Educational research continues to reiterate the need for inquiry-based instruction in secondary science. However, the patterns of how teachers implement inquiry-based pedagogy have not been thoroughly ...

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 ...

Learning Disability Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 3 (AUGUST 2018), pp. 131-143 (13 pages) Students with learning disabilities (LD) often receive instruction in general education science classrooms. However, ...

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 ...

This is the first part of a two-part story about changing classroom culture. Read part two to learn what change this teacher made to help students value growth over grades. Over winter break in 2015, ...

The Urban Teacher Residency Partnership Program (UTRPP) at the University of South Florida has adopted a video-based classroom observation platform to help student teachers share videos with mentor ...

Put the emphasis on inquiry-based learning, says Kath Murdoch It was revealed earlier this year that children are spending more time playing and socialising online than watching television programmes.

Lesson plans introduce students to mineral science and the scientific process of observation, hypothesis, and conclusion. Students create a mineral exhibit, observe the factors in crystal growth, and ...