Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute have known that practice is essential for ...

(This is the fourth post in a eight-part series. You can see Part One here, Part Two here, and Part Three here.) The question of the week is: What do you think are the best one-to-three things a ...

Active learning puts students at the center of the learning process by encouraging them to engage, reflect, and apply what they’re learning in meaningful ways. Rather than passively receiving ...

Each day is unique. Any day can bring good times, difficult times, challenges, or opportunities. We may not have much influence over external events or life’s inevitable challenges, but we do have ...

Want to know how your class is going? Just ask your students! Gathering feedback throughout the semester provides you with multiple checks on the student experience and allows you to make adjustments ...

Teacher residency programs are transformative models for preparing educators for the K-12 teaching experience. These clinically-rich, immersive programs combine mentorship, year-long co-teaching in ...

Recently, I had the pleasure of attending the annual conference of the Association for Continuing Higher Education. This organization is dedicated to the success of students who don’t follow the ...

Self-reflection, at its simplest, means taking time to slow down and think about you and your experiences, as part of increasing your self-awareness, learning and growth. Self-reflection in leadership ...

Reflection helped students think more carefully about individual mistakes. But it also reduced how many new problems they attempted and how many new mistakes they could learn from.