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Not This Again!
Well, yes. I’m writing about doing “this” again, and again, and again. I’m talking about practice as another factor in improving your student’s memory of what you’re teaching. Practice, though, is not simply doing something over and over again. When you think about setting up a practice strategy, you have three questions to answer. They…
Are You Meddling?
I can still remember it. “Back in the day,” my teacher was in the front doing his part, talking. I was doing my part, day-dreaming. I wasn’t invested in what was going on. My grade point average in middle school hovered around a D+. I didn’t care. It doesn’t have to be this way. It’s…
What Grade is My Child In, and Does it Matter?
There are two questions here. The answer to the first question, “What grade is my child in,” in one sense is unimportant from an educational point of view. Elementary education is largely skill-based. Skills, of course, are linked to grade levels. Even so, a degree of mastery of a particular skill should be evident before…
Go Ahead, Take That Break
The phrase, “sharpen the saw” appeared in a best-selling book written over twenty years ago by Stephen Covey. His book was titled, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. It summarized seven practices or principles that if implemented, would generally yield healthier relationships. My library is filled with these kinds of books but to be…
Three Reasons to Test Annually
Have you ever had one of “those conversations” where what starts out light and pedestrian becomes heavy, oppositional, and maybe verbally combative? There was a day when these kinds of conversations and exchanges happened only occasionally. But now they happen all the time. Achievement testing, when required to satisfy state requirements used to be one…
