format makes it a portable resource for teachers to reference quickly during the school day.
Schwartz’s A Quick Guide to Making Your Teaching Stick is a slender volume—easily read in one sitting. But its lessons demand a career of practice. For K-5 teachers drowning in curriculum demands, it offers a lifeline: fewer strategies, taught better, repeated often, remembered forever. format makes it a portable resource for teachers
Schwartz recommends writing this one sentence on a sticky note. Give it to three students before they leave the carpet. Have them chant it. Post it on the chart. Repeat it verbatim at the start of the next day’s share session. For K-5 teachers drowning in curriculum demands, it
In the context of education, this means that if students don't review and practice what they've learned, they're likely to forget a significant portion of it. This can be disheartening for teachers, especially if they've invested a lot of time and effort into planning and delivering a lesson. Have them chant it
For teaching to stick, students must approximate the skill with your scaffolding still present .
Children learn through—and often enjoy—the repetition of key concepts, which reinforces memory and mastery. Practical Workshop Strategies
In , Shanna Schwartz addresses a common classroom dilemma: the gap between a student "getting" a lesson in the moment and actually retaining that knowledge over time. Published by FirstHand (an imprint of Heinemann) in 2008, this book is a key entry in the Workshop Help Desk series edited by Lucy Calkins. Overview of "Stickiness"