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10/19/2022
You Don’t Have to Be a Martyr to Do Student-Centered Learning It's been quite a year so far in American education. Between school board battles over Critical Race Theory to protests over mask mandates, we are seeing significant social strife playing out in the context of
09/21/2022
Have you ever set students up for failure?
Well, if you’ve ever advised students to study X number of hours for every hour of class time, then you have set them up for failure. No worries. You didn’t intend to harm them.
But by encouraging students to use time to measure their learning, you have inadvertently set them up with a faulty learning metric. And this specific metric leads many students down a path of repeated frustrations and failures.
Learn more about how to help your students develop metacognitive learning metrics at https://thelearnwellprojects.com/thewell/learning-metric-quality-control/.
09/14/2022
Introducing The Learner's Formula - The LearnWell Projects Professionals exploit processes to do their jobs well. Students can use The Learner's Formula to consistently achieve high academic success.
08/31/2022
Why do seemingly excellent students flounder when they get to college?
Consider this: around second or third grade, students learn to distinguish different monetary values. They learn, for example, that a dime is worth $0.10, a quarter is worth $0.25, and a dollar bill is worth $1.00 cents. After nailing down the basics, they then learn that if they stack a ten-dollar bill, a five-dollar bill, and four nickels together, they have $15.20.
Intriguingly, they learned to differentiate units of money well before they possessed money. Why did they learn this skill so early? Because the skill of differentiating between monetary units is so essential that kids must learn it before participating in the economic world.
Unfortunately, such forethought was not put into the academic world. The ability to differentiate among thinking skills is a threshold skill. Students must possess this skill to do cognitively complex work. It is as indispensable to academics as differentiating among monetary units is to finances. Yet this skill isn’t usually taught.
Learn more about how to help your students differentiate their thinking skills at https://thelearnwellprojects.com/thewell/help-students-differentiate-thinking-skills-with-metacognitive-tools/.