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Does Tutoring Help Students? 2500 Studies Say “Yes”… Possibly.
Does Tutoring Help Students? 2500 Studies Say “Yes”… Possibly. 1000 535 martinp

At the beginning of this year, 2023, the U.K.-based Education Endowment Foundation published the results of a meta-study of more than 2,500 studies of what helps, (and what doesn’t really…

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How to increase what students remember
How to increase what students remember 1000 534 martinp

It’s no revelation that students forget pretty quickly the lesson of the day. Repetition, drilling, revision and testing are the traditional tools that teachers use to to try to limit…

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Primer: Practical Online Teaching Strategies to Overcome Unique Teaching Challenges
Primer: Practical Online Teaching Strategies to Overcome Unique Teaching Challenges 1200 798 martinp

In my experience, the majority of online teachers are guiding children and young people between the ages of 8 and 15, and so have access to many resources for curriculum,…

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Accent or intelligibility; which should you be teaching?
Accent or intelligibility; which should you be teaching? 786 343 martinp

At the end of September I attended the ELT Together 2021 webinar series hosted by Oxford University Press. Though I enjoyed almost all of the presentations, a few particularly stood…

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A brief introduction to Dr. Bloom and his eponymous taxonomy
A brief introduction to Dr. Bloom and his eponymous taxonomy 1000 667 martinp

In 1956, a research group led by educational psychologist Dr. Benjamin Bloom created a framework for classifying and describing learning objectives and outcomes. This taxonomy essentially mapped out the goals…

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