“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
“Something the Common Core gets wrong from the very beginning: the fact that factual knowledge must precede any skills As” — Terry Marselle Common core 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
“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
“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
“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 Art form 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 Art 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 Common core 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
“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
“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 negative impact chronic absenteeism has on school success is increased because students who are chronically absent in one year are often… — Terry Marselle Education 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
“The promoters of the standards claim they are based in research. They are not. There is no convincing research, for example, showing… — Terry Marselle Education 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 Mathematics 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
“quantitative evidence that teaching children to read from age five is not likely to make that child any more successful at reading… — Terry Marselle Children Copy Share Image
“Fluency CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.4: Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding. *author’s note – This is an amazingly blunt statement as well as an… — Terry Marselle Books 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 Common core Copy Share Image
“We tend to teach comprehension as a series of “reading strategies” that can be practiced and mastered. Unfortunately it really doesn’t work… — Terry Marselle Books Copy Share Image
“If one of the goals in reading instruction is to develop a love of reading, strategies instruction is not merely unhelpful, but… — Terry Marselle Goals 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
“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
