Month: November 2017
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The Forgotten ‘R’: Using Reflection to Speed Student Learning
“Most classrooms are oriented more to the present and the future than to the past. Such an orientation means that students (and teachers) find it easier to discard what has happened and to move on without taking stock of the seemingly isolated experiences of the past.” –Learning Through Reflection by Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick…
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The Importance of Wonder
We in Michigan are right at the point in November where the fall takes a sharp turn from crisp mornings, beautiful red and yellow trees stretching as far as the eye can see, and apples so sweet that you question why you eat anything else to a barren, cold, and fruitless landscape that suddenly seems…
Matthew M. Johnson 