These versatile strategies—from brain dumps to speed sharing—help students track their own progress while informing your next instructional steps.

Teaching is the hardest job on the planet. It requires deep content knowledge, an understanding of how kids learn, a skill in connecting to students as human beings, and patience for the often inane ...

Ed. note: Today’s students have too many tests to take—but today’s teachers still need insight into their classes’ knowledge and skills. Adding new tests every time students need to prove mastery ...

Having teachers create their own tests is one way to counter the backlash to “overtesting” and give teachers better data to improve instruction. Commercially prepared tests often fail to provide ...

New approaches to teacher evaluation, combined with comprehensive professional development for teachers and school leaders and changes in the organization and capacities of school districts, can ...

Like it or not, assessments are an important part of the learning process. Whether they are teacher-developed classroom tests or state-mandated, year-end accountability exams, assessments allow ...

Last week I promised to begin exploring current schooling issues from the perspective of our instructional time principle (i.e. the only method by which school learning can be increased is by ...

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