I’m continuing to work my way through Williams & Jackson’s “Anticipation and Decision Making in Sports. It’s excellent but dense and technical –“I read it so you don’t have to”–so here are some takeaways from the very useful Chapter Five, by Christian Vater et al: “The Role of Peripheral Vision in Sports and Everyday Life.” Vater…
If you’ve read the Coach’s Guide to Teaching, you know how important perception is to decision-making, especially when a decision has to be made faster than about 5-6 hundreths of a second–which is how long it takes to think consciously. Basically a better athlete makes better decisions because his or hereyes are in the right place…
This past year TLAC’s reading team partnered with a group of Reading Reconsidered Curriculum teachers and leaders from across the country to study reading fluency. Fluency – as we share in our new book, The TLAC Guide to the Science of Reading – is an overlooked prerequisite to comprehension. It is defined, most simply, as “the…
We recently had our own bit of “back to school” on team TLAC. We have Content Development Meeting every Monday as a way of building our own knowledge and understanding of what makes great teaching and also so that we can build our capacity as facilitators. TLAC CAO and President Erica Woolway offered this reflection….
I’ve got 23 amazingly useful seconds of video to share with teachers starting the year and wanting to build positive, orderly, productive classroom habits. Our teacher here is Sarah Stackhouse, a third grade teacher at Nashville Classical Charter School in Nashville, TN. In the video we can see Sarah nail something we call the What To…
