By designing peer observations thoughtfully, teaching teams can learn from one another and build their collective efficacy.

This lesson plan provides students with evidence that all living things grow and change as they progress through their life cycle. All of the activities detailed in this lesson plan can be done with ...

This lesson examines the ten times that siting U.S. Speakers of the House have appeared on C-SPAN's live call-in show, "Washington Journal." The lesson opens with two reflective questions that ask ...

In lesson author Tim Smyth’s book, “Teaching with Comics and Graphic Novels: Fun and Engaging Strategies to Improve Close Reading and Critical Thinking in Every Classroom” (Routledge 2022), he discuss ...

students will watch a PBS Newshour segment on the barriers to reentering society after prison, and then they will engage in a Socratic Seminar on the topic. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.1: Cite specific ...

Students with special and exceptional needs are placed in inclusive learning environments more frequently than in the past. For general educators with a limited special education background, this can ...

School counselor Holly Baxter had prepared for this moment for months. She gathered the third-graders of Red Oak Elementary on the carpet for story time, opened the picture book and began to read.

I remember my first year of public school teaching well. I was excited, thrilled—ready to meet my new families. But alas, there was an outcry from parents about their students getting a brand new ...

The MAT is typically a two-and-a-half year program, depending on the content courses you have already completed, when you start the program, and whether or not you take summer courses. Licensure ...

During my thirty-year career in the classroom, I occasionally worked with colleagues who resisted the contractual requirement that they turn in weekly lesson plans. As veteran teachers, they felt that ...

A time-honored nugget of the political stump speech is the anecdote about the teacher who brings breakfast for a hungry student in need, or maybe the one who purchases supplies out-of-pocket for an ...