The book “Make It Stick” by Peter Brown, Henry Roediger, and Mark McDaniel was published in 2014 and since then has become a widely-accepted source for teachers who aim at improving their teaching and help their students learn better. In the book, ...
Research has a lot to offer when it comes to effective ways to learn. As we have discussed before on the blog, we cannot just rely on our own intuitions about what produces learning (see this blog post for more on this topic). Therefore, as a teacher ...
When first considering a quiz or an exam, many students don’t know how to approach studying. Should I start studying three days before the exam? Or should I just cram the day before? Should I make flashcards or just read the book? Take notes on my laptop or handwrite them? There are a lot of techniques and ways to study, but some are more ...
There is nothing worse than writing that first paragraph of an essay. The crippling onset of writer’s block is inevitable, and can easily spiral into a circle of procrastination, until only one day remains before the essay is due. This is one of the many problems students ...
When I was in school, our teachers would sometimes let us watch movies during classroom time to add to the topic that we had been taught before. For example, in History we watched “Schindler’s List” after discussing World War II and Holocaust ...
Here are 5 statements about learning that I have come across in the last year:
“Learning is what happens when you think hard.” Prof. Rob Coe (1)
“Learning is ...
