REASONS THOUSANDS OF EDUCATORS & OTHER PROFESSIONALS USE S.M.A.R.T.S.
Educators and businesses across America use S.M.A.R.T.S. in their classrooms because the methods:
- Have been proven effective through formal studies provided by universities and research grants.
- Are validated, practical, common sense techniques.
- Can be used with multiple ability levels within the same classroom.
- Can be used with all ages.
- Can be used with all subject matter, educational, technical, or other informational materials.
- Improve learning, responsibility, behavior and attitude.
- Create a relaxed, unpressured, yet controlled teaching atmosphere.
- Motivate people to want to learn!
- Teach students to …listen…follow directions…and proof their work, plus the strategies improve reading… writing… calculation… understanding… and reasoning.
- Help to form life-long habits of success, team work and rational decision making.
- Work with students who have learning differences, attention deficit disorder, or behavioral problems, as well as with gifted students and students in a regular classroom setting – elementary through college.
- Can be used for any regular content or subject area, or for drug, alcohol, HIV and self-esteem curriculum.
- Prepare students for state mandated exit exams and college entrance exams.
- Allow teachers to be the best they can be, and students to be better than they want to be!