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Promoting Student Reflection Through Reflective Writing Tasks, Elena Taylor
Promoting Student Reflection Through Reflective Writing Tasks, Elena Taylor
Journal on Empowering Teaching Excellence
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Reflection is a necessary component of learning. Through reflective assignments and tasks, students are given opportunities to evaluate their learning and analyze strategies they use while acquiring and applying course material. Reflections also help students assess and think deeply about the information presented in class and thus better retain it. Through reflecting on their learning, students are also given the opportunity to formulate goals for future improvement. Reflective tasks can be implemented in any classroom, and writing is a powerful tool to do that. This article describes several writing tasks that …
Full Issue: Journal On Empowering Teaching Excellence, Volume 7, Issue 1, Spring 2023
Full Issue: Journal On Empowering Teaching Excellence, Volume 7, Issue 1, Spring 2023
Journal on Empowering Teaching Excellence
The full-length Spring 2023 issue (Volume 7, Issue 1) of the Journal on Empowering Teaching Excellence
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The Spring 2023 issue presents research and guidance on topics related to student self-reflection, participatory learning, and returning to the in-person learning following the COVID-19 pandemic. The first article takes a critical approach to understanding pedagogy with adult learners by involving students in the creation of course syllabi as a way to challenge ideologies related the roles of instructor and students. The second article blends research and narrative to explore how the experiences of …
Full Issue: Journal On Empowering Teaching Excellence, Volume 5, Issue 1, Spring 2021
Full Issue: Journal On Empowering Teaching Excellence, Volume 5, Issue 1, Spring 2021
Journal on Empowering Teaching Excellence
The full Spring 2021 issue (Volume 5, Issue 1) of the Journal on Empowering Teaching Excellence
Fa 2020 About This Issue: The Power In Slowing Down
Fa 2020 About This Issue: The Power In Slowing Down
Journal on Empowering Teaching Excellence
Whether it be videotaping, guided classroom conversations, lecture-based, or written, feedback is the backbone of educational excellence. We use it to mentor beginning undergraduates, writers, readers, explorers, and experimenters. And, if we are thoughtful, feedback becomes a loop by which we slow down learning, we engage reading, writing and exploring, and we collaborate our way to becoming better.