Learning Methodologies and Styles

What is Close Reading?

What is Close Reading? 150 150 Suzanne

The development of close reading and critical reading strategies is essential to academic, and personal, success. The process is perpetual; we all pick up new ideas, words and ideas as…

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Mental Maps

Mental Maps 150 150 Suzanne

Mental maps are a useful tool for representing how people think about they place they live. They can be used with students of any age, and allow each person to…

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Recent News on the SAT’s

Recent News on the SAT’s 150 150 Suzanne

Standardized tests are a huge part of the current educational system, and it is a topic that gets a lot of discussion. Within the fray, there was a recent article…

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Identifying Critical Thinking Strengths

Identifying Critical Thinking Strengths 150 150 Suzanne

Critical thinking is a very broad term and to think about the different types of thinking strategies that fall under the critical thinking umbrella, can help to increase one’s ability…

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Trends in Education

Trends in Education 150 150 Suzanne

One truism about education is that it is subject to trends. This can be seen in a positive or negative light, but the reality is that the efforts are directed…

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Creativity and the Writing Process

Creativity and the Writing Process 150 150 Suzanne

Writing, love it or hate it, has become central to the Language Arts curriculum and there are some very good reasons for its dominance in current teaching expectations. Writing is…

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Cognitive Friday: Mirror Neurons

Cognitive Friday: Mirror Neurons 150 150 Suzanne

One of the interesting things about cognitive studies, or studies of how the brain works, is that oftentimes a piece of research into an area like medical research can also…

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What Is Bloom’s Taxonomy?

What Is Bloom’s Taxonomy? 150 150 Suzanne

One of the key phrases tossed around when discussing instruction and assessment is “Bloom’s Taxonomy.” What this is is a classification system for the intellectual behaviors students will go through…

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How Can We Raise Innovative Thinkers?

How Can We Raise Innovative Thinkers? 150 150 Suzanne

Innovative thinking comes about from the little bits of what we know and the unexpected convergences of how we think.  Innovative thinking is transformative; it takes an idea and uses…

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Overcoming Struggles in Math

Overcoming Struggles in Math 150 150 SchoolTutoring.Staff

I find that students are not comfortable with the idea of physics because it is due to two things. Either they do not have enough mathematical background or they need…

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