Working with kids can be quite rewarding, but it can also be rather challenging. Having a love for educating children and the patience required to work with them is a good start towards becoming a ...

WASHINGTON — Science and engineering education needs to be prioritized from preschool through fifth grade, and state policymakers should ensure these subjects are taught comprehensively, frequently, ...

To teach language to the youngest students, you first introduce them to the letters of the alphabet and the sounds that the letters make. Next, you step forward into combining letters into simple ...

Students in a first grade classroom observe bees during a science lesson. Credit: Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for EDUimages The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our ...

If you gave Shelley Charlton an Excel spreadsheet to maneuver, the high school business teacher could dazzle you. But if you asked her how to solve a problem using the Snap! visual programming ...

Consider the humble lump of pink Play-Doh. To a parent, it’s a quick toddler playtime activity. But ask an early childhood educator about Play-Doh, and it’s a science experiment, an opportunity for ...

Emphasizing more play, hands-on learning, and students helping one another in kindergarten improves academic outcomes, self-control and attention regulation, finds new UBC research. Emphasizing more ...