I became a high school speech pathologist after earning a Master’s degree in Speech and Language Pathology. When I was in school, Speech and Language Pathologists (SLPs) didn't learn a whole lot about orthography. We learned many things...
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GUEST POST: Elaborative Interrogation – What if Students Can’t Produce Useful Elaborations?
Diagrams can help students learn, especially when students connect verbal information (like words in the text of a lesson) with the diagrams (1). But getting students to make these connections can be tricky because you can’t look at a diagram and the text at the same time!
GUEST POST: WOOP Your Way Forward - A Self-Regulation Strategy That Could Help You Get Ahead and Stay Ahead
You’ve got a big project due at the end of the term. You’ve got a cumulative exam in two weeks. You’ve got an oral presentation in three days. You know you should space your study/work sessions (because you’ve been reading posts such as this one on this blog)...
GUEST POST: How to Shift a School Towards Better Homework
Talk to any high school student about homework, and then watch their face.
Do we do homework well? How can research help us do it better?
Parents and teachers mistakenly equate hours of homework ...
GUEST POST: Disconnect in the Classroom
The other day on Twitter, I found myself reading through a somewhat comical conversation among a few edu-twitterers/teachers/researchers concerning the compilation of education research: ...
Weekly Digest #64: Preparing a Learning-Focused Syllabus
“... even the most detailed syllabus cannot save an instructor from being deluged with the same questions from students over and over. This is because, of course, even the most detailed information is useless to a person who does not take the time to ...