12 Reasons Students Donât Read & What You Can Do About It
Students might see reading as something to do at school rather than an opportunity to be entertained, learn, or be exposed to new ideas.
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The Most Important Things Students Learn At School
Everything around us is some kind of pattern and we look for them. That’s how minds work. Learning requires us to disrupt those patterns.
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50 Quotes About Growth Mindset
“The best learners arenât confidentâtheyâre curious.” Growth mindset begins with humility and wonder, not certainty.
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Alternatives To ‘How Was School?”
“What did you learn in school today?” It’s easy to resort to cliches when talking to kids about school. Here are some alternatives.
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The Two Minds Of An Educator
The need to be rational collides with the enormous complexity and scale of the circumstances teachers face.
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6 Strategies For Teaching With Bloom’s Taxonomy
Bloom’s Spiraling is the process of starting first at lower levels of Bloom’s–recalling, defining, explaining, etc.–and then progressively increasing the level of thinking.
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15 Mental Health Tips For Teachers
One mental health tip for teachers? As much as possible, set clear boundaries between school and home life.
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Teaching Students To See Quality
So what does quality have to do with learning? Quite a bit, it turns out. And it starts out with helping students understand what it means.
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What Is Critical Reading? A Definition For Learning
Critical reading is reading with the purpose of critical examination of the text and its implicit and explicit themes and ideas.
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Correcting The Deficit In Critical Thinking
We can address a deficit of critical thinking by embedding into the architecture of education. This can be accomplished in any number of ways.
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6 Domains Of Cognition: The Heick Learning Taxonomy
The Heick Learning Taxonomy can be used to guide planning, assessment, curriculum design, and self-directed learning.
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Why So Many Students Think They Dislike Reading
Reading is personal but we often focus on the mechanics instead of the people and the strategies instead of the living and breathing happening around us.
