First Person
Teaching Profession
Opinion
Children Come to School Holding Stereotypes. Teachers Can Help Break Them
Connecting with other children across cultural divides can help students question their biases, writes Justin Minkel.
Teaching Profession
Opinion
‘Why Are You a Teacher?’ Your Answer Should Change Over Time
It’s not uncommon for teachers to be asked about their philosophy of education, writes Domonique Dickson. Here’s why it’s important that they keep reflecting on the purpose of their work.
Special Education
Opinion
How Teachers Can Support and Challenge Twice-Exceptional Students
Too often, students who are both gifted and have disabilities are underserved, writes Caroline Galeota. Here are some ways teachers can better accommodate these learners.
Teaching Profession
Opinion
Being Wrong Has Made Me a Better Teacher
As an experienced teacher, Ariel Sacks realized she needed to shed ego and embrace uncertainty in order to keep learning.
Teaching
Opinion
Want Your Students to Be Kinder? Try This Assignment
Teacher Justin Parmenter made kindness a part of the curriculum to create a positive community among his students.
Teaching Profession
Opinion
How to Be a Better Mentor to Your Student-Teachers
Being a skilled teacher of children doesn’t automatically make you a skilled mentor of new teachers. So how do you teach someone to teach?
Teaching Profession
Opinion
Six Questions We Should Be Asking About Personalized Learning
When schools use digital, pre-packaged lessons, they discourage meaningful learning and rob teachers of their professional agency, writes Cynthia Roy.
Teaching Profession
Opinion
The Hope and Despair of Being an Oklahoma Teacher
After the midterm elections, Oklahoma teacher Amanda Becker reflects on the future of teacher activism in the state.
Teaching Profession
Opinion
I Left the Classroom After 13 Years. Here's Why I Came Back
After leaving teaching to pursue other roles in education, Ariel Sacks realized that the profession was too central a part of her identity to give up.
Teaching Profession
Opinion
Teacher Observations Don't Have to Be So Stressful. Here's a Better Model
Teachers should be participants in the process of their own improvement, rather than the subjects of a rating, writes Trisha Arnold.
Curriculum
Opinion
How to Help Students Heal From 'Math Trauma'
Timed tests and "drill-and-kill" approaches to math education can leave students with long-lasting anxiety, writes researcher Jennifer Ruef. There's a better way to teach the subject.
Teaching Profession
Opinion
Why Students Should Learn to Be Kind to Animals
Humane education, which teaches students about animal welfare, fosters empathy and can inspire students to become change agents in their communities, writes teacher Julie O'Connor.
Teaching Profession
Opinion
More Than Rough and Final Drafts: Making Feedback Meaningful for Student Writers
When teachers give students feedback only at the end of the writing process, it is often ignored or dismissed, writes teacher Jesse Breite. He describes how teachers in his English department reimagined the revision process.
Teaching Profession
Opinion
What's Missing When We Talk About Grit
Simply praising the value of perseverance has little effect if teachers don’t take the time to learn every student’s story, writes former teacher Luke Reynolds.