Trendy approaches to teaching come and go, but some of them stick around. Inquiry-based learning, for example, is no longer a trend--it’s the dominant mode of instruction for many educators around the ...
In today’s ever-changing world, where adaptability and critical thinking matter more than memorising facts, education must go beyond teaching children what to know – it must teach them how to think.
When we make class time about exploration, it’s important that we not only design worthy assessments, but we also track what we learn while the students are going through the process. This data will ...
“Inquiry-based learning” is a hot topic in education these days, both in Canada and around the world. In Canada, Ontario’s incoming premier Doug Ford recently declared his opposition to recent ...
Schools on the cutting edge of crafting student learning today know a lot more about how kids learn best thanks to years of brain research. And that ultimately means putting the power in students' ...
The rise of ChatGPT promises to bring simplicity to the more mundane tasks of human existence and has also revived with new fervor an enduring question of our education system: how do we adequately ...
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One of the joys of being an educator is embracing all the differences every student brings to the classroom, while teaching them to celebrate those unique traits in themselves and each other. Yet, ...
A more experiential, hands-on approach to education will be one of the items discussed at the upcoming Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District board meeting taking place in Malibu on Thursday, ...
The immediate shift to remote learning as a result of the pandemic is forcing school districts to think differently about the delivery of education. To find out more about how COVID-19 is changing ...