Tag: teaching

What Determines Whether Another Business Degree Is Worth Pursuing Later in a Career

Education & Learning
Online education has made it easier than ever to pursue another degree at almost any career stage. A working...

9 Ways to Use an Interactive Whiteboard in the Classroom 

Education & Learning
Interactive whiteboards have become part of daily teaching in many schools, but their value goes far beyond replacing regular...

Reclaim Your Weekends: Try Teacher Marking Assistant

Education & Learning
What if marking could fit into the gaps of a teacher’s day — the ten minutes in the staff...

Comparing the Top 3 K-12 Language Proficiency Tests for 2026

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Language proficiency is a pillar of K-12 education, as schools aim to equip students with the ability to communicate...

What Teachers Should Know About Identifying Students Who Need Speech-Language Support

Education & Learning
Approximately 10% of the general population requires the services of a speech-language pathologist (SLP) at some point in their...

“Schools need to be boring”

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In 1957, when 3 o’clock came around, Chuck Berry ‘laid his burden down’, that burden being school. 33 years...

How I engaged learners without gimmicks

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This year, I’ve run an experiment with mastery learning rather than running a programme of unit/topic learning. It has...

Will Education ever reach its Tipping point?

Education & Learning
For more than 500 years, western culture has fallen into many major problems due to its sense of exceptionalism...

Look back to move forward

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Titiro whakamuri, Kōkiri whakamua. A common New Zealand Māori proverb to “Look back, to move forward. A proverb (Whakatauki)...

Help teachers talk about teaching & learning

Education & Learning
How one teaches often feels like a very personal thing. I believe this is primarily due to a lack...

Hey Teachers, the Marshmallow test was wrong.

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I covered the disastrous impact that eugenic thinking had on high school design in my previous post. So, I...

High school classrooms were NEVER for learning … but they could be.

Education & Learning
Important first question: where did the high school classroom come from? It’s important to remember that the high school...