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Mentors Can Make a Difference for New Teachers
For those starting a career in teaching, whether they are fresh out of school or embarking on a new career path, entering the classroom for the first time as the sole educator in charge can be...
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How to Become a Teacher
Primary and secondary school is the foundation of an educated society, and qualified teachers are vital. Earning your teaching degree is a great way to improve your community in a stable and growing...
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Teaching Strategies for Using Educational Television in the Classroom
For years, parents, teachers and students have tried to figure out the best way for children to absorb and retain information. Educators have made their lectures more interesting to help students learn...
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4 Educational TV Shows for Elementary School Students
A generation ago, teachers delivered lectures at the front of the class and developed rigid lesson plans designed to cover what they considered to be important. Today, U.S. governors and education...
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Teaching Requires Digital Literacy
A career in teaching will certainly provide numerous opportunities to inspire and visually stimulate students. For some, a classroom might bring up distant memories of the cacophonous sounds of a...
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Obstacles Galore: Clearing the Path to Graduation
By Carla Lee Graduation Coordinator, Secondary Education, Teachers CollegeAt WGU, each student is assigned a personal faculty member to work with them as a mentor throughout their time at WGU....
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Professional Development Vs. Professional Learning for Teachers
For teachers, professional development is part of the continual process of becoming a better educator. However, the idea of professional development is somewhat outdated, which is why many school...
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Make the Most of Teacher Collaboration
To truly find the secret in pursuing a successful career in teaching, it's crucial to understand that the challenges of being an educational instructor don't require you to face obstacles alone....
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The Fast Track to a Teaching Degree: One Mom's Two-Year Journey
What do you do when it's been "like a hundred years" since you last attended school, you have kids and a family and responsibilities that prevent you from attending a physical school, a number of...
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#ThankATeacher and Win
She fixed your scraped knee after recess and helped you realize you love math. He introduced you to your first favorite novel and didn’t give up on you through that period of wannabe class-clownery....
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First-Year Teacher Wins Money to Make STEM More Hands-On
When Erin Fitzgerald completed her student teaching in an inner-city fifth-grade classroom, she noticed a big opportunity that was being missed: hands-on learning of science, math, and technology. A...
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Literary Math, or Mathematical Literature: Teacher Blends Love of Words and...
Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning to dance in the rain. That quote guides Traci Vicente, a special education teacher for the last 28 years, in her passion for helping...
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Bored at the Board: WGU Helps Math Teacher Break Away
If you’ve ever sat through a grade-school math class, the image of a teacher standing at the blackboard and covering it with numbers and numbers and more numbers is a familiar image. And probably one...
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What Good Are E-Books If You Have Nothing to Read Them on?
Vickie Witt is a teacher at Windy Gap Elementary School in Franklin County, Virginia, where she also has library duties. She has a master’s degree in reading and loves sharing a love of books with...
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Teaching Math with … Baguettes?
Baguettes: They’re not just for picnics anymore. Vicki Mazur is a math and computers teacher in California, the type of teacher who sees a need in her classrooms and fills it. For example, when she...
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WGU Helps 35-Year Teaching Veteran Stock Her Science Classroom
Fifth-grade science is all about electricity, magnets, and matter, teacher Susan Holtkamp says. But her classroom has no tools for teaching those concepts—and no budget for those tools. That’s why the...
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Bringing Comic Books into the Classroom
Jennifer Stone has been teaching for 16 years, with experience from first grade to middle school—and beyond, having even taught pre-service teachers and professional development. She currently teaches...
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Want to Teach in Florida? Join Us for Free Webinar
Are you interested in teaching in beautiful, sunny Florida? Would you like to live near beaches and famous theme parks and be free of cold winters? If so, please join us for a teacher recruitment...
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The 15th Anniversary of Our First Graduate
On December 1, 2000, Genevieve Kirch of Roy, Utah, earned her Master of Education in Learning and Technology degree from WGU’s Teachers College, becoming our very first graduate. To commemorate the...
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Tragedy to Triumph – Farid Giahi
Setting goals and creating an action plan can be comforting and generate good habits. But sometimes life does not go according to plan, and that requires flexibility and adaptability.Farid Giahi, a WGU...
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