Simulation platforms like BranchED are emerging as a modality for teacher training, using avatars and large language models to replicate student behavior and give teachers practice dealing with ...

On the other hand, teachers who harbor doubts about AI’s reliability or relevance are less likely to adopt it, even if they have received training. Concerns about accuracy, ethical implications, and ...

Administrators can use this four-step framework to provide the sustained support teachers need to try creative new strategies ...

In classrooms around the world, educators strive to nurture not only students’ academic skills but also the qualities that help them thrive more generally as dynamic people, namely character strengths ...

Teacher education often receives criticism for being too theoretical. Many students lack more training in how to teach in practice when they enter schools. They now receive this at the University of ...

In teacher preparation, we often talk about the importance of preservice teachers observing teaching strategies in action. We model grouping methods, scaffolding techniques, differentiation approaches ...

Alan Borsuk’s important essay dives deeply into the complexities and challenges of education reform, raising important questions about decades of education policymaking. This topic—how classroom ...

More than 20 years ago, I was able to give my sister, Kathy, a life-saving kidney. It almost didn’t happen: Initial tests indicated that I was not a good enough genetic match to make the operation ...

What is a Lesson Plan? An effective lesson plan demonstrates how a teacher creates objectives for his or her students and measures how those objectives are mastered. Creating a lesson plan begins with ...