Evidence-Based Teaching Because when you know better, you do better! Browse Evidence-Based Teaching Articles Evidence-Based Teaching Need Shaun’s Help? Shaun offers virtual coaching and mentoring to teachers. Areas of expertise include: Shaun also offers executive coaching to school leaders. Approaches include: Psychometric assessment of developmental needs, planning learning, and implementing that plan A confidential, unbiased … Read more
Being able to read is critical to success in later life, while illiteracy is often a pathway to unnecessary hurdles and issues in life. Therefore, teaching children to read is of paramount importance. Unfortunately, many dedicated teachers have been misled by menacing misconceptions about reading instruction. In this article, you will discover more about 4 … Read more
Want to know how to teach writing to adolescents? There are a lor of opinions, but what does the research say? Learn 6 proven ways …
As the saying goes, practice makes perfect. You should be giving your students time to practice doing the things you have taught them to do in class. But there are different types of practice, and they are not all equally effective. Two of these types are massed practice and distributed practice. Massed Practice Imagine you … Read more
Concept mapping is a high-impact teaching strategy. But what does it involve & how can teachers use it? Find out in this practical, yet evidence-based guide.
Is pedagogy just a fancy word for teaching? Partly, but it is also much more. What Is Pedagogy? Pedagogy includes but goes beyond the notion of teaching. It encompasses everything a teacher does to help students learn. And, pedagogy is focused on helping children to learn. Andragogy is a similar concept, but it is focused … Read more
In 2009, John Hattie published his landmark book Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement. He soon became known as the go-to-guru for all things education. But what does it all mean for classroom teachers and school leaders? The answer, quite a lot – but you need to be careful. … Read more
Giving Students Effective Feedback Boosts Their Results Feedback is a high impact teaching strategy. When done well, research1Download the list of Meta-Analytic Research on the Impact of Feedback shows that providing your students with feedback boosts their results by 27 percentile points. Put another way, by providing regular feedback and doing it well, you can … Read more
Understanding Teacher Credibility Teacher credibility matters! When your students view you as a credible teacher, they are more likely to do well in school. The importance of a speaker’s credibility has been discussed since Aristotle. Yet, it is only more recently that researchers have started exploring its relationship to students’ learning. In 2009, Amber Finn … Read more
