The Palm Harbor University High student says there needs to be critical thinking, context and right-track answers, not just rote memorization. There’s more to spelling and vocabulary than rote ...

Fully supporting students means explicitly teaching them critical thinking, Louis E. Newman argues in Thinking Critically in College: The Essential Handbook for Student Success (Radius Book Group).

This week’s question is: What are the best instructional strategies for vocabulary development? All educators in all subjects have to teach vocabulary. If our students don’t know the meanings ...

One of the age-old goals of education is teaching students “how to think.” But what exactly does that mean? Doesn’t everyone already think on their own? Is thinking — in the abstract ...

Wendi Pillars, Annie Huynh, Regie Routman, William Himmele, and Pérsida Himmele share their advice on teaching English Language Learners.

Would Teaching "Critical Thinking" Help Both Students and Politicians? By guest blogger, Dr. Charles Temple Elsewhere in the region, we asked teachers why training in critical thinking was ...