Youki Terada

4 weeks ago | edutopia.org | Youki Terada |Paige Tutt

Veteran teachers are no strangers to the disruptions caused by new technologies. AI is the latest in a long line of tools—from calculators to search engines to smartphones and YouTube—that prompt educators to wonder whether students are still engaged in the kind of deep learning that fosters academic growth. While a healthy dose of skepticism is warranted—meaningful tech integration must always emerge from sound instructional design—there’s good reason to lean in.

1 month ago | porvir.org | Youki Terada

Aprender a administrar uma sala cheia de crianças exige tempo e paciência. Professores no início de carreira, compreensivelmente, tendem a focar no controle do comportamento e na definição de regras, enquanto os professores experientes desenvolvem uma compreensão mais abrangente da gestão de sala de aula e sua complexidade. Esses são os achados de um estudo das pesquisadoras Rebekka Stahnke (Universidade Técnica de Dortmund, na Alemanha) e Sigrid Blömeke (Universidade de Oslo, na Noruega).

2 months ago | edutopia.org | Youki Terada

Learning how to manage a classroom full of kids takes time and patience. Novice teachers, understandably, “tend to focus on behavioral management (e.g., controlling student behavior and establishing rules),” while expert teachers have developed a “more comprehensive understanding of classroom management and its complexity,” researchers explain in a 2021 study.

Mar 21, 2025 | edutopia.org | Youki Terada

Terada: Sometimes we forget about that framing when we give feedback to adolescents. In your book you referenced a study that scanned the brains of teenagers when they were being nagged at by their parents. Yeager: That’s a beautiful study. The researchers asked a very simple question that I’m amazed no one asked before: “What happens in the teenage brain when your mom is nagging you?”So they had moms pre-record themselves completing the sentence, “What bothers me about you is . .

Mar 7, 2025 | edutopia.org | Youki Terada |Stephen Merrill

ResearchWhen students engage multiple senses to learn—drawing or acting out a concept, for example—they’re more likely to remember and develop a deeper understanding of the material, a large body of research shows. By Youki Terada, Stephen MerrillIt might seem like a scene from a wildlife documentary, but turning students loose to stride and hop around the classroom pretending to be lions, and then gazelles, is a powerful lesson on the differences between predators and prey.