I wonder how many of us can think back to a time when our teacher called a student to the board who knew (or thought they knew) a solution to a problem, to draw/write it out so the rest of us could see the right way to do it? I’m betting a strong majority of […]

Reading the section on our society’s general collapse of creativity in Dr. Jesse Martin’s book, “Learning and Education” was albeit, somewhat disheartening; and while I can definitively see that the high value placed on and subsequent rise in conformity has systematically diminished creativity (Martin, 2016), the optimist in me wants to believe that as a society […]

So – we are a few classes into our Evidence-Based Learning exploration and a general thesis that continues to surface, at least to me, is the idea of focusing our teaching methods and classroom experience towards a more interactive, peer-to-peer engagement style rather than traditional methods of lecture. As the effectiveness of this pedagogy becomes […]

Looking back on the courses I’ve taken throughout my University career, I started to notice an interesting trend. The courses in which I finished with a grade of A or higher all had one of two things in common: I was either very interested in the class material, or the instructor was incredibly funny. I would say it is rational […]