Educators are well-trained professionals. Preparation programs and ongoing professional development ensure skills like instructional planning, assessment, data use, classroom management, technology integration, and culturally responsive teaching are firmly in place so that all learners have the opportunity to progress and succeed…
Today I want to share with you a framework that I use to talk to students about their exam performance. This framework can be applied to any situation in which a person is being assessed on the spot.
As AI and social media become, somehow, even more ubiquitous, I find myself having more and more conversations about critical thinking. The ability to think critically remains as relevant as ever, so here is re-post from 2019 examining what critical thinking is and whether it can be taught or improved.
One of my approaches to teaching (and to work in general) is to impose organization and structure for my students. It helps to decrease uncertainties, but it also makes tackling tasks more efficient and manageable…
News and media headlines seem to be filled with hope and dread these days, with fast-spreading articles with bold claims of new research that proves a miraculous outcome of a new treatment or an increased change in harm linked to …
What do you do when you get a random new physiological symptom? The study I’m reviewing today looks specifically at how short pieces of information impact our confidence in our knowledge and our accuracy…
