‘It’s More Than a School’: Proposing Programs to Meet Student Needs
Considering the sports series about a girls' basketball team at a school operated by a juvenile court, then thinking about the needs of the students in their own school and proposing new programs to...
View ArticleTalking About Testing: Ideas for Inquiry and Discussion on Standardized Testing
As testing ramps up around the nation at the end of the school year, we've collected recent related Times and Learning Network pieces on the topic and suggested a few ways to use them with your students.
View ArticleHow ‘Real’ is Your Classroom? Bringing Students’ Lives and Voices Into School
We're doing something special today as part of a collaboration with several other educational organizations: We invite you to interview your students about the connection -- or lack thereof -- between...
View ArticleSowing Failure, Reaping Success: What Failure Can Teach
What is failure, and what can come from it? In this lesson we post examples from sports, science, business, the arts, politics and education, then pose questions and suggest activities for...
View ArticleWhen College May Not Be Worth the Cost: Examining Student Loan Debt
Using Times articles, video and interactive graphics in this week's "Degrees of Debt" series, students discuss questions about the cost of college, then investigate aspects of the series that affect...
View ArticleYear-End Roundup | Social Studies, History, Geography and Civics
Our lessons are on summer vacation, but here are our social studies-related lesson plans for the 2011-12 school year.
View ArticleIntroducing an Experiment: Weekly Common Core Practice Prompts
We're collaborating with two New Jersey teachers and their freshman classes to bring you three quick, engaging tasks each week that match the demands of the Common Core Standards with the content of...
View ArticleGuest Post | Three Starting Points for Thinking Differently About Learning
Author Will Richardson suggests three ways to rethink teaching and learning at a time when technology has "upended the basic premise of school."
View ArticleFiction or Nonfiction? Considering the Common Core’s Emphasis on...
In this lesson, students will reflect on their reading experiences in and out of school and discuss the roles that both nonfiction and fiction have played in their lives. After learning what the...
View ArticleGuest Post | Five Key Elements for a New Model of Apprenticeship
The writer Robert Greene retools the ancient idea of apprenticeship to suggest five ways for young people to succeed in their chosen fields today.
View ArticleWhat Do You Think of the New Next Generation Science Standards?
Instead of a lesson plan, we invite science teachers to react to the just-released Next Generation Science Standards. The standards, among other "conceptual shifts," call for teaching students about...
View ArticleGetting Personal: Writing College Essays for the Common Application
In this lesson, students will explore the open-ended prompts for the 2013-14 Common Application essays through writing and discussion. Then, they will identify and examine Times pieces that might serve...
View ArticleCommencement 2013 | Things to Watch, Read, Teach and Do
A viral video and three quick teaching ideas, along with links to Times resources on commencement addresses from 1901 to 2013.
View ArticleReader Idea | Thinking Like a Historian About Current World Events
This research project asks students to not only examine a current event in detail, but also develops critical thinking skills by analyzing contemporary events using the lens of a historian.
View ArticleReader Idea | Considering the Varying Viewpoints on a Pregnancy Prevention...
After reacting to a public service campaign on preventing teenage pregnancy, students in Michigan read editorials with opposing viewpoints, then wrote essays in response.
View ArticleApplying to College With The New York Times
College admissions resources from The New York Times.
View ArticleWhat ‘Connected Education’ Looks Like: 28 Examples From Teachers All Over
Steal these ideas! We invited anyone who has ever blogged for The Learning Network to post an example of "connected teaching" or "connected learning." Read their wonderful responses, then tell us how...
View ArticleOn Glowing Pickles and Undiscovered Galaxies: Student STEM Contest Winners
Eleven winners of the contest we ran in collaboration with Science Times this September describe engaging, hands-on projects in science, math and engineering.
View ArticleReading Club |‘Invisible Child’
Our pick for our once-a-semester Reading Club is the remarkable five-part series "Invisible Child." We invite your students to read and have a conversation about it on our blog, posting their thoughts...
View ArticleSowing Failure, Reaping Success: What Failure Can Teach
What is failure, and what can come from it? In this lesson we post examples from sports, science, business, the arts, politics and education, then pose questions and suggest activities for...
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