How Metacognition Can Optimize Learning 18Aug2024 by Jennifer Gonzalez Metacognition plays a big role in how well we retain information. With a better understanding of how it works, we can leverage it to improve our learning.
Why Students Give You the Blank Stare, and What to Do About It 3Mar2024 by Blake Harvard You teach your heart out. Really just knock it out of the park. Then you ask a question students should know the answer to … and nothing. What’s going on?
How to Leverage Multisensory Learning in Your Classroom 18Sep2022 by Jamie Chaves Applying these basic principles of sensory processing to our teaching will help us remove unnecessary barriers and boost students’ learning.
4 Laws of Learning (and How to Follow Them) 1Sep2020 by Jennifer Gonzalez In a teaching tailspin? These four research-based principles of instruction will help you focus on what really moves the needle.
Four Research-Based Strategies Every Teacher Should be Using 9Jun2019 by Jennifer Gonzalez Learn the simple, quick strategies cognitive scientists say can boost student learning in any classroom.
Is That Higher-Order Task Really Higher Order? 12May2019 by Jennifer Gonzalez Ask any group of teachers if their goal is to simply have students regurgitate facts, and every one of them will say no. Despite that, it keeps happening.
Note-taking: A Research Roundup 9Sep2018 by Jennifer Gonzalez A summary of 8 best practices in note-taking, straight from the research.
The Great and Powerful Graphic Organizer 22Oct2017 by Jennifer Gonzalez Beneath its simplicity lies an absolute dynamo, a vehicle that can cement learning more firmly than a lot of the other stuff we try, in a lot less time.
Retrieval Practice: The Most Powerful Learning Strategy You’re Not Using 24Sep2017 by Jennifer Gonzalez Nothing cements long-term learning as powerfully as retrieval practice. Learn how to incorporate it into your classroom.
