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...
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...
by QPS | Oct 29, 2018 | Direct Instruction, English Language Arts, Reading, Reading comprehension, School News, Science of Learning, Technology in Education and Personalized Learning
Tucked inside this week’s New York Times Sunday Review is a gem entitled, “Why Are We Still Teaching Reading the Wrong Way.” We cannot recommend it highly enough because Emily Hanford incisively diagnoses multiple common problems with current...
