Teaching
Growth Mindset Explained
Most teachers have heard about the growth mindset. It became a phenomenon in 2006 when Carol Dweck released her book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. Yet, not everyone is…
Mindset by Carol Dweck: A Critical Review
What is a Growth Mindset? In a nutshell, a growth mindset is a belief that intelligence and other abilities are malleable. Put another way, intelligence is like a muscle that…
4 Menacing Misconceptions in Reading Instruction
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…
How to Teach Writing to Adolescents
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 …
Distributed Practice & Massed Practice: What Works Best?
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…
How to Make a Concept Map Easily – with Examples
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.
Pedagogy: What It Is & Why Matters?
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…
Deliberate Practice In Education: What Is it? And, Should Teachers Make Use of It?
You may have heard about deliberate practice and the high impact it has on student achievement. But what does it involve? And should you make use of it?
6 High-Impact Teaching Strategies
As a teacher, would you like to have even more impact on your students’ learning than you do already? If so, then this article on high-impact teaching strategies is for…
Teaching for Conceptual Change: Fractions
Teaching fractions is critical. Yet, students often struggle to master the concept of fractions. You can help these students by using the conceptual change process. Mastery of fractions is one of the strongest predictors of success in high-school mathematics…
Teacher Credibility: Why It Matters & How To Build It
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…
Teacher Clarity: A Potent Yet Misunderstood Teaching Strategy
Teacher clarity allows you to have a much larger impact on how well your students achieve. But this clarity involves more than most people think. Discover ..
Emotionally Intelligent Teaching
Today, we know quite a lot about how our emotions work. Emotionally intelligent teaching involves using this insight in intelligent ways.
Hattie & His High Impact Strategies for Teachers
In his book, Hattie synthesised over 500,000+ studies related to student achievement. This expansive synthesis concluded that: Teachers can make a difference even in challenging circumstances Most teaching practices have…
Homework: How to Make It All Worthwhile
Homework is the bane of many people’s lives. Teachers hate setting it, let alone marking it Students hate doing it Parents hate ensuring it done (and trying to work out what…
Peer Tutoring: A Potentially Powerful Way to Help Struggling Students
Peer tutoring provides all teachers with a potentially powerful way to offer much-needed help to struggling students. But only if you do it right. Learn ..
Plain Old Good Teaching
There are a lot of elaborate theories and vogue words that try to describe what good teaching entails. Sadly, some of them have little, if any grounding in evidence at all. Others do, but they are…
Teaching to Minimize Misbehaviour
The way you go about organising & structuring your teaching affects how well your students behave. In this article, you will find 5 critical tactics you can
How to Use Visuals & the Modality Effect to Improve Student Learning
Students learn best when you present information in multimodal ways. This is because we find it easier to learn through a combination of words and visuals. We call this the modality effect. What…
The I Do WE Do YOU Do Model Explained
The I Do – We Do – You Do model involves you in following a series of steps starting with you leading instruction and finishing with students working independently. In…
8 Strategies Robert Marzano & John Hattie Agree On
Robert Marzano and John Hattie have both reviewed the research on which teaching strategies work best. While they used different methods and terminology, they agreed on these 8 powerful strategies….
The Value of Student Feedback Infographic
Do you want to help your students do better at school? If so, try giving your students some effective feedback about their work. Feedback is a high impact teaching strategy….
Direct Instruction vs Whole Language
To answer this question, you must understand the core aspects of both approaches. A Quick Definition of Whole Language & Direct Instruction Whole Language In whole language, students learn words, letters,…
How To Set Lesson Goals To Boost Student Achievement
Lesson goals offer a powerful way to improve how well your students do at school. This technique is even more potent than holding high expecations. Discover
Kids Deserve to Be Taught
Kids deserve to be taught. When students don’t have foundational knowledge, expecting them to learn and discover things on their own is not an effective way to teach. Imagine This…
10 Evidence-Based Teaching Strategies for 2021
Most teachers I know care deeply about helping their students succeed at school, and if you are reading this article, you are undoubtedly one of them. Yet, research has revealed…