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Technology is increasingly transforming the way students engage with learning materials. One prominent use of technology in education is gamification, where game-like elements are applied to non-game environments to enhance engagement and motivation...
PTK decided to conduct a challenge where students were required to log two hour-long study sessions a week for the final three weeks of classes. We offered multiple incentives to encourage student participation...
You are at the end of the school year and your students just took the big, elusive, terrifying standardized test. As a teacher, you know you did all you could to prepare them, and you saw them experience small successes along the way. Students were doing great on the chapter tests, so they must have learned the material! Then, you get the results back from the standardized test, and it is not what you were expecting. You are left shocked and wondering what went wrong.
Metacognition is generally regarded as being the awareness or control of thinking for learning. John Flavell is an American developmental psychologist that specializes in cognitive development, and he coined the term in 1976 (1). He described it as the ability to think about one’s own thinking, be consciously …
Marty Huitt is a seasoned educator and visionary leader dedicated to revolutionizing how schools support children struggling with behavioral and academic challenges. Marty serves as the Director of the Behavior Intervention Support Team (BIST) program in Kansas City, Missouri.
I help teachers who are looking to incorporate sustainability education into their curriculum by providing programming designed to take your students beyond just learning the facts and figures of climate change to answering their question, “But what could I possibly do about it?”
