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Recess is Vital!

by Laura Maniglia | Jun 18, 2024 | academic standing, active learning, attention & focus, brain development, cognitive skills, exercise, instruction, kindergarten, learning, parents, public schools, recess, student engagement, students, teachers

A positive correlation exists between physical activity and cognitive development. Government health guidelines recommend sixty minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity each day. Yet most children do not meet that guideline. “Recess, a regularly...

Update: How to Maintain Fluid Intelligence

by Laura Maniglia | Jun 4, 2024 | active learning, attention & focus, brain development, cognitive skills, exercise, intelligence, learning, memory, retrieval practice

More than eighty years ago, psychologist Robert Cattell partitioned intelligence into two parts: fluid and crystallized. Fluid Intelligence refers to a person’s current ability and involves openness to learning new things, while crystallized intelligence refers...

Dyscalculia?

by Laura Maniglia | Feb 2, 2024 | academic standing, attention & focus, brain development, Child development, cognitive skills, instruction, math, parents, students, teachers

Many people know about dyslexia, the learning disorder that involves reading difficulty. However, less known is another learning disorder related to math: dyscalculia. This learning difficulty involves brain areas that handle math and number-related skills and...

Update: Reading Print or Digital

by Laura Maniglia | Dec 31, 2023 | active learning, attention & focus, brain development, cognitive skills, learning, metacognition, parents, reading, students, study skills

The choice to read on print or screen has been the subject of interest for several years. The benefits of one delivery system over the other appears negligible for pleasure reading. The selection of one reading mode over the other “is inconsequential when interest is...

The Problem with On-line Instruction

by Laura Maniglia | Nov 14, 2023 | active learning, attention & focus, cognitive skills, instruction, interpersonal relations, learning, parents, public schools, student engagement, teacher effectiveness, teachers

As stated in a previous blog, “One of the main challenges (if not the biggest challenge) of conducting virtual lessons is their impersonal nature.” Engaging students when they participate in a virtual classroom can be daunting. The non-contingent interactions that...

Do You Remember?

by Laura Maniglia | Nov 3, 2023 | active learning, attention & focus, brain development, cognitive skills, instruction, learning, memory, student engagement, whole brain learning

Supporting and enhancing students’ cognitive abilities continues to be a major objective of these blog entries. Thus, the focus of this article is to explain two different methods for assisting memory: the Production and the Von Restorff effects. However, each...

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Recess is Vital!

Update: How to Maintain Fluid Intelligence

Dyscalculia?

Update: Reading Print or Digital

The Problem with On-line Instruction

Do You Remember?

If schools were permitted to have just one training, this is the one!