Lesson plans are the hallmark of good teaching. Just as every grand building needs a foundation, you too need a blueprint to guide the masterpiece that will be your teaching and your students' lear...

Is that when you take a movie day to teach the valuable lessons behind Pixar's 2009 balloon-fueled masterpiece? The next article will be called "Teaching Monsters" (Inc.), right?Of all the sarcasti...

What's your favorite color? Are you a cat person, or a dog person? Team Edward, Team Jacob , or Team Nobody Cares?  What do you mean you're not a cat person? Chances are, you've got opinions,...

Yup. It's like the books. Except instead of choosing if they turn to page 6 or page 49 (and maybe ending up in quicksand), your students choose…their assignments.That's right.Pirate Quest or a Ni...

.moorssalc ruoy ni ekam reve lliw uoy noisiced tseb eht si gninnalp sdrawkcaBUh, sorry. We got confused about what kind of backwards we're talking here. Although, if you try talking like that for a...

Let's say today's agenda is learning about microbes. We know it's exciting, but settle down.Now, single out all your introverts and put them on one side of the room at individual desks to do a work...

"Interdisciplinarity" is a fancy word academics like to use to show that they can pronounce a lot of syllables and read books from two different sections of the library. But it's also a way to help...