Rote Learning and Critical Thinking
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Memory Strategies
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Wolves Waiting at the Door: Incompletion
| File type : AudioEffective Drill
IMF School Family Handbook | Algebra | Strategies and Techniques
Line upon line...again and again and again. Here are effective drill methods for your lower grade classroom.
Meaningful Memory Work
IMF School Family Handbook | Strategies and Techniques
What systems work for memorizing? How can we make it stick for long-term? What is the value of memorization? How do I assign and grade memory work?
Let Me Introduce…
IMF School Family Handbook | Strategies and Techniques
Are there ways to introduce your subject to the class that gets their attention and helps them to be able grasp what you are teaching?
Breathing Life Into History
| Length : 65 | File type : Teaching MaterialHistory is a lively story full of original characters, interesting places, and surprising plot twists. But history class tends to reduce it to a lifeless assortment of facts and dates. How can we resu... Read More
Why Do I Need to Learn This?
Contributor: John Mark Kuhns | Length : 17 | File type : Video
When faced with a difficult concept or task, students often ask, Why do we have to learn this?
What is behind this familiar and frustrating response? In most cases, John Mark suggests, the question... Read More
Breathing Life into History
Contributor: Lyndon Martin | File type : Teaching Material
History is a lively story full of original characters, interesting places, and surprising plot twists. But history class tends to reduce it to a lifeless assortment of facts and dates. How can we re... Read More
I Can’t Do This
Contributor: John Mark Kuhns | Length : 16 | File type : Video
When students tell you they can't do something, what are they really saying? What's behind the expression of defeat? John Mark suggests three possibilities and how to respond:
The student may be ... Read More
