Rick: A lot of parents and educators may be familiar with the phrase “mastery learning” but not have a clear idea what it means in practice. What is it exactly? Scott: My journey began in 2012 when I ...
When you begin creating a course, you want to design with the end in mind. The best way to approach this is to start by writing measurable course learning objectives. Course learning objectives are ...
What is game-oriented learning, what criteria must games follow to have true educational value and how to use them in your ...
The Center for Teaching Excellence and Innovation is pleased to offer Best Practices in University Teaching. The workshop will present pedagogical best practices used at Johns Hopkins and peer ...
Alexandra Overby is sleuthing the selfies she assigned to her Digital Photo 1 class during the first week of school this year at East High School here. Student A fluently describes the statement he is ...
Creating a course map is like planning a road trip—you start with your destination (learning outcomes) and chart the best route to get there (instruction, activities, and assessments). A ...
What is a Lesson Plan? An effective lesson plan demonstrates how a teacher creates objectives for his or her students and measures how those objectives are mastered. Creating a lesson plan begins with ...
Assessment of course quality, student learning, and professor effectiveness has become paramount in many of today’s universities and colleges. We seem always to strive for a better way to assess our ...
Poster presentation: View a poster (PDF) describing this project from the 2012 Symposium on Teaching and Learning. Final report: View Joan Sharp's final report (PDF) From the final report: "Student ...
One of the common misconceptions about inclusive teaching practices is that it excludes the use of tests, which for many instructors and subjects offer an efficient and clear measure of student ...
Learning goals and learning objectives are the intended outcomes of a learning activity. The terms are often used interchangeably, but you may consider goals to be more general and objectives to be ...
The failure of teachers and schools to follow the Early Child Care and Primary Education (ECCE) curriculum designed by the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC) would continue ...