The one who does the work...

does the learning.  While this is not a new approach (I think I first heard it from Harry Wong long ago), this is a nice blog post from Erin Whalen (on Alice Keeler’s site) explaining how we don’t help our students when we do for them.

Transfer of Learning

Larry Ferlazzo shares a brief video on how students can transfer learning and it is important.  Please click here for the link.

Rx for Learned Helplessness

Here are 17 steps to help you prevent or reduce learned helplessness in our students.  I liked the format of the Middle Web article- If, Then, So do this made for easy reading and an effective tool.  Please click here for the link.

How youth learn (Nate’s Great 8)

I first saw this video this morning in a blog post on reluctant learners.  When I went to see if on YouTube, I realized it’s been out for several years.  A nice brief (and to the point) video on what kids (really all of us) need to become effective learners.