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Research Bite #8: Professional Development & Cognitive Load
Research Bite #7: Attention contagion
Research Bite #6: The Dunning-Kruger Effect
Research Bite #4: Testing (Quizzing) Boosts Classroom Learning
Research Bite #3: A marked improvement?
Research Bite #2: Extrinsic Rewards and Intrinsic Motivation in Education
Research Bite #1: Why minimal guidance during instruction does not work
#76 When asking a tricky question, tell students not to write anything for 30 seconds
#75 Always Frame and Reframe when doing a Call and Respond
#74 Ask an impossible question to further check students' understanding
#73 When doing register ask students to say one word to describe how they are feeling
#72 After a Cold Call write the student's answer on the board
#71 Lower the content demands when introducing a new routine
#70 Ask students to write their name on their mini-whiteboards
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#69 Don't let students copy the questions in the Do Now
#68 Make groups explicitly random and change them reguraly
#67 Be careful with questions that have more then one correct answer
#66 Check students are listening to each other
#65 Make invisible steps visible
#64 If you wrote this, put your boards down
#63 Challenge students to think of a correct answer that no-one else will think of
#62 Plan your follow up question in advance
#61 Sometimes mini-whiteboards are not the best way to collect whole-class data
#60 Don't have the title and date on the board during a Do Now
#59 Stop saying the word "just"
#58 Use the 4-2 approach for independent work
#57 Don't give the correct answer until after your explanation
#56 Try these four different ways of going through the answers
#55 Hide your tell when calling upon students to explain their thinking
#54 Ask students not to say or write anything for 30 seconds
#53 Ask students to put their mini-whiteboards together
#52 Introduce checks for listening using non-subject content
#51 Try a new idea with one class, for one week
#50 When using multiple-choice questions, remove the options initially
#49 Play the "Does that make sense?" game
#48 Check for listening to see if your explanation is clear and concise