In a recent blog post, Kyle Pearce (@mathletepearce) raised the question “good at math or good at memorization?” Unlike most middle school math teachers, Kyle asks his students to wrestle with complex ...

Most people would agree that schools have dual responsibility: to make people smart and make them good. If the teachers accept the second function, they are grappling with an axiological issue. In ...

Constructive alignment draws on constructivist approaches to learning theory. For constructivists, students ‘construct’ knowledge for themselves through what they do. We cannot simply put information ...