The Productive Failure (PF) approach prompts students to attempt to solve a problem prior to instruction – at which point they typically fail. Yet, research on PF shows that students who are involved ...

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Editor’s Note: Janet English, Academic Coach for El Toro High School in California, spent six months in Finland on a Fulbright Distinguished Award in Teaching. While there, she discovered a tool to ...

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What's the best way to teach problem solving? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. Answer by ...

In the world of ‘ideals’, education should achieve its goal of leading its recipients out of their former world and transforming their worldview. But in the real sense, especially in our end of the ...

This may be a good time to try something different. Whatever the nature of the problems that come with your job – production or staffing issues, a difficult product launch or disgruntled customers – ...

A special issue on “Cognitive Approaches to Metaphor” calls forth in this paper a collaboration between a literary critic and a cognitive psychologist. This particular convergence of the two ...