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Michael Zwaagstra: Useless Classroom Fads Turn Students Into Guinea Pigs

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Michael Zwaagstra: Useless Classroom Fads Turn Students Into Guinea Pigs
Teachers are being forced to implement strategies that sound good in theory but lack evidence behind them, writes Michael Zwaagstra. Shutterstock
Michael Zwaagstra
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Does your classroom promote a growth mindset? Are you sufficiently “learner-centred” and do you take your students’ individual learning styles into account?

Michael Zwaagstra
Michael Zwaagstra
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Michael Zwaagstra is a public high school teacher and a senior fellow with the Fraser Institute. He is the author of “A Sage on the Stage: Common Sense Reflections on Teaching and Learning.”
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