Karen Harris, a high-school English teacher, engages students in higher-order thinking by first leading them through a “thinking inventory.” The inventory includes a series of
Productive struggle is important for students to retain what they learn.
Wolf, who has a dyslexic son, is on a mission to spread the idea of “cerebrodiversity,” the idea that our brains are not uniform and
Researchers have learned that students will have difficulty understanding text if they are unfamiliar with 59% of terms relating to the topic, indicating that readers
Education researchers are considering how to predict when a given assignment will generate the optimal amount of persistence in a student. At issue, researchers say,
A group of Georgia high-school students has designed and built carnival-type attractions such as a ring toss, cornhole and a mini-golf course to learn the
Teachers should consider promoting productive struggle among their students to improve learning, writes Kyle Cantrell, a fifth-grade teacher in Tennessee. In this blog post, Cantrell
What’s the best way to motivate children? The intrinsic motivation to learn about the world around us begins in infancy. This type of motivation can
Retrieval is great. But how do I get my students on board?
Digital Promise and the Institute for Applied Neuroscience, led by Dr. Melina Uncapher, teamed up to synthesize findings from the growing field of learning sciences
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