Learning Theory & Teaching Strategies

Information and resources to help a School Librarian (or a classroom teacher) be a better educator by understanding brain-based & research-based learning theories and using best practice teaching strategies. | No Sweat Library
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Avoiding the Pitfalls of Multitasking in School | Cult of Pedagogy
Avoiding the Pitfalls of Multitasking in School | Cult of Pedagogy
How to Design School Library Lesson Performance Tasks that Engage Students
Learn how School Librarians can design performance tasks that captivate student interest, yet meet standards, fulfill lesson objectives, and support classroom activities through backward-designed unit planning. | No Sweat Library
What Brain Science Says About How to Better Teach Teenagers - EdSurge News
Author of a new book on teen development argues that banning phones in schools may backfire
A Comprehensive Guide to the Evidence-Based Classroom
If you’re in search of groundbreaking insights on classroom management, grading, or student motivation, here’s a collection of must-read resources to supercharge your teaching.
5 Conditions for Getting Formative Assessment Right
Checking for understanding in the middle of instruction is essential for student success. Let's make sure we are doing it effectively. | Cult of Pedagogy
Learn how School Librarians can design performance tasks that captivate student interest, yet meet s
Learn how School Librarians can design performance tasks that captivate student interest, yet meet standards, fulfill lesson objectives, and support classroom activities through backward-designed unit planning. | No Sweat Library
Nine Active Learning Strategies to Help Students Build Knowledge
If we want students to actually learn the concepts we’re teaching them, they have to do something to interact with those abstractions. | Cult of Pedagogy
10 Top Cooperative Learning Strategies (and some tech tools that could come in handy)  BY NEIL JARRETT | Into the Driver's Seat
Ten Types of Facts for Nonfiction Writers
Naming and modeling different kinds of facts offers tangible ways for students to revise and elaborate informational texts. – TWO WRITING TEACHERS
How to Adapt Visible Thinking Routines to Maximize Student Engagement
These adapted classroom strategies encourage students to talk through and reflect on learning in meaningful ways.
Two groups of scholars revive the debate over inquiry vs. direct instruction
Inquiry defenders say inquiry is better at helping students develop conceptual understandings. Critics say the approach is bad for learning content and skills.
Introducing the Modern Classrooms Model Through Unit 0 — Modern Classrooms Project
In a Modern Classroom, Unit 0 is an effective way to introduce your classroom structure and procedures!
UDL Strategies Can Help Adolescents Lighten Memory Overload
With so many daily classes, the working memories of adolescents get overloaded. Their evolving brains have not yet developed fluent coping strategies. To teach students to handle all the inflow, two experts share UDL strategies that build executive function and self-regulation.
17 Tweaks That Make a Big Difference in Group Work
Cooperative learning can be a powerful learning strategy, but only if it works well. These small changes can make group work more effective in your classroom. | Cult of Pedagogy