Aspiring teachers are taking a more self-directed approach to their training, in part, because they are more comfortable with technology and more likely to use digital devices in their professional pursuits and personal lives, according to the annual Speak Up report.

Teachers who do away with rules and consequences in the classroom have an opportunity to focus more on cooperation and engaging activities, writes Mark Barnes, a veteran classroom teacher.

Every school in Hordaland County, in Norway, supplies all secondary school students with their own personal computer, but one school has gone a step further in introducing technology into the classroom.

Two Missouri school districts have posted higher scores in math on state standardized exams since adopting the benchmarking approach in which students must demonstrate proficiency in a skill or concept before moving on to the next one.

Will virtual schools replace brick-and-mortar classrooms?

Having a strong reader read aloud with a student who struggles with decoding can help the latter reader access the higher-level materials, literacy coach Marisa Kaplan writes in this blog post.

A communication robot named Robovie will go to school alongside fifth-graders in an elementary school in Japan as part of a 14-month research program. Through the program, researchers will discover how robots interact with humans.

Boys perform worse at school because they are constantly being told that girls are more intelligent, according to a new study.

Parents who tell their children how clever they are may be doing them more harm than good, according to a study which found it is best to praise the effort rather than the child.

Målet är den perfekta lektionen och på vägen dit samarbetar Skogshöjdens skola i Trollhättan med Göteborgs universitet. En av klasserna på Skogshöjden filmas vid fyra lektionstillfällen, sedan analyseras lektionerna av forskare på universitetet.

Katarina Lycken Rüter, gymnasielärare i svenska, religion och filmkunskap på Östra real i Stockholm, flippar inte klassrummet enbart genom att filma sina lektionsgenomgångar. Nu filmar hon också elevernas muntliga presentationer med sin surfplatta.