professors on an open board where students can freely view past criticisms to decide upon future classes. Not only do these professor reviews help the students prepare for class‚ but more importantly they give insight on the quality of a professor’s teaching and the contemporary student’s attitudes towards modern college academia. In this paper‚ the author will be analyzing several comments posted on Ratemyprofessor.com regarding an upper-division Accounting class‚ Econ 136C‚ taught by Professor Coby
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First online task(TW10103) 2ND APRIL 2011 Share with us know your thoughts and your experiences in Teaching Listening and Speaking in your school. Candidly share your opinions on the following topics. 1.What are your best accomplishments in teaching these two skills to your students? 2. What are some of the challenges/problems you encountered in teaching this two skills? 3.What are your hopes and expectations of this course? Thank you Dr Lee Dear Doc‚ Thank you for posting these questions;
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October 2009 Number 345 TEACHING CHILDREN TO READ Reading is the gateway to learning; without it‚ children cannot access a broad and balanced curriculum. Dyslexic difficulties are associated with negative educational‚ employment and economic outcomes‚ making reading-related issues relevant to various policy domains. This POSTnote explains the reading process and the underlying basis of specific reading difficulties. It also summarises different methods of reading instruction‚ and examines their
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Improving English Language Teaching in Thailand An importance of English language cannot be denied by anyone as English language is considered as an international language. It also affects people worldwide in many aspects such as education‚ trading‚ medicine and technology. According to‚ Thailand does not use English as an official language‚ so most of Thai people have to study English from their school since they were young. Even though‚ we have been studying English for a long time‚ the skill
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LANGUAGE TEACHING - APPROACHES IN LANGUAGE TEACHING DIDATICS Methods BACKGROUND The origins of CLT are to be found in the changes in the British language teaching tradition dating from the late 1960´s. Until then‚ Situational Language Teaching represented the major british approach to teaching english as a foreign language. In slt ‚ language was taught by practicing basic structures in meaningful situation-based activities. But British linguistis saw the need to focus in language teaching on communicative
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in a community among high school students (N = 181). The results indicate that using computers in the classroom positively affects students’ sense of learning in a community. Analyses revealed that students believed that connectedness with their peers is the most important variable in developing a sense of community. Results suggest the following policy implications for urban education: (a) use of computers in teaching may add to the sense of classroom community and (b) sense of community is important
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‘The best teaching aid is a piece of chalk’ Discuss this point of view with reference to the alternatives. What are the best teaching aids? Every Teacher knows there is a place for chalk or white board pens in the classroom‚ every good teacher knows that chalk is not the only effective teaching aid in the classroom. There are three types of teaching in my opinion; regurgitating information word for word from text books and lesson plans‚ teaching using PowerPoints and so projecting‚ and finally
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Teaching Research Methods: Learning by Doing N. Alexander Aguado University of North Alabama “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” — Confucius ABSTRACT This paper outlines ways to structure a research-methods class so that students gain a practical knowledge of how research is done. Emphasis is placed on data collection‚ using statistical software‚ and writing up results. Included in this article are several assignments and exercises that‚ when combined‚ work
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behaviourist teaching and learning approach. Many educators today however are of the opinion that there should be a shift in teaching and learning from the behaviourist approach to the constructivist approach. a. Compare the differences between constructivist theory and behaviourist theory. Following that‚ discuss how the shift from the behaviourist approach to the constructivist approach affects the way teachers teach and students learn. b. Describe a behaviourist teaching activity (on any
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Teaching cannot come about until one has learned how to teach‚ but what truly is a teacher? I have found that teaching goes further than demonstrating how to “do things” and is more about showing how to “live things.” In life a person continuously learns and grows and the same goes for a teacher; they are constantly shaping and reshaping their ideologies. From these ideologies a prospective teacher forms a philosophy of teaching that will guide them through the years of paper grading and parent teacher
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