Merlin Frei  |  Teaching  |  0 comments  |  747 views  |  Read Full

 

The first day of school is always exciting. It can be a bit frightening as well, both for the teacher and the student. Everyone wants to make a good first impression and it can only happen once. Here are some suggestions for that first day you may want to consider. For me this has been a wonderful way to start out the school year.

Scarlett Capelli  |  Teaching  |  0 comments  |  671 views  |  Read Full

 

It has been a long-standing fact that girls do better in school than boys do. It was not until recent years, however, that experts have conducted studies to explain this phenomenon. The results show that it may be the changes in the school and the methods of teaching that may be adding to this situation.

Basant Pandey  |  Teaching  |  0 comments  |  649 views  |  Read Full

 

The main problem faced by today’s teacher is that they feel students are loosing interest in studies. If we look from the student’s perspective then students feel that whatever is taught to them in schools is boring.

George L. Rogers  |  Teaching  |  0 comments  |  604 views  |  Read Full

 

Benjaming Franklin once wrote, "...as the happiness or real good of men consists in right action, and right action cannot be produced without right opinion, it behooves us, above all things in this world, to take care that our opinions of things are according to the nature of things. The foundation of all virtue and happiness is thinking rightly."

C.J.\\\"Duke\\\"Trudelle  |  Teaching  |  0 comments  |  478 views  |  Read Full

 

Today it seems more and more like mainstream education is involved in appearance setting rather than educating our young people. I have seen instances of teaching a test rather than educating the young person as to life and the expectations that not everything will always be "Hunky Dory" and you can be whatever you want to be just because you want it. It seems like the time period of "Dr. Spock" is fast approaching it's demise and a major dose of reality is setting in.

Sonya Wilson  |  Teaching  |  0 comments  |  773 views  |  Read Full

 

When I first started teaching, it was exciting. I loved education and working with young people. I was very idealistic and as corny as it may sound, I thought in my own way I was changing the world. Through the years, my initial excitement turned to stress and anxiety. Teaching was an overwhelming responsibility. The stress of dealing with students, papers, lesson plans, report cards, principals, supervisors, co-workers, and parents would weigh down on me and I would doubt why I even became a teacher.

Shannon Tani  |  Teaching  |  0 comments  |  598 views  |  Read Full

 

All teachers want to be great teachers. But the pressures of lesson planning, grading, preparing materials, and talking to parents often eat away at the little time we have to work on being a great teacher. This can lead to frustration and feeling as though you are failing your students.

Joe Pagano  |  Teaching  |  0 comments  |  815 views  |  Read Full

 

You know it's true. If you want your children to master mathematics, you need to give them certain tools so that they can whip the heck out of this difficult subject. One of those tools is a mastery of arithmetic. Another is a mastery of fractions. These two together will give your children a formidable arsenal against this notorious subject.

H. Bernard Wechsler  |  Teaching  |  0 comments  |  652 views  |  Read Full

 

New Research: How Kids Triple Their Math Skills. Remember the expression, It is All Greek to Me? Algebra is comparable to Chinese to 3rd and 4th grade American students. But wait, there is more. A new study published July ’07 in the Journal Cognition, led by University of Rochester scientist, Susan Wagner Cook, offers evidence hand gestures can 3x math learning.

Terry Freedman  |  Teaching  |  0 comments  |  560 views  |  Read Full

 

It's often said that pupils learn the most from what their teachers do, rather than what they say. Here are eleven good practices you need to adopt if you want your kids to lean good habits rather than bad.