If you’ve spent any time in the personal development arena, you will see a multiplicity of references to setting goals and growth. Many of those references put goals and growth at differing ends of the spectrum making each appear as a mutually exclusive aim. The truth of the matter is that both can peacefully coexist … Continue reading Setting Growth Goals
In the now classic book Classroom Instruction That Works, Marzano finds through meta-analysis that students who regularly have opportunities to create nonlinguistic representations of current and new knowledge increase achievement. The effect size attributed to this strategy is .75 ((please remember that the effect size is the increase in student achievement as measured in standard … Continue reading High Yield Strategy: Nonlinguistic Representations
Students can sit in a classroom that offers a clear focus, receive masterfully delivered direct instruction, and still not achieve. Why? Students need to actively engage with content in order to fully understand and apply it to a variety of situations. Only then can it be said that they truly learned something. How can teachers … Continue reading Helping Students Actively Engage With Content
makeitbettertoday.com 