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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 ...

Teaching students to write is no easy feat, and it’s a topic that has often been discussed on this blog. Penny Kittle teaches first-year writers at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire. She was ...

For years, bands of educators have been trying to free history instruction from the mire of memorization and propel it instead with the kinds of inquiry that drive historians themselves. Now, the ...