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For this year’s World Book Day we’re asking teachers about the books they love to introduce in the classroom

At the recent Flat Connections conference in Sydney, the program included a several "Supporting the Challenge" bootcamps which allowed participants to choose the topics that were of high interest t...

A total overhaul of your teaching practice can be overwhelming, but Franklin's theory of self-mastery can make improvement more manageable Benjamin Franklin, the statesman, polymath, and United States' founding father, came up with a system for...

Once you've put basic formative assessment practices in place, it's time to deepen your practice. Consider these fifteen strategies.

"How do you raise awareness about population explosion? One group thought that the simplest way would be to show people in pictures the impact of population, pollution and consumption."

There are many modern poets saying valid and beautiful things about the world, but few people are buying their books. Walk around any book shop and you might struggle to find the typically tiny poetry section. The art of poetry remains something literary, academic, and removed from ordinary reading habits. Yet poets go to great lengths to demonstrate that poetry is diverse, accessible, and relevant. After all, song and rap lyrics are widely-loved forms of poetry. There is also poetry, as they rightly point out, in text and Twitter feeds.

Guest blogger Dr. Allen Mendler shares three methods for connecting students with the relevance of what they're learning: getting them to accept the unknown, getting them to laugh, and connecting the information to their life goals.