"They want kids to see the world differently, and to be empowered to act differently, because of what they have learned. It seems that the goal of all learning—not just conceptual understanding—is transfer." Read more from Julie Stern, author of Tools for Teaching Conceptual Understanding, Elementary, on Corwin Connect.
Use the strategy of concept attainment, from Tools for Teaching Conceptual Understanding, Elementary, with your students, which mimics the brain’s natural concept-formation process by drawing out patterns from examples and nonexamples.
This excerpt from Tools for Teaching Conceptual Understanding, Secondary, makes the case for conceptual learning and debunks the myth that simply covering the material will cause students to retain it.
Listen in on this Principal Center Radio podcast on The Lead Learner with author Michael McDowell.
What if the key to increasing the long-term impact of our classrooms and schools was doing fewer things much better? Read the full blog from Dave Stuart Jr., author of These 6 Things, to learn more about how to focus your teaching on what actually matters.
Use these activities from The Word Study That Sticks Companion by Pamela Koutrakos with your young readers to expand their word learning.
Use this helpful chart from The Word Study That Sticks Companion by Pamela Koutrakos to match your students to the patterns and words they may be prepared to learn depending on their understanding.
Use these activities from The Word Study That Sticks Companion by Pamela Koutrakos with your young readers to expand their word learning.
In this excerpt from Word Study That Sticks by Pamela Koutrakos, get a tour of word study in action and listen in and hear how real word exploring might go.
Use these example cycle schedules from Word Study That Sticks by Pamela Koutrakos to help you plan out daily time for word study to ensure it happens consistently.
Use this chart from Word Study That Sticks by Pamela Koutrakos to help you pick the right assessment type to assess word learning.
Use this self-survey from Experience Inquiry by Kimberly Mitchell to determine whether you are already teaching in an inquiry-based way.