Research-Based Factors Of A Highly Effective Learning Environment
In a highly effective learning environment, there are opportunities for students to revisit old thinking while grappling with new ideas.
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What Is Learned Helplessness?
Learned helplessness occurs when repeated failures lead a person to believe they have no control over outcomes.
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12 Authentic Starting Points For Learning
Learning–real, informal, authentic, and lifelong learning–can ‘begin’ with just about anything.
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What Is Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy?
Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy is an update that, among other changes, revised the language and hierarchy of the Cognitive Process Dimension.
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What Is Cognitive Constructivism?
In research-informed segments, theories like Social Learning can be tools for understanding how a child’s mind works.
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What Is Maslow’s Hierarchy Of Needs?
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is a theoretical framework comprising a tiered model of human needs often depicted as a pyramid.
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What Is Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Learning Theory?
According to Vygotsky, learning and development are inseparable from the social and cultural contexts in which individuals participate.
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32 Research-Based Instructional Strategies
These 32 research-based instructional strategies include Setting Objectives and Reinforcing Effort/Providing Recognition.
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Piaget Learning Theory: Stages Of Cognitive Development
Piaget’s stages of cognitive development include the sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational stage.
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Genius Hour In The Classroom: 6 Principles
Genius Hour in the classroom is driven by curiosity. Critical principles include inquiry, purpose, socialization, and design.
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Teach Students To Think Irrationally
Our task? Overcome a child’s natural tendency to play, rebel, and self-direct in hopes of providing them with an ‘education.’
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‘The Objective’ As Read By Wendell Berry
“I prayed what I saw was only fear & no foretelling, for I saw the last known landscape destroyed for the sake of objective…”
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How To Teach For Knowledge Through Humility
How would it change the learning process to start with a tone of humility? To clarify what can be known, and what cannot?
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What Is Self-Directed Learning? A Simple Model For Students
Modern access to information and learning platforms make self-directed learning more accessible–and powerful–than ever before.
