Lesson Planning
A lesson plan is the instructor’s road map of what students need to learn and how it will be done effectively during the class time. Then, you can design appropriate learning activities and develop strategies to obtain feedback on student learning. Having a carefully constructed lesson plan for each 3-hour lesson allows you to enter...
Amazing Ideas and Tips to Help Your Left Handed Child
When my daughter Lottie was a toddler, the first sign that made me suspect she may be left handed was when we were in the garden playing football. She consistently kicked the ball back to me with her left foot, ignoring her right altogether. A few weeks later, we were baking a cake when she grabbed the...
6 Brilliant Strategies For Teaching Across The Digital Divide
Last week we discussed the digital divide, and today I thought we could explore some practical strategies that teachers, as individuals, can adopt in an effort to bridge the digital divide in their classrooms.
Before we go ahead and look at some practical steps, I thought it would be useful to sketch in some...
Building Digital Portfolios
Create memorable learning archives
Your students are creating fantastic projects to show what they know. You can take their learning, and your ability to assess their achievement, to an even higher level using digital portfolios. Portfolios have long been a mainstay in the visual arts, where skill and expertise cannot be accurately represented...
4 Steps To Teach New Vocabulary Words Instantly
A standard English dictionary contains over 170,000 vocabulary words. That’s a lot of words for students to learn! While there’s little chance that students will grow to know every word in the English language, every one they learn helps improve their ability write, speak, and communicate with the world.
To help students build...
Self-Directed Learning: An Effortless Four-Step Process
Learning independently can be challenging, even for the brightest and most motivated students. As a means of better understanding the processes involved in this mode of study, this Teaching Tip outlines key components of four key stages to independent learning, known as self-directed learning: being ready to learn, setting learning goals, engaging in the learning process, and evaluating learning.
10 Tips For New Teachers
I fell upon this article by Jennifer Gonzalez (known all over the world for her excellent site, “The Cult of Pedagogy”) advising new teachers. It was a great read and reminded me a lot of my ups and downs as a beginning teacher.
Here is the thing about teaching: If you are passionate about what...
Creative Teaching And Teaching Creativity: How To Foster Creativity In The Classroom
“Describe the tongue of a woodpecker,” wrote Leonardo Da Vinci on one of his to-do lists, next to sketching cadavers, designing elaborate machines, and stitching costumes. Da Vinci filled over 7,000 notebook pages with questions, doodles, observations, sketches, and calculations. He nurtured creativity as a habit and skill every day—and it paid off. Da Vinci’s work reshaped...
Mobile Learning: Definition, Examples, Advantages and Disadvantages
What is Mobile Learning?
Mobile learning, also called mlearning, is education or training that is conducted on and delivered through portable devices like smartphones and tablets.
History of Mobile Learning
Alan Kay is the name behind the introduction of the mobile learning concept in the 1970s. He got...
What Are The Top 5 Trends In Elementary School Education?
Education is constantly evolving and being reformed. Over the centuries, as the world has changed, so has the focus of childhood education. Today, early childhood education is aimed at introducing key subjects and core concepts that will be developed later in the child’s educational career, but there is always debate about which educational methods are the best....
