Learning

Empathy focuses on a mutual and shared emotional experience, whereas sympathy moves more swiftly from feeling with to feeling for.

Saying you've 'seen homeschooling' is like saying you've seen salad or photographs or the internet. Homeschooled in what way? Learning what and how?

Blended learning combines face-to-face teaching and online instruction. Ideally, each will complement the other by using its particular strength.

We must speak, and teach our children to speak, a language precise and articulate and lively enough to tell the truth about the world as we know it.

By asking students to leave a little learning on a chair by the door on the way out of the classoom, exit slips are an easy way to reflect on...

Killing a learner's natural curiosity doesn't happen overnight. It can take as long as 12 years, and in some rare cases even that isn't long enough.

It's not merely the closed-mindedness of fixed belief that can hold students back: it's also the convenience of habit, the laziness of stereotyped thinking.

This is first about how the process of becoming wrong—the sweeping of the arms out in front of you as you search—helps you become right.

Ambition precedes curiosity. Without wanting to advance, learn, change, or grow, curiosity is simply a biological and neurological reaction to stimulus.

From improved clarity and precision to students better understanding their own learning profile, there are many benefits of competency-based assessment.

The goal of the model isn't content knowledge (though it should produce that), but rather something closer to wisdom--learning how to learn

Creativity in the classroom is another form of play, and play is universally important to each individual’s sense of joy and well-being.

Effective teaching about the Holocaust requires asking students the right questions, and that is the beginning of any inquiry-based lesson.

The first level of curiosity and engagement is when students are primarily concerned with procedural knowledge: What they're supposed to do and how.

Assimilation of knowledge occurs when a learner encounters a new idea, and must 'fit' that idea into what they already know.

Intrinsic motivation is defined as the doing of an activity for its inherent satisfaction rather than for some separable consequence.

The 5E Model promotes collaborative, active learning in which students work together to solve problems and investigate new concepts by asking questions, observing, analyzing, and drawing conclusions.

Marzano's 9 Instructional Strategies For Teaching And Learning by TeachThought Staff In education, louder than the call for innovation, engagement, thought, or self-direction is the call to be research-based. In...