Education Articles for Teachers & Educators

Why take practice tests? You have likely given your students practice tests at many points in your lessons. Often, you may check in to monitor their progress and ensure they are learning the material. But how often do you assign tests as a way to help your students retrieve information and engage in the process of strengthening their memory? Practice tests can be a useful study tool for improving memory and learning. In fact, any recall activity can be used as a way for student to “test” their memory and determine what they can recall from stored knowledge in their minds. This continued practice can be an important way to improve memory and recall, and incorporating it into your lessons is another tool for you to support student understanding and improve performance in your classroom.

Teachers are quickly realizing how much time AI tools can save them. This includes lesson planning, creating student-facing documents, and even helping with direct instruction. AI tools are nowhere close to a solution for all the challenges a teacher may face in the classroom, but they can help in several areas, particularly when it comes to planning and creating plans, lessons, or assessments for their students. Perhaps one of the best ways AI can be leveraged in the classroom is through creating customized and highly differentiated lessons and content for the various student groups all teachers find within their classroom.

Renewing your Ohio teaching license requires completing state-approved professional development and submitting your renewal before your license expires. While some professional development may be available through your district, you may need to complete additional coursework or continuing education. Whether you are currently teaching or maintaining your license while not in the classroom, it is important to understand Ohio’s renewal requirements so you can plan ahead.

Differentiation is a general term for an instructional approach in which teachers tailor curriculum, teaching methods, and assessments to meet the diverse needs of students in their classrooms. Between tracking student data, creating varied materials, and managing multiple groups, you may feel like differentiation in your classroom can be overwhelming! The good news is that technology can be your ally. The right edtech tools can streamline many differentiation tasks, from grouping students based on learning profiles to generating leveled content to creating varied assessments. These tools don’t replace your expertise as a teacher, but they do enhance it by handling the time-consuming logistics so you can focus on what matters most: teaching. In this article, we’ll explore five tech tools that support different aspects of differentiation. Whether you need help grouping students, creating accessible content, varying your instructional processes, designing diverse assessments, or supporting students with IEPs, there’s a tool here that can make your life easier.

Explore guidelines for teaching testing behaviors, testing strategies, and a process for students to justify their answer choices on assessments. You will learn specific behaviors or strategies to identify in students, as well as simple methods to explicitly teach appropriate testing behaviors.

As a teacher, you often witness your students struggling with the question of right or wrong each day in your classroom. How can I teach that student that it is important to share? Why did that other student share without being asked? Why is it that some children follow classroom rules when no one is watching, while others struggle to abide by classroom rules at all times? While some of the behaviors you witness may be due to a child’s personality and upbringing, you may also be noticing patterns of behavior aligned with their moral development.

Teaching is one of the most important professions in the world. You are educating and helping to raise the next generation of citizens. You are often the first adult outside of the student’s immediate family who believes in them and pushes them to be their best selves, and you have a significant responsibility to ensure your students are successful. And yet, you are in a profession that rarely pays you what it should, based on the immense value that you provide your students.

In this webinar, you will learn how using AI prompting can save you time on many different teaching tasks, including differentiation and lesson planning. You will learn the concept of the mega prompt and how to use AI specifically to help train other AI tools to produce a better result. You will also look at two specific examples and be provided with 2 dozen additional examples of how AI can help increase your productivity.

Teachers are some of the most financially resourceful people in the workforce. You stretch classroom budgets, buy supplies out of pocket, and find ways to make things work with less. For those of you who work in a district that allows for lane changes/ salary step increases through the accumulation of graduate-level credits, you know that moving up in your salary schedule is the obvious plan to secure your financial future.

Test success is not just about students mastering content and then demonstrating it. Many students also need support in mastering specific testing behaviors that will increase the chance of their success on a test. Whether that is time management, a method for analyzing a question, or a method for selecting the correct multiple-choice option on tricky tests, testing behaviors can be improved and practiced in students as a way for them to truly demonstrate what they know and guarantee better success on assessments.

Student engagement is essential for meaningful learning, yet it is often misunderstood or reduced to compliance or simple participation. In this focused 30-minute webinar, you will explore the Five Levels of Engagement and consider what it means to intentionally design instruction that moves students from passive involvement to authentic engagement with classroom content. You’ll leave with three simple strategies you can use right away to begin shifting student engagement in your classroom.

In today’s history classroom, students are expected to analyze global conflicts, explain change over time, and understand the roots of major events. When students cannot locate countries on a map, history can feel abstract because they struggle to picture how borders, regions, and geography shape what happens. Intentional practice memorizing countries, cities, and regions helps students build that mental map so they can connect more deeply with history, current events, and global issues. This article explains why geography memorization matters and highlights technology tools that can support students as they learn these concepts.