Technology in the Classroom: Change in Student and Teacher Roles When students are using technology as a tool or a support for communicating with others‚ they are in an active role rather than the passive role of recipient of information transmitted by a teacher‚ textbook‚ or broadcast. The student is actively making choices about how to generate‚ obtain‚ manipulate‚ or display information. Technology use allows many more students to be actively thinking about information‚ making choices‚ and executing
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Pausch: Inspiration to Both Students and Teachers Randy Pausch was a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. In September‚ 2006 he learned that he had terminal pancreatic cancer and a year later he delivered a speech commonly referred to as a “Last Lecture” titled “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams”. A video of this speech was posted on the internet and was watched by millions of people. Randy states that while this lecture was given to students and faculty at Carnegie
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© IDOSI Publications‚ 2012 Comparing Intermediate EFL Students’ and Teachers’ Perceptions of Listening Comprehension Strategy Use Nasrin Hadidi Tamjid and Nasrin Babazadeh Department of Teaching English‚ Tabriz Branch‚ Islamic Azad University‚ Tabriz‚ Iran Abstrcat: Language learning strategies are the thoughts and actions that learners employ to accomplish a learning goal. Extensive research has identified strategies used by students of a variety of second or foreign languages‚ but limited
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UNIVERSITY OF JOS THE CONCEPT OF IMPROVISATION AND THE ROLE OF THE STUDENT AND TEACHER IN IMPROVISATIONS DATE: 13/02/2013 INTRODUCTION In its simplest sense‚ improvisation is the ability to react spontaneously‚ from moment to moment. This is the base for all definitions of improvisation. The ability to improvise is certainly esteemed‚ as it is related to resourcefulness. The attitudes towards improvisation are knowledge‚ culture and environment dependent‚ and differ from person to person
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Should students grade their teachers? By John Mooney This story also appeared at: New Jersey Spotlight With all the debate in New Jersey and elsewhere about evaluating teachers on how well their students perform‚ another idea is starting to surface that could prove equally provocative: judging teachers by what their students think of them. One of the options available to New Jersey school districts as they build teacher evaluation systems is including student surveys among the “multiple
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statewide and damages both teachers on their job and they’re paycheck and students on their life. The first reason why it damages students and teachers is because Standardized tests scores are being used in high stakes ways to evaluate and punish teachers ‚ but maybe teachers have taught their students well but‚ questions on test that are out of students mind level or are too hard to understand or to answer that question that may be wrong‚ will punish both teachers and students‚ also the tests are used
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Standing Committees of the Faculty of Education in promoting appropriate ethical and professional conduct have led us to develop the following Code of Ethics for Student Teachers. This code seeks to respond to‚ and address the following needs: • The Code addresses the interdependent duties‚ rights and responsibilities of student teachers‚ faculty members and educational partners. • By addressing common issues and needs‚ the Code seeks to articulate and make explicit ethical principles that transcend
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Improving teacher–student interaction in the English classroom Acknowledgement I would like to acknowledge all the students and the teachers from Newman Catholic College who helped and guided me to formulate my research topic‚ as well as‚ the process of carrying out the action plan. Abstract This paper offers an example of how to apply action research to improve and explore the patterns of teacher-student verbal communication that existed in my classroom. Pre and post survey and teacher observation
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choice: Should teachers encourage students to question everything I believe that teachers should encourage students to question everything‚ because schools are the place where students’ characters and personalities are developed and to find answers to satisfy students’ curiosity. First‚ teachers should not only give student core information and basic knowledge to students‚ rather they must make the students understand the lesson clearly. For instance‚ in Economics class‚ some students know about the
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Students are more influenced by their teachers than by their friends. It is commonly acknowledged that people are easily influenced by circumstances‚ so the most influential people to students are their teachers and friends who accompany them for much of the time each day. But the different attitudes of students toward their teachers and friends that compared to teachers‚ they hold a feeling of more affinity and trust to their friends reveal that their friends have a greater impact on them.
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