6 Ways To Motivate Students Cognitively During Summer Break
Instead of asking, ‘How can we slow their loss of academic progress?” we might ask instead, “What do children need?”
Learning
Learning is a process of acquiring knowledge, but more crucially acquiring the habits and tendencies to transfer that knowledge in personally meaningful circumstances.
The Simplest Way To Slow The Summer Slide
Slowing the ‘summer slide’ through daily reading, writing, and ‘playing’ supports children in developing learning habits that endure.
Rethinking Learning Loss: When Students Don’t Use What They Learn
If what a student is learning has very little ‘transferability’ to their life, there are significant costs and consequences.
6 Instructional Strategies That Challenge And Support Students
A teaching strategy is anything the teacher does to help students learn. From reciprocal teaching to clarity, here are 6 to get started.
What Is Necessary For Learning?
What are the ingredients for ’21st Century Learning?’ 1. The internet 2. Permission to interact 3. Absence of extrinsic motivation
25 Social Emotional Learning Resources For Teachers
Here are 25 social-emotional learning resources for teachers that you can implement to help students grow in the affective domain.
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?
18 Questions To Ask Students About Their Day Remote Learning
If you were to extend today’s remote learning, would that best done offline or online in a virtual space? Why?
What Is Genius Hour? An Overview For The Classroom
Genius hour is an approach to learning where students are guided by their own interests, background knowledge, and curiosity to learn.
What Is An Asynchronous Learning Community?
An asynchronous learning community is one where students learn together bound by some component other than time.
The Benefits Of Competency-Based Assessment
Competency-based learning provides students clear feedback about specific competencies and skills gained over time.
Me Learning: A Student-Centered Learning Model
Key questions include, “What’s worth understanding?” and more importantly, “What’s worth doing with what I come to understand?”