The Instructor’s Challenge: Moving Students beyond Opinions to Critical Thinking
Critical thinking is defined as a reflective and reasonable thought process embodying depth, accuracy, and astute judgment to determine the merit of a decision, an object, or a theory (Alwehaibi,...
View ArticlePractical Tips for Cultivating a Learning Relationship with Students
Take a moment right now to ask yourself who your best teachers were growing up. Now list the qualities that made them your best teachers. Looking at your list, you will probably notice something...
View ArticleEffective Teaching Strategies: Six Keys to Classroom Excellence
What are makes an effective teacher? This particular list of teaching characteristics appears in an excellent book that is all but unknown in the states, Learning to Teach in Higher Education, by...
View ArticleCommon Core Standards: Focusing on the “How” to Help Student Learning
Over the last two years, Heritage Elementary School has been able to create a laser-like focus that enables student achievement while protecting teacher autonomy in the classroom. In a time when...
View ArticleMaking Way for a Better Education
One of the very basic things that you need in order to secure a well paying job and a bright future is good education. Indeed it all begins at home and then school and then college. But it is at...
View ArticleTeacher Quality
Teacher Quality:Definition With regard to teacher quality, Nancy Flanagan (2005) states as one of the main contributors to An Open Letter to President Bush on Teaching Quality, “Good teaching at all...
View ArticleGood Education Manages To Look Easy
A century ago, progressive education introduced a fundamental mistake into the public schools. Basically, the mistake is that you do kids a favor by deleting content, diminishing substance, and...
View ArticleFriendly Body Language for Effective Communication in Teaching
Albert Mehrabian at the psychology department of the University of California proved in the 1960s that 55% of all communication is body language. There may have been some debate about the exact...
View ArticleDiversity in the Classroom: A Need for Change
Teaching to a diverse range of students with different needs at times can feel overwhelming for any classroom teacher. Students in the United States vary from cultural backgrounds, religion, social...
View ArticleAccelerate Learning in Your Classroom
While using station teaching or acceleration centers as an approach to co-teaching is often very successful for both teachers and students, it is important to use this approach correctly. To help...
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