Student Learning

How students learn and how they apply what they learn are goals every teacher should implement in their classrooms. One of the first steps towards that goal is understanding what the student already knows and using that knowledge to structure their development.

Using Classroom Data

Effective feedback is a great way for teachers to use collected data in order to improve student learning.

Student Thinking

Teachers should understand students' preconceptions before they begin instruction on a new topic.

Learning & Memory

Learning Styles: This journal article explores learning style preferences (e.g., visual or auditory) and instructional methods.
Brain Function and Learning: Match your instruction to the various levels of maturity in your class.
"The Adolescent Brain: Learning, Reasoning and Decision Making": This book examines how the adolescent brain develops and this development impacts the young person.
Learning & Memory: Learn more about these closely related concepts.

Increasing Knowledge

Practice for Knowledge Acquisition (Not Drill and Kill): Researchers who have investigated expert and novice performance have uncovered important distinctions between deliberate practice and other activities, such as work, play and rote repetition.
Closing the Achievement Gap: Could a 15-minute gap intervention boost ethnic-minority student achievement?
Drawing Students In: Using cyber-games to boost learning.
Improving learning: Cognitive science has taught us a lot about how humans learn. Now computer-based learning programs are putting those principles into action and improving student gains.

Building Relationships

Improving Students' Relationships with Teachers to Provide Essential Supports for Learning: How a personal connection, frequent communication, and guidance and praise can improve a student's classroom behavior and academic performance.
Using Praise to Enhance Student Resilience and Learning Outcomes: Praise refers to constructive feedback given to students by teachers and others on specific academic products.
"Enhancing Relationships Between Children and Teachers": This book explains how teaching children involves more than knowing your subject and being able to maintain control of a class.

Also of Interest

Early Learning Guidelines: Educator Toolkit.
Modules for Teachers: Applications of Psychological Science to Teaching and Learning.
Psychology in Schools and Education.
Topics Related to Children.