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Education issues in general. Public schools.
Updated on Aug 31, 15
Created on Sep 05, 09
Category: Schools & Education
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“Children of Poverty Deserve Great Teachers: One Union’s Commitment to Changing the Status Quo,” a report that highlights what is needed to identify and develop teachers and to recruit and retain them for high-needs classrooms.
Teacher-preparation programs provide educators-to-be with the tools, mentors, and hands-on experience they'll need once they begin their career.
20 blogs that have taught us a few things, made us laugh, made us cry, and reminded us that we are not alone in this sometimes stress-inducing, always awe-inspiring profession.
You want to break into writing ELT coursebooks, but you have no contacts. One way to get your name and materials known is to send an unsolicited proposal to an ELT publisher.
From asynchronous learning, concept mapping, and cooperative learning, to the latest research on deep learning, learner-centered teaching, and collaborative learning techniques. Consult Faculty Focus for all the news on trends in higher education.
Un portal de recursos para los profesores que buscan aprovechar las nuevas tecnologías en su labor educativa.
Willingham's thesis is that students don't like school because their teachers don't have a full understanding of certain cognitive principles and therefore don't teach as well as they could. They don't present material in ways that appeal best to students' minds. Presumably, if teachers followed Willingham's advice and used the latest information cognitive science has to offer about how the mind works, students would love school.
Faculty Focus publishes an e-newsletter three times per week and has its own dedicated website featuring additional news and best practices on the academic issues at the forefront of higher education today.
"Traditional academic approaches -- those that employ narrow tasks to emphasize rote memorization or the application of simple procedures -- won't develop learners who are critical thinkers or effective writers and speakers. Rather, students need to take part in complex, meaningful projects that require sustained engagement and collaboration."
"in parallel with the steady erosion of formality in society as a whole, new ways of communicating including email, text messaging and social networking sites are radically altering the relationship between pupils and teachers. "
"In The Teachers of 2030: Creating a Student-Centered Profession for the 21st Century, Barnett Berry invites policymakers and teacher leaders to rethink today's teaching policies by imagining the knowledge, skills and qualities teachers must have in the year 2030 -- just two decades from now. "
"As the field of instructional design continues to grow and encompass online course development, speed of development can sometimes overshadow proven processes. "
"One of the greatest gifts and the hardest thing to adjust to homeschooling is the pace of life. People in my office used to hear me coming by the sound of my hasty footsteps approaching them. "
First Year Teacher is an invaluable resource for newbie teachers. It offers hundreds of tips, warnings, and anecdotes from experienced educators--all in one warm and charming package.
"Esta es entonces una actualización de la Taxonomía Revisada de Bloom [1] que atiende los nuevos comportamientos, acciones y oportunidades de aprendizaje que aparecen a medida que las TIC (Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones) avanzan y se vuelven más omnipresentes."
"The underlying similarities between teaching, research and music can be a powerful metaphor for education and qualitative inquiry, according to a University of Illinois professor of education."
28 items | 4 visits
Education issues in general. Public schools.
Updated on Aug 31, 15
Created on Sep 05, 09
Category: Schools & Education
URL: