That’s not to say that extrinsic rewards are all negative. One study shows that when rewards were expected, intrinsic motivation decreased, but when they were unexpected, intrinsic motivation was ...
The new “question-of-the-week” is: How can we use goal-setting with our students? Research, and the practical experience of many educators, suggest that encouraging students to set their own goals can ...
In the last 30 years, a series of innovative findings in neuroscience, metacognition, and learning have inexorably changed how we think about educating students. The notions that learning is ...
Dr. Debbie Silver is the author of the best selling books, Drumming to the Beat of Different Marchers: Finding the Rhythm for Differentiated Instruction and Fall Down 7 Times, Get Up 8: Teaching Kids ...
In technology, as in so many things, just because you can doesn’t mean you should. It takes college students one hot minute to figure out when technology is just a useless embellishment, and they’re ...
When Carol Dweck’s book Mindset came out in 2006, it radically transformed the way people thought about working with young people. Mindset sold over 2 million copies. Whole organizations were created ...
PITTSFIELD — When Allendale Elementary School first-grade teacher Jessica Bazinet turns to her students and asks them to tell a visitor who they are, the 13 children in her class, in unison, will say, ...
Every student is different. There are various external and internal factors that may affect the pace of a student’s learning. Why then, do we expect all students to complete a certain amount of work ...
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