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 ...

As different initiatives, priorities, and efforts to change teaching and learning in schools come and go, one challenge remains constant: Time is a finite resource. In elementary schools, especially, ...

Editor’s note: First-year students, prospective students (and some of their parents) wonder and worry how they will handle the academic transition from high school to college. In a series of stories, ...

More than 550 elementary school teachers participated in four sessions this summer in the Elementary Computer Science Summer Institute, hosted by Mississippi State’s Center for Cyber Education as part ...

Most teachers worldwide still believe myths about learning decades after they have been debunked. Here are the most common.

Journal of Science Teacher Education, Vol. 24, No. 7 (November 2013), pp. 1201-1218 (18 pages) Emerging from Bandura's Social Learning Theory, this study of inservice elementary school teachers ...

As a student teacher I witnessed extreme inequalities in how science is communicated and taught at California elementary schools. My first teaching experience was as a STEM (science, technology, ...

Science was being neglected in some Baltimore County elementary schools before changes that raised scores, a district ...

Most elementary teacher preparation programs across the country and in Missouri do not adequately focus on the science of reading, according to a new review from the National Council on Teacher ...

What's to like best about Taniece Thompson-Smith? Is it her funky lab coat, the envy of Thomas Dolby, that she wears to teach science at Stafford Elementary School? Is it her enthusiasm for education?

Completing the elementary education undergraduate program enables candidates to teach in self-contained classrooms in grades one through six. To teach in specific subject areas in departmentalized ...