Shifting from an industrial-age education model to a post-industrial learner-centered model is an essential part of preparing students for college and 21st century careers, and the process works best ...
Historically, Uganda’s education system was one of the best on the African continent in the 1960s. Teaching focused on developing learners’ competencies and students were taught in a way that fostered ...
Good teaching has always concerned itself with how students learn and how well they have learned. In this sense, much of the current talk about the learning college is indeed just talk (“A Community ...
Today, information and communications technology (ICTs) is increasingly being employed in classrooms across the globe. Owing to this, educators face growing challenges as they teach a very “different” ...
Providing some form of digital learning and assessment is no longer just an added benefit for higher education institutions, but a fundamental component of teaching and learning. As a result, it is ...
Let’s play “what if” for a second. What if schools used real-world scenarios to teach? What if learning were tied to complex problem-solving? What if students graduated from high school knowing how to ...
Inquiry-based learning has been gaining more attention in classrooms across the world. Teachers often ask, What does it look ...
Vol. 69, No. 4, The School Reform Movement and the Education of African American Youth: A Retrospective Update (Autumn, 2000), pp. 323-337 (15 pages) A serious problem in American schools is that they ...
This post is by Ace Parsi, Personalized Learning Partnership Manager at the National Center for Learning Disabilities, and Rebecca E. Wolfe, associate vice president at Jobs for the Future. Will ...
My first year of teaching began in the stifling basement classroom of a public elementary school in a part of Newark, N.J., where crushed crack vials and occasional shootings were as much a part of ...