which the knowledge, skills, and habits of a group of people are transferred from one generation to the next through teaching, training, or research (Wikipedia). The English word ‘education’ etymologically derived from Latin words like ‘educare’ which means ‘to bring out’ or ‘to nourish’, ‘educere’ which means ‘to lead out’ or ‘to draw out’, ‘educatum’ which means ‘act of teaching’ or ‘training’, ‘educatus’ which means ‘to bring up, rear, educate’. NCTE in its publication, ‘Gandhi in Education’ states
constructivism impact the teaching and learning of mathematics in four middle schools in the Greenville School District? As a mathematics teacher, one must consider diversity within the classroom because students acquire knowledge and skills at different times and in different ways. Several teachers are slaves to the teacher-centered classroom and resist change for a more student-centered environment. It is of paramount importance that teachers use various teaching strategies to accommodate students’
appropriate listening strategies faced by my students of Listening 3 class. As the problems observed in my Listening 3 class are similar to those observed by some researchers in the field of Foreign Language Teaching (FLT), my study will benefit from previous research results. Much of these results has influenced my study. The teaching of English academic listening in foreign language classrooms has been reported in some research to have obstacles which are the results of inaccurate teaching procedures and/or
Blended Learning environment has been in the changing trends with the mode of teaching and learning in present higher education system. The empirical research states that in online environment, students self-regulate themselves in order to achieve better outcomes. Recent quantitative studies highlight the role of learners in the online course format as they required high self-regulation in order to achieve cognition, but there are limited reports that investigate the role of learners in Blended Learning
faculty of assessing students on both processes and outcomes. Outcomes-Based Education gives emphasis on the output or the outcomes rather than the process. Most of the participants correctly answered the question “what does the student’s grade provide.” This is because teachers are familiar on the significance and importance of grades as a tool for assessing the performance of the students. One of the components of Outcomes-Based Education is to design learning assessments. Instructors are advised
conceptions of such through inquiry, investigation, research and analysis in the context of a problem, critical question, issue or theme. ” (Marlowe
slowly to make his first few steps, he will experience each of his falls but learn to walk finally. This is experiential learning (Kolb,1984), learning that emphasizes on absolute sense to know how, often augmented by reflection. Hence the new learning based on experience becomes more concrete, comprehensive and inherent, combining perception, experience, cognition, reflection and behavior (Kolb, 2015, p 300,301) People often construct new insights of learning from their existing or prior knowledge and
formative assessment in English language teaching elementary classrooms in Italy. He observed four primary teachers’ performance in applying formative assessment in their classroom. Gattullo focused on children classes and reported the methods used. He adapted a formative assessment framework which consists of nine categories: Questioning/ eliciting, correcting, judging, rewarding, observing,
Abstract: Task-based teaching plays an important part in creating an interactive environment and learning oriented performances. Task-based method, in which learners have an important role in self-development through the expression of ideas and knowledge, in a modern approach to improved learning. This research study adopts Quasi experimental approach aimed at investigating the effect of task-based learning program in syndicate literature classes with literature and linguistic students at graduate
The first strategy is to prepare and structure the learning environment that is, teachers can help students to eliminate sources of distraction before or in the course of learning process. Secondly, by providing outlines or advance organizers, teachers can structure