If you want to use YouTube in the classroom, here are some tips to help you find and distribute appropriate content, explore virtual reality, and share student work.
Nine suggestions to help you provide online learners with class norms and expectations and a sense of community.
The open-ended problems presented in case studies give students work that feels connected to their lives.
Openers matter and set the tone for the lesson that follows. Here’s how to start strong when you need to.
Discover effective strategies for dealing with student work refusal in the classroom, and create a positive and productive learning environment.
Teacher and blogger Jose Vilson shares three suggestions for building a positive, trusting classroom environment.
While a classroom is different from a startup, certain mindsets and strategies translate well: vision, agility, the right tools, creative thinking, and recognizing individual strengths.
Online class staples like learning management systems and video lessons continue to have value in face-to-face instruction.
Teach students how to listen and ask good questions with these exercises designed to scaffold deep, meaningful collaboration.
Some ideas on how to minimize gender bias in our teaching practice and curriculum.
Our comprehensive, all-in, research-based look at the design of effective learning spaces.
When it comes to managing a classroom, new teachers mostly learn on the fly, but here are some ideas you can use right away.
Discover kernels—simple, quick, and reliable ways to deal with behavior challenges.
These tools can help middle and high school students generate ideas for fiction writing and then hone their craft.
When students practice metacognition, the act of thinking about their thinking helps them make greater sense of their life experiences and start achieving at higher levels.
There are a variety of ways to incorporate literacy strategies in science education without sacrificing content.
Three strategies to make sure your content—not your technology—is your students’ main focus.
The researcher Peter Liljedahl evangelizes for practices that prioritize and stimulate more hard thinking in classrooms.
Edutopia blogger Vicki Davis, in the first half of a pro-and-con discussion about social media in the classroom, positions it as a vital life skill and provides 12 positive examples of classroom use.
Rich experiences—from play to the arts and relationships—fundamentally shape a young child’s development.
All students want to feel part of their classroom community. Here are four activities to help them feel welcomed and comfortable.
These five strategies can make a big difference in ensuring that students feel they belong in your classroom.
Remote teaching prompted teachers to find new ways to reach kids and build a feeling of community, and some of those will be well worth keeping.
A 2021 study reveals the ways in which new and experienced teachers think about discipline—plus 6 takeaways for managing your classroom effectively this year.
Providing students with greater voice and choice in the classroom can build their desire to learn and do well academically.
What you put on your classroom walls can affect your students’ ability to learn.
Posing a question to the class, allowing for think time, and then calling on a student is one simple strategy for engaging students in better academic discourse.
To engage all students equitably in classroom activities, track their participation and restructure discussions so that everyone gets a turn.
Finding out what your students are really learning remains indispensable to teaching. Here’s what teachers are doing to check for understanding online.
Edutopia blogger Andrew Miller considers how the project-based learning and flipped-classroom models can successfully intersect, offering five tips for engaging students in the project while moving aspects of it outside the classroom walls.
Teachers can create positive learning experiences for students that combine assessment with agency, opportunity, and community building.
How to design your classroom environment and materials to support a wide range of executive function skills, from managing distractions to boosting planning skills.
Taking attendance shows which students are physically present—these questions direct them toward active learning.
How science teachers can use ELL strategies to help students have a better grasp of the vocabulary of science.
An interaction with a student prompts an elementary teacher to revamp her classroom library to make it more inclusive.
After visiting thousands of classrooms, the authors found common elements in how teachers go about creating a welcoming classroom.
With some guidance, all students—whether outgoing or reserved—can effectively take part in class discussions.
Knowing the pros and cons of the six models of co-teaching can help teachers determine which one is best for a given lesson.
Elementary students have a better chance of showing what they’re learning when they have a choice about how to show it.
A good welcoming activity is also a proactive classroom management strategy—it builds community in the classroom, establishes a sense of shared values, and makes everyone feel included.
Implementing effective Socratic seminars is a multistep process that takes careful planning.
Though it’s sometimes seen as old-fashioned, dictation can be useful in teaching early elementary students to spell.
An ambitious study of 153 classrooms in the United Kingdom provides the best evidence that flexible spaces can boost academic performance.
A teacher works to see the upsides in students’ learning difficulties—and uses them to help all students succeed.
Guest blogger and high school humanities teacher Joshua Block shares the six structural and pedagogical reminders he uses to steadily improve the ethic of compassion in his classroom.
Edutopia blogger Terry Heick reflects on the fluid nature of student learning and how assessment needs to reflect that, and then suggests six strategies for enhancing depth of understanding.
Visual activity calendars are crucial tools for assisting people with disabilities and encouraging independence, lowering anxiety, and improving understanding.
A look at some common problems teachers find when implementing student-led discussions—and potential solutions.
The open-ended problems presented in case studies give students work that feels connected to their lives.
