Students in the classroom come from differing backgrounds and home environments, and certainly some students begin school with a greater advantage than others. A great deal of research has demonstrated a relationship between ...
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GUEST POST: Ignorance Isn't Bliss -- It's Bias
As schools begin another term, some teachers will have new classes with new students; a fresh start and a blank canvas to create a masterpiece...or not. The first few days of class are key to establishing rapport with students and creating an environment conducive ...
GUEST POST: Trusting Teacher: Children’s Evaluation of the Reliability of Informants
One of the most frustrating things that I experience in my day to day life is coming across people who have been exposed to misleading information and chose to take it at face value. As human beings, we are very trusting when it comes to receiving...
Weekly Digest #40: Teachers' Implementation of Principles from "Make It Stick"
The book “Make It Stick” by Peter Brown, Henry Roediger, and Mark McDaniel was published in 2014 and since then has become a widely-accepted source for teachers who aim at improving their teaching and help their students learn better. In the book, ...
Retrieval Practice Improves Learning, but Will it Help ALL of my Students?
Research has a lot to offer when it comes to effective ways to learn. As we have discussed before on the blog, we cannot just rely on our own intuitions about what produces learning (see this blog post for more on this topic). Therefore, as a teacher ...
Weekly Digest #39: Writing Strategies for Students
There is nothing worse than writing that first paragraph of an essay. The crippling onset of writer’s block is inevitable, and can easily spiral into a circle of procrastination, until only one day remains before the essay is due. This is one of the many problems students ...