Creating tasks with a focus on students’ autonomy—by providing choices, for example—helps them see the relevance of homework.

Homework used to be a means of practicing what we’d learned. These days, it's the primary instruction method. Somewhere along ...

Denise Cote moved from table to table in her math class last week at Stonebridge Elementary in Stillwater, helping her fifth-graders work through word problems to learn multiplication and division.

In my recent post, Don’t Prevent Students’ Mistakes, Prepare for Them, I wrote that lesson planning should be more about anticipating students’ errors and preparing to help them learn from those ...

After much research this summer, I’m trying something new. Homework will only consist of work that your student did not finish during the school day. There will be no formally assigned homework this ...

Homework is a hot-button issue for both parents and teachers. When we asked the MindShift audience about it, we got a wide range of thoughtful answers. And the results of our poll were pretty evenly ...

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NEW MILFORD, N.J. (CBSNewYork)-- Across the country, teachers have turned the education process upside-down, in a new teaching trend where lessons are taught at home and students complete their ...