Becoming an effective teacher requires more than mastering instructional skills, it requires your school to support you to be a good person, too.
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Boost student motivation with education hygiene. This video series will focus on the most basic behaviors that teachers use to boost student motivation.
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The book How Learning Happens misrepresents the effects of motivation on learning. Discover the truth.
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The terms andragogy and heutagogy were coined using a doublespeak definition of pedagogy, so they are fundamentally deceptive terms that should be abandoned.
Having a hidden curriculum definition that is ideological but impractical is a waste. The secret to success is measuring the effects of the hidden curriculum.
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Back to Basics was used to politically reinforce the mainstream K-12 paradigm of schools in the 1970s. Learn about the new basics from science of learning.
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The correspondence theory of truth is being falsified by science and a new, more realistic theory of truth is replacing it.
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The Marshmallow Test is about delayed gratification in kids, but some schools use it to pass the buck to kids instead of taking responsibility like they should.
Behaviorism in education can be controversial, but it does not need to be. Learn how both critics and champions are getting the science wrong.
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In loco parentis is the legal foundation educators build upon, but too many schools undermine it by neglecting the psychological well-being of their students.
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Motivation is NOT a mental switch that flips when a child “achieves.” Getting it wrong causes problems, because well-being is also involved.
The Agentic Schools Manifesto lays out the paradigm shift from academics to agency.
One best philosophy of education is not realistic, but we can narrow the field for achieving educational equity.
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Education policy makers who invest exclusively in academic data are destroying our success. Investing in measures of engagement can transform the market.
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