The Essence of Being an Educator. Being an educator starts with choosing it as a career. There may be several reasons for a person to choose teaching; it may be idealistic or practical (Ornstein & Levine, 2008). However, it was never my intention to become a teacher before I entered college. My inclination was actually on the field of Philosophy and Science; however, faced with the ever-changing challenges as to how to use my knowledge in the practical world we are living in, I veered my disposition
Tutsis results in her and seven other women to hide in a meager bathroom for three months frightened for their lives. Immaculee lives the ethical message of the “Sermon on the Mount” by followings it’s teachings concerning anger, prayer, and retaliation. Ultimately, Immaculee is an exceptional role model for Catholics. Immaculee demonstrates the many teachers of the “Sermon on the Mount,” the most prominent one concerns anger. Immaculee’s
Neil Fleming’s model of student learning assessment tool “VARK – (Visual, Aural, Read/write, and Kinesthetic)”, describes and categorizes different learning styles. Upon completing the VARK questionnaire, the participant’s leaning style is identified based on the score in each modalities. This will help to identify the individual’s best learning style and to understand other learning strategies the individual can adopt to learn best. Author’s Learning Profile using VARK model: A report on Author’s
different State Universities and Colleges in Region I. The predictor variables include personal characteristics (age, level of education, teaching experience, work assignment), perceived level of mathematics teaching effectiveness, professional development, teaching strategies and mastery of math content, social support, school climate, attitude towards teaching mathematics, and teacher collaboration.
in finding knowledge. For the past few years, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) has received special attention in the education world. The unlimited boundaries of knowledge-searching have definitely made MOOC as one of the choices in learning and teaching online as it is an online learning course that is open freely. Although there are many challenges in adapting MOOC into the education world, one prominent challenge comes from the Key Performance Indicators (KPI) set by the Ministry of Higher Education
that provides an environment in which teaching and learning escalate by setting clear and well-organized classroom rules and procedures. An effective learning can be maximized in a secure learning climate, where the teacher and her students feel comfortable. It is very beneficial that both, the teacher and the students must be encouraged and motivated; Students to learn and acquire the adequate knowledge, and teachers to facilitate learning. Effective teaching and learning are synchronized and can’t
A models based practice is an approach to pedagogy which involves identifying desired learning goals and subsequently devising a curriculum and teaching style in order to achieve these targets. Metzler (2005, p.15) describes a model as ‘A comprehensive and coherent plan for teaching that includes a theoretical foundation, a statement of intended learning outcomes, teacher’s content knowledge expertise, developmentally-appropriate and sequenced learning activities, expectations for teacher and student
Deployment of ICTs in PSS Institutional e-readiness • Schools use the available ICT resources for teaching basic computer skills. • Distribution of ICT facilities in PSS is not a priority due to limited funds from the Government. ICT equipment and software in PSS • Computer laboratories are used as the model for equipping students with the necessary ICT skills. • There are no available data to indicate the state of ICTs in PSS except Teacher’ Colleges
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
“concepts are to be understood as basic units of knowledge that can be accumulated, gradually refined, and combined to form even richer cognitive structures” which essentially is the concept attainment model. In this model, the teacher “provides examples and non-examples of the concept, and the students determined the concept from examples”. Students formulate a definition for the concept using only the given example and non-examples. Concept attainment requires