“But teaching students to ask that question, independent of subject matter knowledge, won’t do much good.” — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“Brain research tells us that when the fun stops, learning often stops too. Most” — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“I was struck by how out of sync the Common Core is with what I consider to be good teaching.” — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“Since the 1960s, the national “average” of U.S. students on international tests has been middling to poor at best. Yet, the nation… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“In Finland, children do not start formal instruction until grade 1 when they are 7. Pre-school and kindergarten are part of their… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“when you control for poverty, the students in the U.S. outperform nearly every nation across the globe on these same tests.” — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“When you “lose yourself” inside the world of a fictional character while reading a story, you may actually end up changing your… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“Standardized test passing rates are based on arbitrary and political decisions about how many students decision-makers want to fail.” — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“Yep. I’m forced to test my 1st graders on tests where they are expected to do a close reading of a passage… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“Since the vast majority of factors affecting test scores occur outside school, test scores are poor measures of school quality, teacher quality… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“Counting is something you could memorize. You could just say names, right? But it doesn’t mean you understand numbers,” she says. Carlsson-Paige… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“Common Core has basically eliminated kindergarten. Yes, you read that correctly. It has moved the start of formalized instruction from Grade 1… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“The truth is that when we scrub joy and comfort from the classroom, we distance our students from effective information processing and… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“Didactic instruction is teaching by telling, i.e. teacher presentation. In didactic instruction, the teacher directly tells the student what to believe and… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“secondary ELA (English Language Arts) teachers are keenly aware of what “close reading” and the ratio of what the fiction to non-fiction… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“Brain studies of low SES children have shown them to be less able to filter out irrelevant information in a learning situation.… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“On the international playing field, Connecticut students were at, or near, the top of the world in math, reading, and science. Quite… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“As any parent, teacher, or psychologist will tell you, learning is substantially impacted when anxiety and stress are present. (longer answer coming).… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“How Common Core pedagogy directly contradicts well researched tenets on how cognition works.” — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“A New Majority Low Income Students Now a Majority In the Nation’s Public Schools January, 2015 Click” — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“Even more so than learning to read, learning mathematics particularly requires that mastery of basic skills and knowledge occur first.” — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“Common Core is the debilitating effect of the de-emphasis on knowledge gathering for its own sake. That is, in favor of skill… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“Dr. James Milgram, an actual mathematician from Stanford University who was on the original Common Core math committee in the summer of… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“Once the writers of the Common Core arrived at what standards they concluded were needed to graduate from high school – and… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“The promoters of the standards claim they are based in research. They are not. There is no convincing research, for example, showing… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“The negative impact chronic absenteeism has on school success is increased because students who are chronically absent in one year are often… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“When you “lose yourself” inside the world of a fictional character while reading a story, you may actually end up changing your own behavior… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“Since the 1960s, the national “average” of U.S. students on international tests has been middling to poor at best. Yet, the nation experienced unprecedented… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“Some of the worst items in math suffer from forcing students to overanalyze process verses simply perform. In sports, are gymnasts rated on their… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“As any parent, teacher, or psychologist will tell you, learning is substantially impacted when anxiety and stress are present. (longer answer coming). Understanding” — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“Yep. I’m forced to test my 1st graders on tests where they are expected to do a close reading of a passage and answer… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“After twenty years of research, Willingham announced that he had arrived at the conclusion that critical thinking cannot be taught. That” — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“Brain studies of low SES children have shown them to be less able to filter out irrelevant information in a learning situation. Although this… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“The children who were taught in English-only classrooms or transitioned to English instruction before they demonstrated well-established oral language abilities in their own language… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“Thinking critically should be taught in the context of subject matter. The foregoing does not mean that teachers shouldn’t teach students to think critically—it… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“Common Core has basically eliminated kindergarten. Yes, you read that correctly. It has moved the start of formalized instruction from Grade 1 to kindergarten.… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“the researchers found that people who strongly identified with a fictional character who overcame obstacles to vote were significantly more likely to vote in… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
“Another problem we found relates to the pedagogical method used in the Gettysburg Address exemplar that the Common Core calls “cold reading.” This gives… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
