Most teachers intrinsically understand the need to motivate their students, experts say, but teaching on intuition alone can lead to missteps in student engagement. A study released in May by the ...

Advice for faculty to find and maintain the motivation that they, and their students, need to progress in their work and learning Motivation is connected to concepts dear to higher education – ...

Study after study finds students’ motivation to learn is often driven by their relationships with their teachers, but a new report suggests many new educators enter the classroom with inconsistent ...

What is motivation? On one hand we mean motive, or the reason for doing something; on the other we mean the energy and enthusiasm a person invests in the thing that she or he is doing. When teachers ...

“Everyone is interested in something, it just may not be the thing we want them to be interested in,” said Larry Ferlazzo, an English and Social Studies teacher at Luther Burbank High School in ...

The recent testing scandal in Georgia schools has prompted a spate of articles focusing our attention even more sharply on our nation’s education crisis and the significant need for school reform.

The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. You can pose a question for a future column here. Dear Bonni, What ideas do you have for student accountability?

On a recent morning, I had the chance to read poems my ninth-grade English students had written about encounters with racism. I was struck by the beauty and poignance of many of their lines. Yet I ...

One theory contrasts implicit and explicit motivation. When we are implicitly motivated, we learn because we find the subject fascinating, because we want to achieve mastery of the subject or because ...

To bring our English learners and all of our students up to proficiency, lessons need to engage and motivate students to do the hard work of practice. To have a tool like Learning Upgrade, self paced, ...

The coronavirus has turned tens of millions of parents into homeschoolers. Just finding a quiet spot for the kids and then settling them down can be an exhausting chore. But another big frustration is ...