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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Diane Ross
The Centers for Quality Teaching and Learning
When you think of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, thoughts of childhood summer vacations and shag dancing are supposed to come to mind. But this year, the theme of the SC ED TECH CONFERENCE was “Rock On.” We saw the likes of Elvis and [...]
Dave Boliek
CEO, The Centers for Quality Teaching and Learning
The studies are legion. The recommendations plentious. Dollars spent - phenominal. Yet after 30-40 years of hand-wringing over “the dropout problem” there’s no real progress; we still lose about a third of our ninth graders to the dropout zone rather than 12th grade graduation. There are a [...]
Dave Boliek
CEO, The Centers for Quality Teaching and Learning
Several years ago at the National School Boards Association’s Technology and Learning conference in Denver, I heard a talk by Sir Ken Robinson, a British ex-patriot now living in California. Sir Ken’s philosophy is that creativity should be as important a priority in schools as literacy.
One of [...]
