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,
Metacognition refers broadly to thinking about your thinking. Within the education realm, metacognition has been used to argue for a wide variety of various activities, which may extend beyond the research evidence.
“What is one of the most difficult things to teach your students?” When you ask teachers in different sectors, one answer that will probably get a lot of hits and lead to agreeing nods is “Transfer!” The ability to apply learned principles and knowledge to solve novel problems or tackle new, unfamiliar tasks.
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...
Metacognition refers to the concept of “knowing what you know.” It involves the ability to make accurate predictions about how well you will be able to then retrieve information later on. The ability to make those predictions is very important.
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.
