I had a great morning at the Optimist Club meeting this morning at Mugshots Coffee in Bloomington. Three students from Ridgeview Elementary got to talk about their award winning essays on engineering and the stock market. Erin Boltik, Rick Halley and I also got to talk about the expanding programming we are offering in Bloomington. It was fun to talk about our great program and to have such amazing students show off their talents with us! Thanks for inviting us Optimist Club!
5 Research-Backed Studying Techniques Teachers can guide students to avoid ineffective studying habits in favor of ones that will increase their learning outcomes. By Edward Kang, April 4, 2019 https://www.edutopia.org/article/5-research-backed-studying-techniques Too often people imagine that long hours of studying are the best path to being a model, straight-A student. Yet research shows that highly successful students actually spend less time studying than their peers do—they just study more effectively. Teachers can help all students learn to more effectively use the time they spend studying by sharing research-proven techniques. STUDY LESS, WITH GREATER INTENSITY In this era of social media and digital distractions, many students—and adults—do a lot of multitasking. But there is no such thing as successful multitasking, because much of the time spent is wasted on context switching, where the brain has to restart and refocus. Consider the formula “work accomplished
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