Is your teaching approach equipped to cater to every student’s needs?
It is sometimes “not the curriculum itself that poses a challenge, but something within the [learner] that is not up to the learning challenge” (Bailey and Pransky, 2014)
I have spent the last decade understanding cognitive science to the point where I have a very secure grasp of how learning happens. However, I now believe that knowing about working memory is not enough for teachers to be successful.
Teachers must have a secure overview of the students that are in front of them, and have a firm grasp of what they already know, where they need to get to, by when, and how best to achieve this.
Once the above is ascertained, the final ‘secret sauce’ of any great teacher is knowing what intervention to deploy at a specific time for an individual.
