It’s a Monday afternoon, and a sixth grade math class is humming with discussion as students shift and wiggle next to whiteboards set around the room. They’re trying to solve a math problem, and for a ...
MESA, AZ — A new teaching model is being set up to help students and teachers across school districts in the state. Instead of using one teacher for one class, the Next Education Workforce model is ...
Ivan was a fourth grader with big brown eyes, a wide smile and a quiet demeanor who refused to enter my classroom. “Everyone thinks I’m stupid,” he’d say. I’ve changed his name to protect his privacy.
CONCORD, MI – As school begins on Wednesday, Aug. 21, Concord Community Schools is piloting a new team-based teaching model for second through ninth grades. The initiative aims to redesign the typical ...
Giving teachers more control over their collaboration with peers may boost the effectiveness of teacher teams and encourage educators to stay in the classroom. For example, at Westwood High School in ...
Whittier Elementary School principal Andrea Lang Sims interacts with a student in Mesa, Arizona, which embraced team teaching about seven years ago. Credit: Matt York/ Associated Press The Hechinger ...
Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. In March 2020, the way we work changed. Offices became ghost towns as employees were ...
Running out of time to complete a learning unit on math fractions, Concord Elementary third grade teacher Brianne Sinden turned to her “team” of fellow second and third grade teachers. Second grade ...
A Special Olympics cheer and dance team in Maryland is teaching its athletes they are perfect the way they are. Gayle Watterson has been coaching the team in Calvert County for 11 years. “She doesn’t ...
Most students expect to see one professor at the front of the classroom throughout the semester. But for those attending Harvey Mudd College, a STEM-focused institution in California, it’s not unusual ...
It’s a constant tap-dance to keep a roomful of 5-year-olds focused and engaged during a kindergarten math lesson. Stevenson Elementary’s kindergarten team teachers stay perfectly in step. Festooned ...
Across the country, both the pandemic and now the protests have hurt many businesses, forcing them to close. Many have had to go online and just try to make it through. Lisa McCabe, an African ...