Exploring the Future of Education

You might think that elementary students are too young to really adapt to classroom management, but even young children at the beginning of their schooling can benefit from a good classroom culture. Introducing young students to classroom management techniques can also prepare them for middle school and high school when classes get more complex. Six…

If you’ve ever walked into a great teacher's classroom, you’ve probably noticed how well they manage the classroom environment. That’s no accident, it’s all about effective classroom management strategies. Alongside your lesson plans and decisions about classroom supplies, one of the best things you can do at the start of the school year is to…

Have you ever stopped to reflect on how you manage your classroom? Do you greet students at the door? Prioritize group work? Stick to a tight schedule with few disruptions? The way you run your classroom likely aligns with one of four recognized classroom management styles: Authoritarian, Authoritative, Permissive, or Indulgent. These styles were first…

What’s a sphere, exactly?  A sphere is a 3D object based on a circle. Spheres are everywhere in our daily lives. From raindrops to planets, sports balls to chocolate bonbons. Figuring out the volume of a sphere formula and its surface area has many important real-life applications. In this article, you’ll learn how to find…

Geometry is really tricky. The best way to shape up is to make learning fun. In this blog, we share with you a super fun (and delicious!) way to learn how to work out the volume of a cone. Like chocolate? Read on! The volume of a cone, is the space inside or the capacity…

“Tech” in the classroom If you’re reading this, chances are you’re a teacher. But, before you were a teacher, in times of yore, you were also probably a student. It’s plain to see that classrooms have changed quite a bit since “the old days”. Blackboards and chalk are gone, overhead projectors sit in storage, and…

Personalized instruction, sometimes called Personalized learning, is a powerful new approach to education. It emphasizes students’ autonomy in their own education. It lets them choose what they learn, and at what pace. It’s a well-documented approach to education that is picking up momentum around the world. This approach is complemented by a similar approach called…

Teaching has always been a balance between implementing new technology and respecting tried and tested traditional education tools. In a world where it seems a new device is invented every eight hours, this balance is becoming even more difficult to navigate. This is also a component in the Universal Design for Learning that we discuss…

Common exception words are words in English that have unusual spelling. They don't follow the usual phonetic rules or spelling rules. These words are often taught separately, for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 students, from regular words because they can't be sounded out phonetically. Here is a list of common exception words which…

Verbal reasoning vs nonverbal reasoning, what’s the difference? If you read the title of this blog and applied a bit of verbal reasoning, you may have deduced what nonverbal reasoning (NVR) is. If you guessed something along the lines of “nonverbal reasoning is the ability to understand and analyze visual information without relying on written…

As educators, we become familiar with dozens, if not hundreds, of different methods for teaching and testing our students. Even within the same subject, there are so many different kinds of aptitude tests that it can be hard to keep up sometimes! But, some testing styles survive longer than others. Verbal reasoning tests have been…

Anyone who has been in the education industry for more than a week will understand teaching is always evolving. As the world changes, so do young people, and the teachers’ standards and lesson plans need to change with them. Each year, more research and studies show different approaches and how each student is a unique…