A few minutes into a lesson on decimals, Nikki Johnson asked her 4th graders at Westside Elementary School to name the fraction that represented the shaded area on a grid she displayed on a PowerPoint ...

The Education Week Research Center worked with a panel of experts to create a list of classroom praise sentences that either promote growth mindsets or trigger fixed mindsets. See if you can sort them ...

Peer feedback and self-assessment build habits that extend into professional life. They teach students to ask questions such ...

Terry Austin, an instructor of anatomy and physiology at Temple College in Texas, has boosted student retention rates in his classes — and he attributes part of that success to the real-time feedback ...

This is the first part of a two-part story about changing classroom culture. Read part two to learn what change this teacher made to help students value growth over grades. Over winter break in 2015, ...

Frank is a social media journalist for the CDW family of technology magazine websites. The Ohio State University, one of the largest higher education institutions in the country, recently improved its ...

Teachers can collaborate with students to identify shared values that establish a foundation of respect and a positive ...

About a month into each semester, Gayle Golden sets aside a little time to ask her students about their learning. The journalism instructor at the University of Minnesota keeps the process simple, ...

The art of writing, invented roughly 5,000 years ago, represents a blip in human history. It’s younger than agriculture, music, and construction. And as recently as the Revolutionary War, a majority ...

Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) are simple, low-pressure ways to check how well students are understanding the material. These methods are efficient, student-centered strategies that provide ...

A poster with information for students on using ChatGPT, an AI platform, in English teacher Jen Roberts' class at Point Loma High School in San Diego on May 3, 2024. Your children could be some of a ...

Your children could be some of a growing number of California kids having their writing graded by software instead of a teacher. California school districts are signing more contracts for artificial ...