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Whether students become engrossed in daydreams, peer conversations, or digital rabbit holes, distraction represents learning’s...

Educators know every student has innate competitive drive with classmates. Yet directing this impulse productively so peers mutually gain...

Many writers dread public speaking, fumbling words awkwardly when asked to opine aloud without preparation. Yet rather than shy from such...

Of all reading techniques, none build competency as effectively as reading aloud with guided feedback. Verbalizing passages cements...

Scaffolding, a constructivist teaching architecture conceived by luminaries like Jerome Bruner in the 1960s, has become widely...

The art of effective public speaking relies as much on a speaker's ability to listen as their capability to captivate verbally. While...

Effective writing is the foundation of academic communication. Grammatically correct and semantically coherent sentences and paragraphs...

The concept of mastery offers a useful lens for examining apparent dichotomies in both motivation and modes of instruction. Specifically,...

While curiosity provides essential fuel igniting the quest for knowledge, mere inquisitiveness alone does not lead to exceptional...

We’ve all heard it - students need to be intrinsically motivated to truly excel in education. Internal passion and interest in learning...

Whether in whole group meetings, small teams or pairs, vocal expression remains a vastly under-utilized learning accelerator in...

Establishing consistent learning routines proves one of parenting’s most potent tools for empowering academic development. More...

Like architects visualizing soaring buildings from initial sketches, parents and teachers intuitively recognize every child’s immense...

Imagine you're discussing baseball, basketball, football or soccer with some knowledgeable fans, but you have no idea what "wins over...

That glimmer when students advance from confusion to capability keeps teachers going. We catch quick glimpses into a self-perpetuating...

Ahmed grimaces as he reads yet another chapter in his physics textbook about frictionless planes and perfectly elastic collisions –...

Imagine that if instead of having a speedometer in your car, all you had were sporadic speed limit signs posting alerts that you're...

Learning often involves an element of delayed gratification. As students, we all had to endure the hardship of memorizing multiplication...

Intrinsic motivation is the holy grail of learning. Students wholly engaged in mastering knowledge, driven by internal passion to grow -...

“Okay class, who can summarize what we just read about the causes of the American Revolution?” A few tentative hands go up. You call on a...