With her five-year-old son Camden starting kindergarten in September, primary school teacher Cheryl McFarlane has more than just a professional interest in the changes the Ministry of Education has ...

According to the Reggio Emilia Principles there are many languages children use to express themselves and make connections with the world. Reggio educators’ decades of research and study of children ...

Parents visiting their children’s kindergarten class for the first time may think they’ve arrived at the wrong room, especially if they expect it to resemble the kindergarten they attended as ...

Inquiry-based learning emphasises a student’s role in the learning process and asks them to engage with an idea or topic in an active way, rather than by sitting and listening to a teacher. The ...

Teachers in a rural southeast Michigan high school were recently discussing the odd behavior of the senior class. It seems the 12 th graders were acting more civilly toward the junior class in the ...

A large, international study shows that problem-based learning is more effective than standard instruction in math and science, and a national survey confirms that students, parents and teachers all ...