Tag: Essential

Second screen learning provides access to personalized content while the teacher guides and facilitates the core of the lesson.

Lateral thinking solves problems via a creative approach involving ideas that may not be obtainable by using traditional step-by-step logic.

Rethinking grading in project-based learning can support and encourage students by clarifying complexity and rewarding nuance of understanding.

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.

Problems still surfaced but with a system in place, it was much easier to identify exactly what went wrong and why and communicate it to students.

Does the item require a passage, or a graphic? If so, is all the necessary information provided, and is it appropriate and accessible to the student?

Critical reading is a matter of gathering knowledge, understanding context and seeing ideas from multiple perspectives to make sense of a text.

Each colored block has an example of a learning objective corresponding with each combination of the cognitive process and knowledge dimensions.

Marzano's 9 Instructional Strategies include non-linguistic representations, generating and testing hypotheses, and summarizing and note-taking.

Every classroom is different—and that’s good because every student and teacher is, too. But are there any common elements that all classrooms should share?

To use the Feynman Technique, practice explaining a concept to others as simply as possible. Make it simple, then make it simple again.