PTK decided to conduct a challenge where students were required to log two hour-long study sessions a week for the final three weeks of classes. We offered multiple incentives to encourage student participation...
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Guest Post: Retrieval Practice: How to Encourage Long-Term Retention
You are at the end of the school year and your students just took the big, elusive, terrifying standardized test. As a teacher, you know you did all you could to prepare them, and you saw them experience small successes along the way. Students were doing great on the chapter tests, so they must have learned the material! Then, you get the results back from the standardized test, and it is not what you were expecting. You are left shocked and wondering what went wrong.
GUEST POST: Metacognition in the Classroom: What it Looks Like and How to Foster it
Metacognition is generally regarded as being the awareness or control of thinking for learning. John Flavell is an American developmental psychologist that specializes in cognitive development, and he coined the term in 1976 (1). He described it as the ability to think about one’s own thinking, be consciously …
GUEST POST: Interview with a Leader for Behavior Interventions in Trauma-Informed Pedagogy
Marty Huitt is a seasoned educator and visionary leader dedicated to revolutionizing how schools support children struggling with behavioral and academic challenges. Marty serves as the Director of the Behavior Intervention Support Team (BIST) program in Kansas City, Missouri.
Guest Post: Interview with a Founder of an Environmental Education Company
I help teachers who are looking to incorporate sustainability education into their curriculum by providing programming designed to take your students beyond just learning the facts and figures of climate change to answering their question, “But what could I possibly do about it?”
GUEST POST: The Benefits and Risks of ChatGPT for Education
Rapid technological advancement in the 21st century has influenced many sectors, including education. With over 100 million users, the new Artificial Intelligence tool ChatGPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) has gained significant popularity among students, teachers and researchers since its’ release in November 2022…