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One of the most robust backward design models developed for higher education is L. Dee Fink’s integrated course design. Fink outlines a streamlined process for designing academic courses, divided into ...
This document presents a set of classroom assessment principles intended as a resource for practitioners, especially school leaders and district and state policymakers. Together these principles ...
Implementing inclusive teaching strategies in your classroom does not require huge changes or full course redesigns. Nor does inclusive teaching demand the abandonment of favorite classroom techniques ...
Children learn more and are more likely to stay in school if they are first taught in a language that they speak and understand. Yet, an estimated 37 percent of students in low- and middle-income ...
Learning a new language can be daunting, especially if you don't think you have the skill for it. But polygot Lýdia Machová says the secret is in the process of learning itself.
SACHIKO YASUDA, Toward a Framework for Linking Linguistic Knowledge and Writing Expertise: Interplay Between SFL-Based Genre Pedagogy and Task-Based Language Teaching, TESOL Quarterly, Vol. 51, No. 3, ...
The effect of variability on learning is recognized in many fields: learning is harder when input is variable, but variability leads to better generalization of the knowledge we learned. In this ...
It’s clear that we need to observe the Chicago Principles of free expression if we are to maintain our universities as places for learning.