Guidance for educators

New materials can leave kids in the fog. Here are five metacognitive questions they can use to find their way and become more independent learners.

A few ways to set up formative and summative assessments that provide an accurate picture of what students know.

The start of a unit is a great time to encourage students to see how what they’re learning applies in different situations.

It can be a challenge to engage students when they’re at school only a few days a week—station rotations and flipping the classroom can help.

Strategies like connecting new information to students’ prior knowledge guide them to store what they’re learning in long-term memory.

When students use a questioning strategy to think about their own thinking, they can see how to transfer their learning to new situations.