Learning is a process of acquiring knowledge, but more crucially acquiring the habits and tendencies to transfer that knowledge in personally meaningful circumstances.
State and national level resources for the teachers and parents of gifted and talented students inside and outside of the classroom.
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Piaget’s stages of cognitive development include the sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational stage.
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3 major brain elements help control what information your brain takes in: the reticular activating system, limbic system, and dopamine.
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Our task? Overcome a child’s natural tendency to play, rebel, and self-direct in hopes of providing them with an ‘education.’
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Learning–real, informal, authentic, and lifelong learning–can ‘begin’ with just about anything.
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According to Vygotsky, learning and development are inseparable from the social and cultural contexts in which individuals participate.
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Don’t blame the tools like memorization for how they’re used. Re-evaluate and find better ways to use pedagogical tools used in schools today.
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From Constructivism and Connectivism to Situated Learning, here are 32 of the most common learning theories every teacher should know.
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Set yourself up for success with learning goals examples. Discover how to set academic goals in a wide range of college subjects.
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As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “It is a happy talent to know how to play.”
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CPTSD is a complex, often debilitating response caused by events over a period of time–anywhere from months to an entire childhood.
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This Full Sensory mindfulness activity, combined with the ‘non-thinking zone,’ are important assets for teachers and students.
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