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The end of another school year has arrived for most educators, bringing with it a flurry of closing activity.  With summer enticing and vacation beckoning, it’s easy to understand how teachers often fail to conduct deliberate reflection on their past year’s performance. Reflection provides valuable insight into your performance and allows you to create a [...]

MIT professor David E. Pritchard conducted a recent study that analyzed cheating on homework in his introductory physics course.  He arrived at some interesting conclusions. Chief among these, that cheating occurs  about 50% more than is reported by students in surveys and that this frequently led to students bombing their tests. The professor, David E. [...]

In An Open Letter to Educators, Dan Brown challenges educators, as well as our past notions of education. It is bound to spark controversy in some areas. Nevertheless, this should cause each teacher to re-examine the relationship between teacher, student, and material. Enjoy…

I’ve just returned from presenting at the California Charter Schools Conference in Sacramento. With so many topics and such diverse backgrounds it was quite enlightening. The interest in Web 2.0 technologies was intense. It seems to be one of the hottest topics and everyone is scrambling to learn how it can improve education. As with [...]

Shmoop is an online resource that provides learning guides and academic resources to help teachers make learning relevant. Shmoop provides free learning guides in seven subjects: literature, poetry, bestsellers, US History, civics, biography, and music. The learning guides are written by experts and contain analysis, interesting insight, questions, and multimedia for each topic. Check out [...]