"An image is worth a thousand words". I believe most people have heard this saying before. But what does it mean for teaching and learning? How can we use images (and imagination) in the classroom?
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Weekly Digest #102: Leading women in STEM fields
According to the study, “Women in STEM: A Gender Gap to Innovation”, women are vastly underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) jobs in the US. The report further states that women hold less than 25 % of STEM jobs.
GUEST POST: When feedback is forgettable
Which type of feedback do your students prefer to receive: past-oriented feedback about how they performed, or future-oriented feedback about how they could improve?
GUEST POST: Learn, Teach, Model RETRIEVAL PRACTICE
Last Summer, I visited a friend whose son was about to take his exams. We found ourselves in one of those familiar conversations you get into as a teacher-friend. “So, tell Tricia what you are doing to revise for your exams.”
GUEST POST: To Test or Not To Test? That Is Not The Question
If there’s one way to instantly divide opinion in the teaching profession, it’s to mention the word ‘testing’. Testing is seen by some as the evil part of education: created to destroy both student and teacher self-esteem. Often conceived in primary education as a one-hour written task,
Weekly Digest #94: Resources for Language Learners
Whether you are a student in a foreign language course, an international student in a new country, or using an App to learn a new language for fun, language learning is a daunting task. Language learners are faced with memorizing vocabulary...