This week I’m speaking with an all-around legend, Bradley Busch, co-author of The Science of Learning, 99 Studies that Every Teacher Needs to Know. Bradley
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Does More Learning Happen When Students are in the Driver’s Seat? – Education Rickshaw
Most teachers will be familiar with Khan Academy, or similar learning programs, that offer a mixture of 1) problems to solve and 2) instructional supports
Cringe! – Education Rickshaw
My last blog post seems to have been this site’s 200th post. What a journey it’s been. Long time readers may have noticed that Stephanie
Making Presentations More Permanent – Education Rickshaw
A problem teachers face when delivering lectures is the issue of “transience.” Information is transient when elements of information that must be processed by a
5 Steps to Becoming a Reader of Research – Education Rickshaw
A lot of people have told to me at my workshops that they wish to start reading research but they don’t know where to start.
Playing Around with Kids’ Education – Education Rickshaw
As I’ve written before, replacing explicit instruction (not just lecturing, but a scaffolded combination of interactive modeling, questioning, and practice) with fun but trivial activities
Cognitive Load Theory, Executive Function, and Instructional Design – Education Rickshaw
I recently attended a conference about teaching students with executive functioning challenges. Executive functions are a set of essential cognitive capabilities and skills typically encompassing
Sarah Cottingham on Retrieval Practice and Diagnosing Teaching Problems – Education Rickshaw
In this episode, Sarah Cottingham discusses effective teacher professional development, as well as one of the most powerful strategies derived from cognitive science: retrieval practice.
What Works? – Education Rickshaw
I was recently invited to debate the merits of direct instruction and project-based learning with Drew Perkins on the TeachThought podcast. It was fun being
The Scientific Principles of Reading Instruction – Education Rickshaw
When I was just starting out my career as an elementary teacher, I attended a staff meeting where the principal asked us what we thought
