Psychology Today interviews ATDP’s faculty director, Dr. Frank C. Worrell, about advanced learners in secondary education, common misconceptions, and ideas for best serving high-ability students.
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ATDP’s Faculty Director Frank C. Worrell comments on how revisions to standardized testing may affect the college-bound student. (Links to an external site.)
Read More →Inside this issue… Features This Week at ATDP: The Writing Process students meet trees, Environmental Science create ecosystems, and Cognitive Neuroscience students visit the Brain Imaging Center The ATDP Challenge Class Photos SD3200.4 The Writing Process SD3278 Environmental Science SD3281 Cognitive Neuroscience S1202 Campus Tour (Exploration) S1210 Lunchtime Juggling (Exploration) S1212 Cartooning (Exploration) S1218 Robotics […]
Read More →Welcome to week four of ATDP. This week, you’re carrying half the summer’s work on your shoulders, looking forward at the other half, and thinking, “How on Earth am I going to carry all of this weight?” Here’s the good part: once the reality of the task ahead settles in, you take a deep breath […]
Read More →… was a massive boost of self-confidence, actually. To be fair, I think I scared some of my students (yes, scared students, I mean you). Parts of my lesson plan were too aggressive, and other parts could have been meatier. Also, ATDP’s database went down while I was in the middle of teaching my class. […]
Read More →Wednesday Explorations for Parents, New in Summer 2010 ATDP parents have long reported how much they learn each summer as their children answer, “what did you learn in class today?” Topics addressed in that day’s learning give rise to many wonderful conversations. We all take joy in seeing parents’ faces as their children explain how […]
Read More →Learning from Experts at the Elementary Division Each expert teacher in ATDP’s Elementary Division works in tandem with an Instructional Associate, usually an advanced teaching credential candidate. Few, if any, credential programs provide their students with the opportunity to work within a classroom of students united in their passion for learning, with students arriving to […]
Read More →Anticipatory Socialization in the Elementary Classroom At Elementary Division, ATDP invites its students into the academic community through play, through romantic engagement. Researcher Susan Engle (2005) captures our goal and context perfectly when she describes children as: …budding experts who absorb information and ideas from experts within their culture, and who practice, amassing strategies, information, […]
Read More →Research has shown that successful math students use sophisticated thinking skills when they solve challenging math problems. These thinking skills, known as metacognition, include choosing how to solve problems based on their mathematical strengths and weaknesses, planning and monitoring the steps they use to solve a problem, and being aware of what they know and what […]
Read More →What happens to research findings? Are they used by anyone other than researchers seeking to conduct more research? At ATDP, researchers seek relevant knowledge and teachers evaluate its applicability with an eye toward potential classroom benefits. For example, over the past few years, Secondary Division Mathematics Instructors have worked to facilitate students’ metacognition, based on […]
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