If you’ve ever sat through a teaching seminar, you’ve probably heard a lecture about “learning styles.” Perhaps you were told that some students are visual learners, some are auditory learners, and ...

Watch NewsHour’s feature on “flipped” classroom instruction. The segment will also air on the show Wednesday. PBS NewsHour’s American Graduate team recently visited Clintondale High School in suburban ...

Teachers who have an authentic teaching style are more positively received by their students, according to new research. Teachers who have an authentic teaching style are more positively received by ...

When I received my first test score – a 3 out of 10 -- in college introductory psychology, I realized that I had some hard slogging ahead, especially after the professor told me that "there is a ...

This feature is part of a series focused exclusively on learning technology. To view other posts in the series, check out the spotlight page. The allure of new technology is undeniable. But so are ...

I recently completed a study for my dissertation that focused on a group of 11 preservice teachers during their practicum semester, just before their student-teaching would begin. One of the ...

Kelly A. Hogan had no reason to think anything was wrong with her teaching. She had been hired at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as part of a push to bring in teaching-oriented ...

Though I’m a confessed agnostic on the subject of learning styles, I enjoyed this essay quite a bit. It suggests the danger of mismatching a style of teaching to a subject matter, so that the folks ...