the unknown‚ counting the dots on the ceiling. It is unfortunate that many students today are subject to this form of teaching and learning. I believe that the most effective teaching method involves assignments that directly relate to the students’ lives‚ problem-based learning and activities that impact students physically‚ intellectually‚ socially‚ and emotionally. The teaching philosophy that includes all of these learning tools is progressivism. According to our textbook‚ “progressivism is an
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Erving Goffman‚ The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life‚ 1-4 [When two or more people interact‚ there are two aspects of situations that may be involved. Some aspects of a situation are familiar to the participants‚ so that they know how to behave and do so habitually without giving it much thought‚ such as knowing that it is a college admission interview. Other aspects however may not be clear to participants and therefore problematic‚ such as the student wondering what will best impress the
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presentation Sample Introduction I. Introduction A. Attention Material: What comes to mind when you see candles? We associate candles with celebrations (like Christmas or birthdays) or special occasions. Candles date back to the Ancient Egyptians who are credited with making the first candles. They used torches made by soaking the spongy core of reeds in melted tallow (National Candle Association: History of Candlemaking‚ p. 1). B. Tie to the audience: I’m sure that all of us at some
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Students And How They Learn‚ in the book‚ Teaching at Its Best: A Research-Based Resource for College Instructors (Third Edition)‚ by Linda B. Neilson. Regards‚ Rick Reis” from Tomorrow’s Professor Mailing List‚ sponsored by the Stanford Center for Teaching and Learning at http://cgi.stanford.edu/~dept-ctl/tomprof/posting.php?ID=1047 Teaching the Millennial Generation If you are teaching traditional-age students‚ you need to know
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What Is Portfolio? Although portfolios are used in the assessment of student’s performance in nowadays‚ they are used as a method by architects‚ painters‚ photographers and artists in showing their works. However‚ as portfolio has been used for different purposes it maybe different from than that of artists. It is not possible to use only one definition for portfolio. Definition of portfolio may change according to users’ purpose and way of usage. Many researchers defined portfolio in order
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An exploration of the innovative methodologies requires an awareness of the goals and objectives of teaching literature in general and the novel in particular‚ the advantages of teaching novels and teaching methodologies. It is very difficult to agree on the goals of teaching literary texts. In the past‚ teaching literature was viewed as a way of making people better human beings and better citizens. The purpose of making English Literature a course of study at University College‚ London in the
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describes the concept of reciprocal teaching: "Definition: Reciprocal teaching refers to an instructional activity that takes place in the form of a dialogue between teachers and students regarding segments of text. The dialogue is structured by the use of four strategies: summarizing‚ question generating‚ clarifying‚ and predicting. The teacher and students take turns assuming the role of teacher in leading this dialogue. Purpose: The purpose of reciprocal teaching is to facilitate a group effort
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Multimedia Teaching with Video Clips: TV‚ Movies‚ YouTube‚ and mtvU in the College Classroom Modernization: Video-brain conclusions. The value of a video clip as a teaching tool lies in its potential to do the following: (a) tap the core intelligences of verbal/linguistic‚ visual/spatial‚ musical/rhythmic‚ and emotional (interpersonal and intrapersonal)‚ (b) engage both the left and right hemispheres‚ (c) appeal to the reptilian‚ limbic‚ and neocortex layers of the brain to sense the nature of
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Leclerc‚ wrote this book from the perspective of John Wesley’s teachings‚ which she feels is a distinct perspective into the church and its traditions. Diane shows arguments on Holiness‚ starting with the argument of relevancy of Wesley’s teaching of holiness in the postmodern world. She gets her thoughts from his teaching that salvation is the true key of many in Holiness. This book is a great resource for it brings legitimacy to the teachings of the Wesley brothers in the sense that you get a good feel
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with Middle School students of English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) when teaching map skills? (Per Grade Level Expectation SS5 1.4‚ 1.5 a. Locate states of the United States) Purpose of Study • In studying SLA we explored the benefits of various approaches that have been used over the years to teach a second language. For many years schools relied on a Traditional Approach when teaching almost every subject including a second language. By Traditional Approach we mean
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