A majority of teachers expressed discomfort with newer teaching practices that rely on technology and said they need more collaborative planning time with their peers, in addition to traditional PD.
Dyslexia affects every instructional task a student will face in school. We are a language-based society with deeply rooted traditions that rely on reading and writing. One in five students has a language-based learning disability, the most common of those being dyslexia.
Is unorganized chaos getting in the way of a daily schedule that works for students? Educator Jessica F. Handley had trouble finding routines that worked for her until she took a closer look at the root problems disrupting them.
Op-ed pieces give students a voice and allow them to showcase their personal links to the topics, writes middle-school history teacher Sarah Cooper. In this blog post, she explains how she approaches op-ed assignments and how the interactive process helps students improve their writing and research skills.
Online teaching materials can make lesson planning more efficient, help educators save time and support teacher retention, asserts Kelly Burnette, assistant principal of instruction at a Florida high school.
A study in the journal Pharmacy showed that college students without attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder who took the drug Adderall were more alert and focused, but they had similar reading comprehension and factual recall as they had when they took the placebo.