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How to Hold Effective Classroom Discussions

Waterford

Use this resource from Facing History and Ourselves to learn about socratic seminars in greater depth. Socratic Seminar. Preventing School Failure: Alternative Education for Children and Youth, 2003, 47, pp. It uses a classroom contract to keep the discussion respectful and encourages close-text analysis. Affinity Mapping.

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4 Awesome edtech solutions for making students fall in love with reading

Neo LMS

Americans spend an average of 17 minutes per day reading for personal interest; in 2003, the average reading time was 22 minutes. It’s a little bit like an online literature seminar, in which students and teachers comment on paragraphs, share their ideas, and exchange notes.

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How to Make Classes More Active, and Why It Matters

Edsurge

A classic example: Back in 2003 she led a groundbreaking experiment at Duke University to use iPods in education. And in that study, he and his co-authors discovered that no matter what … there was no measure by which traditional learning, by which I mean lectures and what we call seminars, [is as effective.] Active learning wins.

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Preparing Young Students for Home Row Keyboarding: An Unplugged Approach

Ask a Tech Teacher

Then I ran into Dr. William Morgan on one of the education forums I frequent and was thrilled that he knows a lot about them and was willing to share his expertise to kick-off a mini-seminar in classroom keyboarding. Utah State University, 2003) is an elementary educator. Come join the conversation at keyboardingarts.org. Morgan (Ph.D.,

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Why Do Some Schools Get Better Quickly and Others Get Stuck?

Edsurge

We had this intranet server service called FirstClass that kind of did in 2003 just about everything that Google for Education does now. One of those spaces is in a college of education classroom or a seminar room where you can kind of talk about teaching. Teachers sort of have two spaces that they learn.

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The Secret of Team Allocation in a Flipped-Classroom Environment

Fractus Learning

In addition, feedback from accounting graduate employers state that students need experience working within a diverse team, as they do so in practice (Howieson, 2003). The course design is a two hour weekly flipped-classroom, blended learning environment with 42 students per seminar. Team Allocation and Coursework Design.

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6 tips for making educational travel attainable for all students

eSchool News

She teaches social studies in Spanish and English classes to recent immigrants and an AP seminar class. She has traveled with over 800 students to Washington, DC since 1993 and to Europe since 2003, and is passionate about providing equity in educational travel for students.