A new study shows frequent school inspections improve a school's effectiveness, student assessment and teacher co-operation. Nick Morrison explains.
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A new study shows frequent school inspections improve a school's effectiveness, student assessment and teacher co-operation. Nick Morrison explains.
Grant Wiggins asked middle school students what was the most interesting work they were asked to do in class. More than 1400 replies later, here are the most enlightening responses.
Thomas Hoerr says the concept of fostering grit is a process of creating lifelong learning, and needs to be understood by teachers, students and parents. He shares his top 3 tips for achieving grit inside and outside the classroom
In 1916 John Dewey described the radical notion of a teacher's role to be facilitator in the classroom where activities in which "the teacher is a learner, and the learner is, without knowing it, a teacher". Grant Wiggins shares Dewey's thoughts from nearly 100 years ago.
Attracting the higest quality teachers and education equity were topics high on the agenda for New Zealand's International Summit on the Teaching Profession 2014. Read its full report here.
Christina Quattrocchi looks at Rocketship Education's Blended Learning in Practice radical San Jose charter schools experiment and the lessons learned.
UK's student-led assessement app Flight Path creator Phil Jones shares his insights on effective education assessment here.
With student sucess and digital learning fast becoming one and the same, are students from low-income families being disadvantaged? A US report discusses five issues for consideration here.
Not all technology is created equal and this July, LA school officials opened the door to trial six different computers for teaching and learning. Read the LA story.
After Lancashire teacher Rachel Tomlinson's letter to students went viral, UK newspaper The Guardian asked readers is a teacher inspired them. Readers' responses are heartening for today's teachers.
