You have never known weird until you have watched a student-made video project. While teaching To Kill a Mockingbird in 9 th grade English, I was about as unenthusiastic as my students for a ...

When students are allowed to redo assignments the benefits can include a deeper understanding of the content, increased ...

Student success is a critically important issue for school districts–and not simply because districts want students to perform well. Improving student learning and student success is necessary for ...

As an educator, I firmly believe that nurturing the critical thinking skills of the students is one of the most important aspects of what teachers do. Critical thinking has been cited as allowing ...

Jerrid Kruse receives funding from the National Science Foundation, the NASA Iowa Space Grant Consortium, and the William G. Stowe Foundation. During my years teaching science in middle school, high ...

Hundreds of South Dakota students may have a better idea of what it’s like to be a teacher. Middle and high schoolers from 25 ...

Engagement refers to the degree of attention, curiosity, or interest that a student shows when they are learning something new. Engagement can be fostered by different types of motivation—external and ...

These four classroom shifts can make academic risk-taking feel safer, clearer, and more worthwhile for middle school students ...

Positive social engagement, according to Anita Woolfolk (1998), which of course, also includes education, is enhanced when students understand that choices have consequences (Purje, 2014). One of the ...

July 11, 2025 10:59 p.m. Updated: March 2, 2021 12 a.m. Back when school was in person, Josh Secrett was always tired. “I used to come home and just lay down and go to sleep for like hours,” the ...

Looking for AI tools to help with studies and assignments? Here are my picks for the best AI tools for students after testing ...