Go To Summer School Program Page The ultimate scaffolding is a staircase. Give your students a StepUP in learning. A big buzzword in education is scaffolding, which means to provide help and support for students who are struggling. We believe that the best scaffolding is really a solid staircase where students can take confident steps…
Ever since I was in teacher training classes in college many decades ago, there has been a raging debate about whether education should be Teacher-Centered or Student-Centered. There is some research both ways. But I would like to suggest that the answer is NEITHER. The Teacher-Centered Approach To arrive at this conclusion, we have to…
Research shows that students who are engaged in learning demonstrate greater success in school, which may in turn lead to better student attendance as well as fewer incidents of misbehavior. After thousands of classroom observations, we have witnessed many teachers lecturing for 20-30 minutes at a time, or reviewing problem after problem, and not allowing…