A leading figure advocating that Shakespeare should be included at a creative level in the classroom is Rex Gibson who believes in 'Active Methods' for teaching and learning: "Active Methods of teaching Shakespeare are particularly powerful in aiding student development because they accord a greater degree of responsibility to students rather than traditional ways of teaching.... It seems that it is not only students that benefit from using 'Active Methods' for teaching and learning; experienced members of staff can become invigorated by such methods and take them f...

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Piaget's conservation task provides us with some ingenious methods for assessing readiness for certain concepts. ... Rigor Different axiomatic systems can be compared rigorously Expository Method 1. Good expository teaching involves a clear or orderly sequencing of information to be taught. 2. ... Concrete teaching aids are often used in the initial stages. ... Limitations Poor expository teaching leads to passive learners. ...

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Introduction Academic writing is often more abstract and technical than our daily writing. In academic writing, students are required to take on a different voice, tone, mannerism and attitude as well as an additional set of vocabulary. For example, among psychologists "psychologists' definitions are often abstract, highly conceptualized, academic, and technical" (Rucker, 2006). The abstract and technical language used may produce writing that may be incomprehensible to the uninitiated and the readers who are outside of the field. Technical language is necessary to convey meanings of ide...

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ENG 214: RESEARCH METHODS LECTURERS: Mrs Abdulsalam Nike and Mr Mathias Orhero This course is designed to equip students with the knowledge, methods and technicalities of research writing. ... This is why this course is important because it provides students with the framework and methods in which they can undertake their own research work. ... It is important to point out here that the scientific method is what underlines the research process. The scientific method simply means the stepwise procedure adopted by scientists in solving problems. ... The hypothetico-deductive model or method,...

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But it also does relate with our traditional method of teaching reading. 2.1.1.The Reading Speed The traditional way of teaching reading is based on the classical reading theory. ... With this theory, the traditional reading teaching mainly adopts the method that items explanation, grammar analysis and transitional practice of equal importance. ... Thus the students can not obtain the information as much as possible when they do timed-reading. 2.1.2.Reading Quality Above all, we can learn obviously that the traditional teaching method obstructs the reading speed. ... In our formerly way of...

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On the other side stand the whole language advocates who are convinced that the only right method of teaching young children to read is by having them memorize complete words, and subsequently through contextual cues, their meanings (Steele, 1998). ... While educators argue over which method of instruction to use, children continue their education in a Phonics and Whole Language Instruction system that may fail them. ... Problems Associated with Phonics Teaching phonics involves continuous repetition of words and those sounding similar to them. ... In a report published by the N...

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THE RELEVANCE OF GAMES IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING CLASSROOM I INTRODUCTION One useful strategy to encourage language acquisition is using language games. ... Therefore, it is recommended that teachers try some games that may be useful to their students in order to enhance students' proficiency and help them meet their goals, and at least to try new things in teaching. ... Some of the oldest board games may have evolved from methods of divination, or fortune-telling. The game of go, which many experts regard as the finest example of a pure strategy game, may have evolved from a...

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'Teach to the test' is a common term for any method of education that is really focused on preparing the students for a standardized test. Is this method of teaching really effective? ... Do the students like this method of teaching? Do the teachers like teaching to the test or do they feel like it is ineffective? ... The answer to whether or not standardized tests and the teaching method associated with it effective is not just in the data but it is also in the voice of the people. ...

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He taught him how to cross-examine someone by using the question and answer method. Zeno was said to be the one who perfected this method. ... He did have sophist teachings and was known for making speeches. ... As an adult, Alcibiades sophist teachings helped him throughout his life. ... Alcibiades used his teachings to prove that he was strong and that he was an independent thinker. ...

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According to The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, the Socratic method of teaching is "the method of teaching in which the master imparts no information, but asks a sequence of questions, through answering which the pupil eventually comes to the desired knowledge. ... The meaning of the method Plato uses through Socrates to convey his message to his audience has been debated by philosophers for years and while most of them agree on the use of irony in the Apology they don't agree on the extent or the type of irony. ... "Conditional irony is an important part of Socrates' met...

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b) Undergraduate programs of business teacher education place greater emphasis upon preparation for teaching skill subjects than upon preparation for teaching basic business subjects. c) Business teachers who teach or have taught basic business subjects have a more favorable attitude toward teaching basic business subjects than teachers who do not teach or have not taught basic business subject. ... He reported substantial recent interest in surveys, methods, and procedures of instruction, and course content. ... Martin's experiment (29) tested the use of a continuous speed-forcing ...

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Way too often, teachers tend to focus on those annoying, unengaged children, which does not prove to be an effective method in stopping that particular behavior. I remember my cooperating teacher in my 3rd year student teaching experience would continuously yell at Alex (a child with ADHD and on Ritalin) for not behaving properly in class. ... This method will most probably motivate Alex to work on his language arts assignment the way he did with his math work. ... Reward systems may not always be successful because this is an extrinsic method to motivate, when what every educator strives for ...

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The Pharisee authorities and the synagogue held very hostile views towards all whom believed in and or favored the teachings and divinity of Jesus. ... Matthew and Luke, on the other hand, felt the addition to the story of Jesus" life would further convince the people of their particular communities that Jesus was the Messiah, and they must follow in his teachings in order to achieve salvation. ... The Gospel of Luke has Mary experience the annunciation, while Matthew has Joseph receiving the annunciation in a dream (a frequently used method of providing divine word in Matthews's narrat...

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In foreign language teaching, there are likely a large portion of oral practice and teacher-student interaction. ... In favorable LAC, free from the worries of punishment from the teacher and jeers from their classmates, students are courageous to take part in teaching activities, which will improve the efficiency of teaching. 4 In actual teaching, especially in foreign language teaching, non-verbal information is conducive to the verbal communication. Textbooks on foreign languages are emotion-bound, therefore if they are studied in a proper LAC, they are more effective in teaching activiti...

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Empiricism Empiricism, also called positivism, post-positivism, or logical positivism, is based on the assumption that the scientific method is the only proper method for studying human behavior because of its success in the "hard" sciences. ...

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It does this by providing education to everyone and everywhere, providing a good method of educating and providing education for free. ... Due to its great importance, the government should stress the delivery and methods of education because the method is just as crucial as the education itself. ... Another issue that Roy brings up in Where Nests the Water Hen dealing with the methods of educating is the construction of the school with a platform. ... This style of classroom could also affect the effectiveness of the methodology of teaching by being more interactive with the students and m...

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There are still many controversies regarding this method. ... ABA- Founders, Methods and Techniques The history of ABA (applied behavior analysis) can be traced to our founding fathers who wanted to develop a procedure for social issues surrounding troublesome behaviors. ...

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Teaching Mathematics at the High School Level Educational Philosophy Taking into consideration the competency level of an adolescent in high school, I am compelled to enforce an Essentialist approach toward education, using the methods of Behaviorism. ... The method of Essentialism is conservative and the curriculum is centered around the core subject matter rather than activities or projects. ... A method that I will use is to continually reinforce modeled behavior, while avoiding verbal confrontation or punishment of the student. ... There are other simple method's to relate "no" ...

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The day's of the lecturer standing at the front of the class droning on about the facts and not really teaching are slowly coming to a close as many teachers adapt to theses relatively unused methods of teaching. ... In the past, the education system as a whole, only ever used the one form of teaching, and that was purely acquisition of information, learn the facts but never bother to understand or comprehend them. The largest problem to arise from this was that many students were classed as "stupid" because they couldn't handle the way teachers were teaching. There was no time sp...

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Because the study does not help to distinguish between individuals who are born with a specific reading disability and those who are struggling due to poor teaching, it is very difficult to know exactly what is the problem that needs to be fixed. If a child is suffering from an innate reading disability, their treatment may differ from a student who struggles with reading due to poor education and teaching at a very young age. ... Another way why the psychometric-exclusionary method is less effective then early reading intervention programs is the issue of not having a specific way in identify...

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Gandhi felt that the essential part of the teachings of the Buddha formed an integral part of Hinduism (Fischer Essential 77). ... But that was not due to the teaching of the Koran. ... Gandhi came to the conclusion that the teaching of the Koran was in favor of non-violence (Attenborough 56). ... Many who promoted these teachings of Gandhi simply believed that it was their only option for resisting imperialism rather than having a moral conviction towards his teachings (Dalton 43). ... From this quotation, we learn that the Bhagavad-Gita influences his teachings and that he believes that on...

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It is based on four basic principles: stronger accountability for results, increased flexibility and local control, expanded options for parents, and an emphasis on teaching methods that have been proven to work. ...

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There is nothing sinful or injurious in the methods per se. ... The whole approach focuses upon a confidence that what is wrong with a man is not his essential nature, but only the distorted impediments that hamper his vision - a basic theosophical teaching. ... The missing element in psychiatry, clearly, is not in the basic method nor in the attitude of the best practitioners in the field, but solely in a lack of sufficient knowledge regarding the "higher self." ... Our knowledge comes from those teachings. ...

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By itself this "Nova" may have signaled a "Nova" approach to how the heavens were viewed and Galileo may have been one of the stars of this era in triggering the explosion of investigation and philosophical teaching known as the Renaissance. ... It will focus more on how Drake views Galileo, his work and times and how events and the Church played a role in Galileo's science and the developments of the scientific method. ... Galileo's science was not so much a collection of conclusions as it was method according to Drake. ... He shows Galileo's work to be preoccupied by mainly me...

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Teaching abstinence may work for some of today's youth, but it will not work for all of them. ... By the mid-1980s, teaching sexual education rather than abstinence was beginning to become the norm. ... The majority of the conservatives teaching tactics were fear-based to promote abstinence(Pardini). ... This does not mean that abstinence is the only method being taught in schools. ... They also do not enforce the teaching of abstinence as much as the United States does. ...

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