20 10, 2020

Act Like a Child: How to Promote Curiosity

2023-08-23T21:05:19+00:00

In this article you will learn…

  • That to support all students and make learning equitable, the academic environment needs to recognize, teach, and support behaviors that promote curiosity.
  • The classroom and teacher must make specific behaviors known to all students, acknowledge when students are exhibiting these behaviors, and nurture these behaviors in order to advance learning.
  • The strategies for promoting curiosity that can be used successfully at any grade level.
Act Like a Child: How to Promote Curiosity2023-08-23T21:05:19+00:00
15 09, 2020

How Parents and Caregivers Can Elevate Their Child’s Achievement

2023-09-20T21:55:40+00:00

In this article you will learn:

  • That for students to be successful they need to have ownership of their learning. In other words, they must be able to self-direct, self-evaluate, self-reflect, and self-control their own learning.
  • A parent’s and caregiver’s role is not to be the teacher but to motivate their child to clearly know what they are learning, how they are learning it, and how well they are learning it. In other words, their role is to support their child in taking ownership of their learning.
  • How to use specially designed resources and tools to support student ownership at home.
How Parents and Caregivers Can Elevate Their Child’s Achievement2023-09-20T21:55:40+00:00
2 06, 2020

How to Prepare for the Unknown

2023-08-15T22:40:05+00:00

In this article you will learn...

  • Education consistently goes through many types of changes, some planned, some controllable, and some unknowable.
  • Investing your resources in ensuring students have best, first instruction from their teachers is the strongest investment an administrator can make.
  • All student learning is driven by standards-based curriculum, efficient instruction, regular assessment, and a positive academic climate.
How to Prepare for the Unknown2023-08-15T22:40:05+00:00
2 06, 2020

Give Children Something to Talk About

2023-08-15T21:54:01+00:00

In this article you will learn...

  • The first step in developing student ownership is to support children’s oral language development.
  • Teachers and parents/caregivers are crucial language models for young children and the more modeling they have the better.
  • Children need multiple opportunities to have meaningful conversations with adults, so it’s important for adults to start talking.
Give Children Something to Talk About2023-08-15T21:54:01+00:00
2 06, 2020

Professional Development from the Eyes of the Teacher

2023-08-15T19:46:53+00:00

In this article you will learn...

  • Elevated Achievement’s Learning Model is driven by the learner and answers the question—What does a learner need to know in order to better own their learning?
  • The Learning Model is made up of five learner-centered phases: setting the Learning Context, stating the Learning Outcome, engaging in the Learning Process, producing the Learning Demonstration, and implementing the Learning Application.
  • Teachers deserve the same well-planned opportunities for professional development as they give their own students.
Professional Development from the Eyes of the Teacher2023-08-15T19:46:53+00:00