Increasing Productivity
Looking to increase your productivity? Here are some great suggestions. 8 Facts to Help Increase Productivity by Todd Van Luling
Looking to increase your productivity? Here are some great suggestions. 8 Facts to Help Increase Productivity by Todd Van Luling
Process praise seems to be even more important for girls. Discussing the day’s struggles and new strategies for conquering those struggles helps to develop resilient learners. Giving Good Praise to Girls: What Messages Stick by Katrina Schwartz
Viewing learning struggles as an opportunity, rather than indicating a lack of intelligence, improves learning and frustration tolerance. We need to create more of these experiences for students and do a better job of pointing them out when they happen, both at school and at home. It is important to send the message to students …
New research shows that our glymphatic system clears our brains of waste while we sleep. Lack of sleep not only impairs daily functioning and learning/memory; but this research suggests that it might also be behind the development of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s. Elementary school students should get between 10-12 hours of sleep a night, …
A Parent’s Guide to Minecraft Minecraft can help to develop creativity, problem-solving, and spatial awareness. However, it is also important to regulate this and other online games with moderation and parental controls that are suggested in this article.
The Key To Smarter Kids: Talking To Them The Right Way Studies show that parents who check homework, attend school meetings, discuss school activities, and read to their children have a more powerful influence on their child’s achievement than anything that schools can do. Conversations within the home are important in developing learning readiness as …
Knowledge of Brain Functioning Boosts Effort and Motivation Understanding that their brain develops new capacities with effort and practice boosts student’s motivation and helps them to better manage mistakes or setbacks while learning new information.
Making Homework Worthwhile Studies show that incorporating spaced repetition, retrieval practice, and cognitive disfluency in h0mework and learning significantly improves retention of information.