4 Ted Talks to Teach Executive Functioning Skills
Executive functioning skills are key for our students to find success in the classroom and throughout their lives. EF skills include working memory, time management, organization, task initiation, emotional control, planning/prioritizing, and sustained persistence. Here are four engaging Ted Talks to be used in the classroom to help teach some of these much-needed skills.
Make It Stick: 4 Powerful Teaching Strategies Based on the Science of Learning
Over the past few decades, cognitive scientists have been trying to pinpoint exactly which activities work best for storing concepts in long-term memory. Until now we haven’t gone very deep into what these strategies look like in the classroom…
How to Build a Better Slideshow
Far too many PowerPoints and other slideshow presentations (by students AND teachers) are suffering from some very fixable problems. Here are six things you can do to make your slideshows better….
Teacher Clarity
Teacher clarity is a measure of the clarity of communication between teachers and students in both directions. It can be described across four dimensions: Clarity of Organization, Clarity of Explanation,
Clarity of Examples and Guided Practice, and Clarity of Assessment.