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The Challenge: Caring in the Virtual Classroom

by Laura Maniglia | Jan 7, 2021 | attention & focus, classroom management, cognitive skills, instruction, metacognition, non-cognitive skills, soft skills, student engagement, students, teachers

One of the foundational elements of effective teaching is personal interactions with students. As John Maxwell advised, “Children don’t care how much you know unless they know how much you care.” In a thoughtful discussion of making distance learning less remote, ...

Study Skill: Dual Coding Explained

by Laura Maniglia | Mar 8, 2020 | attention & focus, cognitive skills, instruction, metacognition, non-cognitive skills, note-taking, study skills

Dual coding is the process of combining text and images when studying. Dual coding theory has its roots in the practical use of imagery as a memory aid 2500 years ago. The memory emphasis evolved into broader applications of imagery aimed at accelerating the...

Becoming Expert

by Laura Maniglia | Jul 17, 2019 | attention & focus, cognitive skills, instruction, interpersonal relations, metacognition, mindset, non-cognitive skills, student engagement, students

Most people realize that mastering a skill of any type requires practice. “Prodigies” may exhibit astounding capabilities, but the public sees them “after the fact.” The audience is not privy to the many years of sweat and toil these experts devoted to achieve their...

The “Recipe” for Instilling Intrinsic Motivation in Students

by Laura Maniglia | Mar 17, 2019 | attention & focus, cognitive skills, creativity, instruction, interpersonal relations, metacognition, mindset, SEL, soft skills, student engagement, students, teachers

Intrinsic motivation, the type that emanates from an internal drive rather than an external one, empowers an individual to persist in any endeavor. An elite athlete training for the Olympics, or a classical pianist preparing for an international competition can...

Cursive back in the Classroom?

by Laura Maniglia | Apr 13, 2019 | attention & focus, cognitive skills, instruction, language, metacognition, note-taking, soft skills, student engagement, study skills

Decades ago, in the 1950’s and ‘60’s, learning cursive, (like the Palmer method), was an essential part of the elementary school program. However, with the proliferation of computers, instruction shifted from handwriting...

Supporting Creativity

by Laura Maniglia | Dec 12, 2018 | cognitive skills, creativity, metacognition, mindset, non-cognitive skills, soft skills, students

Children are naturally creative. In his very popular 2006 TED talk, Sir Ken Robinson explained that children “have extraordinary talents. Unfortunately, that attribute appears to diminish with age. A NASA study found that 98 percent of preschool children ...

The Challenge: Caring in the Virtual Classroom

Study Skill: Dual Coding Explained

Becoming Expert

The “Recipe” for Instilling Intrinsic Motivation in Students

Cursive back in the Classroom?

Supporting Creativity

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