Category: Education

Personalized learning has emerged as a pivotal strategy in educators’ quests to meet students where they are and boost engagement. Still, equitable access to technology, the right PD, and better assessment tools can make or break these instructional efforts. During an eSchool News Innovation Roundtable with a focus on personalized learning, moderated by eSchool News…

By Liz Willen For many high school seniors and others hoping to attend college next year, the last few months have become a stress-filled struggle to complete the trouble-plagued, much-maligned FAFSA,  or Free Application for Federal Student Aid. The rollout of this updated and supposedly simplified form was so delayed, error-ridden and confusing that it…

Excerpted from What Teachers Need to Know About Memory by Jonathan Firth and Nasima Riazat. Copyright (c) 2024 by Corwin Press, Inc. All rights reserved. Some of the most effective learning strategies are those known as desirable difficulties. These make learning more effortful but are useful (desirable) because they make forgetting less likely, and help to…

Eight pages of fun and engaging word practice. Eight pages of fun and engaging word practice. Free Printables We Are Teachers

Teachers are speaking up. Teachers are speaking up. Life & Wellbeing, School Leaders, Positive School Culture, Teacher Problems We Are Teachers

Key points: Educators say AR and VR tools greatly increase student engagement Reaching the 4Cs with 3D and virtual reality 3 key steps when using VR in education For more news on AR and VR, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub As a Technology Explorations teacher for my district, I’m tasked with finding and incorporating the…

(I’m republishing posts on my My All-Time Favorite Posts list. This one appeared in 2011. You can see them all here) talhakhalil007 / Pixabay   I often write about helping students exercise, and be aware of, metacognition (see Another Lesson Combining Metacognition, Writing, Speaking, & Listening) and include extensive lesson plans about it in my…

  Each week, I publish a post or two containing three or four particularly useful resources on classroom instruction, and you can see them all here. You might also be interested in THE BEST RESOURCES ON INSTRUCTION IN 2022 – PART ONE. Here are this week’s picks: 10 Tips for Teaching About the Holocaust is…

  Here are some recent useful posts and articles on educational policy issues (You might also be interested in seeing all my “Best” lists related to education policy here): ‘Giant mistake’: GOP voter helps remove conservative school board officials https://t.co/gTM8PWVfZM — Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) May 15, 2024 The co-host of a conservative online talk show…