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Stephanie Roach; Jennifer Alvey; Kazuko Hiramatsu – Assessment Update, 2024
In this article, the authors contribute to the conversation on High Impact Practice (HIPs) focusing on the connection between sense of accomplishment and what is high impact by discussing data from their study of signature assignments. Signature assignments are assignments within a single course or unit that give students choice, require synthesis…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Assignments, Student Attitudes, Reflection
Mette Alma Kjaersholm Boie; Christian Dalsgaard; Francesco Caviglia – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2024
The paper introduces the student-coined term "digital instinct" which describes students' disposition to resorting to digital technology for solving problems and doing school assignments. Taking cues from the term "digital instinct," the paper describes a student perspective on digital literacy emerging from 100 lived…
Descriptors: Digital Literacy, Secondary School Students, Technology Uses in Education, Cognitive Ability
Battista, Geoffrey A.; Manaugh, Kevin – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2018
As social and postmodern ontologies continue to shape our definition of space, undergraduate instructors have struggled to incorporate these paradigms in the geography classroom. Recent research suggests that practical applications using field work, qualitative research, and geographic information science can augment students' understanding of…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Undergraduate Students, Geographic Information Systems, Geography Instruction
Tyran, Kristi Lewis – Management Teaching Review, 2017
This article introduces a leadership philosophy exercise where students reflect on their values and prepare a statement of what they intend to do as a leader in their careers. This exercise has the potential to add value to leadership classes or seminars where personal leadership is the focus. By using the leadership philosophy exercise, I argue…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Leadership Training, Leadership, Educational Philosophy
DeMink-Carthew, Jessica; Grove, Rebecca; Peterson, Margaret – Studying Teacher Education, 2017
This collaborative self-study examines the influence of engagement in the core practices movement on the course designs, instruction, and perspectives of three novice teacher educators at a large mid-Atlantic research university. Through core practices work, we integrated repeated cycles of analysis, practice, and reflection into our courses,…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Beginning Teachers, Teaching Methods, Teacher Attitudes
Van Praet, Ellen – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2016
This article explores the value of using embedding to extend the notion of first exposure learning in flipped classroom practices. It describes a preclass assignment for a meeting and negotiation skills course, in which students are instructed to observe an authentic business meeting, interview participants of the meeting, photograph the…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Practices, Assignments, Meetings
Hunzicker, Jana – InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, 2016
This article shares a first-hand account of an action research project conducted in a college-level early adolescent development course to better understand written and verbal reflection as learning tools, improve the author's teaching effectiveness, and foster reflective habits in pre-service teachers. The article includes a brief overview of…
Descriptors: Action Research, Narration, Teaching Methods, Early Adolescents
Williams, Heidi; Burns, Claudia; Daisey, Peggy – Grantee Submission, 2016
(Purpose) The purpose of this paper is to describe visual literacy and an adapted version of Visual Thinking Strategy (VTS) and its value to enhance students' inferential thinking. (Methodology) An example of a middle school VTS, art-integrated lesson is described as well as reflections of a middle school language arts teacher about what she…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Learning Strategies, Thinking Skills, Middle School Students
Feather, Rebecca; Ricci, Margaret – College Student Journal, 2014
Portfolios are an essential tool for demonstrating professional accomplishments and documenting professional growth in a variety of professions. Because of the competitive job market for new graduate nurses in health care, the development and use of an ePortfolio can be an essential tool for the application and interview process. The purpose of…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Portfolios (Background Materials), Electronic Publishing, Assignments
Mino, Jack J. – Learning Communities: Research & Practice, 2014
The practice of documentation is discussed as a means of making learning visible in the LC classroom. A documentation heuristic consisting of a four-stage cycle was used to capture, analyze and report what Bass and Eynon (2009) refer to as the "visible evidence of invisible learning" (p. 5). A variety of documentation samples are…
Descriptors: Documentation, Communities of Practice, Heuristics, Learning Processes
Cheng, Liang; Zhang, Wen; Wang, Jiechen; Li, Manchun; Zhong, Lishan – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2014
Geographic information science (GIS) features a wide range of disciplines and has broad applicability. Challenges associated with rapidly developing GIS technology and the currently limited teaching and practice materials hinder universities from cultivating highly skilled GIS graduates. Based on the idea of "small core, big network," a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geography, Geography Instruction, Geographic Information Systems
Mullen, Carol A.; Fish, Valorie L.; Hutinger, Janice L. – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2010
The purpose of this discussion is to explore a graduate intervention that was aimed at promoting the understanding, empowerment, and skills building of doctoral students in education. Addressed are mentoring and learning frameworks, background issues, the pedagogical context, study details, thematic results, and implications. The authors offer a…
Descriptors: Assignments, Mentors, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Boyle, Justin D.; Svihla, Vanessa; Tyson, Kersti; Bowers, Hannah; Buntjer, Jennifer; Garcia-Olp, Michelle; Kvam, Nicholas; Sample, Stephanie – Teacher Education and Practice, 2013
There are many barriers to the implementation of new practice standards. To implement practices that both prepare and inspire their students, preservice teachers need opportunities to enact reform practices: to prepare and be inspired themselves. These opportunities are found in students' content courses, methods courses, and field placements. In…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Program Implementation
Crawley, Sara L. – Feminist Teacher: A Journal of the Practices, Theories, and Scholarship of Feminist Teaching, 2008
For this essay, the author takes as an organizing premise Jodi O'Brien and Judith A. Howard's notion of responsible authority--that "teaching is a value-based activity" in which educators should be striving to engage students in academic pursuits in order to create a moral citizenry. That is, educators need to acknowledge that they wield the power…
Descriptors: Assignments, Lecture Method, Student Centered Curriculum, Learner Engagement
McCotter, Suzanne – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2009
Given the importance of reflection in educators' practice, school leaders should be able to both facilitate teacher reflection and model reflective practice. This action research study examined whether or not emerging school leaders demonstrate the ability to reflect on daily practice and decision-making. Data from three classes of prospective…
Descriptors: Action Research, Principals, Reflection, Decision Making Skills
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