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The idea of this project was born when we tried to improve students’ learning. In all our schools we noticed that a large fraction of our students regardless of background, lacked confidence in their own academic performance, had problem to focus their attention and gave up as soon as some resistance occurred and therefore had very limited academic success. We wanted to find a way to teach our students to overcome these obstacles. Pedagogical research has shown that the highest impact factor on school learning is the quality of the teacher and what the teacher does in the classroom (these factors having much higher impact than variables such as class size, homework, etc). Furthermore here is strong evidence that great teachers are made not born; this means there is great scope for improving learning by adopting the most effective classroom techniques. The US Education Endowment Foundation in reviewing empirical studies found that feedback from teachers to students ...
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