5 Tips for Improving Student Vocabulary

To teach vocabulary effectively teachers must learn the skills necessary to apply the best approaches. Student vocabulary instruction is an art that will help pupils retain new terms that will allow them to prosper.

So how is improving English vocabulary accomplished?

According to Oxford University Press, “Students need ...

Common Core: Compare and Contrast

Learning the steps to teaching compare and contrast at all grade levels will afford teachers the skills necessary to implement the critical thinking strategy of compare and contrast.  This strategy builds a student’s memory, helps eliminate confusion, and brings crucial similarities and differences into focus. Compare and contrast is ...

Classroom Management for Discipline and Focus

Classroom management is one of the biggest challenges teachers face. And students are more distracted than at any point in history, teachers say. So what can be done about it? Problems in the classroom can include students with behavior issues not learning and thereby taking time away from the rest ...

Digital Distraction and Teaching in the Age of Smartphones

The digital age has changed how the human brain operates.

And it is rapidly changing how teachers try to keep the attention of their students.

Young people are particularly susceptible to the influences of smartphones and other devices. That leads ...

Summer Course Gives Teachers a Head Start

More teachers are taking advantage of summer online courses for teachers to better prepare for the coming year. For students, summer represents a long-needed rest from school. The same can be said, however, for teachers. And a teachers summer school course is an ...