This excerpt from our upcoming book, The ESL/ELL Teacher’s Survival Guide, highlights student reflection as a tool for assessing the learning of English-language learners. However, we’ve found these ...

Active learning puts students at the center of the learning process by encouraging them to engage, reflect, and apply what they’re learning in meaningful ways. Rather than passively receiving ...

Engendering competence represents the fourth quadrant of Wlodkowski and Ginsberg’s Culturally Responsive Teaching framework. The authors define engendering competence as “creating an understanding ...

As faculty plan for experiential learning in a course, there is much to consider since this approach is quite different from what is involved in preparing traditional academic lectures. Experiential ...

The Experiential Learning Cycle or sometimes also called The Experiential Learning Model was developed in 1974 by Kolb. This model shows learning as a cyclic process of 1) concrete experience, 2) ...

Adult students re-enter education with professional knowledge, time constraints and often a need to see direct benefits from ...

In a country in which more than 60% of learners lag behind foundational mathematics concepts, Reflective Learning is transforming the way South Africa tackles education. Born from a deep understanding ...

This week’s question is: How can we incorporate reflection in the classroom? I always feel so guilty when my students are quietly reflecting. As if the mere act of having students think to themselves ...