Two weeks ago, our weekly digest featured 5 resources addressing quality homework assignments. This week, we take the homework discussion one step further: Once you’ve assigned a quality homework assignment, what in the world do you do with it? ...
A Few Quick Tips for the Overwhelmed Educator
I want to take a step back now. Scientists and instructors desperately need to take a moment, pause, and listen to each other. We started this blog by highlighting this problem, but let’s take a look at how far we’ve come. Here’s a mini-synthesis of the top 10 ...
GUEST POST: Rethinking Teacher Training -- How Mathematics and Education Departments Can Help
What can Mathematics and Education Departments do to help teachers be prepared to teach well as soon as they start working in the classroom? In my previous post, I suggested that teachers should be certified into one of three streams (Primary, Junior and ...
Weekly Digest #6: An Introduction to Retrieval Practice
We were recently asked by History teacher Carl Newman @carlnewman9526 if we could provide some good reads on retrieval practice, “for teachers new to the concept”. That was one request we could easily fulfill! ...
I'm a Teacher Who Loves Quizzing: But Where Should the Quiz Questions Go?
When I first started teaching at UMass Lowell 3 years ago, I didn’t know much about teaching. One thing I did know, though, was that my lectures were going to involve a lot of quizzing. I started off with two sections of ...
GUEST POST: Spacing in Teaching Practice
Like many teachers, I have become intrigued by the idea that simply by changing the gap between two or more learning activities such as explanations or revision, I can help my students do better - the so-called ‘spacing effect’. What wonderful thing is this ...