Collaborative Learning

Collaborative Learning

Summer Institute Day 2 Session 2: Collaborative Learning Research shows that educational experiences that are active, social, contextual, engaging, and student-owned lead to deeper learning. In this second day of workshops for Summer Institute 2022, participants had...
Collaborative Learning

Metacognitive Strategies

Summer Institute Session 3: Metacognitive Strategies To become self-directed learners, students must learn to assess the demands of the task, evaluate their own knowledge and skills, plan their approach, monitor their progress, and adjust their strategies as needed....
Collaborative Learning

Explicit Teaching

Summer Institute Session 1: Explicit Teaching Explicit Teaching is “Instruction that does not leave anything to chance and does not make assumptions about skills and knowledge that children will acquire on their own.” -Torgesen, 2004 In the kick-off...
Course Design Fall 2022

Course Design Fall 2022

Since 2014 we have been focused on working with deans and faculty to create standard courses.  Now IDEAS is in planning mode to expand course design service and support to a broader faculty audience.  Look for details on how you can take advantage of our expanded...