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The Best Educational Toys for Your Child This Holiday Season
The opportunity to learn is around the clock, it doesn’t have to happen at school alone! This coming Holiday season you will no doubt purchase many toys for your child, why not find some that can help...
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The Benefits of Puzzles in Early Childhood Development
People have long known that puzzles present many benefits for children as they develop. Children usually start out with simple knobbed puzzles that are outlines of simple shapes that fit into...
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The Most Important Year of School Is…
The answer is freshman year of high school, at least when it comes to predicting who is likely to drop out or not. According to The Atlantic, the periodical Education recently released research...
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Competitive Grants for Career and Technical Education
On Tuesday, November 19th, the Obama administration unveiled details for a plan to host a $100 million grant awarding competition. According to Education Week, the grant money is specifically intended...
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Schools Pushing for Eco-Friendly Cafeterias
Compostable trays and pesticide-free produce are just a few of the items that large school districts across the nation are hoping to offer within their school meal programs. According to The New York...
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Music: The Best Way to Boost Brain Power
Whether students are tickling the ivories on the piano or strumming a guitar, the hours they spend in music lessons and rehearsals are worth every penny. According to Education Week, studies presented...
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This is Incredible!! The Teach 100 Reaches 500 Blogs!
On January 8, 2013, Teach.com launched the Teach 100--an innovative new system to score the performance and importance of education blogs. Our goal was to provide an accurate and authoritative...
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Mike & The Nasty Self Fulfilling Prophecy [by Dr. Laz]
By Dr. David Lazerson, 2008 Inductee National Teachers Hall of Fame “You’re wasting your time,” a colleague advised me. “He’s just a little kid in a big body.” “You might be right,” I responded. “But...
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10 Promises Every Special Education Teacher Should Make To Their Students’...
Guest post by Tim Villegas 1. I promise to stop calling parents who have high expectations and advocate for their children “high maintenance” and I will equally try to discourage the term “high...
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Girls’ Education: The 2013 Report Card [Infographic]
Did you know that worldwide, more females than males are enrolled in higher education? In high-income countries the disparity is 82 percent versus 65 percent and is reversed in lower-income countries....
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Helping to Increase Literacy Around the World [Infographic]
Millions of children around the world don’t acquire some of the most basic literacy skills necessary for success in today’s global society. These deficiencies in literacy often result from problems...
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Social Media and Blogging in Kindergarten [Guest Post]
Social media and blogging in kindergarten is where I begin to model explicitly how I get my students and their families connected. Through social media, my students and their families experience the...
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Introducing: #edchat Weekly Roundup
We’re happy to announce that Teach.com has become part of the #edchat community. #Edchat is a hashtag on Twitter that acts as a sort of ‘chat room.’ Every Wednesday (at 12pm EST and 7pm EST), educators...
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Integrating Technology into the Common Core Classroom [Guest Post]
The following is a guest post by Karen Larson and Gene Tognetti -- Integrating the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) creates a number of opportunities for educators. Once teachers develop classroom...
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#edchat Weekly Roundup: 2/4/14
Welcome back to our blog's new segment #edchat Weekly Roundup, where we look back at Tuesday's #edchat topics and highlight some of the day's poignant conversations and key players.Yesterday's #edchat...
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#edchat Weekly Roundup: 2/11/14
Out with the Old and In with the New: 21st Century Teaching Tools This week's #edchat topics focused on two different areas of teacher best practice. To begin the day, #edchat contributors discussed...
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#Edchat Weekly Roundup: Importance of Student Voice
One of the most commonly used education hashtags (asides from #edchat) is #stuvoice. An abbreviation of “student voice,” the popularity of this hashtag is demonstrative of just how important the voice...
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#Edchat Weekly Roundup: Using Technology to Demonstrate Growth in the Classroom
This week's #edchat focused on how we can better-implement educational technology to document growth in both students and teachers. The 12pm ET topic discussed how we can use digital portfolios and/or...
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Twitter: Empowering Student Voices [Guest Post]
The timeless skill of effective communication is the anchor, which will enable students to successfully find and share their voice with the world through the power of words. As we celebrate Digital...
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#TheyTaughtMe : “The Horsefly That Got Away” by Dr. Laz
By Dr. David Lazerson, 2008 Inductee National Teachers Hall of Fame Joey “Let’s go,” I urged. “On the count of three, we lift together.” My lifeguards were already used to the procedure, and I couldn’t...
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