Teaching strategies, classroom management, education reform, educational technology — if it has something to do with teaching, we’re talking about it. On the podcast, Gonzalez interviews educators, students, administrators and parents about the psychological and social dynamics of school, trade secrets, and other juicy things you’ll never learn in a textbook.
A podcast database about procrastination, run by the Procrastination Research Group (PRG). Their focus: “researching the breakdown in volitional action we commonly call procrastination. They seek to understand why we become our own worst enemy at times with needless, voluntary delay”. The research and site originates at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada), but represents contributions and research about procrastination from all over the world.
In this episode, Megan and Cindy talk about their massive research project at Washburn University investigating the effectiveness of an intervention to teach first-year college students effective study strategies. The Project is huge, but asks an important question: how can we teach students to utilize strategies that we know are effective on their own to improve learning and academic success. We know these strategies work, we just don’t know a whole lot about the best way to help students learn about them and then transfer the use of the strategies to their own studying.
