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Balancing Act: Content & Skills | Guide on the Side

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Skip to main content. Skip to primary sidebar. Skip to secondary sidebar. Guide on the Side. Ruminations on teaching and learning. Larr; Resources, Strategies & Advice. Curious, Resilient Learners →. Balancing Act: Content & Skills. Posted by Lolita Paff. A search for college graduate employment readiness produces over 2.5 million hits on Google. Unfortunately, the top results have titles like: Study finds big gap between student and employer perceptions (. Why are graduates falling short? When and how o...

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Tinking & Frogging | Guide on the Side

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Skip to main content. Skip to primary sidebar. Skip to secondary sidebar. Guide on the Side. Ruminations on teaching and learning. Larr; TMI and Learning. Easy As and Self-Directed Learning →. Posted by Lolita Paff. Knitters will recognize those terms. To tink is to knit backwards, as in undoing the work, stitch by stitch when a mistake has been caught early. Tinking is analogous to erasing a misspelled word, or restarting a short math problem. No big deal. I came to accept frogging by. Reading forum pos...

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Resources, Strategies & Advice | Guide on the Side

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Skip to main content. Skip to primary sidebar. Skip to secondary sidebar. Guide on the Side. Ruminations on teaching and learning. Larr; How We Learn. Balancing Act: Content & Skills →. Resources, Strategies & Advice. Posted by Lolita Paff. I’ll continue to update Posts by Topic as I blog. I plan to add a search utility soon. And most important, I will introduce support materials (handouts, sample documents, discussion questions, etc.) here and on my website. And only from what the student does and thinks.

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Skip to main content. Skip to primary sidebar. Skip to secondary sidebar. Guide on the Side. Ruminations on teaching and learning. Posted by Lolita Paff. Knitters will recognize those terms. To tink is to knit backwards, as in undoing the work, stitch by stitch when a mistake has been caught early. Tinking is analogous to erasing a misspelled word, or restarting a short math problem. No big deal. I came to accept frogging by. Reading forum posts and project descriptions/commentaries on Ravelry (a website...

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TMI & Learning | Guide on the Side

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Skip to main content. Skip to primary sidebar. Skip to secondary sidebar. Guide on the Side. Ruminations on teaching and learning. Larr; Curious, Resilient Learners. Tinking and Frogging →. Posted by Lolita Paff. We live in unusual times, don’t we? I’m not sure if the bookending was intentional but two tweets from Jesse Stommel (tweeting as @Jessifer) capture what I’ll remember most from this term:. The most important, and sometimes the hardest, part of teaching is just talking to students. (Dec 3).

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Curious, Resilient Learners | Guide on the Side

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Skip to main content. Skip to primary sidebar. Skip to secondary sidebar. Guide on the Side. Ruminations on teaching and learning. Larr; Balancing Act: Content & Skills. TMI and Learning →. Curious, Resilient Learners. Posted by Lolita Paff. Today’s post is a reprint of an article I wrote for Faculty Focus: Enhancing Learning through Zest, Grit and Sweat (November 28, 2016). You can link to the article here. It was an improvement, but I had nagging suspicions that important contributors to learning were ...

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Skip to main content. Skip to primary sidebar. Skip to secondary sidebar. Guide on the Side. Ruminations on teaching and learning. Author Archives: Lolita Paff. What makes a course hard? Posted by Lolita Paff. Post ( Easy A? Ended with a series of questions about grades, learning and instructional strategies. I fully intended to begin addressing them here. But as I dug into the literature I realized other issues need exploring. What if our definitions are different? What makes a course hard? I think it d...

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