What makes a student try, even when they’re behind or scared? What keeps them coming back after failure? In my classroom and in the classrooms I support, I’ve seen again and again that the answer is often the quietest of the Five Key Beliefs: Belonging. We usually think of student motivation in terms of effort or ability. But those fall …
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What is Co-teaching? At Hampden Charter School of Science, we are constantly looking for educational ideas and techniques to help improve our student success in and out of the classroom. This year, we piloted our first co-taught classroom, and hope to expand more into a co-teaching model in the new HCSS Middle School. But what is co-teaching exactly? Co-teaching, according …
With so much information that we want our students to learn, it seems like our biggest focus should be on effectively giving the information to the students. Although this is important, most of the information will be forgotten quickly if we do not have the students recall the information regularly. Retrieval practice boosts learning by focusing on pulling information out …