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Use Doodling as a Memory Strategy with Sketchnotes

by Susan Fitzell, M.Ed., CSP | Nov 29, 2022 | Education Articles, Teaching Strategies

As teachers, we often assume that doodling in class is “bad,” indicating that students aren’t listening to the material being taught. However, for visual learners, doodling can be that extra nudge that helps them in memorizing the material. Doodling as a memory...

Teaching Strategies: Using Video as a Teaching Tool

by Susan Fitzell, M.Ed., CSP | Dec 13, 2017 | Education Articles, Teaching Strategies

Many teachers avoid teaching strategies that include using online video in the classroom due to the hassle. Accessing the content can be difficult — a website may be blocked, streaming video may stutter and start buffering, and downloading a video file may not be any...

Tell Me A Story: Two Fantastic Teaching Strategies to Increase Student Learning

by Susan Fitzell, M.Ed., CSP | Nov 6, 2017 | Education Articles, Teaching Strategies

Story Telling: Teaching Strategies to Increase and Reinforce Learning For some students, an effective way to reinforce something they have just learned is to have them place that element into a story. This gives them the opportunity to look at a concept from a...

Technology in Education – Content Curation for Higher-Level Critical Thinking

by Susan Fitzell, M.Ed., CSP | Jan 26, 2016 | Co-Teaching Models, Education Articles, Paraprofessionals, Response To Intervention, Teaching Strategies, The Homework Guru

Pinterest is an example of a content curation site that has become enormously popular with teachers. Pinterest users spend hours collecting ideas, resources, items of interest, nostalgia and so on and so forth. Despite the popularity of Pinterest and other online...

Technology in Education – Organizing Research and Digital Files with Evernote

by Susan Fitzell, M.Ed., CSP | Jan 20, 2016 | Co-Teaching Models, Education Articles, Paraprofessionals, Response To Intervention, Teaching Strategies, The Homework Guru

Using Evernote is like having an incredibly organized file cabinet with folders for every assignment, project, idea, interaction, or anything that you want to keep together in a safe place. Evernote is different than Dropbox in that Dropbox is like an external hard...

Use Doodling as a Memory Strategy with Sketchnotes

Teaching Strategies: Using Video as a Teaching Tool

Tell Me A Story: Two Fantastic Teaching Strategies to Increase Student Learning

Technology in Education – Content Curation for Higher-Level Critical Thinking

Technology in Education – Organizing Research and Digital Files with Evernote

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