Finland will remove cursive handwriting instruction from its curriculum and teach keyboard typing skills instead. Officials say the decision reflects an increased demand for typing skills.

Thom Markham sees an opportunity for teachers to tell stories about themselves and their profession to give more voice to what’s important to them.

Barns relationer. Fritidspedagoger vill att barnen ska vara sams. Det underlättar deras arbete. Men barnen behöver också utmanas i sina relationer, visar en ny avhandling.

Dataspill kan gi bedre undervisning. Elevene lærer mer. Lærerne får bedre oversikt, mener professoren bak quiz-spillet Kahoot.

Enbart satsningar på forskning äventyrar kvaliteten i både utbildning och forskning. Regeringen måste nu följa upp med satsningar på utbildning, menar universitetskansler Harriet Wallberg. Hon vill att det ska väga lika tungt att vara excellent lärare som excellent forskare på lärosätena.

Professor Jo Boaler vid Stanford University anser att vi bör sluta drilla barn i addition och multiplikation – och speciellt sluta tvinga dem att göra beräkningar under tidspress. "Drillövningar utan förståelse är skadligt", säger Jo Boaler.

If you’re planning to be a teacher, be extra vigilant about your social media profile and consider every post.

The prescriptive way of teaching primary maths in Shanghai and Singapore might help when it comes to international league tables, but there’s no proof it will work in England.

Sports fields and changing rooms can be hotbeds of homophobic bullying, deterring students from a lifetime of activity. But some schools are standing up to intolerance.

From Quest to Learn in New York to the Liger Learning Center in Cambodia, Matthew Jenkin explores schools that use innovative teaching methods and curriculums.

Observations of early America by Alexis de Tocqueville helped articulate the nation’s values. With the guidance of an inquiry based teacher, students create their own interpretations of democracy in America.