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 ...

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 ...

As educators, guidance counselors and mentors, one of our most important responsibilities is to guide and empower students with frequent feedback that enhances their learning experience and sets them ...

This is the first part of a two-part story about changing classroom culture. Read part two to learn what change this teacher made to help students value growth over grades. Over winter break in 2015, ...

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 ...

In our experience, peer-feedback or peer-review exercises offer a distinct opportunity in the classroom: students can benefit from both giving and receiving written input from others in all ...

Recently, a group of elementary students from Henry County Schools, near Atlanta, engaged “community experts” in a round of feedback conversations while working on an authentic task. The driving ...

For many instructors, we are lucky enough to teach the same courses more than once. As we do so, we start to identify common student patterns and which portions of the course or assignments are ...

The art of writing, invented roughly 5,000 years ago, represents a blip in human history. It’s younger than agriculture, music, and construction. And as recently as the Revolutionary War, a majority ...