Many teachers have experienced the dreaded breakout room of silence - students not interacting with one another during remote small group discussions. If you haven’t, yet, then consider yourself lucky ...
What Are Small Group Discussions? Small Group Discussions (SGD) were initiated in Fall 2019 when the Brandeis Core was first implemented. During the Fall 2020 semester, more than 200 first year ...
Small-group discussions designed to help elementary students engage in conversations that promote critical analytic thinking, reasoning and deeper understanding of the content they read increased ...
WebCampus Discussions are a great way to foster learning and promote engagement and community in classes taught in all modalities. This page discusses why to use online discussions, and shares some ...
Constructive conversation, ideological diversity and self-regulation skills — this simple three-step strategy serves as the ...
Last March when classes were swiftly moved to the remote environment, many of us had little time to adapt. In hopes to engage our students in this new environment, we implemented tried and true active ...
In partnership with the Lindy Center for Civic Engagement, TLC's new series, Teaching the Whole Student, focuses on important dimensions of learning (social, emotional, somatic, etc.) that tend get ...
George Orwell once wrote that restating the obvious is the “first duty of intelligent people.” In that vein, allow us to restate the case for what may be literacy instruction’s richest but ...