Instructors should take the time to ask themselves what they can do differently when students struggle on an assignment. If there are pain points in the courses they are teaching, and students ...

An Alamance County middle school teacher helped her students analyze texts to improove their reading comprehension.

Great teachers know how to improve myriad aspects of student writing: idea generation, organization, evidence marshaling, diction, grammar, and more. But even with tools and techniques in each of ...

Reflective teaching is an innovative paradigm but its benefits have not been fully tapped in Mauritius. Many well-intentioned teachers may be engaged in reflective teaching but not in a methodical way ...

The Reflection allows instructors to critically analyze the feedback given by the reviewer. In addition, the instructor should contemplate how the feedback might be used to enhance teaching and ...

At a writing retreat I attended last month, my writing coach Jen Louden said, “The benefit of writing is the growth that comes. Any benefit to others is just a bonus.” It was an off-handed utterance I ...

This week’s question is: How can we incorporate reflection in the classroom? When I was a community organizer, we used to say that without reflection, organizing was just a series of undigested ...

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 ...

A teaching statement, sometimes called a philosophy of teaching, is a public document for students, colleagues, supervisors, prospective employees, and review committees. Teaching statements are ...