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Journeying Back to Joy in the Classroom

Faculty Focus

I was reviewing punctuation rules with my students, and I had to come to the climax of the lecture: semicolons! The first activity I tried in class was a pre-writing workshop, speed-dating-style. In my own experience, I have seen students gain greater confidence in their writing ability and in applying a critical lens to a problem.

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Journeying Back to Joy in the Classroom

Faculty Focus

I was reviewing punctuation rules with my students, and I had to come to the climax of the lecture: semicolons! The first activity I tried in class was a pre-writing workshop, speed-dating-style. In my own experience, I have seen students gain greater confidence in their writing ability and in applying a critical lens to a problem.

Lecturing 111
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The benefits of active learning

Dangerously Irrelevant

about half the teachers who responded said their [Massachusetts] districts had adopted scripted programs in math and writing – and 60 percent in phonics and spelling – which reduce a teacher’s autonomy in instruction. Strauss noted in her article that researcher R. Clarke Fowler found that . Related Posts.