Discussion-based approaches to instruction, coupled with challenging academic demands, are positively related to students’ literacy performance, a recent study has found. The study examined the way ...

Whenever you lead a class discussion, you naturally want to see your students eagerly participating. It shows they’re engaged, and that’s surely a prerequisite for learning. But too often academics ...

One of SLU-Madrid's most successful and popular student service activities celebrates 20 years of community outreach. Since 2002, SLU-Madrid has opened its classrooms to the Madrid community to share ...

Small-group discussions designed to help elementary students engage in conversations that promote critical analytic thinking, ...

Early this year, after the pandemic had moved my classroom online, a student asked if we could try “silent meetings” in a course I was teaching. At first I assumed that, like many of us, he was just ...

After high school graduation I headed north to Fairfield University in Connecticut and as a freshman I signed up for an English Composition class that would have an impact on me. I was a business ...