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Reflective Practice: SKAP – Skills, Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Blog | Feb 11, 2016

"Reflective Practice" involves reflecting and debriefing on an experience as part of the learning experience. Instruction or experience alone may not lead to true learning; reflective practice is an essential ingredient to deep understanding and increases the probability of application and transfer of learning.


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How Accurate are Your Assumptions about the Students in Your Class?

Blog | Feb 04, 2016

Knowing your students - their prior knowledge, their interest in the topic - makes for better teaching and learning.
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Innovative Ways to Prevent Conflict in Student Groups

Blog | Nov 12, 2015

Help your students learn constructive ways to solve the inevitable conflicts that arise when working in student groups.
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Progress Report Journal

Blog | Oct 22, 2015

Asking students to complete a short report on their progress mid-semester encourages them to reflect on their learning strategies and make improvements.
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Quizzing: The Single Best Teaching Tip

Blog | Oct 15, 2015

Frequent quizzes give students the opportunity to continually review what they are learning. This process helps move the new knowledge into long-term memory.
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Get Early Semester Feedback From Your Students

Blog | Oct 01, 2015

Early Semester Feedback is a great way to see how your students are experiencing your course and increase student engagement.
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Use Elements of Cognitive Constructivism to Design Effective Learning Activities

Blog | Apr 21, 2015

Learning activities become more effective when we include four major elements in the design of the activity: activation of prior knowledge; surprise; opportunity to apply and evaluate the new knowledge; and reflection.
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Improving Student Learning with (Almost) No Grading

Blog | Apr 01, 2015

Strategies allowing students to know what they know (as well as what they don't know) and those that help students become appropriately self-confident are linked to improved student learning. Here are three strategies that may assist our students in becoming better learners while not burying us in grading.
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