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Helping every student answer questions in class goes further than simple wait time for many teachers.

How instructors can conduct online discussions of readings required for college-level writing classes in order to gauge students' critical comprehension of the material.

Both high school and university course evaluations should be regularly updated to ensure objectivity and integrity in the student review process.

ESL and general education teachers need to use open-ended activities that engage all learners in a full-class participation mode.

In terms of sales the Promethean ActivBoard is one of the most popular Interactive Whiteboards available, but do its features make it worth the high price tag?

One of the most common reasons for claiming unfairness is that effort and achievement are muddled together.

Contractions with the verb to be combine a pronoun or noun with am, is, or are. In the shortened form, an apostrophe is used to show where a letter was omitted.

When teaching Julius Caesar, teachers often struggle with strategies to help students own the material. Here is a lesson to help immerse students in the 17th century.

Character Counts is a national program promoting honesty and character. How do today's high school students fare in the honesty and ethics departments?

Managing a class as a substitute teacher has it's own unique difficulties. It is possible, though, to successfully manage even unruly students while substituting.

The teacher is also a classroom manager. How can you build effective classroom management?

Most children learn to use contractions in speech at an early age. Their prior knowledge of contractions usually transfers easily to reading and writing.

When two words are combined to form a contraction, the result is a more conversational tone that is often needed in spoken and sometimes written language.

The mantra of most history teachers preparing examinations is the "bubble-sheet" experience, yet this approach, though easy, seldom achieves long term results.

There are moments of revelation that come to all who teach, learn or write. Flat world maps and a globe make a great scientific inquiry learning-teaching combination.

The temptation to skim student papers may lead to higher incidents of cheating and plagiarism and may damage the academic reputation of the teacher.

Student-based community service projects are more important than ever in a community experiencing growing unemployment and poverty.

A heroes project that enables students to research and report on recent historical figures can address the need for ethics education and provide real role models.

Many new teachers find it hard to teach creativity, but it can be a part of the entire curriculum.

It may not matter what conclusions are in the recently publish Reading First Impact Study. A number of flaws have been pointed out in the study's design.

The use of this interactive wireless technology is ideal for stimulating student involvement using both interactive whiteboards and for one computer classrooms.

Elementary teachers can use short poems to help students identify a character's point of view in a story and increase their comprehension skills during reading lessons.

For foreign language teaching methods, these versatile language activities can serve as an Italian lesson plan or German lesson plan - any class that uses oral exercises.

A social studies lesson plan for English language learners that integrates vocabulary development and the geography concepts of village, town, and city.

The grading process of high school history papers relies on clearly defined requirements and rubrics that address both the content and clarity of the research paper.

Open to gifted kids ages 6 to 11 worldwide, the IGUANA distance learning program serves gifted students in a collaborative online learning community.

Students use inquiry-based thinking and science process skills to investigate chemical reactions that produce oxygen based on experimental findings and conclusions.

Students use online technology to access tidal information from designated locations as they use problem solving and science process skills to analyze the data.

A three part hands-on, minds-on investigation where students test two unknown liquids to identify them. Once identified, students make connections similar situations.

Science works for inquiring, trained minds in primary grades, universities, research institutes and wherever true discovery of critical, scientific thought is promoted.

Elementary teachers can use the book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie to teach students cause and effect. Kids complete if then statements and play a cookie match game.

How can teachers build a class which behaves well for all the right reasons? After building a foundation of trust in the classroom, something more is still needed.