A survey sheds light on frequent issues and positive strategies to help students with math.

Using a backchannel tool to allow students to anonymously ask questions increased the number of questions college students asked during class, according to a review. Data show the tool was effective for some groups of students, who said they felt uncomfortable asking questions during class, including female students and first-generation college students.

Tydlighet, struktur och ett tätt kollegialt samarbete – det är något av det musik- och engelskaläraren Heidi Uddeskog tog fasta på när hon jobbskuggade en brittisk pedagog. "Lärarna visste väldigt mycket om varandra och hur de jobbade; och de hade många samarbeten, även mellan olika årskurser", säger hon.

Søren Nivaa blev mødt med skepsis, da han i skoletiden ville træne Dybkær Specialskoles ældste elever i håndbold. Men nu udvikler spillet deres sociale og personlige sider.

Børn med autisme kan have særlige udfordringer i skolen, og det kan føre til langvarigt skolefravær. Opsporing, forebyggelse og tæt samarbejde mellem alle involverede er afgørende faktorer for at sikre børnenes trivsel. Se Socialstyrelsens nye webmateriale med inspiration til det gode skoleliv for børn med autisme.

To prepare students for jobs in STEM fields, the U.S. Department of Education is shining a spotlight on how educators can incorporate technology into their classroom activities.

Many teachers use Legos in the classroom for hands-on STEM exercises, particularly as an enticement to get students who are less confident about their engineering aptitude to give it a try. Middle-school robotics teacher Ian Chow-Miller says he likes using Legos -- from the basic blocks to the higher-end robotics kits -- because his students…

Educators can take steps to make language lessons more accessible and inclusive for students with special needs, such as hearing or visual impairments, according to Andrea Mehringer, an English-language educator in Saudi Arabia. In this commentary, Mehringer shares how teachers can help bridge the gap, including the use of education technology.

Moving slowly when implementing changes can help education leaders boost the success of new initiatives, writes Miriam Plotinsky, a learning and achievement specialist with Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland. In this commentary, she offers guidance on how to methodically implement changes in the classroom, school and professional development.

There’s no need for funding or special training to bring these approaches and strategies into your classroom right away.

Thirty-nine percent of teachers need greater training to effectively use education technology, but administrators assert that tight budgets and competing priorities are preventing them from making such investments, according to a survey from Promethean. The survey also found that teachers want to use more technology in the classroom and expect the use of cloud-based lesson…

Pia Brännkärr är doktorand vid Finlands svenskspråkiga universitet, Åbo Akademi i Vasa. Pia arbetar parallellt som universitetslärare i textilslöjd vid Åbo Akademi och är sedan juni 2019 nyantagen doktorand i doktorandprogrammet i pedagogiska vetenskaper: slöjdvetenskap.