British Life and Culture in the UK Students are not hard-wired to learn in different ways – we need to stop using unproven, harmful methods In our series, Better Teachers, we’ll explore how to improve teacher education in Australia. We’ll look at what the evidence says on a range of themes including how to raise the status of the profession and measure and improve teacher quality. In health there are well-established protocols that govern the introduction of any new drug or treatment. Of major consideration is the notion of doing no harm. In education there are no such controls and plenty of vested interests keen to see the adoption of new strategies and resources for a variety of ideological and financial reasons. Teachers need to be critical consumers of research – as with medicine, lives are also at stake – yet with the best will in the world and without the knowledge and time to do so, decisions may be made to adopt new approaches that are not only ineffectual, but can actually do harm. Lack of evidence Psychologists and neuroscientists agree there is little efficacy for these models, which are based on dubious evidence.
Jack the Ripper Resources : Jack the Ripper (yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk) Jack the Ripper "Perhaps no crime sparks the imagination as much as the Jack the Ripper murders that occured the in 1880s in London, England. The brutality, the unknown identity of the murderer, and the tantalizing clues have all led to a wide range of speculation and theories as to who the Ripper was..." + LINKS (costumesupercenter.com) Jack the Ripper As the Threat of Outcast London - UPDATED (essaysinhistory.com) Victorian Culture and Society : Jack the Ripper as Victorian Entertainment (loyno.edu) Newspaper Articles : Excerpts from newspaper articles during the time of the murders. (newsfinder.org) Jack the Ripper Tour (jack-the-ripper-tour.com) Jack the Ripper (activehistory.co.uk) Audio-Visual resources / Interactive exercises / Worksheets / External Links History : Jack the Ripper (?) Maps : Map of the murders - interactive (triumphpc.com) PowerPoint Presentations : INTERACTIVE exercises : Exercises TO PRINT :
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British Council LearnEnglishTeens Differentiating Your Classroom with Ease - The Brown Bag Teacher For me, differentiating no longer means creating separate games/activities/learning targets. It doesn't mean that some students do more work or students are being taught different content. It does mean tweaking activities, so they have the just-right scaffolds and pushes for my students. Believing these things, our team has developed structures and organization to help us be intentional in our planning. What do I need? Like most teacher stories, it all starts with school supplies. How do you group and organize for your groups? We flexibly group our friends into these 3 groups - green (below grade-level), yellow (on grade-level), and blue (above grade-level) for math and reading. Color-coding groups really helps with planning and organizing my small-group materials. Right behind my teacher table, I also keep these color-coded bins organized and stocked for Guided Math. When planning centers, word work, and small-group activities, I try to make copies on colored card stock.
The Victorian Web: An Overview Know the News Home | Login/Register RSS / Podcasts Close Home > Get Involved > For Educators > Know the News > Remix the News News Challenge Remixer Menu Watch and Rate 7 Neuroscience Fundamentals For Instructional Designers - eLearning Industry The brain is a beautiful thing. It's also one of the most complex and complicated structures known to man. Every emotion, thought, and memory involves countless chemical reactions and neural pathways. To learn new information, our minds must be primed for the task. Which is why eLearning professionals should consider these 7 neuroscience fundamentals for their Instructional Design. 1. Our brains are often likened to machines. 2. Learning isn't as simple and straightforward as some might think. 3. The human memory is finite. 4. It probably comes as no surprise that humans love rewards. 5. Everyone needs a bit of personalized praise from time to time. 6. It's a known fact that stress wreaks havoc on the body. 7. Joyful and positive eLearning experiences are more memorable. These neuroscience fundamentals give you the opportunity to create personalized eLearning courses that motivate, inspire, and engage your online learners. Would you like to learn more about the psychology of learning?
short stories A game of Scrabble has serious consequences. - Length: 4 pages - Age Rating: PG - Genre: Crime, Humor A semi-barbaric king devises a semi-barabaric (but entirely fair) method of criminal trial involving two doors, a beautiful lady and a very hungry tiger. - Length: 7 pages - Genre: Fiction, Humor ‘Bloody hell!’ - Genre: Humor Looking round he saw an old woman dragging a bucket across the floor and holding a mop. - Length: 3 pages Henry pours more coal onto the hearth as a gust of wind rattles through the cracked window frame. - Length: 14 pages - Genre: Horror ulissa Ye relished all the comfortable little routines and quietude defining her part-time job at The Bookery, downtown’s last small, locally-owned bookstore. - Length: 8 pages - Age Rating: U The forest looked ethereal in the light from the moon overhead. - Length: 15 pages - Age Rating: 18 Corporal Earnest Goodheart is crouched in a ditch on the edge of an orchard between Dunkirk and De Panne. - Genre: Fiction - Length: 20 pages
How to praise your child: why simply saying 'well done' is not helpful How do you react when you hear expressions like “well done”, “another A grade”, “aren’t you clever” and “great work”? Maybe you use them yourself with your children in the belief that it will encourage them to work hard and do well. It turns out that praise like this is not helpful and can actually damage children. These children are afraid to make mistakes, unlikely to put in the necessary effort and, most importantly, unwilling to really practise because they have a fixed view of how smart they are. When you label a child as “clever” you are not helping them. Instead we need to be specific with our praise and focus on how the outcome was achieved: I really noticed how much effort you put into selecting interesting vocabulary in your opening paragraph. Or we might want more explicitly to connect the effort and the result in the child’s mind by asking: Tell me how you organised your practice so that you managed to play that piece so beautifully. How to give effective feedback
kolb's learning styles, experiential learning theory, kolb's learning styles inventory and diagram We have some very exciting plans for Businessballs. Later this month, we will be launching a new visual identity, refreshing the design of the site and adding lots of new functionality to enhance your learning experience. Phase 2 will include badges, learning plans linked to accredited competency frameworks, wikis (for collaborative content development) and new content from international thought leaders and academics. David Kolb's learning styles model and experiential learning theory (ELT) Having developed the model over many years prior, David Kolb published his learning styles model in 1984. Despite this, (and this is my personal view, not the view of the 'anti-Learning Styles lobby'), many teachers and educators continue to find value and benefit by using Learning Styles theory in one way or another, and as often applies in such situations, there is likely to be usage which is appropriate, and other usage which is not. kolb's experiential learning theory (learning styles) model