Most teacher professional development focuses on formal workshops or mentorships, but Tennessee hopes to help teachers improve by leveraging the power of a friendly conversation over coffee or a quick ...

A study of essential dimensions of learning and teaching, including learner characteristics and needs, organization and structure of educational institutions, development of curriculum and lesson ...

Wendi O’Halloran, a former teacher and a director at Northwestern State University’s School of Education, talks about why Louisiana’s teacher evaluations are important and how educators can use them ...

Teaching is a lot like acting, a high-energy, performance profession that requires a person to act as a role model. But when teachers go through training and professional development, the performance ...

What is a Lesson Plan? An effective lesson plan demonstrates how a teacher creates objectives for his or her students and measures how those objectives are mastered. Creating a lesson plan begins with ...

Editor’s Note: This is part of a continuing series on the practical takeaways from research. In our last “What Works” essay, we cast serious doubt on the value of teachers analyzing student test data.

Learning requires building new skills and understanding on prior knowledge and abilities. The order and way students experience new information will have a large impact on how successful they are at ...

In short: A high school in regional NSW that teachers once feared working at has gone through an incredible transformation. A dedicated principal and new education methods have led to some of the most ...

Australian students are being held back by poor teaching practices and lack of direction in the classroom, researchers say. A major survey of teaching practices by the government-funded Australian ...

The preparation of student teachers is a critical aspect of their journey to being professional teachers. And teaching practice – real-world experiences that students acquire from actual classroom ...