Instructional methods that actively engage students in the learning process through discussion and reflection.
Lecturing gets a bad reputation, but passive listening is the real culprit. Discover how to inject active cognitive checkpoints every eight minutes into any lecture.
The hardest work in the classroom should not be done by the teacher. Learn how to shift the cognitive burden so students do the analyzing, arguing, and building.
Think-Pair-Share is the most famous strategy in education, and the most frequently butchered. Here is how to fix the timing, accountability, and pairing dynamics.
Telling students to 'work in groups' produces social loafing, resentment, and noise. Here is how to engineer cooperative tasks with radical individual accountability.
