Math word problems require literacy, math, and executive function skills from young children, so mastering them is key to later school success. Credit: Philip Keith for The Hechinger Report The ...

This week’s question is: What are the best instructional strategies for vocabulary development? All educators in all subjects have to teach vocabulary. If our students don’t know the meanings of the ...

In Central Falls, R.I., teachers are trying new strategies that move away from focusing on “key words,” the traditional, simplistic approach that often leads younger students astray CENTRAL FALLS, R.I ...

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You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. In the spirit of James Lang’s Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning, I want ...

There's a report from our CBS affiliate in Arizona. It says that an 11 year-old-girl dodge a possible kidnapping by simply asking a would-be kidnapper for the "code word." As parents you want to keep ...

A teacher in Ghana has become internet famous for posting Facebook photos of himself drawing Microsoft Word on a chalkboard for his students because his school has no computers. When Microsoft caught ...

The word “didactic” is an adjective that is defined as intending to teach something, particularly in having moral instruction ...