Petrina Miller, along with other teachers, works with kindergarteners in her class at 116th Street Elementary School in Los Angeles. Miller said she often has to spend her own money to make the ...

In a classroom dominated by scripted instruction, students are treated as passive recipients of knowledge, rather than active ...

True North Rochester Prep Charter School, the largest charter school in Monroe County, was taken to task recently by a teacher candidate who said he was asked to read verbatim from a scripted lesson.

What is a Lesson Plan? An effective lesson plan demonstrates how a teacher creates objectives for his or her students and measures how those objectives are mastered. Creating a lesson plan begins with ...

In the weeks leading up to the announcement that the Texas Education Agency is taking over the Fort Worth Independent School District, parents and community members worried the district would roll out ...

This study was designed to portray a second-/third-grade teacher's classroom knowledge in a schematic structure called a "script." Activities embedded within events in 2 math classes were examined in ...

Picture a Grade 4 teacher standing in front of her 36-strong class. The teacher asks the children to look at her as she holds the book Birthday Surprise. She asks some questions about the cover. Eager ...

Some of the biggest critics of new lesson plans aligned with the national Common Core standards are the people charged with teaching them. A growing number of teachers say the national standards, ...

Brown, who often records herself teaching a lesson or explaining a concept for her students to watch online as homework, sometimes feels like she's working double-time. Aside from pushing students to ...