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If We Can Improve This, We Can Improve Everything!

by Laura Maniglia | Feb 7, 2022 | attention & focus, cognitive skills, learning, non-cognitive skills, parents, SEL, student engagement, students

As discussed in a previous blog, one of the components of executive functioning essential for education is impulse control: being able to think before acting. The ability to delay gratification is critical to self-regulation, or self-control. The ability to...

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...

Focus on the Individual!

by Laura Maniglia | Jan 14, 2022 | academic standing, attention & focus, differentiation, homeschooling, instruction, learning, parents, public schools, student engagement, teacher effectiveness, teacher training

A previous blog centered on ability grouping and objections to it based on its possible negative impact on struggling students. However, other classroom arrangements such as Skill-based learning can address differing student needs including ability level, interests,...

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...

Ability Grouping

by Laura Maniglia | Nov 18, 2021 | academic standing, attention & focus, classroom management, cognitive skills, instruction, learning, public schools, student engagement, students, study skills, teacher effectiveness, teacher training, teachers

Ability grouping/selection is generally well accepted in our society. Imagine the rigorous selection process for professional athletes. Or consider admission to an elite University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for example has an acceptance rate of only...

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