Success Starters to Accelerate Learning

According to the author of Learning in the Fast Lane, Suzy Pepper Rollins, the trouble with using pre-teaching as a technique to fill in learning gaps with academically vulnerable students is that it typically involves drill and kill of basic skills (boring!) or focuses on information that is disconnected from the new learning (who cares?). Success Starters fill in missing pre-requisite skills and prior knowledge in a way that sparks curiosity, generates thinking, and helps students see the relevance in the new learning.

To hear more about Success Starters, watch to this quick presentation, embedded below.