Education Articles for Teachers & Educators

Understanding the development of your students helps you become a stronger educator, because you can identify specific strategies and ways to help your students that are developmentally appropriate. There are many developmental theories present to explain our growth has humans over time, but this article will focus on just one: Erik Erikson’s eight stages of development.

Whether you’re actively teaching or maintaining your license while not in the classroom, understanding Tennessee’s requirements ensures you complete the necessary PD and renew your license on time. In this article, we outline exactly what you need to do to keep your Tennessee teaching license active.

Most of us remember learning through images long after we forget specific words or facts. For example, you may not recall the exact definition of an animal cell, but you can probably picture its round shape or nucleus. You may not remember every detail from a history class, but you can likely recognize a famous historical painting that represents a significant event. Visual elements are often the strongest and most durable memories we form in school. Because of this, the visual arts should not be limited to the art classroom. It can instead be intentionally integrated across subjects to strengthen learning, reasoning, and creativity.

Whether you’re actively teaching or maintaining your license while not in the classroom, understanding Tennessee’s requirements ensures you complete the necessary PD and renew your license on time. In this article, we outline exactly what you need to do to keep your Tennessee teaching license active.

As your semester approaches the holidays, you may find yourself balancing academic demands with the desire to create a warm and joyful classroom environment. As December approaches, it can be a magical, if not also a chaotic time, so here are some simple and meaningful ways to bring the cheer of the holiday to your students, and to yourself and your family!

In this article you’ll get an overview of classroom chain reactions from basic definitions to easy launch ideas. You’ll find suggestions for selecting materials, planning your space, and setting goals that feel achievable for your classroom size and schedule. We will show how these activities build confidence with innovation and give students regular practice with creativity, logic, and teamwork that carries into other subjects and their overall creativity.

Social Media has long been on the radar as a significant concern for childhood development. Now, a new study tracking 6,554 adolescents has revealed some interesting insights into the effects of social media usage and cognitive development. In this article, we break down the study and summarize its key findings.

Unlike many adults, our students have never known a life without cell phones. This new reality can mean not only that students are becoming largely dependent on phones, but it may also be difficult to keep students off devices during classroom instruction. This brief article will summarize some justifications for reducing or eliminating phone usage on campuses, affirming the rationale lawmakers across the country are using when passing cell phone ban legislation on campuses.

Guest Post from Retiring Edu. Retirement is not just about leaving the classroom, but about establishing a firm financial foundation, planning for healthcare costs, and achieving the lifestyle you have dreamed of. By following the right strategies, you can transition smoothly into this new and rewarding phase.

A strong reading classroom should include specific instructional time that utilizes explicit, systematic, and sequential instruction as part of your well-rounded reading instruction. Let’s delve into each of these instructional components.

If you are reading this, you have likely been impacted by the Title II Part A (or Title II-A) funding freeze. First introduced back in 2001 under the No Child Left Behind Act and then revised in 2015 under the Every Student Succeeds Act, Title II-A funding has provided professional development support to teachers across the country. The focus of Title II-A funding has been to support teachers in improving or enhancing instruction with an end result of improved student performance.

MTSS is an acronym for Multi-Tiered Systems of Support. MTSS is a tiered framework that utilizes various student data to provide academic, social-emotional, and behavioral support to improve student educational outcomes in the school setting. The term “systems” is important in MTSS. MTSS requires the use of the entire school system, with multiple support methods, to come together in preventative interventions for students identified in need.