Edutopia

Improving Instructional Practices Through Collaboration

Both veteran and early-career educators can openly share their expertise to make teaching more effective and sustainable.
Edutopia

Using Direct Instruction to Promote Inquiry

Teachers can support inquiry-based learning by using direct instruction to provide students with the tools they need to ...
Education Week

With Larry Ferlazzo

Today’s post is the latest in a series sharing effective instructional strategies that can be used across content areas. Neven Holland is a Ph.D. student at the UCLA School of Education and ...
The Journal

NGSS Issues 'Lessons Learned' for Instructional Materials and PD

Start with a small cohort of teachers; provide professional learning opportunities to all teachers; include school leaders in the training. Those are some of the more obvious best practices tied to ...
American Enterprise Institute

Three Reasons Teachers Shouldn’t DIY Their Lessons (and Shouldn’t Be Asked To)

Oregon professor Siegfried Engelmann wasn’t your typical education guru. He didn’t peddle feel-good platitudes or promote classroom fads—he treated teaching like a hard science, and he built Direct ...
CCJ

Instructional Technologies adds new lessons to Pro-TREAD

Instructional Technologies, Inc. (www.instructiontech.net) this week added a new suite of thirteen lessons for training OSHA and Workplace Safety practices to its Pro-TREAD and Pro-TREAD In-Cab ...
Education Week

With Larry Ferlazzo

The new question-of-the-week is: What is a “small teaching move” that you think is not as common as it should be? A “small teaching move” in this context is an action that would require very little ...