The 2015 International Summit on the Teaching Profession took place in Banff, Canada. Building on the results of previous Summits, it focused on the issue of how education systems can move from ...

Charles Dickens created the characters Thomas Gradgrind and Mr. M’Choakumchild in his novel Hard Times to satirize schoolteachers who taught “nothing but facts” and regarded students as “little ...

There's a large misalignment between what the public thinks and what the research says about student learning and effective teaching—and it has important implications for policy. It’s a set of ...

The Teaching Effectiveness series seeks to bolster the teaching practice of all UAB instructors through workshops that inspire continuous improvement in teaching skills. Participation in each workshop ...

When done right, professional development can improve teacher practice and student experiences. But when done wrong, it can have little to no impact and end up frustrating teachers who don’t see any ...

Daniel D. Pratt presents five perspectives on teaching gathered from several years of research across five different countries. These perspectives are presented in both theoretical and practical forms ...

The new question-of-the-week is: How and why do you practice retrieval practice in your classroom? The strategy of retrieval practice has been shown by research to be an extremely effective teaching ...

Russell Tytler receives funding from the Australian Research. Big data analysis is now widespread in many fields, including education. Education systems look for large-scale evidence-based accounts of ...

"That was the best class ever!" "She is the best professor on campus." "That class made waking up at noon worth it." These are the kinds of student comments that professors (and probably their parents ...

As with any skill, teaching takes practice. A practicing student teacher is allowed to get hands-on experience teaching. But since student teaching is also a fairly rigorous process, it helps if you ...