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 and truly master their learning.
For “Non-Math People”… Who Teach Math Anyway
Anyone can learn math … but for teachers who did not have positive math education experiences themselves, teaching math can be stressful. Still, it’s part of the job for many multi-subject adult educators. We’ll explore some of the research on math and learning and discuss how people who don’t identify with math can use their unique strengths to help their students succeed
The Struggle is Real: Self-Care & Balance for Busy Teachers
Teaching is meaningful, important, rewarding… and hard. If we are to do our best work and sustain our efforts, we must find ways to manage the hard parts, amplify the positives and maintain our energy.
Learning how to Learn: Low-Prep Strategies to help ABE Students become more Skillful, Independent Learners
Many adult learners enter ABE programs with big goals, and a desire to achieve, but little understanding of how to learn/study effectively. We’ll explore low-prep classroom routines and activities to help students understand their own learning, practice metacognition, and become more skillful, independent learners.
Learning Math by Learning about Learning
In this workshop, teachers will design a lesson plan or series of lessons plans to engage their students in math, metacognition and skill building… simultaneously. Mix and match learning topics, presentation methods, authentic data collection and multiple math skills to design the learning experience that suits your students. A resulting lesson might include growth mindsets, number lines and decimals; or study strategies and fractions; or grit, surveys and bar graphs.