Looking for ways to engage your students and motivate them to be self-directed learners? Here is the second of five installments of surefire tips! This time we focus on Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences and find out “WHAT KIND OF ‘SMART’ ARE YOU (AND YOUR STUDENTS)?
WHY DO WE CARE ABOUT HOW KIDS PREFER TO LEARN?
Dr. [...]
Driving to work this morning, curiosity got the best of me and I found myself pulling ever-closer to the car in front of me in an effort to read the tiny print on an intriguing bumper sticker. When I finally managed to make out what it said, I realized it was a rant against tailgaters. [...]
Diane Ross
The Centers for Quality Teaching and Learning
I sparked a conversation in my graduate Human Development class not long ago when I mentioned the ring tones that most adults cannot hear. This was ‘news’ to every person in the class, including some who can probably still hear the young-eared frequencies.
You see, a few years ago [...]
By Dave Boliek
CEO, The Centers for Quality Teaching and Learning
I’m starting to write before I finish reading and that’s liable to be dangerous, but I have just gotten through the introduction of a just released report and recommend it to you. A bunch of school superintendents in Texas, sincerely PO’d at the current system of [...]
By Theresa Bell
The Centers for Quality Teaching and Learning
Looking for ways to engage your students and motivate them to be self-directed learners? In the weeks ahead, we’ll be examining five surefire tips:
The Five Surefire Ways Series:
1. Brain-Based Learning
2. Multiple Intelligences & Learning Styles
3. Cooperative Grouping
4. Graphic Organizers
5. Inquiry Based Learning
The first topic is BRAIN-BASED LEARNING.
Brain-based learning is a [...]
Robin Fred
The Centers for Quality Teaching and Learning
(Dec. 12, 2008) - This morning’s meeting of the North Carolina Joint Legislative Technology Commissions in Raleigh was indeed what state school board chairman Howard Lee called a “fantastically informative experience.” The snapshots of progress in increasing the effective use of educational technology were dizzying to someone who [...]
Robin Fred
The Centers for Quality Teaching and Learning
(Dec. 12, 2008) Author Michael Horn (Disrupting Class: Student-Centric Education is the Future) delivered the keynote to today’s session of the Joint Legislative Technology Commissions in Raleigh with a presentation that took a cutting-edge business theory and applied it to education.
Horn and his co-author, Clayton Christensen, studied how [...]
Terri Jenkins, Instructional Specialist
The Centers for Quality Teaching and Learning
A recent article in the “Open Education” blog asserts that educators seeking to incorporate technology into their teaching should stop focusing on pedagogy (teaching strategies) and opt for an androgogical approach (finding ways to engage learners in their own educational process). Simply put, the author says [...]
