John Hattie’s body of work suggests that surface learning is the foundation for deeper learning, transfer learning is crucial for success in the real world, and deeper learning is facilitated through inquiry teaching.
While schools should center children in purpose, tone, structure, function, etc., what about teachers? What do they need?
Letter grades don’t mean what you think they mean. In fact, they can fail to communicate important truths about your child’s learning.
There are many ways to differentiate instruction, from flexible grouping to multiple assessments and improving student choice.
Pairing Teachers To Improve Professional Development contributed by Dawn Casey-Rowe, Social Studies Teacher Professional development isn’t something that many teachers look forward to. By thinking about activities that engage teachers and bring motivation back into professional learning, schools make leaps and bounds in building a community that uses its own expertise to become stronger and…
Most learning profiles are quick glances of academic data. There’s nothing wrong with this. They are useful, but they are also limited.
Getting students to learn more deeply requires their cognitive engagement, and that rarely comes without them being interested.
At this point, accepted, protected, challenged, and aware, you can begin to agitate their thinking.
Students may attempt to disguise their plagiarism by using complex vocabulary or terminology inconsistent with their usual writing ability.
Direct instruction is the explicit teaching of objectives while project-based learning is more passive, ongoing, and self-directed.
While ‘being cool’ isn’t necessary for effective pedagogy, there is an undeniable performative component to teaching.
Students need access to lower-level information to then use in higher-level thinking that requires them to synthesize disparate perspectives.
This planning template for project-based learning in the elementary school classroom includes both a blank and completed example.
A personal learning network is a group of people you connect with to learn from through their ideas, questions, backgrounds, and references.