The Pygmalion Effect: Communicating High Expectations In 1968, two researchers conducted a fascinating study that proved the extent to which teacher expectations influence student performance. Positive expectations influence performance positively, and negative expectations influence performance negatively. In educational circles, this has been termed the Pygmalion Effect, or more colloquially, a self-fulfilling prophecy. What has always intrigued me about this study is specifically what the teachers did to communicate that they believed a certain set of students had "unusual potential for academic growth." The research isn't overly explicit about this, but it indicates that the teachers "may have paid closer attention to the students, and treated them differently in times of difficulty." Why can't teachers treat all of their students like this? Excellence, Celebration, and Success Be Excellent in All Ways Everything speaks. Celebrate Small Victories Say, "I'm proud of you" -- and say it often. Make Failure Unacceptable Raise the Bar Right Now
Irregular verbs again I have already published several posts on irregular verbs: Past participles – divided according to the pronunciation and Present perfect tense. However, a week ago a student of mine contacted me and asked me if I could create a way for him to learn the irregular verbs. He spends a lot of time driving so he asked me to prepare something to listen to in his car. So I did. In this post there are 33 irregular verbs presented in an associative matrix, in mp3 for listening, in mp3 for learning and two games for practising them. Irregular verbs – learning Here you can find two ways to learn the irregular verbs. Here is the pdf version of all the irregular verbs: Irregular verbs_part1 Irregular verbs – Listen and learn In learning there are only a few methods which work for everyone. If you need just the correct pronunciation of each of the verbs presented above, here is the mp3 with all of the verbs: You can download the files here: All the irregular verbsAll the verbs learning mp3
5 Tools to Help Students Learn How to Learn Helping students learn how to learn: That’s what most educators strive for, and that’s the goal of inquiry learning. That skill transfers to other academic subject areas and even to the workplace where employers have consistently said that they want creative, innovative and adaptive thinkers. Inquiry learning is an integrated approach that includes kinds of learning: content, literacy, information literacy, learning how to learn, and social or collaborative skills. “We want students thinking about their thinking,” said Leslie Maniotes a teacher effectiveness coach in the Denver Public Schools and one of the authors of Guided Inquiry: Learning in the 21st Century. “When they are able to see where they came from and where they got to it is very powerful for them.” A good example is a long term research project. During the process, students will go through different stages of emotions. [RELATED READING: Creating Classrooms We Need: 8 Ways Into Inquiry Learning]
Modelling the Emotional Listener: Making Psychological Processes Audible | meaningfulnoise Citation info: Ekman, I. (2009) “Modelling the Emotional Listener: Making Psychological Processes Audible”, Proc. AudioMostly 2009, Sepbember, Glasgow, Great Britain. Modelling the Emotional Listener: Making Psychological Processes Audible Inger Ekman Center for Knowledge and Innovation Research, Helsinki School of Economics, Finlandinger.ekman@hse.fi Abstract. 1 Introduction Game sound designs need not strive for realism. The creation of sound for such a game environment usually involves the modelling of sound in terms of physical properties of sound. The natural way of thinking about sound in these interactions is to consider sound in terms of its physical properties as this provides a way of ascribing meaning (about the game world, proximity and type of sound) to the sonic processes the player will encounter. Depending both on processing capacity and available memory, the level of fidelity varies between systems. 2 The Ears of the Player [T]here is no “Innocent Ear.” 3. 3.1. Table 1. 4.
Irregular verbs straightforward #2 - Games to learn English | Games to learn English As students reacted very positively to the first post on irregular verbs I am going to continue with teaching the irregular verbs in this way. Once again I am going to teach 24 irregular verbs with their past tense and past participle. The verbs are divided into two groups of 12 and there are separate worksheets and videos for teaching them. ADVERT: If you are a teacher you do not have to use all of the activities and worksheets below. Irregular verbs #2 – video First, watch the video and repeat the words. The other 12 verbs are presented in the following video: Irregular verbs – worksheets The first worksheet contains all the verbs taught in this post. Irregular verbs02_all Then there are two worksheets containing crosswords and word puzzles to practice the irregular verbs from the two videos. Irregular verbs 03_vocabulary_wsIrregular verbs 03_vocabulary_ws_key The puzzles and crosswords for the second video are over here:Irregular verbs 04_vocabulary_wsIrregular verbs 04_vocabulary_ws_key
7 Essential Principles of Innovative Learning Big Ideas Culture Teaching Strategies Flirck:WoodleyWonderworks Every educator wants to create an environment that will foster students’ love of learning. Researchers at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) launched the Innovative Learning Environments project to turn an academic lens on the project of identifying concrete traits that mark innovative learning environments. Their book, The Nature of Learning: Using Research to Inspire Practice and the accompanying practitioner’s guide, lay out the key principles for designing learning environments that will help students build skills useful in a world where jobs are increasingly information and knowledge-based. “Adaptive expertise tries to push beyond the idea of mastery,” said Jennifer Groff, an educational engineer and co-founder of the Center for Curriculum Redesign. [RELATED READING: How Can Teachers Prepare Kids for a Connected World] Educators can also test ideas with students before implementing them.
Five-Minute Film Festival: The Best Education Parodies of 2014 January is quickly approaching, and you know what that means: year-end lists and retrospectives galore! We'd be shirking our responsibilities as bloggers if we didn't join in, so in keeping with our December tradition, take a look at this list of the best education parodies of 2014! We've scoured the web to find videos by teachers, about teachers, parodies breaking down historical inaccuracies, humorous tunes by parents, and so much more. For even more viral video fun, YouTube's Rewind team has done a great job of recapping the year's most popular YouTube uploads. Video Playlist: The Best Education Parodies of 2014 Watch the player below to see the whole playlist, or view it on YouTube. Word Crimes by "Weird Al" Yankovic (3:46) This catchy tune from "Weird Al" Yankovic takes a shot at everyone who can't spell, conjugate, or place punctuation correctly. More Resources for Using Humor and Music in the Classroom Parodies and musical entertainment can be a great tool in the classroom!
Polishing the Apple: What ‘Dangerous Minds’ and Other Movies Get Right and Wrong About Teachers « Yesterday, summer ended for the teachers in the Houston Independent School District. School is back. Today, Dangerous Minds, a movie about a discharged Marine who attempts to teach disadvantaged high school students that they are not victims by giving them candy bars, celebrates its 20th anniversary. Both of these occasions are of particular interest to me because from 2006 to 2015 I worked as a teacher at a large inner-city school in Houston. If I were to try to place an exact time stamp on it, I’d guess I decided I wanted to be a teacher somewhere around 1991, and I’m almost certain it had a lot to do with the episode of Saved by the Bell in which Mr. I understand that that’s dumb, but I imagine it’s how lots of these sorts of things work out. When I saw Cooler Belding — or, really, when I saw him or Mr. The first time I watched Dangerous Minds, I thought it was great — partly because I was 15 years old at the time, and so I wasn’t very good at figuring out what was good or bad yet.
8 Ways to Use Music in the Language Arts Classroom I think when we talk about using music or art or theater in the Core classes, there is still this persistent suspicion that a teacher who plays music in the classroom must be too "soft" or "granola-y." Don't get angry; I'm just stating an observation of perception, not a fact of truth. I would push back, however, that using the arts in the core subject-area classes is far from fluffy. What I do understand, however, is that not everyone is a musicologist. One doesn't need Bach in the background to qualify as having used music. Why Use Music? Music can be used to help control a classroom environment or to support the content within that class. Music is also a way to build community and to share yourself as a teacher. The week after I saw The Lego Movie, every period that walked into my middle school classroom was greeted with "Everything is AWESOME!" The Activities But what do you do if you don't have a lot of knowledge about music? #1 Songs to Teach Academic Vocabulary #2 Lyrics as Poetry
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