{"id":1810,"date":"2018-10-07T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T10:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/?p=1810"},"modified":"2018-10-03T12:40:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T12:40:02","slug":"strategies-to-boost-student-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/2018\/10\/07\/strategies-to-boost-student-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategies to Boost Student Success"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Long-term memory is the goal in schools. Here are a few ideas to help foster that goal.<\/p>\n

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  1. Teach students how to explain their thinking to themselves and others: What are the key elements I should remember about this topic? Can I find tricks or rhymes or illustrations or key words that help me remember details? Can I look at this topic from a different angle or perspective?<\/li>\n
  2. Take brain breaks: A movement or conversation break of 2-4 minutes every half hour helps energize thinking and refreshes the brain. Let students move\/stretch within a small area and\/or talk with fellow students, sharing one important tidbit of information about the current topic being discussed.<\/li>\n
  3. Use K3: What do I already know? What do I need to know? What else do I want to know?<\/li>\n
  4. Think-Pair-Share: Can I teach what I learned to a friend, classmate or adult? When we can encapsulate ideas and share them in a thoughtful manner, we probably<\/em> understand them. We can also go back and fill-in the breaks in our thinking by rereading or revisiting the topic.<\/li>\n
  5. Create a survey or make a graph to explain the topic. The act of creating a visual will often help ‘see’ a topic or can show where we have holes in our learning.<\/li>\n
  6. Stay tuned for my next newsletter where I will address other ways to actively engage students.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Long-term memory is the goal in schools. Here are a few ideas to help foster that goal. Teach students how to explain their thinking to themselves and others: What are the key elements I should remember about this topic? Can I find tricks or rhymes or illustrations or key words that help me remember details?\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[300,20,21,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brain-based-learning","category-engaging-students","category-family","category-thinking-questioning-strategies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1810"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1852,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions\/1852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}