Teachers can use these research-based cognitive and behavioral cues to help students feel capable, focused, and ready to work ...

When students create a visual resource to scaffold problem-solving, they can approach independent work with more confidence ...

Teachers need to understand that young people can only think about a limited number of things at once – and new national teaching standards now require it ...

Modern classrooms are filled with the language of cognitive science. We talk about student engagement, working memory, attention, mindset, and cognitive load as if we can observe these things directly ...

Many education researchers spend a lot of time studying how students learn, but if their findings don’t make their way into the classroom, they are only so useful. For example, researchers have known ...