Viktoria Craft teaches math at Warren Central High School and is a nominee for Educator of the Year. She utilizes group ...

This desk arrangement facilitates peer discussions and supports effective collaborative and independent work. And students prefer it.

Tell you about a new student guide to effective group work developed at Lafayette College. Share how some newsletter readers start the semester. Lafayette College’s mechanical-engineering department ...

R oom 0101 in the College of Sciences Building at the University of Central Florida is a standard-issue lecture hall. Students sit in upholstered chairs, bolted to the floor in rows, with little desks ...

If your upper elementary students understand the task but still struggle to begin, these ideas can help them take that first ...

A few years ago, we hired an adjunct professor to teach a three-hour night class. After a few weeks, he came to us in frustration because he couldn’t get the students to discuss the material, and when ...

While professors go through practice problems in class, some students do more than jot down the answers. These students — the Sheridan Center’s Problem-Solving Fellows — evaluate how the professors ...

While the young children in my classroom know how to play together, they often do not intuitively know how to work together. Free time at home, with nothing scheduled and no electronics, is the ...

Every educator who teaches diversity might find this familiar. You mention "diversity, equity and inclusion" and the class ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ray Ravaglia covers education, focusing on technology and innovation. Alpha School divides the morning into four blocks of 30 ...