One Big Thing to Improve Your Studies

Many students, along with their parents, don’t appreciate the connection of good study planning to better learning. Read More

Teaching Tip: Stop and Jot

Looking for a great way to encourage more retrieval practice in your classroom? This is a technique you can seamlessly plug into your existing lesson plans and activities multiple times a day. Read More

How to Memorize Bloom’s Taxonomy

You may wish to memorize the six levels of the thinking so you can use the taxonomy without having to look it up – try this kitchen mnemonic which gives you a way to “think on your feet” while teaching. Read More

3 Teaching Tips from Aristotle

Here is a three-step technique which shows us why many of the most powerful teaching techniques are also surprisingly easy to do. Read More

The Guide to Incredibly Powerful Homeschool Instruction

Recent scientific studies have shown that better learners are not born with some special gift; instead, we know they use better and more powerful learning strategies.  Read More

Jump Start to Deliberate Practice

Anders Ericsson identified these 5 components of “deliberate practice.” Use this checklist to evaluate your learning or training regimen – then improve it by adding SPICE! Read More

Retrieval Practice is Your Learning Power Tool

This learning strategy has been validated by thousands of scientific studies to greatly improve the ability to remember and recall information. Read More

Desirable Difficulties can Transform Your Learning and Teaching

This article explains one of the most powerful learning strategies you can use. The concept of “Desirable Difficulties” is something that needs to be understood by both the student and the teacher. Read More

How Learning Objectives Can Help You Teach Better

As a homeschooling parent, you are most likely very familiar with learning objectives.  You often see them in your instructor guides, or perhaps listed at the top of the lesson materials provided to you.  But how can you use them to improve your home classroom instruction? Read More

Helicopter Parenting and Learning – is This Right for You?

This research should resolve the long-running debate about “how much parental involvement is ideal?” It validates the use of highly involved parenting. Read More