Instructors should take the time to ask themselves what they can do differently when students struggle on an assignment. If there are pain points in the courses they are teaching, and students ...

With growing teacher shortages nationwide, particularly in high-need subject areas and underserved communities, educator preparation programs (EPPs) have a big task at hand: prepare more pre-service ...

Teacher residency programs are transformative models for preparing educators for the K-12 teaching experience. These clinically-rich, immersive programs combine mentorship, year-long co-teaching in ...

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute have known that practice is essential for ...

The Metropolitan School District of Decatur Township has been successfully using video in our teacher professional learning for more than seven years. According to our recently retired former ...

Why portfolios matter: They document your teaching philosophy, professional growth, and evidence of meeting standards, making them valuable for job applications, certifications, and self-reflection.

Being good has never been good enough, there is always room for growth. As a classroom educator, the more I thought about my practice, the more I knew I had to try harder or maybe not harder, but ...

The rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs) forces educators to confront a difficult question: Can AI meaningfully support reflective practice, or will it simply accelerate the reduction of ...

As with any skill, teaching takes practice. A practicing student teacher is allowed to get hands-on experience teaching. But since student teaching is also a fairly rigorous process, it helps if you ...

Reflection helped students think more carefully about individual mistakes. But it also reduced how many new problems they attempted and how many new mistakes they could learn from.