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More Rigor

by Laura Maniglia | Mar 6, 2022 | academic standing, active learning, attention & focus, cognitive skills, instruction, learning, note-taking, teachers

Previous blogs centered on strategies that enhance learning, which include interleaving, spacing, and retrieval. These are examples of “desirable difficulties,” the concept that students need tasks that challenge them to the right degree in order to learn best. They...

How to Support Students’ Executive Functions

by Laura Maniglia | Jan 20, 2022 | active learning, attention & focus, cognitive skills, exercise, instruction, learning, parents, public schools, recess, student engagement

According to the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, executive functions enable individuals to “plan, focus attention, remember instructions, and juggle multiple tasks successfully.” Executive functioning has three components: working...

Testing and Learning

by Laura Maniglia | Dec 16, 2021 | academic standing, active learning, attention & focus, cognitive skills, instruction, learning, public schools, reading, student engagement, study skills

Practice tests enhance learning. “Pretesting involves taking tests before to-be-learned information is studied, whereas post-testing involves taking tests after information is studied.” What are the benefits of each? Should instructors test students before they are...

The Value of Homework

by Laura Maniglia | Nov 29, 2021 | academic standing, active learning, attention & focus, cognitive skills, homework, instruction, learning, reading, student engagement, students, study skills, teacher effectiveness

Homework has been the subject of debate since the nineteenth century. Attitudes about homework undergo changes every few decades, depending on the current trends in society. Perspectives range from homework causing undue stress (1930’s, ‘60’s, 2000’s) to...

Space Out for Better Learning!

by Laura Maniglia | Sep 17, 2021 | active learning, attention & focus, cognitive skills, instruction, learning

In addition to interleaving and retrieval, an effective learning strategy is spaced practice. The opposite of cramming, spaced practice requires revisiting material over time. As early as the 1890’s a German psychologist described the “forgetting curve” and...

Active Learning-Memory Retrieval

by Laura Maniglia | Sep 10, 2021 | active learning, attention & focus, cognitive skills, learning, reading, student engagement, study skills

Cognitive scientists have been researching what works best to assist long term memory. They have identified several strategies: retrieval, spaced practice, and interleaving. The active reading strategy known as SQ3R provides a strategy for reading and learning. This...

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