Academic instructors, hired for their content expertise, are rarely trained in skills like classroom facilitation or community-building. But successful collaborative learning requires a degree of ...

In their new book Teaching Better, Brad and Genevieve Ermeling describe their first-hand experience with Japanese lesson study and the important lessons they learned from collaborating with colleagues ...

The gifted group. The slow group. The behavioral issues group. Grouping in schools fell out of favor partially because educators—and parents—felt like kids were getting labeled and that groupings didn ...

Think-pair-share (TPS) is the black dress of active learning: a highly flexible tool that can take as little or as much time as needed, and serve a number of pedagogical purposes including ...

Debbie Zacarian ([email protected]) is known for her work in advancing student engagement and achievement. She is an education consultant and the author of many books, including two ...

Editor’s note: This story on collaborative learning originally appeared on CoSN’s blog and is reposted here with permission. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been around for many years, but the ...

Schools aren’t just where kids go to learn reading, math, science and history. The social skills they learn – like how to build and maintain relationships with peers – are also critical. This is ...