No one mentioned teaching portfolios in the professional-development seminars I attended as a doctoral student, so when I encountered requests for that item (or the vaguer “evidence of teaching ...

“What Makes a Teacher Great?” (December 12) catalogs a number of approaches to measuring effective teaching but does not address how a teacher gauges her own effectiveness. Because official evaluation ...

“By our estimates from Texas schools, having an above average teacher for five years running can completely close the average gap between low-income students and others.” -Steve Rivkin, Rick Hanushek, ...

A study of teacher evaluation in five charter schools from Morgaen L. Donaldson with Heather G. Peske. Teacher evaluation and charter schools feature prominently in President Barack Obama’s proposals ...

What makes some teachers better than others? Well, it depends on which research study you happen to be reading. A new study from the nonprofit Rand Corporation, for example, examines data from the Los ...

Teaching techniques refer to the diverse array of strategies and methodologies employed by educators to engage students and facilitate effective learning experiences. What are some examples 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 ...

Report from Robin Chait outlines six state strategies for attracting and retaining effective teachers in high-poverty and high-minority schools. More on attracting effective teachers to high-poverty ...

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 ...

Methods of K-12 teaching encompass diverse strategies and techniques utilized by educators to engage students across different subjects and grade levels. What are the 5 methods of teaching? From ...

Every week more colleges and universities announce that they will hold classes fully or partially online in response to COVID-19. Professors are being asked to design “hybrid” classes, that blend ...

A Life Sciences teacher used music to make endocrine system revision fun, sparking viral attention and student engagement ...