Giving teachers more control over their collaboration with peers may boost the effectiveness of teacher teams and encourage educators to stay in the classroom. For example, at Westwood High School in ...

In “Teaching Teams” (Commentary, Sept. 29, 2004), Arthur E. Wise suggests that team teaching is necessary for 21st-century schools. Agreed! But team teaching has been advocated since the early 1960s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Running out of time to complete a learning unit on math fractions, Concord Elementary third grade teacher Brianne Sinden turned to ...

Teacher burnout is a real and growing challenge for US K–12 schools. Last year, school district leaders reported a 4 percent increase in teacher turnover according to a nationally representative ...

Lee Schulman's term "pedagogical solitude" captures a pervasive problem in academic teaching: many of us teach in isolation, with few opportunities for intellectual or creative exchange with fellow ...

One in 10 students says their professors generally choose homogeneous instructional materials that do not reflect diverse perspectives, according to a recent Student Voice survey by Inside Higher Ed ...

A teacher-in-training darted among students, tallying how many needed his help with a history unit on Islam. A veteran math teacher hovered near a cluster of desks, coaching some 50 freshmen on a ...

In my more than 40 years of teaching college, I’ve found that as I’m imparting knowledge to others, I learn lessons myself. The greatest lessons that I’ve learned, however, are in team-taught courses ...

Team Teaching offers rich possibilities for interdisciplinary learning both within and among departments/programs. Specifically, it allows faculty to offer courses in which different disciplines, ...