Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. On a Thursday afternoon in February, I watched my students at the whiteboard. Gaby was drawing a ...

Active and Collaborative Learning Strategies The classic: think-pair-share Think-pair-share (TPS) is the black dress of active learning: a highly flexible tool that can take as little or as much time ...

Who are you as a teacher? Dr. Johnston's "Introduction to Secondary Teaching" builds from that question outward. He weaves ...

Active learning engages students in purposeful tasks that promote analysis, collaboration, and reflection. In online courses, it transforms learning from passive content delivery to active ...

"Active learning" is a general term that describes any time that students get to learn something by performing an activity in class—such as answering a poll question, think-pair-sharing, working in ...

We are often so fixated on online learning’s shortcomings that we slight its unique advantages. Students can have anytime, anywhere access to class materials. We can make a wealth of primary sources ...

A new working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research finds that students performed substantially worse, on average, on standardized course assessments at the end of the COVID-19 ...

Mention a college classroom, and most people picture a big hall packed with students listening to a professor lecture. It’s a tried-and-true way of teaching, but is it the best for student learning?

Many of the concerns listed on this webpage use technology to address problems that may arise when building in active learning. Here you will also find additional resources to help facilitate teaching ...

While it might be tempting to view “active learning” as another educational buzzword, a large body of research demonstrates that active and collaborative classrooms produce deeper and more ...