tee1962 Reagan's List: Best Practice

• or says, is to "maximize the likelihood that students will get the pleasurable rush that comes from successful thought.
• So the challenge for a teacher is to find that sweet spot of mental difficulty, and to find it simultaneously for 25 students, each with a different level of preparation.
• Rather, we remember what we think about, and that can have non-obvious consequences. During frog dissection, are students thinking about anatomy or that they find it gross?
• One way to help ensure that students think of content is to view teaching in terms of a story structure.
• Good teachers design lessons in which students unavoidably think about the meaning or central point.
• People differ in their abilities and in their interests, but there is no evidence for differences in learning styles.
• The secret to getting smarter is really not a big secret: Engage in intellectual activities. Read the newspaper, watch informative documentaries, find well-written books that make intellectual content engaging. Perhaps most important; Watch less television. It's rarely enriching, and it's an enormous time-sink.

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