School leaders can create meaningful opportunities for teachers to grow through collaboration, reflection, and goal setting.

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 ...

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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 ...

The 5-Hour Rule encourages spending five hours a week on learning, reflection and experimentation. Here’s where it came from, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over a decade ago, the Carroll School leadership began mapping out a big-ideas course for all first-year students—a course with small sections, and with the professor serving also as academic advisor ...

Explore the ancient Chinese proverb 'Studying the past helps to understand the present' and uncover invaluable life lessons ...

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 ...

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 ...