Hey there, colleague! What follows is a mini-lesson that teaches secondary students how to learn more effectively. It’s part of a series, which you can access right here. When we teach students about learning, we empower them to work smarter and get better results for their effort. This is massively important for cultivating the five […]
Learning Lesson 2: Attention is Narrow
Hey there, colleague! What follows is a mini-lesson that teaches secondary students how to learn more effectively. It’s part of a series, which you can access right here. When we teach students about learning, we empower them to work smarter and get better results for their effort. This is massively important for cultivating the five […]
Learning Lesson 1: The Goal is Long-Term Memory
Hey there, colleague! What follows is a mini-lesson that teaches secondary students how to learn more effectively. It’s part of a series, which you can access right here. When we teach students about learning, we empower them to work smarter and get better results for their effort. This is massively important for cultivating the five […]
Eight Lessons for Enhancing the Effort and Efficacy Beliefs
The Effort and Efficacy beliefs are intermingled. They dance together. I’ve tried representing these with the following flywheel diagram: The best way to begin to build the Effort and Efficacy beliefs in the hearts of our students, then, is to TEACH them what wise, strategic effort looks and feels like. In order to do that, […]
Credibility/Value Booster: Is that a Treasure Chest I See You Carrying?
It is. Recently, I was with a secondary faculty in Wisconsin, and after asking folks to craft their Everest sentences, I asked them to share with one another and answer, “So what? Why should students and families care about that Everest?” After this, I took volunteers. One of our colleagues shared that her Everest is […]