Yeah, We're Really Screwing This Up

By John Warner. I can’t remember when I stopped explicitly punishing the failure to turn in preliminary drafts of assignments, i.e., docking the grade on the final version, but it’s been awhile.
It was sometime after I read Ken Bain’s What the Best College Teachers Do and learned that the most effective teachers tend to cede as much control in the classroom as possible to students. Read more...