By grounding your values in concrete examples, writing with clarity and tailoring your statement to its audience, you can ...

Feedback is one of the most important aspects of teacher education, but how exactly it works in practice remains underexplored. Most studies focus on how teachers deliver lessons, while little ...

You posed some questions to me in our last post, Seeking and Keeping Balance, and they embodied some of the concepts in my life that I have actually been reflecting on. I feel like you have given me ...

The Metropolitan School District of Decatur Township has been successfully using video in our teacher professional learning for more than seven years. According to our recently retired former ...

It was a Friday morning in early May, just before Mother’s Day, when a group of preschool teachers settled onto oversized pillows and colorful beanbags for a conversation that would lead to tears, ...

As the supervisor of instruction in Haddon Township School District in New Jersey, I would love to be able to give my teachers feedback every week. Feedback is a crucial factor for growth and progress ...

Traditionally, students submit their work on an assignment, after which the teacher gives feedback on that work and assigns that student a grade. Every once in awhile, we build reflection into the ...

When teachers aren’t worried about punitive or evaluative measures, they can experience meaningful improvement in their ...

Becoming a global citizen is a process that is never complete—we are always working toward greater understanding of the world and the people living in it. Today, Jason Harshman, Assistant Professor of ...

Teacher educators guide student reflection by transforming specific microteaching moments into “reflect-ables,” using gestures, notes, and interactive discussion to co-construct professional learning ...