The new “question-of-the-week” is: How can we use goal-setting with our students? Research, and the practical experience of many educators, suggest that encouraging students to set their own goals can ...

Students are working on individual goals while working toward a class goal, so each student can work at their own pace and contribute to the class goal. (Next page: 3 more ways educators are using ...

Amanda Murphy is a traveling EFL teacher — she has taught at a high school in Spain, a language school in Costa Rica, and is heading to Australia very soon to see what new teaching experiences she can ...

Every student is different. There are various external and internal factors that may affect the pace of a student’s learning. Why then, do we expect all students to complete a certain amount of work ...

Uniformly, science teachers express the same goals for their students, goals that emphasize attitude, communication, creativity, and application of knowledge. Yet, the traditional role of the teacher ...

In the last 30 years, a series of innovative findings in neuroscience, metacognition, and learning have inexorably changed how we think about educating students. The notions that learning is ...

Teachers can help students develop their social and emotional skills as they monitor and evaluate their own learning experiences.