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What Really Matters in Play?
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Thunder, Kateri; Hattie, John; Almarode, John T.; Fisher, Douglas; Frey, Nancy; Demchak, Alisha – Theory Into Practice, 2023
This article seeks to reframe how early childhood educators think about their role in play by answering these questions: What really matters in play? How should we spend our time and energy planning, implementing, and building our expertise around play in early childhood teaching and learning? The answers reside in 5 big ideas from play research…
Descriptors: Play, Early Childhood Education, Teaching Methods, Language Acquisition
How Learning Works: A Playbook
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Almarode, John; Fisher, Douglas; Frey, Nancy – Corwin, 2021
The content, skills, and understandings students need to learn today are as diverse, complex, and multidimensional as the students in our classrooms. How can educators best create the learning experiences students need to truly learn? "How Learning Works: A Playbook" unpacks the science of how students learn and translates that knowledge…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Learning Experience, Context Effect, Classroom Environment
The Teacher Clarity Playbook: A Hands-On Guide to Creating Learning Intentions and Success Criteria for Organized, Effective Instruction. Corwin Literacy
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Fisher, Douglas; Frey, Nancy; Amador, Olivia; Assof, Joseph – Corwin, 2018
"On a clear day, you can learn forever"-- that's the adapted lyric you'll be happily humming once you've covered this playbook, because you will have mastered using learning intentions and success criteria, the twin engines of "Teacher Clarity." This template-filled guide shows you how to own it, do it, and live it--and your…
Descriptors: Teaching Guides, Teaching Methods, Expectation, Goal Orientation
Here-and-Then: Learning by Making Places with Digital Spatial Story Lines
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Hall, Rogers; Shapiro, Ben Rydal; Hostetler, Andrew; Lubbock, Helen; Owens, David; Daw, Colleen; Fisher, Douglas – Cognition and Instruction, 2020
In this article, we introduce and analyze learning experiences made possible by a teaching framework that we have developed and call "digital spatial story lines" (DSSLs). DSSLs offer a novel approach to learning on the move by engaging learners with related conceptual practices of archival curation, digital mapping, and the production…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Learning Experience, Teaching Methods, Maps