Whether it be project-based learning, design thinking or genius hour, it's easy to get confused by the many education buzzwords floating about. But at their heart these pedagogies are all ...

Theory Into Practice, Vol. 42, No. 2, Learner-Centered Principles: A Framework for Teaching (Spring, 2003), pp. 133-141 (9 pages) The Learner-Centered Psychological Principles (LCPs) provide a ...

One of the first things I added to my teacher tool kit during my first few years of teaching was video. As a science middle school teacher, I saw using documentaries as an effective strategy. After ...

For all the talk of transforming high schools to meet the demands of the 21 st century, surprisingly little focuses on what many people call the most important factor: teaching. So school leaders, ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What are specific ways educators can make teaching science more culturally responsive? When we talk about making school culturally responsive, science is not usually ...

Active learning puts students at the center of the learning process by encouraging them to engage, reflect, and apply what they’re learning in meaningful ways. Rather than passively receiving ...