More than a decade after being recognized as the Arkansas 2007 teacher of the year, Justin Minkel still found himself flustered when his principal slipped into the back row of class. “When my ...
When Biology professor Paul Sniegowski came to Penn in 1997, he had little lecture experience under his belt. So he learned to teach the way many faculty members do: from each other. The process takes ...
Allow me to introduce ourselves. The Open Door NJNY is a nonprofit that empowers marginalized Latinos in North Hudson County to reach their full potential with an end goal of strengthening their ...
If you are curious about the world, the growing number of English Language Learners in your classroom represents a tremendous opportunity to connect with students from all over the planet as well as ...
Young English learners face a two-fold challenge in learning to read. They need to learn how to map spoken sounds to written letters, the phonics skills that allow them to decode words on the page, ...
The controversy over the value of teaching evaluation surveys completed by students has led to increased calls to include some type of faculty observation as part of one’s teaching dossier. Those ...
This article addresses the relationship between educational theory-as manifested in particular ideologies of teaching and learning-and classroom practice. Based on an ethnographic study of ...