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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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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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Five Guidelines for Teaching with Transfer in Mind
Blog | Oct 28, 2015
Transfer, the ability to apply previously-learned concepts and skills to a new context, is one of the most valued aspects of learning. Here are five guidelines for teaching that skill.
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Encourage Your Students to Adopt Successful Behaviors
Blog | Oct 08, 2015
Teach students the behaviors that will help them succeed, both in your classroom and in their lives: being passionate about the goal; working hard; getting really good at something; focusing; pushing yourself; serving others something of value; having a good idea; and persisting.
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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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Develop Expertise in Students by Creating Cognitive Apprenticeships
Blog | Apr 08, 2015
Learning in a discipline involves more than acquisition of content knowledge. Development of expertise requires students to develop skills in reasoning and strategies for solving disciplinary problems or applying disciplinary models to real-world applications. Fields with tradition of teaching through apprenticeships include trades and crafts dominated by skills and tasks that students can easily observe (e.g., building a cabinet, tailoring a piece of clothing). Academic disciplines present challenges because disciplinary strategies for reasoning and problem solving are cognitive strategies and are not readily observable. Nevertheless, students must acquire these skills to develop advanced skills in the discipline.
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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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