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Marian Small – National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2025
This extensively updated teaching resource provides over 100 engaging, full-color visuals with explanations of how they can be used to stimulate mathematics learning, to explain mathematical concepts, and to assess students' mathematical understanding in grades K-8. Readers are provided with a strong mathematical background, downloadable copies of…
Descriptors: Mathematical Concepts, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Kindergarten
Patrice M. Bain – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2024
How do you introduce the science of learning to your faculty? How do you leverage professional development to ensure that teachers continually apply that science within their classrooms? How can you maximize learning in your classroom through the use of researched and evidence-informed strategies? These are the questions Patrice Bain sets out to…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Educational Strategies, Classroom Techniques, Faculty Development
Stick the Learning: Brain-Based Teaching Techniques to Increase Retention, Application, and Transfer
Saunders, Eric – Solution Tree, 2022
Research shows that desirable difficulties as achieved with spaced repetition, interleaving, and retrieval (SIR) have positive long-term impacts on student learning, because the learning sticks. This book guides you through these three techniques for a more brain-compatible classroom geared toward student success. Combing through research for…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Teaching Methods, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education
Richards, Theodore – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2022
We are in a period of unknowns unlike any in a generation or more. As educators, we need new pathways and ideas that can help us educate children for the world to come. "Reimagining the Classroom: Creating New Learning Spaces and Connecting with the World" provides practical steps and examples that parents and educators can use to begin…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Teaching Methods, Outcomes of Education, Guidelines
Dennen, Vanessa – Stylus Publishing LLC, 2019
How can social media help transform a student's learning experience and promote active engagement with learning content and peers? "Social Media for Active Learning" helps instructors achieve this goal. Many people use social media in their everyday lives, seeking information and informal learning opportunities via their online networks.…
Descriptors: Social Media, Active Learning, Teaching Methods, Learning Experience
McLeod, Rona Leach – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2011
"Diversity Awareness for K-6 Teachers: The Impact on Student Learning" is a resource guide for elementary teachers and college-level student teachers for teaching diversity awareness across the various areas of content. It contains many exciting activities teachers can use to enhance learning while making learning and teaching fun and exciting.…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Cultural Pluralism, Resource Materials, Elementary School Teachers
Brandhorst, Allan; Splittgerber, Fred – 1984
A category system for organizing six thinking skills and methods for teaching these skills, using the concept of time, are provided. Representing a proposed sequential order of development, the six thinking skills are: (1) imaging--the creating of an internal mental representation of an external thing and the labeling of that representation, (2)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Concept Teaching, Developmental Stages, Elementary Education
Ediger, Marlow – 1998
This paper discusses the various aspects of mathematics teaching and learning at the elementary school level. The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) standards are reviewed by giving examples and a list of principles of learning in mathematics is offered. Principles include the following: 1) the need for pupils to perceive learning…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Learning Activities, Learning Processes

Cogan, Dennis; Cogan, Rosemary – Teaching of Psychology, 1984
An easy-to-implement method for demonstrating classical conditioning in an introductory psychology course is described. (RM)
Descriptors: Conditioning, Demonstrations (Educational), Higher Education, Introductory Courses
Samples, Bob – Learning, 1984
Children use creative thinking processes when teachers assign ambiguous rather than specific problems. Suggestions for developing questions that encourage experiential and metaphorical thinking are offered. (DF)
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Assignments, Creative Development, Elementary Education
Fountas, Irene C.; Pinnell, Gay Su – Running Record, 1999
This article takes a look at Reading Recovery lesson elements to compare the teaching and learning within the lesson components to several areas of learning that have been identified at the national level as important to children's literacy learning. The lesson elements examined in the article are: (1) phonological awareness; (2) orthographic…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques, Learning Activities

Giordano, Gerald – Clearing House, 1982
Provides nine methods students can use to file information efficiently while reading: (1) time-space arrangements, (2) absurd pictures, (3) narratives, (4) rhymes, (5) acronyms, (6) acrostics, (7) numerical acrostics, (8) graphic illustrations, and (9) spontaneous associations. (FL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Activities, Learning Processes, Mnemonics
Pollard, Jim, Ed.; Barnhart, Dick, Ed. – 1988
This paper provides 18 lesson plans that use educational technology for instruction in the visual and performing arts in secondary schools; these lesson plans were developed as part of a workshop held in the State of Washington in May 1988. The lesson plans were developed to follow the format of State of Washington Superintendent of Public…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Guidelines, Learning Activities, Learning Processes
US Environmental Protection Agency, 2007
The SunWise Program is designed to help meteorologists raise sun safety awareness by addressing the science of the sun, the risk of overexposure to its ultraviolet (UV) radiation, and what students and their families can do to protect themselves from overexposure. This Tool Kit has been designed for use all over the United States and its…
Descriptors: Safety, Learning Processes, Health Promotion, Elementary School Students
Gayle, Barbara – 1990
Teaching organizational video is best accomplished by integrating organizational communication theory, rhetorical theory, and video production planning in one course. Focus on the individual project is the most beneficial as a stand-alone segment and as a highlight of the planning process that may be part of a corporate communication employee's…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Class Activities, Higher Education, Learning Activities