Here are a few popular strategies for introducing active learning into large classes: Skeletal notes: to help students actively follow a lecture, video, podcast, or peer presentation, have everyone ...

Feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or anxious about your work? How can you find the time to study, write papers, and do homework while also managing the other demands of your life? When you have an hour to ...

Active learning strategies engage students in the learning process, fostering deeper understanding and retention. By encouraging participation, collaboration, and critical thinking during classroom ...

After nearly two decades instructing both students and teachers, Jennifer Throndsen has identified three key tools to scaffold literacy instruction for developing readers: active reading, background ...

Bates has long provided comprehensive and innovative peer education and peer tutoring. In 2021, after some staff departures, we began an initiative to re-imagine our academic support programs and ...

A 2019 Gallup study that included 128 schools and more than 110,000 students found that student engagement and hope were significantly positively related to student academic achievement progress in ...

March 2020 was a time of urgent questions without immediate answers. At first, it felt a bit like the end of Poltergeist when that poor teenager returns from a date to find her house on the verge of ...

Peer review is a process by which students are asked to look at other students' work and provide feedback. While most commonly used for writing assignments, peer review can be used for any project or ...

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 ...