Anderson believes that current national standards for K-12 science curriculum are outdated. He has developed a theory for science curriculum called learning progressions that takes an ...
In education, as in psychology, clarity matters. Yet in everyday conversations about teaching and learning, terms like learning theory and pedagogy are often used interchangeably. Phrases such as “We ...
Alexandra Overby is sleuthing the selfies she assigned to her Digital Photo 1 class during the first week of school this year at East High School here. Student A fluently describes the statement he is ...
As our world grows more interconnected, conversations about education are shifting to focus on identifying and cultivating the complex “21st-century” skills children will need to succeed amid global ...
A number of foundational skills contribute to students’ growth toward skilled reading. Among those is phonics knowledge, or knowledge of the relationship between alphabetic symbols in print and sounds ...
Social learning theory is really a combination of two other kinds of learning theories. On the one hand, there is the cognitive learning theory, which states that the learning of an individual is ...
The basis of social learning theory is simple: People learn by watching other people. We can learn from anyone—teachers, parents, siblings, peers, co-workers, YouTube influencers, athletes, and even ...