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I recently presented at the Derby College Showcase conference, whose theme was inclusion.
It was easy to place the value of visual communication in the theme of inclusion. I started off with two exercises to immerse the teachers into what it feels like ...
Attention all college students who are trying to finish your semester strong. Do you have a Red Bull in your hand right now? Are you sitting in the library until 2 AM and studying for that one final exam that everyone is dreading? If you are this person, I am sure you ...
Our job as teachers is to make ourselves irrelevant. At least, that's how I look at it.
I would be very happy with a student who walks away from class with the tools to continue learning without me. That's the goal—to create lifelong, self-sustaining ...
A recent series of conversations on social media centered around what makes feedback constructive prompted this post. In what follows, I will provide definitions for constructive positive and negative feedback and give a framework for feedback providers to use when giving feedback.
For a number of years now, I have been working to integrate concepts from the Science of Learning into my adult ESL classes. In this article, I would like to discuss practical steps that I have taken in my classes to help my students put Science of Learning into action ...
You’re a teacher of an elementary school mathematics class planning a lesson on addition. You’d like to incorporate concrete objects (“manipulatives”) into the lesson. You have a choice: ...
