Yesterday — like every day last week — I had just 27 minutes to plan my lessons and grade my fourth-grade students’ work. In reality, I spent that time signing in to the office, getting my mail, ...
It’s been a long time since I was a high school classroom teacher. But each year when a new school year approaches, I still get memories of feeling anxious about whether I will be an effective ...
A third-grade teacher from Utah has gone viral with a simple lesson she uses in her classroom. Aimee Scott told FOX News she decided to create the video of her "Band-Aid lesson" after meeting with ...
You won’t get rich as a teacher, right? That’s no longer true for a small but growing number of educators who are making big bucks selling their lesson plans online. On a peer-to-peer site called ...
The popular lesson-sharing site Teachers Pay Teachers first landed on Jenny Kay Dupuis’ radar a little over a year ago. Friends and social media users began alerting her that images and material from ...
The new question-of-the-week is: What are the most important lessons you have learned from your students? Some people make fun of teachers who say they learn a lot from their students (see The Onion’s ...
Over on Quora, tons of teachers answered the question, "As a teacher, what is the harshest truth a student has ever taught you?" The responses are pretty informative, and they serve as a reminder that ...
AI is no longer the future of education, it’s the present. From planning lessons to creating resources and managing classroom ...
One of the most influential people in my life was and still is Joe Stokes. I remember the first time I walked into the classroom at the Washington Carver Elementary School in Muncie, Indiana, and saw ...
Ben Stein is a former teacher and coach in the West Des Moines school district. I’m a big believer in our public schools and believe they lay the foundation for the future of our country. As go our ...
On the first day of school, Kerry Green had a pit in her stomach. Green, a U.S. history teacher at Sunnyvale High School in Dallas County, Texas, had passed out copies of an 1864 speech about liberty ...