Teacher Tip Tuesday: Leading with Learning: Building Powerful School-Based Professional Learning with NSTA Professional Learning Units, January 21, 2025

Member Web Seminar | November 2024

Join us on Tuesday, January 21, 2025, from 7:00 PM ET to 8:00 PM ET, to learn about NSTA's Professional Learning Units.Whether you are new to NSTA Professional Learning Units (PLUs) or an experienced PLU participant,…

Addressing Inequities During Distance Learning

Reports Article | July 2020

Safer Grades 6–12 Remote Learning

Blog Post | January 2021

Sharing Conference Learnings With Colleagues and Community

Blog Post | December 2024

Appropriate Technology for the Classroom—Using “Post-it Notes©" as an Active Learning Tool: Discovering a Simple Yet Effective Teaching Device in Everyday Classroom Supplies

Journal Article | February 1997

During the semester, the author found that students became more and more comfortable with the use of "Post-it Notes”—they became a tool much as their pens and pencils were tools. Some students would make Post-it Note…

Using Internet Relay Chat to Provide On-Line Tutorials in a Distance-Learning Chemistry Course: Holding Class On-Line at a Commuter-Only University

Journal Article | October 1998

With today's technological advances, distance education has progressed significantly from the old-fashioned correspondence course to encompass a smorgasbord of electronic communications options. This article features…

Applying Inquiry-Based and Cooperative Group Learning Strategies to Promote Critical Thinking: Training Students' Minds and Improving Their Intellect to Become Informed Members of Society

Journal Article | November 1998

This paper demonstrates how a course in molecular genetics can use problem-based activities and cooperative group strategies to support students learning the necessary skills for critical thinking, The course format can…

Archive: Transforming Science Learning: Leading the Implementation of High-Quality Instructional Materials to Enact Standards: Practical Guidance From the Field, November 7, 2022

Web Seminar | October 2022

High-quality instructional materials (HQIM) designed for next generation science can make a difference in the quality of equitable science teaching and learning throughout the educational system and for all learners (i.…

Point of View: Is Learning Just a Matter of Tricks? So Why are We Educating? A Rude Awakening for a Science Educator—Promoting Meaning Becomes an Endangered Concept

Journal Article | October 1998

This column shares reflections or thoughtful opinions on issues of broad interest to the community. In this month’s issue find out what the author faced while expressing interest in some summer part-time work to apply…

Choosing Instructional Materials: Lessons Learned

Blog Post | February 2018

Throughout my career as an educator, I’ve had many opportunities to select instructional materials. One experience is particularly memorable because I learned then that how you select instructional materials can be as…

Creating a STEM Culture for Teaching and Learning

Blog Post | October 2017

Creating a STEM Culture for Teaching and Learning by Jeff Weld offers insight for educators, policy makers, and business leaders about why STEM education matters and where it’s headed next. This new NSTA Press book…