Teachers can support inquiry-based learning by using direct instruction to provide students with the tools they need to ...

Trendy approaches to teaching come and go, but some of them stick around. Inquiry-based learning, for example, is no longer a trend--it’s the dominant mode of instruction for many educators around the ...

The 21 st-century classroom has undergone many changes, from the growing implementation of new tools and technologies, to new ways of thinking about teaching and learning. One of these new mindsets ...

This week’s question is: What are the differences between Project-Based, Problem-Based and Inquiry Learning? In Part One, guest responses came from educators Suzie Boss, Jeffrey Wilhelm, Steven ...

High-quality instructional materials (HQIMs) are educational resources designed to effectively support student learning. They can include textbooks, lesson plans, digital resources and other materials ...

Transforming teaching practices is a long, slow road. But increasingly schools and teachers experiencing success are sharing their ideas online and in-person. Science Leadership Academy opened as a ...

Schools on the cutting edge of crafting student learning today know a lot more about how kids learn best thanks to years of brain research. And that ultimately means putting the power in students' ...

In just a few short years, technology has changed education in Anderson County. Out are the traditional lectures, memorization and learning by rote. In are Chromebooks, digital textbooks and ...

The rise of ChatGPT promises to bring simplicity to the more mundane tasks of human existence and has also revived with new fervor an enduring question of our education system: how do we adequately ...

The Indiana Academic Standards for Science and the Next Generation Science Standards emphasize inquiry as a prominent instructional method and a defining characteristic of science. This workshop ...

The National Science Education Standards point out that “assessments provide an operational definition of standards, in that they define in measurable terms what teachers should teach and students ...

Esther Storrie is the learning resource center director at Pleasant Ridge Elementary in Glenview, Ill. She is on Twitter. Updated November 25, 2015, 3:22 AM As an educator, if you ask me, “How do you ...