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Elena Taylor – Journal on Empowering Teaching Excellence, 2023
Reflection is a necessary component of learning. Through reflective assignments and tasks, students are given opportunities to evaluate their learning and analyze strategies they use while acquiring and applying course material. Reflections also help students assess and think deeply about the information presented in class and thus better retain…
Descriptors: Reflection, Writing Instruction, Writing Exercises, Student Attitudes
Kingsbury, Marina A. – Journal of Political Science Education, 2021
This paper discusses the use and benefits of the Current Affairs Journals Assignment in the Introduction to International Relations Class. The assignment provides not only the immediate benefits of relating class material to current events but helps to shape students' interests and to build knowledge in a thematic or regional area that can guide…
Descriptors: Current Events, International Relations, Student Interests, Teaching Methods
Belfiore, M. Nicole; Hoover, Jeanette L.; Jenkins, Angel R.; Ting, Laura – Journal of Social Work Education, 2021
Social work educators teach cultural competency and guide students to understand and address racism. Using mixed methods, we explored the influence of a one-semester course on racial attitudes, skills, and knowledge among 10 diverse undergraduate students. The "Seeing White" podcast delivered content about historic and systemic…
Descriptors: Social Work, Teaching Methods, Racial Bias, Racial Attitudes
Bixby, Matt M. – Mathematics Teacher, 2018
Almost twenty years ago, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) published "Principles and Standards for School Mathematics" (2000), which recommended that teachers should incorporate more writing into their math lessons, claiming that writing helps students "consolidate their thinking" (p. 402) by causing them…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Writing Assignments, Teaching Methods, Content Area Writing
Schneider-Cline, Whitney – Journal of Service-Learning in Higher Education, 2018
Reflection is a key component for integrating meaningful collegiate service-learning experiences with a student's personal and professional growth. The purpose of this mixed methods study was to compare two types of reflective journal writing (guided and open-ended) utilized in undergraduate Communication Disorder courses. A comparison of pre- and…
Descriptors: Reflection, Service Learning, Undergraduate Students, Journal Writing
Denton, Ashley Waggoner – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2018
Reflective learning entails a thoughtful learning process through which one not only learns a particular piece of knowledge or skill, but better understands "how" one learned it--knowledge that can then be transferred well beyond the scope of the specific learning experience. This type of thinking empowers learners by making them more…
Descriptors: Reflection, Journal Writing, Student Journals, Statistics
Miller, Diane M.; Scott, Chyllis E.; McTigue, Erin M. – Educational Psychology Review, 2018
Situated within the historical and current state of writing and adolescent literacy research, this systematic literature review screened 3504 articles to determine the prevalent themes in current research on writing tasks in content-area classrooms. Each of the 3504 studies was evaluated and coded using seven methodological quality indicators. The…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Writing Assignments, Content Area Writing, Coding
MacArthur, Charles A.; Philippakos, Zoi A. – Teachers College Press, 2023
Discover an innovative, evidence-based method for preparing students for the demands of college writing called Supporting Strategic Writers (SSW). The goal of SSW is to help students become independent learners who understand the value of strategies and can apply them flexibly in future courses and the workplace. The text provides genre-based…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, College Readiness, Career Readiness, Critical Literacy
Hohti, Riikka – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2016
This article presents an empirical study of everyday life in school and a methodological attempt to emphasise children's views and to find ways other than representation to analyse them. The empirical portion took place in a Finnish elementary school in which the author was the class teacher. The ten-year-olds in the class engaged in an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Diaries
Martin, Christie; Polly, Drew – Investigations in Mathematics Learning, 2016
In this study, we examine how literacy connections with multiple step mathematics problems affected mathematics learning for 4th grade students. Three fourth grade teachers incorporated writing activities in their mathematics classroom for two weeks. The level of teacher scaffolding decreased as students progressed through the problems. The…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Literacy, Content Area Writing
Gelmez, Koray; Bagli, Humanur – Design and Technology Education, 2015
Reflective writing is an efficient way of getting feedback from students. Paper-based or web-based course evaluation questionnaires alone may lack of collecting specific and detailed information, especially for the fields like design education. This study focuses on reflections captured from students via two different media--personal magazine and…
Descriptors: Reflection, Writing (Composition), Writing Assignments, Questionnaires
Seven, Sabriye; Koksal, Asiye Pinar; Kocak, Gulsen – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of writing poems and keeping a journal as writing-to-learn activities on the academic achievement of students in teaching the Force and Motion unit in the Science class of fifth grade students in secondary school. Sample of the study consists of 50 students who study in the fifth grade of two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Effectiveness, Poetry, Journal Writing
Paesani, Kate – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2016
This study explores relationships among reading literature, creative writing, and language development in a university-level advanced French grammar course through the theoretical lens of the multiliteracies framework. The goal is to investigate reading-writing connections and whether these literacy practices facilitate students' understanding and…
Descriptors: Multiple Literacies, Literacy, Teaching Methods, Reading Writing Relationship
Chang, Heejin; Windeatt, Scott – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2016
There is much evidence to support the occurrence of learning in connection with collaboration, both in face-to-face and online teaching situations, but much less research on how such collaboration develops over the duration of a course. Using Dillenbourg's concepts of "situation," "interactions," "mechanisms," and…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Online Courses, Teaching Methods, Feedback (Response)
Lott, Kimberly; Read, Sylvia – Science and Children, 2012
Many times students are given the task of keeping a science notebook, but do not fully understand the process or purpose of this endeavour. Science notebooks contain not only data but also questions, predictions, observations, and reflections from their experiences in science. To maximize the effectiveness of the science notebook, teachers must…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Science Instruction, Elementary School Science, Teaching Methods