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Traditional Subjects: Can We Do Without Them?
Burning question of the day: Why the continued acceptance of traditional academic subjects? New research from the University of Derby has revealed that, despite shifting demands in the job market,...
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5 Ways to Spread Empathy Through Education
Our world is becoming increasingly interconnected, globalised, and complex. Wars are being waged, conflicts displacing refugees across borders, economies booming and failing, all while innovative...
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When Intuition Gets In the Way of Effective Instruction
Say you’re a math teacher, standing in front of the class posing a word problem to your students. The word problems goes like this: “There are 42 cows in a field, and five go back to the farm. How...
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Beyond the Stigma: 9 Ways to Use Television In the Classroom
Watching TV in school might sound like a bad idea. Granted, in my own school days, the only time teachers let us watch movies was at the end of term as a treat, not for educational purposes. Over the...
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How to Teach Students About Gender Equality
How do we create a world free from gender-based discrimination? Start by raising children who respect one another as individuals and question the traditional roles they’re assigned as boys or girls....
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Curiosity Safeguards Poor Students From Low Scores In Reading and Math
A new study from the University of Michigan confirms the importance of curiosity in learning, suggesting that cultivating students’ curiosity from an early age can help reduce the otherwise harmful...
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Don’t Overload Students: Assigning Too Much Work Discourages Learning
Has your to-do list ever been so long that you felt physically drained at the thought of everything that needed to be done? New research has shed some light on the reason behind this feeling and shows...
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If Not Learning Styles Theory, Then What?
As of the last major literature review in 2008, there’s still very little evidence that people learn best when information is processed according to their purported “learning style.” Individuals may...
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7 Ways to Teach Digital Literacy
(This article was last updated in February 2020) Digital literacy is a hot topic these days, and we’ve previously written about the importance of it for today’s students and what teachers need to know...
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