Category: Featured
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7 Keys to Effective Feedback by Grant Wiggins
Full article available here. Excerpts below. Advice, evaluation, grades—none of these provide the descriptive information that students need to reach their goals. What is true feedback—and how can it improve learning? … Decades of education research support the idea that by teaching less and providing more feedback, we can produce greater learning (see Bransford, Brown, & Cocking, 2000; Hattie,…
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Why I Stopped Starting Class with Content—and What Happened Instead
Full article here. Excerpts below. Let me tell you something no one wants to admit: content is boring. There. I said it. It’s not that the ideas themselves aren’t important—it’s that we’ve turned teaching into a conveyor belt of information. Slide decks. Learning objectives. Case summaries. I did it for years, starting every session with…
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Colby, Bates, and Bowdoin Pedagogy Matters
Move to Learn: Leveraging brain-body connections to increase academic performance with Dr. Nyama McCarthy-Brown August 22, 2025, Bates College Includes: Light breakfast, lunch and reception snacks Register here Intellectual and somatic ways of knowing are intertwined. How can we leverage this connection to impact more significant learning? Many students today spend much of their time in a screen-dominant world.…
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How to Create a Syllabus
Advice Guide by Kevin Gannon, Chronicle of Higher Education Link to full article. Excerpts below. … The course syllabus is, in most cases, the first contact that students will have with both us and the course. As the cliché goes, we don’t get a second chance to make a first impression. The syllabus sets the…
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Improving the feedback given to students
Four big problems about feedback from education research by Sarah Hanusch, March 24, 2025 Full article linked here. Excerpts below. Feedback is one of the cornerstones of alternative grading systems, as we want our students to learn from feedback and apply it to other assignments, assessments or revisions. However, not all feedback is created equally, and…