ALT Teachers, thank you. For inspiring lightbulb moments. For dreaming up new ways to connect. For making the whole class laugh – when you mean to and when you don’t. For the incredible lessons you plan and the unexpected lessons you teach on the fly. For saying just what your teacher friend needed to hear. For showing up for your school community on tough days, on energizing days and every day in between. For believing in every kid – always. Thank you.

ALT Students who studied a lesson and then wrote their own questions outperformed students who simply restudied the material by 33 percent on a follow-on test. Other research shows that students learn better when they are “trained to generate cognitively challenging questions.” Work with students to identify crucial themes or insights, and model how to write more complex, open-ended questions that start with “explain,” “why,” or “how.” Sources: Bugg & McDaniel, 2012; Ebersbach, Feierabend, & Nazari, 2020; Levin & Arnold, 2008