It just involves creating a story in your mind containing all the elements you want to recall.
The ancient memory recall technique that’s still used by majority of teachers and students is not effective at all.
Memorizing isolated vocabulary doesn't make any sense.
Students should learn the language in the natural contexts, with the expressions, the phrases, and idioms.
Every day, a sea of decisions stretches before us, and it’s impossible to make a perfect choice every time. But there are many ways to improve our chances — and one particularly effective technique is critical thinking. Samantha Agoos describes a 5-step process that may help you with any number of problems.
What is one advantage of critical thinking?
What is the first step (of five) in the critical thinking process?
I have resolved to put less self worth into my students’ test scores,
and more into the degree of excitement and curiosity I see in their
faces each day.
I have made time to find out what my students like about our
class, what they don’t, and why. One of the simplest ways to do this is
the “Stoplight” activity, where students write one thing they want you
to keep doing, one thing they want you to stop doing, and one thing they
want you to start doing.
As a result, I took down the behavior chart this year. I have
found ways to teach my students to work hard and be kind to one another
without resorting to punishments or prizes. Being a teacher is harder
now, but it’s better, too.
I love Philip Pullman’s line that “Responsibility and delight can co-exist.”
What is action research? Dr Carol Davenport describes how action research in education can be applied as part of a continuous professional development programme for science education in schools and colleges.
The network of Science Learning Centres run a number of courses which include elements of action research.
John Elliott (1991) defines action research as:
“Action research is the process through which teachers collaborate in evaluating their
practice jointly; raise awareness of their personal theory; articulate a shared conception of
values; try out new strategies to render the values expressed in their practice more consistent with educational values they espouse; record their work in a form which is readily available to and understandable by other teachers; and thus develop a shared theory of teaching by research practice.”
Students are the future, but what's the future for students? To arm them with the relevant, timeless skills for our rapidly changing w...
What is the future of education?Maybe this time we can consider how tech enhances - not replaces - traditional learning.
How can education prepare students for living in the 21st century?
How can schooling change to meet meet the opportunities and challenges of the 21st century?
How can we prepare students to address "future-focused" issues such as sustainability, globalisation, citizenship, and enterprise?
Literature suggests we need to be future-oriented and adaptable, adopting a more complex view of knowledge, that incorporates knowing, doing, and being. Alongside this we need to rethink our ideas about how our learning systems are organised, resourced, and supported.
I got my first real six-string
Bought it at the five-and-dime
Played 'til my fingers bled
Was the summer of '69
Me and some guys from school
Had a band and we tried real hard
Jimmy quit and Jody got married
I shoulda known we'd never get far
Oh when I look back now
The summer seemed to last forever
And if I had a choice
Yeah, I'd always wanna be there
Those were the best days of my life
Ain't no use in complainin'
When you got a job to do
Spent my evenin's down at the drive in
And that's when I met you
Standin on your mama's porch
You told me that you'd wait forever
Oh and when you held my hand
I knew that it was now or never
Those were the best days of my life Oh yeah
Back in the summer of '69
Man we were killin' time
We were young and restless
We needed to unwind
I guess nothin' can last forever, forever no
And now the times are changin'
Look at everything that's come and gone
Sometimes when I play that old six-string
I think about you wonder what went wrong
Standin' on your mama's porch
You told me it would last forever
Oh when you held my hand
I knew that it was now or never
Those were the best days of my life Oh yeah
I love the song and my Bartek used to sing it for me.
While walking down the street in Santa Monica, CA, the Playing For Change crew heard Roger Ridley
singing “Stand By Me” from a block away. His voice, soul and passion
set us on a journey around the world to add other musicians to his
performance.
This song transformed Playing For Change from a small group of individuals into a global movement for peace and understanding.
This track features over 35 musicians
collaborating from all over the world; they may have never met in
person, but in this case, the music does the talking.
Connected Educator Month: Those who do, teach. Own it, worldwide. October 2014.
A celebration of community, with educators at all levels, from all
disciplines, moving towards a fully connected and collaborative
profession. Convened by the connected education community, with the full
support of the U.S. Department of Education, building on the success of
previous years with hundreds of new events and activities from dozens
of organizations and communities. We’ll be working together, in October
and beyond, with all stakeholders, leaving no device unturned, no
country or learning environment unexplored. Get involved at
connectededucators.org.
About Connected Educator Month
Millions of educators and others around the world have participated
in hundreds of professional development opportunities as part of
Connected Educator Month (CEM) the past two years. Originally developed
by the U.S. Department of Education and its partners as part of the
Connected Educators initiative, CEM offers highly distributed, diverse,
and engaging activities to educators at all levels. Based on its success
in 2012 and 2013, the initiative is poised to reach even more educators
in 2014, through expanded partnerships and enhanced programming.
Highlights of CEM 2013 included:
More than 300 major education organizations, companies, or
communities officially participating, including, for the first time,
entire states and districts
More than 600 national events and activities conducted officially (on the CEM calendar), many more conducted independently
More than 1 million web pages and other online locations
referencing, promoting, or discussing the event (a 300% increase over
CEM 2012)
More than 14 million educators and others reached around the world via Twitter alone (more than triple the reach of 2012)
Recognition as one of the top educational technology news stories of both 2012 and 2013 
For more information about the first two years of CEM, see our reports on the 2012 and 2013 events, and/or this post and video by
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan (who hosted his first Twitter
chat as part of the 2013 celebration). Connected Educator Month in 2012 and 2013 was convened by the American Institutes for Research and its partners in the Connected Educators project (2010-2014), on behalf of the Office of Educational Technology of the United States Department of Education.
CEM 2014
As successful as CEM 2013 was, there are still educators who are not
connected, and many more who are not yet taking full advantage of the
opportunities connected education affords. More broadly, the field of
connected education itself is still in need of further stimulation and
development. Based on participant feedback, we hope to:
Make the event more fully global, to better incorporate learnings
from around the world, supporting multiple countries in the development
of full event slates as part of the celebration
Make the celebration more fully mobile and blended, in reflection of trends in educational practice and educator use
Provide a greater emphasis on collaboration in our planning, tools,
and activities, as the logical next step beyond connection, and address
participants’ desire for a more action-oriented approach (2x+ as many
events were collaborative in 2013)
Launch a series of ongoing connected education initiatives during
the month (our own and others) to keep momentum building throughout the
year, as well as develop more year-round resources (like 2013’s district
toolkit)
Include more events/activities that pull in other education
stakeholders—parents, students, whole school communities,
policymakers—to magnify the event’s creative impact We also expect to
enhance CEM’s editorial programming and infrastructure to keep the event
fully accessible as it continues to grow, as well as engage in more
extensive capacity-building to empower the broader community to take
more ownership of the celebration.
I love this song, lots of memories. Martina Mcbride, and those kids
really did a good job.The performance is wonderful.
I can't stop listening to the song....
