The must-have tool for all research-informed educators
The MBE Placemat
The Elementary Roadmap
Who is this for?
Middle and High School educators, although some aspects are applicable to Elementary educators
What topics are covered?
- Curriculum Design and Pedagogy
- Multiple Modalities
- Instruction
- Engagement and Motivation
- Spacing and Interleaving
- Formative Assessment
- Memory and Cognitive Load
- Feedback
- Learning Environment and Student Well-being
- Emotion and Cognition
- Minimizing classroom threats
- Balancing stress
- Combining joy and rigor
- Choice, play and down time
- Student Achievement and Lifelong Learning
- Executive Functioning
- Metacognition
- Resilience and Determination
Who is this for?
Elementary educators, although some aspects are applicable to Middle and High School educators
What topics are covered?
- Literacy
- Priming the young brain for reading
- Learning the code
- Building fluency
- Finding meaning
- Numeracy
- Priming the brain for numeracy
- Teaching the tools
- Building proficiency
- Cultivating mathematical creativity
- Curriculum Design and Pedagogy
- Prioritizing play, choice, and creativity
- Multiple Modalities
- Making learning meaningful
- Instruction for retention, engagement, and understanding
- Memory and Cognitive Load
- Spacing and Interleaving
- Feedback
- Learning Environment and Student Well-being
- Emotion and Cognition
- Minimizing classroom threats
- Balancing stress
- Combining joy and rigor
- Habits of Achievement and Lifelong Learning
- Executive Functioning
- Metacognition
- Promoting Academic Resilience
How can this tool help me?
The MBE Placemat and the Elementary Roadmap can help you…
- Set MBE-focused professional development goals for the school year
- Fill gaps in curriculum planning
- Design an action research project
- Actively apply your MBE knowledge into your classroom practice
How can I get it?
The only place where you can get the placemat, and the training to use it in your teaching practice, is at the virtual Science of Teaching and School Leadership Academy.