life money skills
Few adults can recall the last time they used the Pythagorean theorem. But most can only too easily remember the last time they paid taxes.
