When we take the time to think about what we’ve learned, we learn much more effectively, according to a new report. In “Learning by Thinking: How Reflection Aids Performance,” researchers at HEC Paris ...

Reflecting on one's work can be instrumental to growth and improvement, but it's an activity that's often under utilized. Although it’s something of a buzz word, “metacognition” is a state of mind ...

Over the course of Lau’s teaching career at CU, which spans an MA in Spanish Literature and now a doctoral degree in Ethnic Studies, they have taught a range of courses including Contemporary African ...

Reflections on a year of writing, leading, and learning - and why thoughtfulness may be education's most essential discipline.

One of the things we have heard the most from professional school admissions representatives at recent conferences has been the importance of students learning to reflect. As Pre-Professional Advisors ...

Student reflection can be THE thing to really change the way we understand student learning. As we empower students to share their ideas about how and what they have taken away from different learning ...

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A little over 50 years ago, a student teacher in Minneapolis hit upon a novel idea to engage his eighth grade American history class in a unit on westward expansion. Don Rawitsch, with the help of two ...

STEM teachers can try this five-day project-based learning cycle to give students a meaningful experience on a short timeline ...

Keep your "nose to the grindstone" is the advice we often give as an essential ingredient of learning difficult tasks. An old joke captures the problem with the old bromide for success, "Keep your eye ...

More than 50 years after Don Rawitsch introduced Oregon Trail in his eighth grade class, the debate continues: Can games become a legitimate tool for learning? Proponents of game-based learning have ...