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...
In that great collection of teacher tools, one lurks in the shadows as a sometimes overlooked but incredibly powerful tool⏤formative assessments. Formative...
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...
Literacy happens in more places than just our English classrooms. It’s important to practice literacy in all content areas. After all, students who are highly...
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...
