Dennis Van Roekel’s Keynote, take two! Near the end of his keynote address to the National Education Association Representative Assembly, NEA President Dennis Van Roekel called for the creation of a ...

The Obama administration’s Race to the Top initiative is focusing more attention than ever before on teaching effectiveness, with federal funds tied to strategies that improve student performance. For ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

In recent years, greater understanding about how people learn has led to the development of more effective approaches to teaching large classes, often making use of new technologies. In this webinar, ...

EdSource · Trump's cuts to Hispanic-Serving Institutions hit community college student programs hard Last week, my children joined the nation’s 50 million students in the annual back-to-school ritual: ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Today, we have a Featured Gig installment from the Association of College and University Educators for an amazing academic director role. ACUE’s chief learning officer, Meghan Snow, has the answers to ...

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 ...