“When you “lose yourself” inside the world of a fictional character while reading a story, you may actually end up changing your… — Terry Marselle Education 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 Economic growth 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… — Terry Marselle Poetry 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 Anxiety 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
“After twenty years of research, Willingham announced that he had arrived at the conclusion that critical thinking cannot be taught. That” — Terry Marselle Critical thinking 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 Children 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… — Terry Marselle Children 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… — Terry Marselle Critical thinking 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 Common core 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… — Terry Marselle Fictional character 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.”… — Terry Marselle Common core Copy Share Image
“tests are constructed and normed on native English speakers and may not provide valid inferences about the achievement of English Language Learners.… — Terry Marselle English language Copy Share Image
“Common Core math standards seem unaware that children are not miniaturized adults, who are absolutely incapable of certain kinds of cognition. For… — Terry Marselle Abstract thinking Copy Share Image
“Challenging the Research Base of the Common Core State Standards A Historical Reanalysis of Text Complexity By” — Terry Marselle Common core Copy Share Image
“Can critical thinking actually be taught? Decades of cognitive research point to a disappointing answer: not really. People who have sought to… — Terry Marselle Critical thinking 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 Education Copy Share Image
“The Common Core was written conceptually backwards. The” — Terry Marselle Common core 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 Common core 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 Joy Copy Share Image
“In his TED Talk, entitled The Decline of Play and the Rise of Mental Disorders, he will open your eyes in several… — Terry Marselle Anxiety depression Copy Share Image
“Brain research tells us that when the fun stops, learning often stops too. Most” — Terry Marselle Education 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
“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 Mathematics 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 Science Copy Share Image
