If professional development (PD) is a critical element to every edtech implementation, why is it so often poorly attended? Our experience is that a teacher-centric approach to developing a PD plan for ...

Knowledgeable, innovative, skilful, fun-loving, caring, supportive, task and pupil centred – it’s official – the most effective teachers are in a class of their own. They stimulate a pupil’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rather than have students memorize definitions and facts about a science topic such as light, an effective first grade teacher ...

For this to happen, teachers not only have to buy in to what their school systems are looking to accomplish; they also need effective professional learning. From decades of research, we know what ...

Students, parents and school principals all instinctively know that some teachers are better than others. Education researchers have spent decades trying — with mixed success — to calculate exactly ...

Supporting Effective Teaching Through Teacher Evaluation A Study of Teacher Evaluation in Five Charter Schools A study of teacher evaluation in five charter schools from Morgaen L. Donaldson with ...

The National Council on Teacher Quality, a research and policy group that advocates for more-rigorous teacher preparation, has named Heather Peske as its new president. Peske will take over the helm ...

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