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My neighbor sent me a link to the precision teaching people last year, but I never followed up. It's probably time.
Apparently students at the Morningside Academy in Seattle can gain more than two grade levels each year while adults can "advance two grade levels per month." (pdf file - I gather the school offers a money-back guarantee.)
starter articles:
Precision Teaching: Discoveries and Effects
Effective FluencyBuilding Design and Coaching for Classroom Programs Binder Riha Associates
Using Precision Teaching in a Homeschool Setting by Cynthia Riha
Joe Layng Believes Education is a Science - University of Chicago Magazine
book: The Morningside Model of Generative Instruction: What It Means to Leave No Child Behind
wholes, not parts: Martin Brooks and The Constructivist Classroom
whole math
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Catherine, it's wonderful that you're discussing PT. Here's a link to another resource that you and some readers might find useful: Among Professional Papers in Special Education there is a fine article by Carl Binder, Elizabeth Haughton, & Barbara Bateman entitled "Fluency: Achieving True Mastery in the Learning Process." It's a keeper.
Than you so much!
Please send anything else you've got!
There are a number of PT links that you can search:
www.celeration.org
www.precisionteachingresource.com
Google: Ben Bronz Academy and Fluency Factory
Another site which has the links to all, or at least close to all, of the PT related sites and teaching programs (including the ones in the previous comment), as well fluency-based curricular materials and the upcoming International Precision Teaching Conference is
http://precisionteaching.pbwiki.com
My daughter went to the Morningside Summer School and it was a very positive experience for her in making great progress in academic areas that the public school had been unable to assess and address adequately. To my understanding Morningside has never had to refund the tuition. We certainly felt no cause to ask for the money back.
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