Why Don’t They Remember?!? Brain-Based Strategies to Boost Student Learning Every adult education teacher has had the experience: students engaged, learning, proud of their progress one day…. and struggling to recall or apply their learning the next day. It’s frustrating and common, but not inevitable. Brain science increasingly offers evidence-based techniques that help students retain …
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The beginning of the school year is the beginning of the school year. That is, exciting, but also (largely) frantic. And yet, at the end of September, I can say that I feel like I finally figured out how to put my prep weeks to good use. The start of the year was still busy, …
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Teach the students, not the test. I am quite certain that what I care most about teaching is that you, yes, you the one who never got above a C in math class, can learn anything, even math. Teaching the students. Except that what my students care most about passing a test (HISET) that stands between …
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Oh, back to school time. I am engaging in some pretty heavy denial that summer could ever possibly end. Clearly I am going to continue plucking cherry tomatoes and waking up without an alarm for ever and ever amen. And, simultaneously, I’m enjoying the space to think about my teaching without having to make copies …
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Building metacognitive awareness takes time and support. This end of term reflection provides a structured, three step process: Reread artifacts from the term; make observations about learning; write advice to future selves
