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Scott Nancarrow

The Elite College Students Who Can't Read Books - The Atlantic - 0 views

  • students have become overwhelmed by the reading
  • Many students no longer arrive at college—even at highly selective, elite colleges—prepared to read books.
  • It’s not that they don’t want to do the reading. It’s that they don’t know how. Middle and high schools have stopped asking them to.
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  • “Every generation, at some point, discovers that students cannot read as well as they would like or as well as professors expect.”
  • students tell him up front that the reading load feels impossible. It’s not just the frenetic pace; they struggle to attend to small details while keeping track of the overall plot.
  • There are always students who “read insightfully and easily and write beautifully,” he said, “but they are now more exceptions.”
Scott Nancarrow

Social Skills for Kids with ADHD: Friendship Strategies That Work - 0 views

  • To demonstrate that people have a range of thoughts based on situational context, I use what I’ve dubbed the “Cringe to Clutch o’Meter” – a visual tool that helps improve perspective-taking in children.
Scott Nancarrow

A Summer Plan for Back-to-School Success: Organization Tips - 0 views

  • Week One
  • begin the school organizing/clean-out process by decluttering binders, folders, and notebooks
  • Week Two
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  • Have your kids write their assignments in their new planners and on a family calendar for all to see
  • Week Three
  • Empty out leftover school supplies from backpacks and desk drawers
  • Make a list of what you have and what you need, then take advantage of end-of-the-school-year sales.
  • Week Four
  • Organize your home’s designated homework spot
  • Week Eight-ish
  • restart routines around two weeks before the first day of school. That includes pushing up bedtime, setting back-to-school screen schedules, and practicing getting up and out the door on time in the morning.
  • Right Now
  • Take time now to create your summer calendar to feel more prepared. Add vacations, kids’ sports activities or summer camps, family reunions or parties, and any events you’re committed to attending.
  • Make sure to use this time to schedule the unscheduled!
  • Bonus tip: Involve your children in your activities and summer plans.
Scott Nancarrow

Improving Multiple-Choice Questions: A Thought-Provoking Pause |Education & Teacher Con... - 0 views

  • well-designed MCQs could offer us the good stuff (“simplicty”) without the bad stuff (“merely surface learning”)
  • easy strategies to improve the quality of MCQs
  • make the alternative answers plausible
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  • Because “memory is the residue of thought,” and this MCQ requires more thought, it will almost certainly result in more memory (a.k.a. “learning”).
  • to encourage our students to think more.Step 1: show the MCQ — but not the potential answers;Step 2: pause just a bit;Step 3: okay, NOW show the answers.In theory, students just might use that strategic pause to see if they can think of the answer on their own.
  • prompt students to think
  • Conclusion #1: the wait just a bit strategy worked
  • Conclusion #2: the benefit came from effortful thinking
  • Conclusion #3: the “make the alternative answers plausible” strategy still works.
  • If you want to have your students learn more from multiple-choice questions, build in a short pause between the question and the possible answers.And, encourage your students to think during that pause: what will the right answer be?The more thinking, the more learning.
Scott Nancarrow

Learning Disability Types w/ ADHD: Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, Dyscalculia - 0 views

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    Extremely clear (if simplified) overview of learning differences, including definitions and details of identification, treatment, interventions, and outcomes.
Jill Bergeron

Students Are Making a 'Surprising' Rebound From Pandemic Closures. But Some May Never C... - 0 views

  • Elementary and middle-school students have made up significant ground since pandemic school closings in 2020 — but they are nowhere close to being fully caught up, according to the first detailed national study of how much U.S. students are recovering.
  • Overall in math, a subject where learning loss has been greatest, students have made up about a third of what they lost. In reading, they have made up a quarter, according to the new analysis of standardized test score data led by researchers at Stanford and Harvard.
  • Still, the gap between students from rich and poor communities — already huge before the pandemic — has widened.
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  • because poor districts had lost more ground, their progress was not nearly enough to outpace wealthier districts, widening the gulf between them.
  • “We seemed to have lost the urgency in this crisis,” said Karyn Lewis, who has studied pandemic learning declines for NWEA, a research and student assessment group. “It is problematic for the average kid.
  • “But it’s an unevenly felt recovery,” Professor Reardon said, “so the worry there is that means inequality is getting baked in.”
  • When looking at data available in 15 states, researchers found that in a given district — poor or rich — children across backgrounds lost similar ground, but students from richer families recovered faster.
  • Even when schools offered interventions to help students catch up, lower-income families might have been less able to rearrange schedules or transportation to ensure their children attended. (This is one reason experts advise scheduling tutoring during the school day, not after.)
  • Take Massachusetts, which has some of the nation’s best math and reading scores, but wide inequality. The recovery there was led by wealthier districts. Test scores for students in poor districts have shown little improvement, and in some cases, kept falling, leaving Massachusetts with one of the largest increases in the achievement gap.
  • In states like Kentucky and Tennessee that have traditionally had more middling test scores, but with less inequality, poor students have recovered remarkably well.
Jill Bergeron

Students: AI is Part of Your World | Harvard Graduate School of Education - 0 views

  • “If anyone can dash off a paper written by AI, perhaps this will push classrooms to revive other ways of communicating knowledge, including project-based learning, Socratic seminars, writing papers with ChatGPT as a starting point where students take on the role of critical editor, and other assessment tools that aren’t so easily hacked,” like video projects and live-action play. “The fastest, cheapest way to ensure the work is done by the student is to use pencil and paper instead of typed papers.”
Scott Nancarrow

Mental health tools that can help middle schoolers get a better perspective | KQED - 0 views

  • Once you bring your child’s thoughts to the surface, teach them how to talk back to their inner critic.
  • The goal is to help them recognize when they’re thinking in extremes and then challenge the thought.
Scott Nancarrow

Behavior Report Card for Better School Performance with ADHD - 0 views

  • Daily report cards are among the most powerful evidence-based tools that educators have to encourage better behavior in students. A strong report card system has a few key elements that make or break its effectiveness.
Scott Nancarrow

Homework Frustration? After-School Help for Kids with ADHD - 0 views

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    Decent overview of common homework support strategies for parents. Good timing in advance of conferences!
Jill Bergeron

Resilience in a time of war: Tips for parents and teachers of middle school children - 0 views

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    "Resilience in a time of war: Tips for parents and teachers of middle school children"
Scott Nancarrow

Executive Functioning: A Teacher's Guide to Helping Students with ADHD - 0 views

  • It is the responsibility of educators to be aware of executive functioning and to create environments that support all students.
  • Educators should also teach executive functioning language to all classroom learners, not just those who show deficits. When educators assist students with identifying their executive functioning strengths and areas of need, they also teach them how to advocate for their own needs in the classroom and beyond.
  • Executive functioning comprises both the skills that involve thinking, or cognition, and skills that involve doing, or behavior. Here’s a breakdown of these skills and how some might look in the classroom:
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  • Educators should strive to create supportive atmospheres and equip their students with tools to independently express their areas of EF need. Educators can use what we call the “Four Tiers of Support” to set up this system in the classroom and beyond. They include: Teaching common EF language Identifying strengths and areas of need Setting up a classroom to support all students Teaching self-advocacy skills
Scott Nancarrow

Depression in Teens: Barriers to Mental Health Treatment for Adolescents - 0 views

  • the most common symptom of depression in teens is not sadness but irritability.
  • Experts urge caregivers to err on the side of caution and to seek professional guidance if they feel any concern about suicidality, or depression in general.
  • A psychologist, psychiatrist, or pediatrician should be able to differentiate typical teen moodiness from depression.
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  • “When a teen uses the word ‘fine,’ that is a major tip-off to inquire further,”
  • How To Help Teens Resistant to Treatment
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