Harvard Researchers Found That One Approach to Learning Is the Most Effective — But There's a Catch
Recently, a group of physics professors at Harvard University ran an experiment you should know about. There were no balls rolling down planks. No springs or pulleys, no magnets, and no electricity. What these professors wanted to know was, how can we get students to learn more? More generally, how do people learn anything — and what gets in the way? Years of experience suggested that students learn best when assigned hands-on laboratory activities, weekly problem sets, in-class opportunities to discuss material with fellow students, and frequent short quizzes.
New research shows we trust and appreciate our teachers – but overworked teachers aren’t feeling it
Teachers in Australia are struggling with workload and feeling underappreciated, and almost six in ten say they intend to leave the profession. These are just some of the many findings of the two large-scale parallel surveys we conducted in the second half of 2019. We asked a nationally representative sample of 1000 members of the public and almost 2500 Australian teachers to share their perceptions of teachers and teaching.
Are Australian students receiving the school education they deserve?
Opinion Posted about 3 hours agoSun 8 Mar 2020, 8:51pm When people overseas ask me about Australian schools, I tell them that we have some of the best schools in the world — but they are not for all of our children. International reviews have proved that the Australian school system is one of the most unequal and socially segregated among the rich countries of the world.
English and Children's Literature
Illustrators, when trying to convey their own message in a picturebook, will be calling upon all the skills of their known craft. At the other end, we readers are there as receivers of this information but we too bring all our skills and knowledge to that reading process and these will, doubtlessly, be different from what the illustrator brings. This meaning making then is, in part, a multifaceted process and just as the writer can use certain words or grammar to affect the way we feel about someone or something, so too can illustrators use a visual grammar to do the same.
How to Write a Blog Post: A Step-by-Step Guide [+ Free Blog Post Templates]
You probably already know how integral the process of blogging is to the success of your marketing efforts. Which is why it goes without saying it's exceptionally important to learn how to effectively start and manage a blog in a way that supports your business. Without a blog, you'll find yourself experiencing a number of problems such as poor search engine optimization (SEO), lack of promotional content for social, little clout with your leads and customers, and fewer pages to share your lead-generating calls-to-action (CTAs) on. So why, oh why, do so many marketers I talk to still have a laundry list of excuses for why they can't maintain a blog? → Download Now: 6 Free Blog Post Templates [Free Prompts] Maybe because, unless you enjoy writing, business blogging might seem uninteresting, time consuming, and difficult.
The Ultimate Guide to Advertising in 2020
When you hear the word advertising, what comes to mind? Do you think of banner ads on your favorite website? Those hilarious Super Bowl commercials? The billboards along the highway or posters in the subway stations? While most of us have a pretty good idea of what advertising looks like, it’s a little harder to nail down exactly what it means — and how to do it well.
IDDblog: Instructional Design Tips, Advice, & Trends for Online & Distance Learning
When we try to replicate classroom experiences in an online environment, it’s easy to think of video conferencing as our go-to tool for all sorts of learning objectives—and for good reason. Most of us have participated in a video conference at work or had a video chat with friends or family at some point. We like the idea of being able to see and hear our students while interacting with them in real time just like we do when teaching face to face.
Time for schools to give short outdoor play multi-breaks a go
Our health and wellbeing have fast become top priorities as we do everything we can to stay safe from Covid-19. School leaders, teachers and management have done an incredible job in recent weeks to enable children to returnto their educational settings. Let no one underestimate the immense work involved in this task. As we face into the winter months, our attention is drawn to outdoor play, not only for the its educational benefits but also for the potential reduction of virus risk. In many Nordic countries, the school day is regularly punctuated with short breaks in the school playground. Students spend 50 minutes to one hour participating in formal lessons in the classroom, followed by 15 minutes of free play outdoors.
Teacher educator conversations prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic: opportunities and responsibilities (post 3) – InFo-TED
On March 12th, 2020, the HEIs closed. As work moved from our educational institutions, complete with offices, corridors, lecture theatres, tutorial rooms and staff rooms, to our homes, we also moved from the physical world to the virtual world of work. In designing these new structures, attention was paid to the new architecture of the learning space. How can we teach in these new spaces? Zoom or Teams or Google Meet?
Teacher educator conversations prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic: opportunities and responsibilities (post 2) – InFo-TED
Our identities have changed somewhat as a result of the many changes to our professional routines, norms and practices coupled with changes and adjustments in our personal routines. Our omni-presence at home means we ‘wear many different hats’ at home while we work or just be at home and it can be difficult to switch hats or switch identities when we don’t physically leave our homes to ‘go to work’. The lines have been blurred on more than one occasion over the past number of months on who is who and in what context we are operating. Family roles, relationships and responsibilities sometimes overtake the professional role and responsibilities or vice versa and the juggling and tight-rope walking can be challenging. Culturally, much has changed for many of us.
How to Avoid the Student Engagement Trap
As Mr. James starts today’s class about volcanoes, he shares one of his all-time favorite wonder moments: “The loudest known sound was made by a volcano called Krakatau, in Southeast Asia. When Krakatau erupted in 1883, it was reported to have sounded like 15,000 nuclear bombs! Like 200 megatons of energy!
Checking For Understanding: Rediscovering the Lost Art of Questioning – Jon Gustafson
Mike Schmoker sounded the alarm when he wrote in Results Now that “for the majority of lessons, no evidence exists by which a teacher could gauge or report on how well students are learning.” In an interview, author and former teacher Tom Sherrington said “as a profession, we need to think harder about how to engineer more time-efficient ways to check for understanding across a class…checking for understanding is something which needs to be way higher in teachers’ consciousness.” What’s so important about asking students questions while teaching, and why is it so hard for teachers to do this consistently? What are some of the most time-efficient ways to check all students’ understanding, and what’s at stake when we fail to formatively assess students?
