A carefully managed group work will encourage critical thinking and active discussion compared to a traditional teacher-centered classroom that focused on drilling and memorisation of facts. ... Using this technique, a reading text can be divided into parts and each parts is assigned to each students. They will become the expert for each part and are expected to share their expertise with the other students. ... Students should be able to see how the skills that they have learnt can be applied in real life situation. ... Unfortunately, teachers seldom ask students to reflect on their learnin...

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The reason that the students engage in the process is due to the question(s) posed and the amount of background knowledge that the students possess; students do not engage in the process because it is in itself an activity (Geahigan, 1998a; Geahigan 1998b). ... The inquiry-based process in which students engage has six stages through which students negotiate (See Figure A). ... And inquiry is unique because it allows "teachers and students [to] enter a process of social construction of knowledge that encourages critique, diversity"-and meaning making" (Fecho, 2000). ... Diaries are the m...

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As everybody knows, each student has her/his own specific way of efficient learning and it is necessary to find out that method for a better learning and a successful college life. ... Most often I prefer to study alone and during studying alone not because of being alone helps me learn more, the main reason is that much of the students are not good in group studying also I have to say that Pictures and diagrams help a lot. ... One of teaching methods which make me bored and does not help students learn effectively is using the PowerPoint slides, Personally, I think it shows the teacher not p...

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Students are encouraged and required to record what they have learned, how well they learned it (their perceived level of mastery over the course content) and how they will use the acquired skills and knowledge. ... Besides that, teacher have to periodically track student progress as some students may simply stop assessing themselves without any reason. While tracking student progress, it is provide a good chance for teacher to give students feedback on their self-assessment. ... Subsequently, teacher can challenge students to hit higher goal setting. ... It also assists students in the develo...

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The reason I chose to do well in school was due to the teachers that pushed me and encouraged me to do well. ... Students must become intrinsically motivated. ... The teacher knows and understands students and wants the student to succeed by developing their own abilities. ... A teacher must try to be considered not as a friend like the peers of the student, but as a friend who the students look to for advice, guidance, and support. When a teacher gains this relationship with students the students will be motivated by the teacher to learn any subject, and discipline is never an issue. ...

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How to teach strategies in the classroom: 1) Teach strategies through interactive techniques - to lower inhibition, you can play guessing and communication games, do group work, laugh with your students - to encourage risk- taking, praise students for trying out language - to build students self confidence, tell them that you believe in them - to promote cooperative learning, play down competition among students 2) Use compensatory techniques Several dozen techniques can be "prescribed- to help students to overcome problems...

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Inclusive classrooms are classrooms in which teachers and students work together to create and sustain an environment in which everyone feels safe, supported, and encouraged to express their views and concerns. ... Content is presented in a manner that reduces all students' experiences of marginalization and, wherever possible, helps students understand that individuals' experiences, values, and perspectives influence how they construct knowledge in any field or discipline. ... When these students finally graduate and go out into the real world they will not be scared of what they...

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As a professor she has a major impact on her students. ... Not only did Nancy teach her students in the classroom but also taught them just by being herself. ... She shows that she won't give up and this helps encourage others to pursue on in troubled times. ... Her standards were high for her students and her authority was whole. ... Children are vulnerable and impressionable and to scare them into thinking they are bad is no way to encourage them to learn more. ...

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The traditional education encourages the students to be open and respectful. ... I think that progressive education can really give the students a feeling of empowerment. ... The teacher acts as the trendsetter, a role model for students to follow. ... The teacher should also be a friend and a social worker to his students. Students come into our schools with problems that must be dealt with before any learning can occur, and it is the responsibility of the teacher to get the students the help they need. ...

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For example, if I worked in school that contained mostly students from the lower end of the socioeconomic scale, I would need to understand where they were coming from, figuratively and literally. ... The first student would enable me to give him or her lengthy assignments to take home and go over with his or her parents, and I could be reasonably sure that this would be done. The second student would require extra time and help from me, or from some other source that I could help arrange. ... This ends up encouraging them in the long run. ... There are many programs at the club that I he...

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There are six basic characteristics that interest this age group of students: 1. ... By encouraging these associations we need to embed the material they are being taught with heroic characteristics, showing them the "hidden heroic journey" in everyday things. ... Teachers must focus on the distant, the strange, the exotic first to engage the student's imagination, and then we can enrich the meaning of what is already familiar to our students. ... Our students start feeling the injustices of our reality. ... When we get the imaginations of our students working, we are getting them inv...

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While observation is important to the poet and to the scientist, "hands on" experiences allow both to convey to their students the most meaningful and coherent interpretation of gathered information. ... These models encourage further exploration and they also expand our sensory experiences. ...

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Instead of deterring me, these failures, however, encouraged me to learn more about machines. ... Instructional laboratories at Penn such as the student project lab and the undergraduate experimentation lab will provide me with a platform to make new and exciting discoveries, be it something that is included in the curriculum, or as a part of extracurricular activities. ...

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Schools that neglect to impart this core knowledge leave their students seriously deprived and our democracy weakened. ... Intensive study encourages a fully developed understanding of a subject, making one's knowledge of it integrated and coherent. ... On the first diagnosis, Hirsch's diagnosis, what students lack is shared information. On the second diagnosis, the one I prefer, students lack precisely what Hirsch fails to offer them "a theory of cultural literacy as contributing. ... Once students nourish this vision of themselves, they also have the incentive to fill in w...

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During my years in school I was always competing with other students to be the best and the brightest, and it was a lot of work that I sometimes didn't want to do. ... In an insert from Benjamin Franklin's autobiography he talks about how he would read books on writing, and edit his own writings, and he said, "I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious." ... My awareness comes from what I learn in my classes and read about current eve...

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Here I was thirty something years young and my entire life totally got turned upside down in the blink of an eye. Everything that I knew to be certain was gone. I had worked faithfully for Allen Printing Company for almost 10 years and suddenly the company was gone. I had stared out working part tim...

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