Metacognition is made up of two processes – monitoring and control. As Son (2025) notes, learning involves both of these processes. Accurate reflections are more likely to lead to appropriate behaviours, although this is not always guaranteed. If you know … Continued
Two truths and a lie is a commonly used ice breaker, in which everyone says two truths and a lie about themselves and the other people guess which is the lie. The following is a modification of an idea suggested … Continued
An important component of teaching spelling is identifying why students have made an error. After reading this headline “OpenAI urges students to use AI for learning, not answers”, I was interested to see if Chat GPT might be a useful … Continued
Dictation is a great tool for testing students’ retention of the spelling words they have been learning because if they can spell the words correctly in a situation of cognitive overload (remembering multiple words, forming and spacing letters and words … Continued
Lupo et al. (2019) examined whether easy or challenging versions of texts, when accompanied by different types of instructional support, improved adolescents’ reading comprehension. Two hundred and ninety-three ninth-grade students were provided with 12 weeks of intervention in which teachers … Continued