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How to Speak to School Teachers So that You Can See What You Need for Your Kid
Every child has had one: the teacher who just won’t play nice. Sometimes it’s an older teacher who’s just done like last Thanksgiving’s turkey. Sometimes they love the girls, and you have an ADHD boy. It could just be a bad personality mix. Whatever the situation, you and your child have to learn to play nice. Before you run to the principal to demand a new teacher, try these tips for a more productive parent-teacher relationship.
By Michelle Rebecca6 years ago in Education
Instructional Technology
According to the Association for Educational Communication and Technology, institutional technology is the theory and practice of design, development, utilization, management, and evaluation of processes and resources for learning. According to this definition, it involves ways of making learning effective by incorporating, not only scientific theories, but also other information that provides enough knowledge. Accordingly, the definition is grounded on the concept of instructional technology, which is divided into five interconnected domains. These domains include development, utilization, design, management, and evaluation. Under each domain, there are subdomains, which help in bringing out a clearer meaning of the term in structural technology. Design refers to the process of specifying conditions for learning, development refers to the process of translating design specifications into a physical form, utilization refers to the use of processes and resources for learning, management refers to processes of controlling instructional technology, and evaluation is the process of determining the adequacy of instruction.
By Alice Halls6 years ago in Education
Are You a Teacher? Best Ways to Stay Organized
Teachers are often underappreciated. They put in a lot of effort to provide a great learning experience for children that are in their classroom each year. They can have very hectic schedules, and it can become difficult to stay organized when there are so many students to pay attention to during the course of the day.
By Damien Justus7 years ago in Education
High-Vibe Teaching
Most educators today are familiar with or have actively engaged in the teachings of Carol Dweck's Mindset. There are so many facets to her research, but the power of the word "yet" is one of the main components of transforming a "fixed mindset" to a "growth mindset." For example, if you say "I can't do this," you have a fixed mindset and will probably give up and never learn to do it. You will believe you are not capable of the skill or concept, and that will become your truth. However, if you say "I can't do this yet, but I will try," you will give yourself the momentum to get through any obstacles to learn the concept or develop the skill you wish to acquire. This is true in your own learning and the learning of your students. If you have not read about Dweck's Mindset research, I highly recommend it for your own growth and the growth of your students. In addition to using the power of the word "yet," I want to introduce you to six more phrases that can foster a growth mindset, and bring positive energy to your classroom.
By Marci Brodock7 years ago in Education
The Power of Student Reflection
I am an education junkie. I am constantly reading education blogs and listening to education podcasts. The moment I am faced with an obstacle regarding students or contents, I jump over to Google or Pinterest to find different strategies that might resolve my problem. One of my favorite strategies for student motivation that I have found comes from collecting data from the most important participants in education—my students. I truly believe in the power of student surveys and reflection; therefore, after every test I give, I list a student survey on the board for my students to give me feedback on what went well and what can be improved.
By Marci Brodock7 years ago in Education
Top 5 Reasons Why Teaching English Is So Important
The Future Is In Your Hands—Why Teaching English Is So Important Statistically English is a world-wide spoken language, the actual numbers vary from study to study, but the amount of people who speak English is universal. The English language is a language that reaches across a multitude of cultures, industries, and a multitude of countries. Students who learn English open doors and gateways otherwise not thought possible. Teaching English is so important because learning English has become paramount. Everywhere you look, especially in the online world, you will most likely find websites, blogs, lists, social media posts, the list goes on and on predominantly written in the English language. Many people from other countries and cultures are seeking out ways to learn English, because they have come to realize how important it is to learn the English language.
By Mikkie Mills7 years ago in Education
Top Teacher Tips for Organizing a Large Class
These numbers vary and depend on the age of the students, but an estimated optimum number would be somewhere between 15 and 25 students. However, having a classroom with 30 students or more is nothing out of the ordinary these days. But how do you handle a class that big? And how do you find time and the right approach to instill knowledge in each and every one of those students? Here are some tips for organizing such classes.
By Isla Wright7 years ago in Education
End of the Year Activities for Kids
Termination can be a difficult time for both clients and counselors or teachers. Students can react to endings in a variety of ways that can often be unpredictable and really different from their usual behavior patterns. Some students might withdraw and mentally seem to create some distance, while others will become aggressive or might act out for increased attention. By incorporating activities to help wrap up the end of the year, you can help curb some of these reactions and ensure that students get closure around the work they have done with you. These can be especially helpful for teachers or counselors who will no longer be working with these children again the coming school year.
By Alina Gallupe7 years ago in Education
Educated Out of Creativity
I went to university with the concrete plan that I was going to train to be a primary school teacher, something I'd wanted to do since I was fourteen. The course was four years long and would give me the QTS qualification (qualified for teacher status). I had the time of my life, I learned so much, and met people that I will call my friends for decades to come, but I hated the course. 90 percent of it was dull mind-numbing information, that whilst we had to know, it was soul-destroying having lecturers trying to make formative assessment sound interesting. The other 10 percent was incredibly interesting, understanding how children learn language and develop cognitively, the different theories of learning, even writing the essays we were assigned. And this was only when we were in uni. The rest of the time we were on placement in local schools. The university assigned us our schools, a different one each year and gave us new objectives to focus on. Over the course of the four years, we would take over more and more of the class timetable as our skills and confidence grew. Our class teacher(s) would help us with our planning, help us with the curriculum and what topics they wanted the kids to cover. Their jobs were to guide us, point us in the direction of success and support us in our formal observations. The observations, I should explain, could make or break us. Some were graded, others weren't, but they had the power to build and destroy our confidence in our abilities in equal measure. Unfortunately, we found that it was pure luck of the draw whether your school/teacher/overall placements was going to be a good one. Everyone I know, myself included, had a bad experience on placement, either there was a personality clash with the teacher, lack of guidance, lack of care if you succeeded or not, a bad observation. Tons of reasons, none of which were good enough reasons. I found that there were a lot of politics amongst the staff wherever you were. Underlying agendas and deep rooted feuds, never a good thing in a mainly female profession. Gloves were off and the bitchiness spread like wildfire.
By Louisa Jane7 years ago in Education
More Money for Miss
There was a time when teaching was a highly desirable job which my grandparent’s generation would have aspired to on behalf of their children; teachers would have been thought of along with doctors, lawyers, and clergymen as pillars of the community, as is still the case in many societies, particularly across south-east Asia.
By Fionnbharr Rodgers7 years ago in Education
