A high-school teacher in Iowa has adopted a hands-on teaching technique in her biology and human physiology classes in which students complete "quests," rather than homework assignments. Instead of setting deadlines for assignments, students are given quests that they must work on until they get 100%, with papers containing errors returned for corrections.
Teachers must be coachable in order to reach their full potential, writes instructional coach David Ginsburg. In this blog post, he writes that a primary indicator of coachability is how teachers react when they are struggling. Coachable teachers, as he demonstrates by using two videos, will take ownership of their weaknesses rather than blaming issues…
Some schools in Detroit are installing more analog clocks -- rather than digital clocks -- to help teach students to tell time the old-fashioned way. Such concepts, educators say, are important to help students learn to understand time and also develop math skills.
I en artikel i the Huffington Post beskriver Colm Mulcahy hur de viktigaste matematiska principerna bakom datorspelsgrafik egentligen är en slags avancerad version av hur man kan beskriva förhållanden vid saftblandning.
Extrem fattigdom, orättvisor och matbrist – men också stor gästfrihet, vänlighet och värme. Gymnasiestudenterna Ida Suni och Hilda Gustavsson i Åmål hann uppleva allt när de besökte Malawi för sitt projektarbete.
Autistiska, handikappade och utåtagerande barn straffas hårt i amerikanska skolor. De får elchocker, tvingas ner i säckar och blir handfängslade. Några har dött av de kontroversiella metoderna – som är helt lagliga.