Choosing a small number of strategies that students can use across content areas can help them focus on the concepts they’re learning.

Research suggests that online learning has been shown to increase retention of information, and take less time, meaning the changes coronavirus have caused might be here to stay.

Hur gör du när en medarbetare kritiserar verksamheten, kolleger och dig som chef och samtidigt inte fungerar särskilt väl i sin roll?

Johan Alvehus plockar isär ledarskapsbegreppet och uppmuntrar lärare att i stället fokusera på kärnbegreppen i professionen. Han menar att ledarskap anammats som ett trevligt och lagom vagt begrepp i dagens samhälle, vilket självklart påverkar skolan.

Ibland behövs nya arbetssätt och vägar framåt för att uppfylla mål. I årets andra nummer av tidningen Lika värde kan du läsa om en gymnasieskola som tagit in matematiken i de praktiska ämnena och en annan som satsar på att skapa goda relationer för att stärka studiemotivationen. (pdf)

Teaching special education online has its own unique challenges, but teachers have found ways to use educational technology to aid students.

Taking notes on readings doesn’t always come naturally to students, and having a framework to follow helps them focus on what’s most important.

Students can become better questioners if teachers help them develop and nurture their skills, their will and their thrill for devising thoughtful queries, author and consultant Jackie Acree Walsh writes in this blog post. Walsh also explains the differences among and necessity of self-questions, academic questions, exploratory questions and dialogical questions.

Teachers can help preschool and elementary students understand and express the connections between their sensations and emotions.

Ido Davidesco, an assistant professor of learning sciences at the University of Connecticut, is using EEG technology to study students' brainwaves to gather data to improve teaching and learning. In particular, Davidesco says this research could better inform strategies to keep students' attention during instruction.

Schools that adopted a four-day week saw lower math and reading test scores - and those losses grew year over year - according to a study of students' academic outcomes in Oregon by Paul Thompson, an economist at Oregon State University. Thompson's research found the number of schools nationwide adopting a four-day schedule grew to…