As you can tell from reading this blog, our team has been furiously watching footage of online instruction. We’ve been inspired by the enthusiasm and humility of teachers as they take on sudden new challenges in the name of remote instruction. Last week we watched several teachers doing Retrieval Practice as part of their online lessons. …
Strengthening long-term memory with Retrieval Practice. Super busy at TLAC Towers this week so I barely have time to write, but we just cut this great clip of TLAC Fellow Samara Levy of Livingston Collegiate Academy High School in New Orleans that I kind of had to share. It shows Samara in the midst of her…
At a recent video review session, TLAC analyst John Costello edited a video of older clips that we suddenly saw in a new way. He wrote this reflection about what we noticed and why it was important (and useful): Recently, the TLAC team spent time screening videos that featured great teachers “winning back the margins.” That…
Every once in a while, you come across an example of a teacher using a technique in the classroom that captures almost everything you wanted to say about it–Why a teacher would use it. How. It’s a case study in how to apply a tool to advance learning and it pushes your understanding of the idea…
This beautiful clip of Achievement First’s Summer Payne Cold Calling her kindergarten students is a throw back. I think we shot it in 2010. For a couple of years it was a staple of our workshops. Somehow we haven’t used it in a while. But it’s still so wonderful. And quite influential- I still go to…