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Is Your Deeper Learning Instruction Boring Students?
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Anderman, Eric M.; Calvit, Adriana I. Martinez – Educational Leadership, 2021
Deeper learning is great for exploring a topic in great depth, but it will fail if student motivation isn't taken into account. Researchers Eric Anderman and Adriana Calvit discuss how to align your deeper learning curriculum with motivational strategies for successful lessons.
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Instructional Effectiveness, Student Interests, Student Motivation
Minds on Fire
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Cushman, Kathleen – Educational Leadership, 2014
What happens when teachers, neuroscientists, and students combine their perspectives in a three-way dialogue about why selected classroom lessons were highly motivating? They discover that the factors that teachers and students believe important to student motivation are solidly aligned with insights from neuroscience. Author Kathleen Cushman…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Teaching Methods, Student Motivation, Neurosciences
Landscapes for Learning
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Cochrane, Cathy – Educational Leadership, 2004
The project based learning by using Campus Calgary/Open Minds programs encourages schools and teachers to participate in a variety of learning methods. The use of on-site learning techniques makes it an integral part of planning and implementing variety of projects, which in turn encourages huge participation from students.
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Strategies, Student Projects, Student Motivation
What We Really Know about Strategy Instruction.
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Pressley, Michael; Harris, Karen R. – Educational Leadership, 1990
Many learning strategies endorsed by curriculum and instruction publications have never demonstrated their worth in objective experimental evaluations. Most researchers agree that cognitive strategies should be taught in conjunction with content and in response to learner needs and capabilities. Teacher modeling and self-regulation lie at the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Strategies, Modeling (Psychology), Reading Comprehension
Reinvigorating Learning through Writing.
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Pradl, Gordon M.; Mayher, John S. – Educational Leadership, 1985
Keeping a journal of classroom experiences can help students express their understandings of the concepts they learn in school and how the lessons relate to their own lives. An eight-item reference list is provided. (Author)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Motivation, Learning Strategies, Student Attitudes
Voices from Networked Classrooms.
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Brownlee-Conyers, Jean; Kraber, Brenda – Educational Leadership, 1996
In 1994, the Glenview (Illinois) Public Schools created three technology-rich educational environments (TREEs) that use alternative teaching and learning methods through networked communication technologies. Each setting consists of three teachers and about 75 heterogeneously grouped students (ages 9-12) who work collaboratively to solve problems…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Educational Benefits, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education
The Old Way of Reading and the New
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Kirschenbaum, Valerie Ruth – Educational Leadership, 2006
Recent research indicates that Americans are reading less than they have in the past, as black-and-white text competes with more visually exciting media, such as the Internet, movies, and television. As a solution to this problem, the author proposes that books and instructional materials engage readers visually through the use of color and…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Printed Materials, Computer Uses in Education, Learning Strategies