A teacher-in-training darted among students, tallying how many needed his help with a history unit on Islam. A veteran math teacher hovered near a cluster of desks, coaching some 50 freshmen on a ...

MESA, Ariz. — There are plenty of negative trends showing up in education across the country. Student test scores are down and teachers are leaving the profession in droves. But, there is positive ...

Teacher burnout is a real and growing challenge for US K–12 schools. Last year, school district leaders reported a 4 percent increase in teacher turnover according to a nationally representative ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Running out of time to complete a learning unit on math fractions, Concord Elementary third grade teacher Brianne Sinden turned to ...

Across the country, schools are facing high turnover among teachers. In Mesa, the largest school system in Arizona, teachers are experimenting with a new model. Known as “team teaching,” teachers ...

School districts, like Mapleton Public Schools, are trying the team teaching model, bringing two or more teachers into the ...

One in 10 students says their professors generally choose homogeneous instructional materials that do not reflect diverse perspectives, according to a recent Student Voice survey by Inside Higher Ed ...

Westwood High School English teacher Jeff Hall speaks to his class through a P.A. system in Mesa, Ariz. Five years ago, Mesa allowed Westwood to pilot a program to make it easier for the district to ...

Team Teaching offers rich possibilities for interdisciplinary learning both within and among departments/programs. Specifically, it allows faculty to offer courses in which different disciplines, ...

In my more than 40 years of teaching college, I’ve found that as I’m imparting knowledge to others, I learn lessons myself. The greatest lessons that I’ve learned, however, are in team-taught courses ...

This is an installment of the AL.com Education Lab’s “Tackling Teacher Shortages” series, produced in collaboration with newsrooms around the country. MESA, Ariz. — A teacher in training darted among ...