Tag reflection

Emerging ideas, Teaching Tips

Impermanence, vulnerability and slowing down: Lessons from meditation

In times of uncertainty, we can apply principles from meditation to our teaching practices. Let’s reflect on a few of these principles: impermanence, slowing down and vulnerability.

UAF CTL Staff
April 13, 2020
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Best practices, Teaching Tips

Reflecting on your teaching

With all the logistics that go into wrapping up the semester, it’s hard to think about almost anything else — painful to think about the whole semester that you’re just trying to move beyond. But of course, as teachers we…

klnewman4
April 29, 2019

Pedagogy, Teaching Tips

Journaling for reflection and critical thinking

Reflective writing can help us carry ourselves through processes of change. Learning is a process of change and research shows that journal writing can support students across disciplines in connecting with and making meaning of their learning.

klnewman4
July 24, 2018

Pedagogy, Teaching Tips

Reflection

Student reflection is an important part of academic success. Asking students to take the time to review the process they are going through to learn can help them make adjustments in that process.

UAF CTL Staff
November 20, 2012