Tag: pedagogy

Fluency Should Feel Like Confidence, Not Pressure

For many students, the word fluency does not feel freeing. It feels like a stopwatch, or a worksheet full of facts they’re meant to know already. It feels like the awkward silence after a teacher asks a question and everyone else seems quicker. It feels like being exposed. That is a problem, because mathematical fluency is far too important to be associated with panic. Mathematical fluency matters deeply. Students need number facts, efficient strategies, and enough knowledge available that their working memory isn’t overloaded every time they meet a new idea. A student...

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Demystifying Explicit Instruction: A Valuable Tool in Education

There is a debate raging amongst educators that goes something like this. Explicit instruction or Inquiry based learning? This is an argument harming education in general for many reasons. The first being that we’ve set up a false dichotomy. There is a misconception in what explicit instruction actually means and needs clearing up! In the realm of education, strategies and methodologies are like a vast landscape, offering diverse approaches to help students learn. However, within this landscape, misconceptions often lurk, waiting to be debunked. One such misconception is the conflation...

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