All in For Teachers
I think a lot about how to transform students to lifelong learners. It is not only a matter of being an effective educator; it is the right thing to do morally. The drive to help students become learners goes beyond the students enrolled in my classes.
With the recent rise in mental health issues in young people (and academics), the manner in which those mental health issues affects cognitive performance becomes a serious consideration for those in education.
Escape rooms have become increasingly popular over the last decade.... The interactive format and team based problem solving has made escape rooms popular with teachers as well.
I read with interest this blog post on six strategies for effective learning and immediately began to think about how knowledge organizers could be best utilized to encourage and explicitly model habitual use of these strategies in students’ revision.
It’s only 53 days to September 1st, so a lot of us are thinking about starting to get ready for the Fall (perhaps not quite getting ready yet - but thinking about it!).
One of the most effective learning strategies is spaced practice – the distribution of study time across multiple smaller study sessions. This learning strategy dates back to Hermann Ebbinghaus in 1885 who conducted the first systematic investigations of spaced practice with himself as a participant…
