Reflection helped students think more carefully about individual mistakes. But it also reduced how many new problems they attempted and how many new mistakes they could learn from.

This excerpt from our upcoming book, The ESL/ELL Teacher’s Survival Guide, highlights student reflection as a tool for assessing the learning of English-language learners. However, we’ve found these ...

Books have always played a powerful role in shaping human thought and progress. Long before the digital age introduced instant information and constant online updates, books served as one of the most ...

This week’s question is: How can we incorporate reflection in the classroom? I always feel so guilty when my students are quietly reflecting. As if the mere act of having students think to themselves ...

Keep your "nose to the grindstone" is the advice we often give as an essential ingredient of learning difficult tasks. An old joke captures the problem with the old bromide for success, "Keep your eye ...

Background: K–12 classrooms are experiencing a massive investment in computing technology. As we have reported in the blog post before, 50 percent of America’s classrooms appear to be at 1-to-1 with ...

Do you remember the first time you read a novel? Not many people do. However, for some, the first step is taken hesitantly — and it changes the course of their lives forever. Judging the Book by Its ...