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How to Make Learning Stick

A Principal's Reflections

It is no secret how we retain information, construct new knowledge, and develop competencies critical for success in the world of work and, more importantly, life. The key is to not only rely on this teaching technique as it mainly focuses on providing information and modeling as opposed to active learning. Fiorella, L. & Jeong, H.

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20 Types Of Questions For Teaching Critical Thinking

TeachThought

In a short answer, the responder must answer the prompt without the benefit of any additional information or possible answers. Then there are Referential Questions : An inherently subjective question, Referential Questions produce new information and can be either open or closed-ended questions. What crucial information are we missing?

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Three Ways You May Be Cognitively Overloading Your Students

Cult of Pedagogy

Blake is an AP psychology teacher, but he has also studied cognitive science on his own for close to a decade now and has turned a lot of that study into helpful resources about how to better align our teaching with how students learn. . Information that we don’t have in our long-term memory yet has to pass through that working memory.

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Children as Artists: A New Perspective on Upper Paleolithic Cave Art

Anthropology.net

By integrating insights from developmental psychology, researchers have identified playful and imaginative marks made by young artists, fundamentally rethinking prehistoric creativity. The article is titled, “Children as playful artists: Integrating developmental psychology to identify children’s art in the Upper Palaeolithic.

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For Teens Online, Conspiracy Theories Are Commonplace. Media Literacy Is Not.

ED Surge

That’s according to a new study by the News Literacy Project, which also found that teens struggle with identifying false information online. This comes at a time when media literacy education isn’t available to most students, the report finds, and their ability to distinguish between objective and biased information sources is weak.

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Using Feedback to Drive Professional Learning

A Principal's Reflections

This psychological safety fosters a culture of mutual respect and trust, allowing professionals to focus on their own development rather than worrying about judgment or criticism. Moreover, feedback provides specific and actionable information for educators to set goals and make targeted improvements.

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How I teach synaptic transmission for A level Psychology

A Psychology Teacher Writes

One of the more challenging topics to teach in Psychology is biopsychology. Students often arrive at A level psychology with not only a wide range of prior knowledge but also a massive variety in expectations about what they’re going to learn. And this information is crucial for you later in the course. Why do people take drugs?