Featuring videos on classroom management, group work, and teacher collaboration, this partnership with the Teaching Channel offers weekly selections designed to help educators develop better instructional practices. (Inspired Instruction ceased publishing in October 2018.)
Student Well-Being
Opinion
'Citizen Science': Using Real-World Investigations to Make Class Meaningful (Video)
In this middle school science class, students learn about water quality by testing the drinking sources in their own homes.
Professional Development
Opinion
How to Make the Most of Teaching Without a Classroom (Video)
High school teacher Sarah Brown Wessling shows how she makes classroom essentials portable so that she can move throughout the building.
Student Well-Being
Opinion
Singing in Science? How Music Can Help Students Retain Key Concepts (Video)
In this 7th grade science classroom, students learn the stages of cell mitosis through song and dance.
Student Well-Being
Opinion
Three Ways to Deal With a Chatty Classroom (Video)
Three teachers explain how they curb off-task talk and encourage productive discussion.
Student Well-Being
Opinion
Teaching Through Silence: How to Move the Conversation Forward (Video)
High school teacher Sarah Brown Wessling shares three ways she approaches silence in her classroom.
Reading & Literacy
Opinion
'Walls That Talk' Give Students Tools for Writing Independently (Video)
High school teacher Kateryna Haggerty explains how visual aids in her classroom help her English-language learner students write more confidently.
Student Well-Being
Opinion
Give Some 'Snaps': Introducing Students to Classroom Routines (Video)
In high school teacher Sarah Brown Wessling's class, students "snap" to praise each other's contributions.
Reading & Literacy
Opinion
How Graphic Organizers Can Support New English-Learners (Video)
This high school teacher uses graphic organizers to help English language learners with limited or interrupted formal education develop fluency.
Teaching
Opinion
Sharing Personal Stories Helps Students Form Relationships (Video)
This high school English teacher helps her students get to know each other with an interviewing exercise.
Science
Opinion
How the Next Generation Science Standards Teach Cause and Effect (Video)
In Sabrina Van-Phanz's middle school science class, students consider how introducing a new living thing could change a natural environment.
Reading & Literacy
Opinion
This Writing 'Recipe' Helps Students Tackle the Five-Paragraph Essay (Video)
This 8th grade teacher uses manipulatives to teach her English-language learners how to structure persuasive writing.
Teaching
Opinion
Want to Avoid Classroom Interruptions? Try Rearranging Desks (Video)
This 4th grade teacher demonstrates how she arranges the desks in her classroom to facilitate student collaboration.
Teaching
Opinion
How Playing With Blocks Can Teach Spatial-Reasoning Skills (Video)
Allyson Krogmann Jordan, an early learning coach in Santa Monica, Calif., teaches her preschool students spatial-reasoning skills through a game using wooden building blocks.
Science
Opinion
Creating Posters Can Encourage Collaborative Thinking (Video)
Sabrina Van-Phanz, a middle school science teacher in New York, uses poster-making to engage her students in a brainstorming exercise.