Locked-out learners

By Adam Robbins2020-10-14T09:24:00

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How to get students back into learning

Some students put in no effort to avoid failure. Remote teaching and learning won’t have helped these locked-out learners. As they return to school, careful reintroduction and employment of strategies such as scaffolding and retrieval practice can help remotivate them. This article provides four steps and describes how to implement them to unlock learning for these students.

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