Contemporary Issues Journal

Students keep a journal where they connect course information to current news or their own lives.

Promotes: writing, knowledge integration and synthesis

Teaching Technique 03: Contemporary Issues Journal video © The K. Patricia Cross Academy.

Adapting Contemporary Issues Journal for Online Teaching – Video (K. Patricia Cross Academy).

Online Teaching Adaptation: Contemporary Issues Journal video © The K. Patricia Cross Academy.

Fact or Opinion

Students identify what is fact and what is an opinion from a reading or lecture.

Promotes: writing, learning how to learn

Teaching Technique 12: Fact or Opinion video © The K. Patricia Cross Academy.