Teaching Strategies

Good teaching is built from many small decisions: how a lesson opens, how a teacher checks understanding along the way, how students who are ahead or behind stay engaged, and what happens when a plan does not work. Those decisions are where most of the difference in a classroom is made.

This section gathers edCircuit's coverage of teaching strategies for K-12 teachers and the coaches and principals who support them. It covers lesson planning, including how teachers are using AI to plan; formative assessment and what it really means; building social-emotional learning into everyday lessons; slower, more deliberate teaching; and why promising methods often never reach the classroom. For the people behind the work, see K-12 Teachers.

Start with the articles below, then browse the full archive, newest first.

New to the topic? Start with edCircuit’s classroom management guide: what the research shows works, classroom rules and routines, the strongest strategies, de-escalation, a classroom management plan, PBIS and restorative practices.