“Instruction Mode” refers to the manner in which UB provides typical classroom activities involving instructors and students, such as lectures, discussions and group engagement. Instruction Mode does ...

I just gave midterm evaluations in my classes, and for the item about “What could we be doing differently to make the class better?”, many students put down: Do more examples at the board. I think ...

This article is concerned with three main issues related to the use of positive and negative examples during instruction. The issues discussed are: sequence, quality, and quantity of positive and ...

The new question-of-the-week is: How should we teach grammar to students? Our students need to learn grammar, but the real question is how to teach it in ways that don’t bore them out of their minds.

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 ...