Memory trace is a complex cognitive process that refers to encoding, storage, and retrieval of information in the brain. Repeated, meaningful exposures strengthen neural encoding. Educators who have foundational understanding memory development and understand the power and importance of memory-enhancing strategies will apply and teach those strategies in ways that enhance student learning.
The brain is always doing one thing: thinking. As educators, one of our responsibilities is to teach students how to think when they are in academic situations. Throughout any given
The way you talk to toddlers can determine how well they do in school throughout life. But not just any conversation will do.
Teachers in early grades may have difficulty identifying the struggling emergent readers in their classes and helping them grasp foundational skills. In this article, Jessica Hamman shares eight methods that
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 10 essential questions that Harris
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 we each learn differently. Yet
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 who have greater background knowledge
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, is that there are different
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 math behind probability. The students
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 shares several strategies to help
