All it takes is a few semesters to complete UW’s graduate certificate in Teaching Elementary School.* If you hold a bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited college or university, you qualify to ...

Teaching 1st grade also means managing a lot of transitions—helping students move quickly and calmly from one activity to another, or giving them small “brain breaks” to move and stretch. At the ...

Editor’s note: First-year students, prospective students (and some of their parents) wonder and worry how they will handle the academic transition from high school to college. In a series of stories, ...

Experts agree: Elementary teachers need to have a strong foundation in math. But teacher-preparation programs don’t always dedicate much time to elementary math coursework. That’s starting to change, ...