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Should We Burn Books on Learning Styles?

by Susan Fitzell, M.Ed., CSP | Oct 5, 2018 | Administrators, Education Articles, Response To Intervention, Teaching Strategies

In 2017, the general scientific consensus was that learning styles may not exist because there is not enough evidence to prove that they do. Why is this? Mainly because there is very little evidence of anything related to learning and brain cognition. Research on the...

Assumptions Can Blind Us When Dealing With Behavior Problems

by Susan Fitzell, M.Ed., CSP | Oct 2, 2018 | Administrators, Education Articles, Paraprofessionals, Response To Intervention, Teaching Strategies, The Homework Guru

Often, students with special needs have trouble communicating how they’re feeling or if they have a problem that is affecting their ability to learn. This may often lead to behavior problems with those students. I recently had an experience that reminded me how...

Reciprocal Teaching – A Strategy to Improve Reading Comprehension

by Susan Fitzell, M.Ed., CSP | Sep 28, 2016 | Co-Teaching Models, Education Articles, Response To Intervention, Teaching Strategies

One of the best strategies to improve reading comprehension is reciprocal teaching, a teaching strategy involving discussion as well as using reading strategies (summarizing, question generating, clarifying, and predicting) to improve comprehension of text. Studies...

Nine Critical Steps to RTI

by Susan Fitzell, M.Ed., CSP | May 22, 2016 | Education Articles, Response To Intervention

1. Establish an RTI team made up of teacher leaders representing a cross section of staff. Buy-in comes when vocal teacher leaders are on board. 2. Identify students in need. 3. Identify the area of need. 4. Administration must support, expect, and fund...

Flexible Group Learning

by Susan Fitzell, M.Ed., CSP | May 22, 2016 | Co-Teaching Models, Education Articles, Response To Intervention, Teaching Strategies

A Dozen Surefire Tips on Flexible Grouping and Small Group Learning Group work is traditionally fraught with challenges. Will students do their fair share? Will they behave appropriately? Will learning be effective and efficient enough to meet the achievement...

Fitzell Acceleration Centers

by Susan Fitzell, M.Ed., CSP | May 22, 2016 | Education Articles, Response To Intervention, Teaching Strategies

Imagine a dynamic classroom learning environment where traditional lectures and lessons are enhanced by additional projects and activities, aligned to standards. The activities can allow students to: • apply what they are learning • reinforce lessons using different...

Should We Burn Books on Learning Styles?

Assumptions Can Blind Us When Dealing With Behavior Problems

Reciprocal Teaching – A Strategy to Improve Reading Comprehension

Nine Critical Steps to RTI

Flexible Group Learning

Fitzell Acceleration Centers

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