Research indicates that strong and supportive relationships with students has both immediate and long-term positive impacts, both qualitative and quantitative. When a positive relationship is established and maintained, a student is more likely to attend school regularly, put forth greater effort, encounter fewer disciplinary episodes, and achieve at higher levels.
Teachers can use ‘effortful’ follow-up questions to refine and extend student thinking about important concepts in a lesson.
Giving students chances to make classroom decisions and manage discussions guides them to take agency in their learning.
Making connections, managing schedules, and building up student confidence isn’t always easy, but support from experienced colleagues can make an impactful difference.
When students have a teacher for more than one year, they benefit academically and behaviorally, a new working paper shows.
As the school year comes to a close, district and school leaders may be taking stock of teachers and other staff who turned in their resignations and asking: What could
By building connections and looking into the social and emotional well-being of students, teachers can accelerate learning.
Filling in for an elementary teacher can be easier when substitutes have flexible go-to strategies to keep the class running smoothly.
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Andrea Elliott on the way public education must “fill in the gaps” left by societal abandonment of poor children and families.
This think piece is from Rick Hess, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and the director of the think tank’s Education Policy Studies. This piece focuses on student
Building a strong classroom community is possible even during students’ asynchronous work time.
