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...

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...

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...

Historical Context Prior to the mid-1800s, science and science education in the United States existed in an unstructured manner. However,...