This spring a state report said coaching and collaboration are making a difference at Creswell High School. Now test scores vividly illustrate the impact teachers are having.
Test scores are up sharply at Creswell High School, a grade 7-12 school in rural northeastern North Carolina. And a recent formal review of Creswell High School by the [...]
What do artichokes, plantains and squash have in common with GPS, laptops and wikis? A Wilson County conference in June challenged teachers to integrate a variety of tools into 21st Century teaching.
SummerSalt stands for Study and Learn Together. Wilson County developed the professional development week as “an acrobatic combination of skills and agilities integrating the [...]
This month, we will look deeper into the third Way to improve student performance in our series, Five Surefire Ways to Improve Student Performance.
Cooperative Learning models have been used at all educational levels, but are also applicable in the fields of business, law and medicine and in all kinds of workplaces. By using cooperative learning [...]
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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. [...]
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:
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 comprehensive [...]
By Robin Fred
The Centers for Quality Teaching and Learning
Professional Learning Communities are all the rage in education. But what makes a great Professional Learning Community, and why is it important to foster one? Almost 20 QTL instructors gathered in Raleigh for an annual meeting are discussing that question, and their collective reflections on the subject [...]
