Today’s post is the latest in a series examining how teachers can help students see how learning about science and math are relevant to their lives. Today’s post will focus on science. Bertha Vazquez ...

In Maryland, a district's decade of effort to train more than 4,000 educators on how the brain learns best—so they can apply cognitive science in their own classrooms—begins to pay off.

I was terrified, to be very honest, when my district switched to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and I had to begin using phenomena-based instruction. If you look at the standards, ...

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The world is full of things to learn. Where to start? How to choose what to pay attention to? What motivates someone to seek new knowledge? The desire to learn is partly a preference for novelty: we ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

Helping students see how what they are learning in school is relevant to their lives, hopes, and dreams enhances motivation. It can also be challenging to teachers who are tasked with covering a lot ...