Educeri, the new online lesson subscription service recently launched by DataWORKS Educational Research, is giving away 100,000 free subscriptions. Free 3-month subscriptions will be available to teachers and school districts who contact DataWORKS and request a trial. Being called the “Netflix” for educators, Educeri provides easy-to-use online lessons that save teachers time and…
The Problem with ELD Instruction Imagine being dropped in the middle of a foreign country where you don’t know the language. Now, imagine that you have been placed into a high school English class and the assignment is to analyze the metaphors in chapter 4 of The Grapes of Wrath. Except you don’t understand the…
The final type of cognitive strategy that we will discuss in this series of blog posts is metacognitive strategies. As we’ve seen, cognitive strategies are the basic mental techniques we use to think, study, and learn (such as chunking, rehearsal, elaboration, and organization). Taking it to the next level, metacognitive strategies involve “thinking about thinking.” …