“Life skills classroom” is one of those special education terms that means very different things depending on the district, ...

Every student is different. There are various external and internal factors that may affect the pace of a student’s learning. Why then, do we expect all students to complete a certain amount of work ...

The new “question-of-the-week” is: How can we use goal-setting with our students? Research, and the practical experience of many educators, suggest that encouraging students to set their own goals can ...

Amanda Murphy is a traveling EFL teacher — she has taught at a high school in Spain, a language school in Costa Rica, and is heading to Australia very soon to see what new teaching experiences she can ...

In the last 30 years, a series of innovative findings in neuroscience, metacognition, and learning have inexorably changed how we think about educating students. The notions that learning is ...

PITTSFIELD — When Allendale Elementary School first-grade teacher Jessica Bazinet turns to her students and asks them to tell a visitor who they are, the 13 children in her class, in unison, will say, ...

CBS News Colorado, along with our partners at PDC Energy and Ping Identity, celebrate high school students who excel in science, technology, engineering, and math. The Future Leaders award comes with ...

That’s not to say that extrinsic rewards are all negative. One study shows that when rewards were expected, intrinsic motivation decreased, but when they were unexpected, intrinsic motivation was ...

Regie Routman is an educator who collaborates with principals, teachers, and students in underperforming schools to increase and sustain reading and writing achievement. She is the author of many ...