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How Students Learn in Differentiated Classrooms
No one knows better than a parent that children differ in so many ways. Kids may look alike and know the same jokes, ...
Source: EduGuide
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The Case Against Gold Stars
Reprinted from Parents.Call it the "gold-star syndrome." Sometimes we paste stars on a chart. At other times ...
Source: Alfie Kohn
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Why Learners Sometimes Forget
Fortunately, we don’t need to remember everything. We probably have no reason to remember the phone number of a ...
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Effective Learning Strategies
Much of our discussion thus far has focused on knowledge of and beliefs about thinking and learning. But metacognition ...
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Learning Styles of Children
One size (style) does not fit all. Effective teachers try to understand how individual children take in and process ...
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Guiding Principles About Young Children's Growth and Learning
Children are active learnersChildren learn through experiences with people, objects and things in their world. ...
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All About HighScope
We receive many inquiries each week, either through our Web site or e-mail address, asking about High/Scope Foundation ...
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A Day in an Inclusive Setting: Focus on Language and Literacy
The room bustles with activity as children arrive at our preschool program from all over the county. Children put their ...
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Student Learning in Small Schools: Learning in a New Key
Learning in a New Key "In my old school I did little pieces of everything, but it didn't really stick to my brain. ...
Source: What Kids Can Do
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Visual, Auditory, And Kinesthetic Learners
The concept of visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners is probably familiar to you. It states that each person has a ...
Source: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Implications for the Classroom
Thinking about meaning helps memory. How can teachers ensure that students think about meaning in the classroom? Here ...
Source: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Learning Style Characteristics Responsive to Tactual and Kinesthetic Resources
Because tactual and kinesthetic materials tend to be gamelike, they usually are motivating, particularly for ...
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Making Connections: How Children Learn
Many parents, child care providers, and volunteers have instinctively understood the importance of the language ...
Source: U.S. Department of Education
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Are Learning Styles a Myth?
Do learning styles such as kinesthetic, auditory, and visual really exist? Find out what the learning style debate is...
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What It Means to Be a Kinesthetic Learner
Does your child jump right into an activity without asking how to do it? Is he unusually coordinated for his age?...
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Influence of Grading Practices on Motivation to Learn
Bruner (1966), writing when cognitive psychology was just beginning its surge to the forefront of educational theory,...
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Child-Centered Education
As the public increasingly views children as persons with rights, educators are implementing more child-centered...
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What Makes People Intelligent?
I emphasized the importance of practice and hard work to expertise in cognitive tasks. Perhaps people who are...
Source: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
