Category: Teaching

Advocates believe more school choice will allow better student-school fit than public education. But others maintain better matching will not improve performance unless financial pressures improve educational practices. A voucher-based educational market linking funding to pupil counts based on parental choice could motivate improvement, especially in inefficient public schools, eliminating […]

This paper provides an overview of evidence-based educational interventions (EBEIs) and associated practices in school psychology. The profession has, for some time, embraced scientific principles and procedures across areas of professional practice, including diagnosis and classification, assessment, prevention and intervention, consultation, and research and program evaluation. More recently, the profession […]

The potential benefits in opening data are not confined to improvements in transparency and accountability in the public sector (as may have been the previous consensus) – in fact, open data can provide the biggest gains by enabling the development of useful services. Before this potential can be unlocked however […]

This fall, I started teaching first grade after the school year was already in a few months. It is a second career for me. Last year, I did substitute teaching in grades K-8 and didn’t mind because there were no additional responsibilities. All I had to do was survive the […]

“In learning, you will teach, and in teaching, you will learn.” ― Phil Collins Student- Teacher, what is the capital of Kenya? Assuming you are the teacher and you don’t know the answer. You borrow some time from students and then what will you do? Will you remove a world […]

The demand for new teachers has been climbing steadily since the 1990s and is expected to continue in the foreseeable future given the increases in teacher retirement and student enrollment, lower pupil/teacher ratios, and rising teacher attrition rates. New teachers enter the profession with varying degrees of preparation, ranging from […]

I first read the term in the printed diary of British Army officer Arthur J.L. Fremantle. In 1863, he had debarked from HMS Immortalite (a sailing frigate) at Bagdad, Mexico, which sat at the mouth of the Rio Grande River. Brownsville, Texas lay just across the Rio Grande. The squibs […]

Much literature is available on programs to teach critical thinking, and a substantial amount of evidence indicates critical thinking can be taught and learned, especially when instruction is specifically designed to encourage transfer of skills. Nevertheless, the types of studies required to confirm with certitude the efficacy of teaching critical […]