by Bettina Boyle | Aug 30, 2024 | news
Image by Rose Jaffe Colorado State University, made in collaboration with high school youth, Fort Collins, CO (source) “The confidence that comes from belonging helps you try new things that may be hard or scary on their own and nearly impossible without it.”...
by Bettina Boyle | Mar 15, 2019 | news, stories
Games, Chocolate and Collaboration: A Conversation with Jane Raycraft about collegiality and making learning enjoyable As a teacher, do you ever see students fearfully entering your classroom with pre-conceived notions of distress surrounding your discipline? Have you...
by Bettina Boyle | Mar 15, 2019 | events, news, stories
A Conversation with Andrea Actis on Risk, Vulnerability & Affect in Teaching & Learning Risk and Sharing Strange Memoirs This semester, Andrea Actis took a risk. She went into her 300-level English class and shared some deeply personal pieces of writing, or in...
by Bettina Boyle | Mar 14, 2019 | events, news, stories, workshops
Bloom and Knowledge as Foundational Do you ever feel that the interpretation of Bloom’s taxonomy in the form of a pyramid favours higher order thinking skills like critical thinking or creation of new knowledge over helping students learn and remember facts and...
by Bettina Boyle | Jan 9, 2019 | stories
It’s early December, it’s exam period and the air on campus is intense with last minute studying and test anxiety. Except perhaps for one classroom in Cedar… I enter the room to find 32 early childhood education students chatting and laughing in groups of four as they...
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