14 Amazing Grading Apps That Help Teachers Save Time
If you are taking the difficult and time-consuming route, why not enlist the assistance of technology to help you with your classes?
In this blog article I will recommend some fantastic grading apps that will help you get the job done more quickly and easily. Instead of spending time slogging for hours on end you may spend that time...
Does Homework Help?
Does homework really make a difference to a student’s long-term success?
The world has been debating over the advantages and disadvantages of homework since the late 19th century. Some of us as teachers or facilitators may feel that homework is an effective way to reinforce the concepts taught in school. In other cases, working parents or caregivers from low-income families...
Formative Assessment In Practice
There is a lot of confusion about testing, and especially about formative assessment. The word assessment brings back a very traditional idea of paper and pencil test. But an assessment is anything that we can use to measure student progress, from a computer game to answering questions orally.
So, what is the different between these three kinds of tests we...
Creating Student Leaders
With the youth being the backbone of society, your students must be prepared for the demands and challenges of leading an ever-changing world. After all, no one is too young to lead.For example, student activist Zyahna Bryant organized her first demonstration at the age of 12 by posting homemade signs against police violence, leading to the removal of the last Confederate...
Healthy Kids While Homeschooling [5 Ways]
While homeschooling your kids, keeping them active and healthy can be a challenge. There are many different ways that activities can be combined though so that they incorporate the lessons for homeschooling, and methods to keep children active and healthy. A lot of the time these will overlap because keeping active has an impact on people's mental health. So,...
How Fantasy Play Boosts Learning And Creativity
Providing children with opportunities to take part in fantasy play can potentially enhance their creativity — as found in research undertaken by the British Psychological Society. The study, undertaken by Dr. Louise Bunce and team, involved 70 children aged four to eight. The researchers sought to assess the extent to which kids’ fantasy play involved mirroring real life (for instance,...
Virtual Teaching: How to Share Resources with Your Students
Most likely, every teacher and tutor had this question: how to transfer files and documents to pupils, students, or listeners without unnecessary problems with flash drives. It does not matter where you work: in a university or in the field of secondary vocational training, at school or in private, the problem with the transfer of material as you try...
5 Ways to Gamify Your Classroom
It’s not uncommon for your students to play video games regularly, you may even do it as well. How we can use engaging gaming skills to redesign a learning experience can be powerful. In today’s classroom, we are constantly trying to find ways to evolve our teaching methods to be the most effective. It’s important for students to learn...
Drawing To Boost Classroom Skills
A study done by the University of Waterloo found that drawing has a surprising effect on the learning process. Drawing helps students to process information in three different ways - semantically, kinesthetically, and visually. During the study, the researchers found that drawing the information given in lessons actually doubled students' ability to recall, proving that drawing boosts memory skills.
Not only...
How To Encourage Kids To Learn A Musical Instrument
Many children learn a musical instrument growing up. While learning to play an instrument is a joy in and of itself, the benefits far exceed just that skill. Two studies from the Brain and Creativity institute at USC show that just two years of music lessons improves cognitive engagement, improving a person's ability to make decisions and focus attention.
Just because...
