Del 8 av 8. Det är sista veckan på slottet och nu avgörs det. Har eleverna hunnit lära sig allt som krävs för att nå examen? Vilka klarar det nationella provet i sfi, svenska för invandrare? Bandet Panetoz dyker upp och får alla att dansa (webb-tv).

Hur förstår gymnasieelever historia tolkad genom bilder? Det har Ulrika Boström, gymnasielärare i svenska och historia vid Midsommarkransens gymnasium i Stockholm, forskat om i licentiatuppsatsen ”När man kollar på bilden tänker man så här.”

Gerd Persson är modersmålslärare i meänkieli för elever i årskurs 1-3 i Pajala. Hon tycker att det är viktigt att barnen lär sig språket på ett roligt sätt och leker och gör ramsor med sina elever på lektionerna (webb-radio).

Headteacher Lisa Fathers on encouraging girls to take part in sports – and how it boosted results at her school.

As game-based learning increases in popularity, it’s easy to get pigeon-holed into one particular way of thinking about it or one way of employing it. This is true regardless of how teachers feel about gaming in the classroom, whether they’re for or against it.

Not very much, according to many educators. The Common Core standards, which have been adopted in most states, call for teaching legible writing, but only in kindergarten and first grade. After that, the emphasis quickly shifts to proficiency on the keyboard. But psychologists and neuroscientists say it is far too soon to declare handwriting a…

Knowledge has become increasingly abundant, giving educators the opportunity to make the school world look more like the real world.

Girls love to play Minecraft as much as boys, a fact educators would like to use to interest them in coding more generally.

Summer break presents the perfect opportunity for students to dig into games and build skills that’ll reap huge rewards when they return in the fall. Game making can be one of the best ways to get students thinking creatively while cultivating useful technical literacies, and there’s a ton of absorbing tools that students won’t tire…

When we think and talk about learning, the metaphors we use matter. The language we employ when we describe how learning works can illuminate the process, allowing us to make accurate judgments and predictions—or it can lead us astray, setting up false expectations and giving us a misleading impression of what’s going on.

How one district is moving past standardized tests in an effort to show deeper learning.

Believe it or not, one room schoolhouses like the one in Little House on the Prairie still exist. While most public school students don’t have one adult serving as their teacher, principal and guidance counselor all at once, the model allows for a style of teaching that could benefit teachers everywhere.