Are You Ready To Transfer To Chrome? - 30 Irreplaceable Chrome E. I’ve always been using Firefox browser, I mean already for 5–6 years and never thought I would want to choose something else.
Firefox is great browser and what makes it so great is all those thousands of plugins you download freely. You can find now plugin for almost everything you could ever think of – there is only one big downside. Firefox is much slower than Chrome and actually eat’s more of computer’s CPU than other browsers.
A Student Who Needs a Teacher « Teaching Professor. Buying the Passive Role « Teaching Professor. More On Saying “I’m Sorry” To Students. I’ve written before about my beliefs on the importance of saying “I’m sorry” to students when I mess-up (see The Importance Of Saying “I’m Sorry” To Students).
I recently learned about a study that reinforces my perspective — An apology is more than a word: Effects of apologies on children’s emotions. I don’t really think the actual study tells us anything more than most of us already know, but I was really struck by the wording of one of its conclusions: Knowing that the other person agrees that it was the wrong thing to do reaffirms our view of the world as just and predictable, since the other’s sadness tells us that people in general don’t do things like this, because after all, it was the wrong thing to do. Creating Lessons Using Different Learning Styles: Varying Instru. Whether adapting lessons to include accommodations on an IEP or searching for ways to include Gardner's theory of Multiple Intelligence, teachers are looking for different ways to teach.
This could be initial instruction or review, a learning opportunity or an assessment. Including aspects of the three areas of audio, visual and tactile in the classroom makes it more possible for all students to learn. Teaching Strategies for Auditory Learners Auditory learners have an easy time learning in a lecture based classroom setting since they learn best by hearing. These learners might struggle understanding material if they read it quietly, but reading out loud or hearing a spoken summary helps. Are Your Students Career-Ready? Create a Rubric to Find out.
January 12, 2010 By: Sandra Allen, MA, MBA in Educational Assessment Have you ever wondered if what you teach and how you teach it results in career-ready students?
Have you ever wondered if your expectations for student learning outcomes match what the real world requires? In the Public Relations Studies program at Columbia College Chicago, we wondered, too. So, we set out to answer our own questions about the most basic skills professionals expect of entry-level candidates. There was no question about the importance of PR writing. So, in early fall 2005, professors in PR Studies elected to develop a rubric for teaching and assessing news release writing. Feedback on Student Work: What Types of Feedback Might Teachers. Feedback is communication intended to improve overall performance.
Feedback is expected in school, in business, and in other life pursuits. Teachers use feedback as a means of improving student learning. Feedback on Student Work Builds Relationships: The Qualities of. America as 100 people: 'Village' concept used to teach - USATODA. By Greg Toppo, USA TODAY Nearly 22 years ago, David J.
Smith, a middle-school social studies teacher in Cambridge, Mass., had a brief conversation that would change his life. Classroom Management Ideas: Tried, Tested and Proven Ways to Mak. Teachers are constantly looking for new ways to help make a classroom run smoothly.
A teacher with some years of experience has tucked away many songs and rhymes that can defuse any situation. He or she has experienced first hand the feeling of when a class has spun out of control. It is through these experiences, a teacher reflects about what management techniques work and what did not. Setting Expectations Knowing what behaviours a teacher wants and does not want in the classroom is key. 14 Resources for Meaningful Student Dialogue. Posted by Shelly Terrell on Sunday, February 7th 2010 Part of the Cool Sites series If you teach English language learners in their native countries, then finding opportunities for them to use the English they learn outside the classroom can be challenging. In reality, I cannot cover all the language skills they need to learn in an hour and a half class period.
Prior Knowledge and Learning: The Importance of Building Upon Pr. According to noted learning theorist Jean Piaget, accessing prior knowledge is how children make sense of the world.
They attempt to take new information and fit it into existing knowledge in order to create a schema, or mental map that fits into a specific category. Quick Takes: New Site Aims to Help Students Recoup Textbook Cost. eLearning Technology. Are people noticing this? It seems that face-to-face and online presenting are becoming more similar. Some aspects: Wireless access is becoming more common in places where presentations occur. If you are a conference organizer and you don't arrange for wireless, be prepared for some negative comments. See Better Conferences.
The last bullet is probably the biggest change here. I've talked about this in Online Conferences and In-Person Conferences and made the comment that: In-person conferences have an advantage of getting more attention from the attendees. That's still probably true as there's a higher commitment level, but the gap is narrowing. Next Up For Disruption? College. One of the reasons we spend so much time talking about the music and news industries, is because the disruption and upheaval happening in those industries right now are likely to impact nearly every industry you can think of in the near future.
Understanding the mistakes being made by those in the industries that are further along the disruption curve should (hopefully, though, I'm not entirely optimistic on this) help keep those newer industries from making the same mistakes down the road. Jake points us to an inkling of how the higher education market is beginning to be disrupted -- and it goes beyond just cheaper textbooks or courses being offered online. By now, online distance learning is well-known and not all that big a deal. But, really, all the old school online university efforts, like University of Phoenix, did was to take the traditional college model and move it online. Learner-Centered Evaluation « Teaching Professor. Professor: Smaller Class Sizes Optimal For Kids.