Year after year, LAS gets a similar set of questions from parents and students about how best to prepare for finals. In the next few posts, I aim to answer a few frequently asked questions and help students approach their … Continue reading
Author Archives: Loren Deutsch
Cultivating Compassion in the Classroom
For the past several years, I have been researching and teaching on compassion in medicine and education. On World Kindness Day 2018, I want to take a few moments to reflect on how compassion can be cultivated in the classroom … Continue reading
Make it stick: The Science of Successful Learning
This is an interesting time to think about learning – almost every fact is at my fingertips via Google and if I need to know how to do something, YouTube has a tutorial with detailed steps. This is a different … Continue reading
Creativity and the Brain
Left brain, right brain, whole brain, no brain. I’m kidding with the last one–brains are important to our pursuits as humans. However, recent neuroscientific endeavors have found that the act of creativity surpasses the popular notion of tapping into specific … Continue reading