How to Enhance Student Interaction in the Classroom
Often the crucial element in a classroom that aids the learning process of the child is student interaction. Students who are full participants in the flow of group instructions are likely to be well-behaved as well as academically engaged.
Following are some ideas to maintain student interaction during group lessons:
Match the difficulty level of […]
Learning Disabilities and IQ Testing
Intelligence tests measure a variety of mental skills, which are lumped together and called “intelligence”. The result is an IQ score. This number is supposed to be a measurement of a child’s general ability. But this score doesn’t consider factors like learning disabilities.
Learning disabilities and IQ are often not taken into account at […]
Understanding Learning Styles
Our learning types or styles are our “preferences” in the way we think or do things. Different people have different styles and these styles affect how we work and what we like to do. Every student is different and the way they respond to a particular style of teaching is different. Understanding learning […]
Introduction to Using Blogs in the Classroom
The first thing to do is to define what a blog is. The word, blog, is short for web-log. It is an online journal where entries, generally called posts, are written in chronological order with the most recent appearing at the top of the blog. Most blogs allow readers to post comments on […]
Teaching Tenacity & Metacognition through Games
Games and objects ground instruction, and provide the basis for experience and mental representation — comprehension. When we have this, we can spend less time decoding and more time discussing printed text. So by writing about accessible narratives such as games, we were more successful when reading related printed text. We had learned […]
