http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Susan+Kruger Education Susan Kruger Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=1226746&ca=Education Our first home as young newlyweds was a small bungalow built in 1942. We purchased the house in the month of August, many months before we discovered the drafty windows. As the Michigan winter rushed in, it literally rushed right through our house. Day after day. Month after month. Winter after... Education Susan Kruger Sun, 04 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=1192649&ca=Education A client of mine found a study tip posted on an educational website. In fact, it was featured as the “study skill of the day.” He wanted to know what I thought about it. It read: “Write the thing to study repeatedly on a sheet of paper 25-40 times.” Honestly? I find this appalling! It is appalling t... Education Susan Kruger Sun, 20 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=1162616&ca=Education "We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist, Using technologies that haven’t been invented, In order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet." - Karl Fisch, Educator and author of "Did You Know" When we grew up, the employment rate was fairly stable. Our greates... Education Susan Kruger Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=1146903&ca=Education Educators are under enormous pressure to have students perform well on standardized tests. Since standardized tests assess students’ mastery of state benchmarks, it is well known that the best way to improve scores is to provide clear instruction of those benchmarks. As a result, teachers and admin... Education Susan Kruger Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=1133801&ca=Education Two-thirds of students entering high school are not proficient readers! This is a crisis, but there is a simple piece of the puzzle to fix this problem. It would dramatically improve student performance! However, most of us don’t know anything about it. The problem is that we do not teach a COMP... Education Susan Kruger Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=1122076&ca=Education The more I learn about learning disabilities, the more I see that the “best practices” for educating students with learning disabilities are actually considered “best practices” for all learners. For example, math and reading interventions focus heavily on “hands-on” and “experiential” learning acti... Education Susan Kruger Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=1104737&ca=Education Last week, a friend was telling me about her work with a community initiative to help “at-risk” youth get better grades in school. Before I could stop myself, I blurted out, “Oooh…they need study skills!” She responded, “Well, we are focusing more on motivation,” and quickly continued with her stor... Education Susan Kruger Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=811415&ca=Education “I’d say only about 25% of my students are motivated. The rest don’t care about anything. They don’t respond to anything.” This is the concern I heard from a teacher, whom I will call Vivian, when she called during a recent “Ask the Author” session. Vivian teaches students with a very low socio-econ... Education Susan Kruger Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=830165&ca=Education Whether you teach students who are heading off to college in a few months or you have a child who is heading off to college in five years, there are a few study tips that can dramatically improve their odds of success. How do I know? I’ve lived this story. If you have not heard it before, the short... Education Susan Kruger Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=836713&ca=Education Critical-thinking and problem-solving skills are desperately needed by employers, but national and state curriculum standards are loaded so thick with *content* that there is little time to cover anything else. When I think about this, I always come back to a point made by educator Karl Fisch in his...