Articles posted in August 2009PowerPoint for Educators: How to Make Multiple-choice Quizzes with PowerPoint via VBA
PowerPoint is a great assessment tool to create quizzes. This article will teach you how to create multiple-choice quizzes in PowerPoint via VBA with step-by-step illustrations. The VBA feature in PowerPoint gives educators an accessible way to easily create interactive multimedia quizzes.
THINGS WE DREAD ABOUT PUBLIC SPEAKING
Many of us find public speaking stressful and terrifying. When we bring to mind an occasion where we are expected to face a crowd, the tension grows especially when it hits close to the big day. However, what you dread about public speaking can be channeled into energy and motivation to prepare well and practice enough.
Rule 2 For Elementary School Teachers - Teaching is All About Learning
How did someone like me end up an educator with a book on the rules of teaching and learning? It's really only natural. I have always been a student and even now at the ripe age of 92 (if you count principal years like dog years), I am still a student both formally and informally.
Eight Warning Signs of a Bad School
How do parents find a good school? Not only are public schools crippled by dozens of bad ideas, but the schools seem intentionally designed so that parents cannot understand what's really going on inside the classrooms. Probably it's more practical to stay alert for the danger signs that can be observed from a distance. Here's a checklist of the top eight signals that you don't want your child in this school.
Creating Engaging Units of Study For Your Students - Developing Background Knowledge
Activating, developing, and building upon students' background knowledge is essential for learning to take place. How do you develop and build upon your students' experience and previous learning? Considering this question is a key part of your unit planning.
Is Teaching the New Selling?
If teaching is, as I suggest, the new selling, then I might be in trouble running my own Internet business - not because I disagree with the concept, but rather because all those teachers out there may want to have a share in what I am doing! Allow me to explain how I have arrived at this theory.
J. Alfred Prufrock, and the Dilemma of Teaching 21st Century Students
Now that the fall semester is gearing up, you're probably cooking up new ways of getting today's students engaged in their studies. And since conducting class via Twitter sounds neither feasible nor appealing, it might be time to look into your other options.
Increasing Voice and Education - Creating a Learning Centered Syllabus
American higher education is shifting from a focus on what teachers teach to what learners learn. The role of teachers is shifting from one of disseminator of knowledge to facilitator of learning. One of the ways that we can encourage the shift to occur is in the construction of learning centered syllabi.
The Benefits of Taking a CELTA Course
CELTA stands for Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults. Taking a CELTA course could be the start of an exciting teaching career travelling the world or working in the UK. Find out more about the benefits of these courses and who can take them.
The Power of Education 101
Education is empowerment in many ways. It has the power to eradicate ignorance, poverty, and make individuals become independent because of their career choices. In life's supermarket, we are encouraged to take education seriously because it affords us to be self-reliant.
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