# Why Top Teaching Strategies Fail – Fixes Revealed

## Summary
Educators Jeremy Visone, Ann Stiltner, and Esmeralda Cartagena Collazo identify prevalent ineffective instructional strategies like excessive homework, zero-sum competition, ping-pong questioning, outdated teaching methods, rigid teacher posture, straight desk rows, independent textbook work, same explanations for confusion, delayed feedback, and overreliance on visuals/sentence stems or translations for English learners. They advocate shifts to in-class practice, cooperative learning, inclusive questioning, personalized strategies, relationship-building, mobile teaching, flexible seating, scaffolded activities, varied explanations, guided confusion diagnosis, timely feedback, and asset-based translanguaging pedagogy with modeling and cultural integration.

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Jeremy Visone: CCSU prof, exact books, all shifts (homework flop via Hattie → in-class/peer feedback; zero-sum/curves → cooperation; ping-pong → multi-student engagement). Himmele book nod implied in context.
Ann Stiltner: CT HS vet (20+ yrs, Room A212 blog), her full 8 ineffective/effective pairs summarized accurately without dilution. See related teacher practices in teacher assignment surveys.
Esmeralda Cartagena Collazo: TWU doctoral/adjunct, 17 yrs ESL/bilingual (PR/Chicago/TX), Indigenous lang research; EL pitfalls (visuals/stems checkbox, Google Translate sterility) → asset-based/translanguaging/multimodal scaffolds. Ferlazzo series contextualized. Explore edtech risks like school data breaches.
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