Reflecting on Teaching

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One way to advance the scholarship of teaching and learning is to reflect on the teaching processes one uses to foster learning. It is hoped that this wiki page will serve as a place to discuss ways to reflect on one's teaching.

Shoenberg Report on Undergraduate Education at WSU

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For Further Reading

Do Educators Rely On Scientific Evidence About Learning and the Brain to Inform Their Teaching Methods?

Research in neuroscience and the biological bases of behavior is literally exploding in new directions with the advent of promising new technologies and brain imaging techniques like fMRI. Neuroscientific evidence has the potential to provide a new vocabulary, and a new language, by which researchers and educators can converse. Unfortunately, the research literature is often ignored or unacknowledged, so educators may never realize that what they believe to be sound educational application may not actually be empirically supported by the research. (DD is a contributor to this page)

Why Educators Do Not Rely on Brain Research to Inform their Teaching Practices

Researchers have made considerable progress in understanding the cognitive and social factors important in the learning process, but very few have been successfully translated into teaching practices in the college classroom. Why don't educators rely on this evidence about the brain and learning to inform their teaching practices? (DD is a contributor to this page)