Traumatic experiences can have ripple effects that permeate across many aspects of people's lives. For students, adverse childhood experiences have been shown to impact attention, memory, language ...

As a mathematics education researcher, I study how math instruction impacts students' learning, from following standard math procedures to understanding mathematical concepts. Focusing on the latter, ...

Your beliefs about teaching and learning influence many of the decisions you make as an instructor. Defining your philosophy helps you make thoughtful choices about how you design and teach your ...

Teaching-as-learning: as every instructor knows (and research into human learning confirms), one of the most effective pathways to mastering content is teaching it to others. Giving students the ...

Mary C. Wright’s new book, Centers for Teaching and Learning: The New Landscape in Higher Education (Johns Hopkins University Press) was born out of a fairly simple question: Just how many centers for ...

Learning outcomes and objectives are the fundamental elements of most well-designed courses. Well-conceived outcomes and objectives serve as guideposts to help instructors work through the design of a ...

When the University of Texas at Austin closed its Center for Teaching and Learning earlier this year, it joined a very small group (6 percent) of high-research-activity doctoral u ...

Summative assessments are implemented at the end of a unit, course, or instructional period to evaluate how well students have achieved the learning objectives, such as knowledge, skills, and ...

Arts education is often an afterthought in schools, but Erica Rosenfeld Halverson, Professor and Chair of the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, thinks ...

(This is the third post in a four-part series. You can see Part One here and Part Two here.) Kaitlin Popielarz is a Ph.D. candidate and teacher educator in the College of Education at Wayne State ...

Student teaching is a full-time program, requiring at least 13 weeks in a prek-12 classroom with a mentor teacher. A teacher candidate works five days each week in the classroom. During the first week ...

In the dynamic landscape of learning in the digital age, K-12 educators are increasingly leveraging technology tools to enhance teaching and learning experiences. These tools, ranging from interactive ...