On June 11th, in Salt Lake City, Utah Professor John Hattie of the University of Melbourne and author of Visible Learning stated that 90% of all learning strategies students utilized, questions teachers asked, lessons observed, and tests proctored only met surface level learning expectations. Accordingly,
“Engaging students” might be in the top five of most common phrases in mathematics teaching discussions, journals, and professional learning. Strategies to engage students have included cooperative learning, questioning strategies, and classroom discussions. What do these ideas have in common? Each is a way to
Is student engagement a behavior or a cognitive process? Every industry has its jargon and education is no exception. We throw around words like rigor and relevance, high order thinking, research-based strategies¸ and response to intervention. For a number of reasons, my personal favorite is
Mathematical rigor is the meticulous blending of well-developed content and effective instruction designed to increase students’ thinking, reasoning, and understanding of skills and concepts. In far too many classrooms, the degree of mathematical rigor is inadequate. In order to teach with rigorous instruction, change is
It was the third day of kindergarten, and there I was standing amidst twenty-one four- and five-year-olds; showing my students how to “mingle,” a type of standing turn and talk. The children were so eager to share any morsel about their lives during those first
In shifting instructional techniques to utilize new technology and support Common Core instruction, it is easy for teachers to access an abundance of exciting applications, web tools, and lesson plan ideas that allow students to practice skills in a new way. Scrolling through Pinterest, Teachers Pay