Two years in the making. I started this book two years ago, after doing some guest lecturing at Queen’s University. I had things to say and I kept running out of time. Then, conveniently, my son was playing in a summer basketball team that practiced in another city so I couldn’t go home between dropping […]
This semester I am teaching a learning skills course with a small group of learners who have very diverse reading levels. I would like to expose them to complex ideas around learning and mindset but I have to make sure that the text is accessible for all my readers. I did some investigation and practice […]
If you have a student with a learning disability or ADHD in your classroom it is likely that you have seen the suggestion for “chunking” on their accommodations list. Today I am going to talk about what chunking is and why it works for learning. Chunking is a perfect example of a strategy that is […]
Enrichment is not just something you to with just the “smart” kids. For this post I’ll make a special shout-out for Eric Jensen who wrote this book: Enriching the Brain. He starts his book with the thesis: “the human brain is a dynamic and changing organ – and the way we teach, parent, or run […]
