What are the necessary considerations we should think about to help students reach academic automaticity? Should we drill, drill, drill? Should students learn the age-old strategy of cramming? Should practice be done during one lesson or over several lessons? What is Academic Automaticity...
Formative Assessment is a teacher tool that’s sometimes overlooked but incredibly powerful tool. Formative assessments are a valuable piece of the instructional...
What do you think of when you hear PLCs? The idea of Professional Learning Communities in schools has been in practice for decades. The PLC teams focused on what...
The success of your students depends on whether or not they are absorbing the information you’re teaching them. Often as educators we get bogged down in the process of...
Guest post by Dr. Marcia L. Tate. Posted originally on Developing Minds, Inc. as “20 INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES THAT ENGAGE THE BRAIN: #7 MANIPULATIVES, EXPERIMENTS, LABS...
Visible learning is an incredible academic framework that helps our students succeed. It’s also a great way of enhancing our students’ literacy. After all...
In their book 10 Mindframes for Visible Learning, John Hattie and Klaus Zierer provide a list of mindframes for educators that provide teacher clarity. Teacher...
