The project based learning by using Campus Calgary/Open Minds programs encourages schools and teachers to participate in a variety of learning methods. The use of on-site learning techniques makes it an integral part of planning and implementing variety of projects, which in turn encourages huge participation from students.

The importance of educational accountability and assessment literacy is recognized as a long-term challenge to the educational system. The complexities in becoming an assessment literate and provide an opportunity to the educators to display their effective learning is discussed.

The decrease in the instructional time and professional development at the expense of arts and foreign languages highlights a significant danger to the United States educational system. The educational quality in schools and focus on reading, writing, mathematics, and science being diminished are discussed with the help of several studies…

The practices emphasizing learning, reasoning and achieving the solutions in mathematics helps the students to develop their own understanding of the content. The development and understanding concepts of learning mathematics in elementary and middle schools in United States are discussed.

Writing is an effective way to teach and learn when compared to reading. The combination of reading and writing helps children to learn fast.

Encouraging young children to think themselves as writers helps them to achieve more in their life than one have ever imagined. When young students are given an open-ended ongoing invitation to write books, they build identities as writers around their daily work of composing texts and they also gain a sense of ownership and control over literacy.

Students will have to develop a presence on the page along with mastering grammar, spelling, and punctuation in order to become accomplished writers. Students should be given opportunities to hear their own written voices and the written voices of the others, their peers, their teachers and the best authors because the voice helps them to develop…

Writing instruction can be improved by encouraging teachers to question assumptions, test strategies, and put learning into practice. Professional development should be designed in such a way that it should provide time and structure for teachers to pursue questions that interest them in order to create continual improvement in teaching of writing.

Innovative teachers can make writing as an integral part while teaching math to students. The teachers will have to implement the math instruction that enables students to organize and consolidate their mathematical thinking through communication, analyze and evaluate the mathematical thinking of others, and use the language of mathematics to…

Teaching students to raise their voice by writing about social issues show them the power of writing and also a voice of their own. The writer's notebook, coalitions and action plan, keeping the focus on writing, and the conditions that support writing for social action are some of the procedures that a teacher will have to employ in order to help…

Latest digital technologies play an important role in teaching writing and preparing students to write in the 21st century. The different technologies used to teach writing such as using visual imagery and envisionment are described.

Creative warm-up activities help most of the articulate students who hate writing and unblock the most reluctant writers. Some of the warm-up activities for students in elementary grades that help in taking the fright out of writing, or just reduce the initial resistance are described.

Instructional rubrics can help students to improve their writing skills and become self-regulated writers. Clear, accessible instructional rubrics give students repeated practice with planning, revising, and editing. It is also noted that using rubrics for self-assessment and peer assessment will help the students navigate the writing process in…

Once students are asked to assess their own writing progress, they will begin to do their best for writing great prose instead of just great grades. Teachers will have to create a grade-free zone, allow students to set their own writing goals, provide a common language such as the Six Traits Model, and provide evaluation and instructional models…

Students will see writing as a powerful act when they learn to analyze a published author's writing style and send a written critique straight to the source. The author critiques help students to analyze their own writing and the Sentence Opening Sheet is an excellent device for this purpose as it reformats the text so that students can see their…