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Project-Based Learning in Its Place

by QPS | Mar 4, 2019 | Application, Content Knowledge, Fluency, School News, Skill Building

Project-based learning (PBL) is an educational experience in which a student engages in a hands-on, sort-of real-life project. These projects promote development of information and skills, transfer of skills, problem solving, collaborative know-how (group PBL),...

Relevance + Fluency = Math without (or with Far Less) Anxiety

by QPS | Dec 13, 2018 | Direct Instruction, Fluency, Math, Personalized Learning, Practice, School News, Skill Building

  All of us have met math phobes—people who are afraid of math and feel that they’re bad at it. Math phobia is almost always acquired in large classroom settings, where any student can fall behind by inadvertently missing a critical skill or concept. Even if a...

The Elements of Reading

by QPS | Nov 28, 2018 | Direct Instruction, English Language Arts, Reading, School News, Science of Learning, Skill Building

 Yesterday, Iowa Reading Research Center posted a very good blog article by Anna Gibbs, M.S., Deborah K. Reed, PhD, and Leah Zimmermann, M.Ed., on the necessity of including phonics in reading instruction because “understanding of how language sounds are...

The Problem with Teaching Problem Solving

by QPS | Oct 16, 2018 | Personalized Learning, Problem Solving, School News, Skill Building, Talk Aloud Problem Solving, Technology in Education and Personalized Learning, Thinking Skills

The question What are 21st century skills? is often answered by pundits, schools, and for-profit companies with catchy, possibly brand-able, lists. These lists are good clickbait but no substitute for ongoing attention to the timeless and emerging competencies that...

Summer Homework?

by QPS | Aug 15, 2018 | Practice, Problem Solving, School News, Skill Building, Thinking Skills

  This summer, scorching temperatures have turned Queens’ quasi-shaded sidewalks into large rectangular frying pans, and frequent, extended rains make many of us wonder not if there is climate change, but how fast it’s happening. It is often too hot to be...

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