A research team at the University of Cologne examined how optional support influences students' learning success and ...

“I haven’t met many self-directed teenagers,” said a frustrated high school teacher during a recent presentation. As we contemplate the vast problem of teenage disengagement and the apparent low level ...

For example, offering self-directed learning means that sometimes we will prescribe things for the learner because we want to awaken a sense of possibility — but to the learner it may simply look like ...

Alexandria Area High School has developed a unique framework for the skills that it wants students to develop during their ...

A research team at the University of Cologne examined how optional support influences students' learning success and motivation in secondary biology ...

If you want someone to be motivated to complete a task, a reward (like a gold star or grade) works well only for tasks that are highly routine; anything involving creativity or deeper thinking ...

Santa Barbara Free School co-founders Jesse Resnick and Madeline Kimlin stand in front of the downtown Arts & Culture Center, which soon will house the new program. (Serena Guentz / Noozhawk photo) An ...

Who can resist the romanticism of self-taught achievers? They didn't need school. They didn't need "the system." They needed only their passion and their talent to propel themselves to grandeur. Bill ...