Using Drama Activities and Techniques for Teaching English What is Drama? Drama is a unique tool to explore and express human feeling. Drama is an essential form of behavior in all cultures‚ it is a fundamental human activity. In this site we are investigating the benefits Drama can have on child development when applied functionally within a primary classroom. Drama has the potential‚ as a diverse medium‚ to enhance cognitive‚ affective and motor development. A high degree
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of Learning and Teaching. It should be carried out sensitively and professionally‚ and should involve teachers in consultation about the purposes and format of the exercise so that everyone involved is clear about their role in the activity The Nature of Observation Observation is a systematic eye on what happens in the classroom. It can be recorded by narrative writing‚ videoing‚ sound recording or full written transcripts. It is no so much a part of our tradition in teaching‚ as it has been
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Models of Teaching Summary Information-processing models emphasize ways of enhancing the human being¡¦s innate drive to make sense of the world by acquiring and organizing data‚ sensing problems‚ and generating solutions to them‚ and developing concepts and language for conveying them. The book discussed eight different information-processing models which include: Inductive thinking‚ Concept attainment‚ The Picture-Word Inductive Model‚ Scientific inquiry‚ Inquiry training‚ Mnemonics‚ Synectics
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Poverty and Children in the United States Yvonne White SOC 120 07/23/2010 Cary Peterson The United States is known as the wealthiest nation in the world. When poverty is mentioned most people think of this occurring in developing countries. Everyone has come across someone in the United States suffering from hunger‚ homelessness and other forms of poverty‚ but few people may have realized it. [pic]Poverty in the United States is quite different from the images often[pic] seen on t
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EFFECTIVE TEACHING METHODS AT HIGHER EDUCATION LEVEL Dr. Shahida Sajjad Assistant Professor Department of Special Education University of Karachi. Pakistan ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of various teaching methods used for teaching students at graduate level. Two hundred and twenty undergraduate students studying in 11 departments of Faculty of Arts‚ University of Karachi‚ were interviewed about their perceptions of best and effective teaching methods and
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MODELS OF TEACHING We have discussed about the various learning theories in the last chapter. But as aspirant teachers‚ it is our experience that no teaching problems can be solved by acquiring knowledge of learning principles. The models of teaching will be a help to understand the nature of teaching. Teaching models are developed keeping in view of the learning theories (So that the teaching theories may be indoctrinated and reaffirmed by using these models.). The teaching model gives
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The Impacts of Teaching Aids usage on secondary school students’ performance in biology: a study of some selected senior secondary school in Yewa South Local government area. CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1. Background to the study The teaching of Biology to make understanding of the students has been what teachers of the subject find difficult to do. Even as cases may arise when these teachers are not happy about their students’ performance in the subject‚ not many of them have sat down
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TEACHING APPROACHES/STRATEGIES AND INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES Over the years‚ schools have always been concerned with how to come up with effective teaching-learning experiences for the learners. In an attempt to attain this goal‚ the teacher is expected to possess a thorough knowledge of the criteria of good teaching and the mastery of the subject matter to be taught and a broad knowledge of various teaching approaches/strategies of teaching. With some charges of emphasis on educational goals
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The Teaching Profession Educators have been debating for many years whether teaching is a profession. Teaching must be considered a profession based on the fact that a particular standard of knowledge must be acquired before an individual is allowed to teach. Because this profession has become in such high demand‚ I am likely to join the National Education Association (NEA) once I am able to practice this profession. I believe that joining the NEA will help to protect my rights and career as
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Introduction Patient teaching plans are tools developed by nurses in facilitating a systematic and evaluative way used in communicating to their patients regarding a particular treatment or practice. According to Bastable (2008‚ p.407)‚ a teaching plan is a “blueprint for action to achieve the goal and the objectives that have been agreed upon by the educator and the learner.” In this context‚ the nurse is the educator while the patient is the learner where a teaching and learning activity will
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