Learning requires building new skills and understanding on prior knowledge and abilities. The order and way students experience new information will have a large impact on how successful they are at ...

Instructors can use specific learning objectives to spark greater reflection and self-regulated learning in students. Here’s a step-by-step guide to aligning learning, course and curriculum outcomes ...

When you begin creating a course, you want to design with the end in mind. The best way to approach this is to start by writing measurable course learning objectives. Course learning objectives are ...

What is a Lesson Plan? An effective lesson plan demonstrates how a teacher creates objectives for his or her students and measures how those objectives are mastered. Creating a lesson plan begins with ...

The Core Curriculum is a set of general education requirements that apply to all undergraduate students at Santa Clara University. Santa Clara’s Core Curriculum explicitly integrates three traditions ...

Brief description of learning objective: Students will be critical consumers of information, able to engage in systematic research processes, frame questions, read critically, and apply observational ...

Brief description of learning objective: Students will learn how to systematically analyze human social conditions (e.g., individuals, groups, communities and cultures). In particular, students will ...

What we teach in school classrooms every day matters — it can set students up for life. But if we don't deliberately build students' background knowledge over years of learning, then we limit their ...

In my last post about the inverted/flipped calculus class, I stressed the importance of Guided Practice as a way of structuring students’ pre-class activities and as a means of teaching self-regulated ...