Something to ponder

This article challenged me. Typically, instead of taking notes, I have my students complete a summary over what we have read, watched, or discussed. While this is a skill upon which most o... See More

This article challenged me. Typically, instead of taking notes, I have my students complete a summary over what we have read, watched, or discussed. While this is a skill upon which most of my students still need improvement, I am left wondering how to move my juniors and seniors to a more reflective form of writing so that they can begin to make connections between the different science disciplines that they have studied. The article has proven to me that reflective writing would be a beneficial skill. I appreciate that they do not grade the reflective portion on conventions, rather on the students' ideas and thought process.

Great Data Now How Do I Do It?

Perhaps not unexpectedly reflective writing is correlated with higher performance. But how do we get students to write/think reflectively? While the data support the connection between refle... See More

Perhaps not unexpectedly reflective writing is correlated with higher performance. But how do we get students to write/think reflectively? While the data support the connection between reflective writing and student achievement, we are left wondering if this connection might be more than correlational. If students who do not write reflectively were taught to do so would their achievement increase?