Megan Wilson
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Megan Wilson is a teacher, life strategist, successful entrepreneur, inspirational keynote speaker and the Development Manager for https://EbookACE.com.
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Creating Curriculum-Based Assessments in Spelling
The current focus on curriculum-based assessment (CBA) presents a number of problems for many special education teachers. Preparing and using CBAs may seem difficult for teachers who are accustomed to viewing academics from a skills-based perspective or a criterion-referenced perspective that focuses on generic hierarchies of skills in various academic areas to plan a student's individualized education program (IEP).
By Megan Wilson10 months ago in Education
How to Prepare Graduate Students for a Variety of Responsibilities
In many of the doctoral degree granting institutions in the U.S.A. the graduate teaching assistantship is an important means for providing financial support to graduate students. In addition, these positions fulfill the very critical role of providing teaching and teaching-related functions for the university. Originally, the teaching assistantship was based on an apprenticeship model. In this model, teaching assistants directly assisted professors in a specific course, primarily by grading and preparing class materials. Seldom, if ever, did these graduate TAs have direct contact with undergraduate students.
By Megan Wilson11 months ago in Education
Aspects of the Course Most Critical for Student Understanding
During the past four years I have introduced service-learning into my psychology course as a way to help students meet goals of learning to see situations from multiple perspectives and develop strategies to confront the social implications of mental disorders. The attempt to link course goals with service experiences has had varying degrees of success. In one semester, service-learning was required, and the integration of goals was more easily accomplished since all students were able to relate similar experiences from outside of the classroom. In my community college setting, it has been more realistic to have the service component as an option. Students select either a project involving service in the community and a paper or two papers dealing with a variety of topics. A recurrent problem has been how to integrate and share the learning between students working in the community and those completing more traditional investigations. In my project I would like to use the generative topic of resiliency as a way of linking course goals across the semester to integrate what is learned by students engaged in different forms of inquiry.
By Megan Wilson11 months ago in Education
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Scholarship is a conversation in which one participates only by knowing what is now being discussed and what others in the past have said. We talk of successful scholarship as "contributing to the field." If a project does not speak to current issues of theory, fact, interpretation, or method, it is unlikely that anyone would say that a contribution has been made. This is fairly uncontroversial with respect to established fields of scholarship. The catch with a "new" or "emerging" area, like the scholarship of teaching, is that--as my father used to say--"you can't jump if you ain't got no place to stood." One of the major challenges in supporting the scholarship of teaching on campus or in the disciplines, is to encourage not just those individuals who are interested in pursuing such work, but to help develop the "field" itself. The scholarship of teaching can flourish only with the development of communities of scholars who share, critique, and build upon each other's work.
By Megan Wilson11 months ago in Education
Opportunities to Improve Teacher Quality . AI-Generated.
America needs talented, committed, well-prepared new teachers — lots of them. And, to meet the needs of today's classrooms, they will need to be the most talented, diverse, and well-prepared generation of teachers America has ever known. While student enrollments are rising at record rates, more teachers than ever before are retiring. As a result, teacher shortages are reaching crisis proportions. In addition, other professional opportunities have opened up for college graduates that may be more lucrative and desirable than teaching.
By Megan Wilson12 months ago in Education
Influence on Learning Important, Generic Skills
In some ways, the student voice has been the most powerful in traditional schemes for evaluating teaching at the college level because student evaluations are often the only systematically collected data on teaching. Nevertheless, the way questions are asked of students, and - more important - the way they are used, often diminishes students' sense of the value of their role in this process. These student "voices" have provided a unique source of data through which to further inquire into the nature of good teaching and good teachers as well as the qualities they possess which might cause them to be perceived as so effective.
By Megan Wilson4 years ago in Education
The Effects of Block Scheduling on Academic Success
The current research exploring the effect of class scheduling format changes (shifting from three fifty-minute class sessions a week to two eighty-minute class meetings per week) on undergraduate student learning is quite limited. Extending beyond the undergraduate literature, this report also examines research on the assessment of scheduling formats for time intensive courses (nontraditional, part-time, and continuing education), graduate courses, and block scheduling at the high school level. Researchers investigated students' academic achievement, attitudes, student/teacher interactions, school/classroom environment, instructional methodologies, and challenges of an extended instructional period. Although the ages of these groups of students are outside the traditional eighteen to twenty-two years of the typical undergraduate, the insights on student learning obtained from these studies may be helpful.
By Megan Wilson4 years ago in Education
Quotations on Teaching, Learning, and Education
A number of teaching and learning centers have begun collections of quotations. The following have been gleened from these and other sources. In most cases the quotations are given without specific citation to the source in which it first appeared. This will annoy scholars and be of no concern to toastmasters.
By Megan Wilson4 years ago in Education
Deeper Understanding of Stages of Insight Development
In my experience the "epiphanies of learning" or the moments of spontaneous intellectual clarity, so valued by those of us committed to teaching and learning, are far more abundant and well articulated in the classrooms. While educational and cognitive psychologists are quick to define "insight," little empirical research is available to assess its occurrence in the classroom setting. More often than not the methodology employed to document change in student understanding and insight involves an approach that privileges the teacher's perceptions over the learner's. Ironically, very little emphasis has been placed on the voices of learners as important and necessary assessment tools.
By Megan Wilson4 years ago in Motivation
More Families Would Opt For Different Schools If They Could
There is growing evidence that more families would opt for different schools if they could. This is clear from survey data and focus groups, from alternative-school and charter-school waiting lists, among many examples. What prevents them from sailing to a new education island is, above all, the political blockade that still seals the ports to all but a few lucky or intrepid voyagers. Visible though the new education islands and vessels may be to avid policy explorers, most people still reside on the two old continents - and don't travel much. The reasons are familiar, beginning with old-fashioned complacency about one's own school. Surveys have long shown a relatively high level of contentment - or resignation - among Americans with children in school. The familiar and nearby are often more comfortable than the distant and strange.
By Megan Wilson4 years ago in Education
Principals Must Became Change Agents Motivating Teachers To Learn
The modern tension between technological change and traditional values in American culture characterizes the context in which the role of the school principal is currently being reshaped. Schools are traditional centers of community. But they are also confronting rapid social and technological changes. Understanding the principal's changing role is important, since evidence indicates that principals make schools better places to work and learn. This paper describes the reshaping of the principalship, first identifying how work roles generally have become more complex and then examining the internal and external complexities that are transforming the principalship.
By Megan Wilson4 years ago in Education
The Simple Process Of Closely Watching Someone Else Teach
The cohort group exists so that its members can visit each other's classes and make observation of classroom instruction and interaction. For the purposes of the cohort groups, the content explored in the observed instruction is incidental to the process of the group. This does not mean, of course, that content is incidental, but it does allow instructors of different academic disciplines to joint together in one cohort group. A cohort group can be as small as two members, but it has been my experience that three or four is a better number. The reason for this larger number is largely incidental to actual practices; instead observing a larger number of ones colleagues allows one to pick up on and borrow more teaching techniques that one would observe were one only to visit one other instructor's classroom.
By Megan Wilson5 years ago in Education
