Teach Effectively!

TeachEffectively is a source for current news and opinion about effective teaching. Teach Effectively emphasizes evidence-based instruction and educational practice. Although the majority of the content on Teach Effectively focuses on instruction for students in special education (especially those with Learning Disabilities or Emotional and Behavioral Disorders), the entries also address other disabilities (e.g., autism, ADHD) and are applicable to students at risk for school problems. The principal contributor to Teach Effectively is John Wills Lloyd, but TE has also featured posts by Margaret P. Weiss and James M. Kauffman.

I (JWL) have a day job as a professor in the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia. I currently teach courses on classroom management, learning disabilities, and research methods (essentially single-subject design and integrative literature review); I’ve also taught about curriculum, emotional and behavioral disorders, teaching methods, and other topics. I am also associated with the Division for Learning Disabilities of the Council for Exceptional Children, serving as the executive director for DLD.

TE, which began publishing in January of 2005, can make no great claims to influence. However, it has gotten a good review or two, does receive about 100 visits a day, and has sometimes even been picked up by other (probably far more influential) sources.