Self-assessment and reflection is key to the forward movement of a student’s learning and potential achievement. The more able a student is to talk about his/her learning in a cognizant way, the ...

You posed some questions to me in our last post, Seeking and Keeping Balance, and they embodied some of the concepts in my life that I have actually been reflecting on. I feel like you have given me ...

Feedback is one of the most important aspects of teacher education, but how exactly it works in practice remains underexplored. Most studies focus on how teachers deliver lessons, while little ...

The Metropolitan School District of Decatur Township has been successfully using video in our teacher professional learning for more than seven years. According to our recently retired former ...

The Foundations, Reflections, and Methods for Effective Teaching (FRAME) program, formerly known as New Faculty Institute (NFI), supports faculty at all stages in the University of North Georgia’s ...

The principal’s next question was more probing. “Why did you leave your previous school?” “The school wanted me to be a mechanical, or rather, ‘robotic’ teacher,” was the candid reply. “I didn’t feel ...

Anne Guarnera recently received her PhD in Spanish at the University of Virginia. You can find her discussing teaching and learning on Twitter as @aguarnera and learn more about her work on her ...

Traditionally, students submit their work on an assignment, after which the teacher gives feedback on that work and assigns that student a grade. Every once in awhile, we build reflection into the ...

Research is reviewed in a rigorous manner, by expert peers. Yet teaching is often reviewed only or mostly by pedagogical non-experts: students. There’s also mounting evidence of bias in student ...