Nathan Belcher, Ed.D.

As a teacher, how do you know your students are learning?

Here’s how to effectively to organize and use high-impact types of practice to learn more quickly.

The foundational idea for this philosophy of learning and education is that all humans can learn. Humans organize sets of knowledge and...

When you are in the advanced stage, use this guide to structure your learning.

A full course organization for AP Physics C.

As you progress past being a beginner, how do you continue to learn?

When you are in the beginning stage of learning, use this guide to structure your learning.

A detailed course document for an Accelerated Physics course.

This brief guide helps science teachers design instruction for maximum learning. How does a teacher organize instruction to maximize...

Use this Guide to Break Through the Plateau and Maximize Your Ability

Use the power of mental models to increase the progress of your learning goals.

This system shows you how to earn the trust of your readers so they can focus on the ideas you present

This post describes the past and future course plans for AP Physics C: Mechanics and Electricity and Magnetism.

Written and video sources on learning and practice.

Humans are model-making machines—one author suggests that instead of Homo sapiens, we should be called “Homo modelus” [1]. In order to...

If you are curious about how I structured my AP Physics C: Mechanics course in the Fall 2018 semester, please see the first document in...

One of the most challenging—yet rewarding—aspects of teaching is reviewing a course to make improvements for the following year. This...

One of the challenging parts of teaching is the expectation that a teacher should be proficient at every part of teaching. This is the...

After completing my dissertation research in the 2016-2017 school year, I used the results from the research to change the AP Physics C:...

One of the reasons I greatly appreciate Modeling Instruction is the underlying Modeling Theory of Cognition developed by Dr. David...