As educators, we understand that children are not one-size-fits-all learners. They embark on a journey of growth and development from the moment they are born, and it’s important for us to adapt our teaching methods to meet their evolving needs.

Infancy to Early Childhood (0-6 years): Building a Strong Foundation

Teenagers often place a high emphasis on peer relationships and are influenced by their peers in terms of fashion, music, behavior, and attitudes. Peer pressure can play a significant role in shaping their brutal io choices and actions

We’re living in an era when the thinking process is becoming increasingly more important in a student’s learning journey: the ability to be reflective, adaptable, flexible, and nimble during times of constant change.

These simple creativity challenges can encourage students to have the mindset of an artist, a designer, and a change-maker.

6 ways to differentiate learning so students get the support they need to succeed.

A collection of evidence-backed tips to help students cross the bridge from confusion to clarity.

A teacher explains how to develop a student-designed project-based learning activity that covers an array of topics to engage all students.

Project-based learning that’s student-designed and relevant to their lives can have a profound impact.

Using multiple content areas, peer-reviewed data, informational text, and scaffolding to examine climate change, we can push student thinking in original ways while also challenging traditional methods of thinking; we can collectively reimagine new ways to educate, advocate, and connect all members of a community. The following project highlights this learning with integration of science, technology, art, social studies, and mathematics.

Combining several content areas can guide students to develop a deep understanding of how climate change affects them and their community.

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The importance of stimulating curiosity and a sense of wonderment in students.

Curiosity about small questions, or micowonderings, can help students solve problems in any discipline.

The first step to student ownership is to allow them to pick their topics. Help to kick-start things with a whole-group brainstorming process.

One way to help students master skills is to let them cultivate their own English language arts content to explore. Here’s how.

Ways to explore the latest tech with children and guide them to use new tools responsibly.

Ways to explore the latest tech with children and guide them to use new tools responsibly. Advice from Common Sense Media editors.

Students can be more engaged when learning is connected with real-world problems. These picks build bridges beyond the classroom by connecting content with careers, giving opportunities to join local and worldwide communities, showing everyday applications of learning, and getting students to do authentic activities that have a real impact.

Top Picks for Connecting the Classroom and Real World is a list of 34 apps, games, and websites curated by Common Sense Education editors.

Using music in learning can provide multisensory experiences that extend brain connectivity.

Teachers can incorporate music in their classrooms in a variety of ways to enhance the cognitive processes that are essential to learning.

Education 4.0 reimagines education as a lifelong learning journey with teachers, educators and mentors as facilitators and enablers.

Education 4.0: Problem-solving, collaboration and adaptability are the three critical skills that students need to understand and then learn to apply.

It should not be too surprising that key challenges facing education reform are linked to skills development for the next generation and student engagement. Minor adjustments to curricula, assessments, exams & reporting are no longer effective.

The central thesis of this paper has been that the challenges now confronting schools globally will require fundamental reforms of the external frameworks within which schools work. Today’s challenges to better prepare young people for the future and to ensure that every student learns successfully will not be met by simply expecting teachers to change what they do or by making minor adjustments to current curricula, assessment, examination, reporting and credentialling arrangements. Today’s challenges require deep reforms and a willingness to reimagine—in other words, to ‘transform’ existing learning systems. This is essential because the external frameworks within which teachers and students work are such strong determinants of day-to-day practice. Three principles with the potential to guide transformation efforts were outlined. Each principle challenges features of existing learning systems, including a widespread emphasis on passive, reproductive learning at the expense of more holistic student development; an emphasis on timed, lock-step learning at the expense of flexibility in the timing and rate of learning; and an emphasis on grading students on how well they have learnt bodies of taught content at the expense of understanding individual learning needs and monitoring students’ long-term growth. The paper has argued that deep reforms guided by these principles are urgently required if progress is to be made in addressing the two global challenges.

With ChatGPT and other AI tools at the fingertips of students it will be easy for them to provide a 'right' answer, so let's make their thinking visible so we actually know they have understood.

Sometimes students give the right answers, but still don't understand the material. Here are a few ways to gain better insights into their learning process.S...