In the earliest part of my career, I wrote full procedural lesson plans that spelled out to the letter the questions I would ask AND the answers I considered correct. When the students didn’t provide ...

Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) are simple, low-pressure ways to check how well students are understanding the material. These methods are efficient, student-centered strategies that provide ...

Read more of the assigned readings and read them more deeply? Attend and contribute to class more frequently, even if they are too shy to speak up? Ask more – and better – questions? Learn to monitor ...