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Critical Reading and the Importance of Questioning
At the start of the school year the media usually raises the issue about the increasing number of students who are failing to l...
What is Effective Teaching of Literacy?
Experts have been debating the best way to teach reading for over fifty years. In reality, there is no single method that will ...
What is Effective Teaching of Mathematics?
The old paradigm of balanced instruction focused on enabling children and teachers to achieve success at school. Today’s para...
Supporting English Language Learners
English language learners are a richly heterogeneous group. The paths they take to acquire a new language and to adjust to thei...
English Learners Program Design
English learners require instructional approaches that change as students develop greater proficiency and become independent le...
Raising Student Achievement Through Professional Development
Recent extensive research has highlighted the shortcomings of the one-off workshops that many school districts tend to provide ...
Mathematics as a Complex Problem-Solving Activity
Rather than basing mathematics learning and teaching on memorized rules for computation, teachers need to be guided by the ques...