Practical teaching ideas, classroom strategies and research-informed approaches that help students learn, remember and engage more effectively.
Teaching Ideas
A new meta-analysis found that technology can support students’ ability to plan, monitor and reflect on learning, but most of the evidence still relies on what students say rather than what they demonstrably do.
Teaching Ideas
A new meta-analysis of 65 studies found a moderate relationship between teachers’ and students’ social-emotional skills, suggesting that students may learn as much from how teachers respond as from what they explicitly teach.
News
With classroom temperatures exceeding 40°C and hundreds of thousands of students missing school during heatwaves, UK educators are asking whether exam dates and school hours need to change.
News
A new bipartisan U.S. bill would encourage full school-day cellphone bans. The evidence suggests stricter bans may work better, but removing phones does not automatically remove digital distraction.
Teaching Ideas
A new meta-analysis of 186 articles found that teacher well-being is consistently associated with student motivation and achievement, although the effects are modest and mostly correlational.
Teaching Ideas
A 2026 meta-analysis of 29 studies found that homework quality, useful feedback and autonomy support matter more consistently than simply giving students more feedback.
Teaching Ideas
A 2025 meta-analysis of 62 studies found that different kinds of student engagement appear to serve different purposes, from achievement and motivation to social support and well-being.
Digital Tools
Explore Netboard.me through two classroom examples: an interactive Ancient Egypt resource hub and a collaborative climate project for students.
Teaching Ideas
A 2025 meta-analysis of 102 studies found that online professional development can meaningfully improve teacher knowledge and classroom practice, but the effect on students is much smaller.
Teaching Ideas
Language learning often comes with a long list of activities. Vocabulary exercises. Grammar drills. Listening practice. Speaking tasks. Writing assignments. But there is a much simpler approach that has been around for decades: Read a lot. Not difficult texts that need to be translated sentence by sentence. Not short passages
Digital Tools
Schools and universities have spent decades adding technology to learning. Laptops replaced notebooks. Videos replaced some lectures. Digital quizzes replaced paper tests. Interactive platforms replaced static worksheets. But there is a surprisingly important question underneath all of this: Does adding technology actually improve learning? A large research synthesis tried to
News
Every school has books that students are expected to read. Some become lifelong favourites. Some are remembered mainly because there was a test afterwards. This week, The Guardian asked a group of leading authors a deceptively simple question: Which novel should every school teach? Their answers were varied, personal and