Last Summer, I visited a friend whose son was about to take his exams. We found ourselves in one of those familiar conversations you get into as a teacher-friend. “So, tell Tricia what you are doing to revise for your exams.”
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Last Summer, I visited a friend whose son was about to take his exams. We found ourselves in one of those familiar conversations you get into as a teacher-friend. “So, tell Tricia what you are doing to revise for your exams.”
If there’s one way to instantly divide opinion in the teaching profession, it’s to mention the word ‘testing’. Testing is seen by some as the evil part of education: created to destroy both student and teacher self-esteem. Often conceived in primary education as a one-hour written task,
Whether you are a student in a foreign language course, an international student in a new country, or using an App to learn a new language for fun, language learning is a daunting task. Language learners are faced with memorizing vocabulary...
Today's guest post is a little different in that it is a reblog of a piece by an author who is no longer with us. A few months ago, Yana published a blog post called "In Defense of Memory", where she discussed all the different ways that memory is used throughout our lives.
A Note from the Learning Scientists: Today’s guest post is a little bit different from those we normally publish; that is it’s not directly related to classroom learning. This post discusses the fact that our memories are not like tape recorders. Instead, our memory is reconstructive.
During your teaching career, you have probably come across students who can easily complete short, structured, tasks, yet often forget to do their homework or unexpectedly perform poorly on tests. Many psychologists explain this pattern of behavior as arising from...