Math teacher Samantha McGlennen wandered around her Summit Middle School classroom, unfazed by the students’ chatter and laughter during a recent lesson about exponential growth. Their behavior – ...
The SchoolWide Lab middle school curriculum units are anchored in phenomena, aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards(NGSS), and purposefully integrate Computational Thinking (CT). To date, ...
A math professor has spent 20 years experimenting with ways to improve student engagement, and now his teaching strategies are going viral. Many teachers are trying teaching approaches known as ...
STARKVILLE, Miss.—Aspiring and current secondary math educators from Mississippi State and Starkville Oktibbeha Consolidated School District’s Partnership Middle School are engaging in professional ...
What is “design thinking,” and why does it belong in America’s classrooms? Actually, as cognitive scientist Lindsay Portnoy explains in this post, many teachers are already using design thinking but ...
The new question-of-the-week is: What is critical thinking and how can we integrate it into the classroom? Part One ‘s guests were Dara Laws Savage, Patrick Brown, Meg Riordan, Ph.D., and Dr. PJ ...