How to Make Learning Actually Stick: The 4 Phases of Great Teaching, Killing Group-Work Freeloading, and Using AI the Right Way with Douglas Fisher
Most teachers plan the whole year in advance. Then they teach it exactly as planned, no matter what the students in front of them are actually doing.
Douglas Fisher says that's backwards. Plan backwards, teach forward.
In this episode, Doug breaks down the four phases of learning he and his colleagues built out of an old reading theory called the gradual release of responsibility. It started in reading comprehension. Then Doug realized the same thing happened to him as a competitive swimmer, getting pulled out of the pool by an Olympic coach who fixed the angle of his hand.
Turns out the way…
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