Too often, conscientious students show up to class thinking that your job is to lay out the perfect plan for them to learn. And theirs is simply to glide through it. It’s frustrating because you do try to design lessons that will help all of your students to master the material. But the … [Read more...] about Teaching Study Skills to Empower Your Students
How to Study Efficiently and Remember What You Study
School is unreal. Imagine you’re suffering through an algebra class. Graph this weird function. Can you solve for Y? You move on to physics. The teacher discusses electrons spinning around neutrons and protons. You shake your head. None of this is real. Pure fantasy land. What can you … [Read more...] about How to Study Efficiently and Remember What You Study
Teaching Kids to Program Computers
As we propel headlong into the 21st century, there is increasing interest in teaching kids to program computers. A few schools have been teaching kids to program for decades. Others are seeking ways to include it now. Yet, programming has often been treated as a specialized technical skill. It … [Read more...] about Teaching Kids to Program Computers
Tiger Moms Eat Their Young: A Parenting Style to Avoid
A common stereotype holds Chinese mothers to be strict authoritarians, mercilessly ruling over the children with iron fists. The thought of adopting a parenting style that exerts such extreme control may be hard to think about for many European-American parents. Yet, there is the nagging … [Read more...] about Tiger Moms Eat Their Young: A Parenting Style to Avoid
21 Study Tips: Learn the Strategies that Set Top Students Apart
It’s annoying, isn’t it? You see them in every class. The students who seem to breeze on through. Coolly killing one test after another. How do they do it? Is it something you can master? Yep, it is. You see, scientists have been snooping on these top students for decades. It’s not … [Read more...] about 21 Study Tips: Learn the Strategies that Set Top Students Apart
Self-Explanation: A Good Reading Strategy for Bad Texts (& Good)
One of the important study skills we need in our increasingly technology driven world is the ability to learn from hard-to-understand text. Maybe you’re trying to grasp a biology textbook chapter on sexual reproduction. Or perhaps you’re reading articles on the web to figure out how to extend … [Read more...] about Self-Explanation: A Good Reading Strategy for Bad Texts (& Good)