What is the Importance of Learning Objectives?
Skipping the stages crafting learning objectives along with an assessment can cause educators and students to spend countless hours on projects that have little to do with the concept that is being taught. This is when we realize the importance of learning objectives.
Let us taken the example of making a volcano out of […]
Improving Attention and Concentration in Students with a Distraction Strategy
It is a known fact that an average human being cannot stay attentive for more than 30 minutes, or 45 minutes at the most. This beckons the need to develop strategies that could help in improving attention and concentration of students in your classroom. One such strategy is to use distractions.
Distractions aid in […]
Echolalia in Autism
At the beginning of typical development, babies begin to babble. This babbling is not language, but rather it is a precursor to communications. It prepares the Lower Brain to bring in language to the Upper Brain.
Many people with autism never went through this stage as a baby and sometimes may instead develop echolalia. […]
Professional Development
At some point, each of us comes to the realization that we have so much to learn, and a long way to go. One such AHA moment happened many years ago when I was working on improving my teaching practices.
I encouraged my students to create a mobile to symbolize what they had learned. […]
Autism Education: The Learning Environment
The learning environment is an important part of educational planning for any child. However, in the case of children with autism, this issue becomes even more important.
The environment provides a lot of sensory information to a child. The sound of birds chirping outside, the rough texture of the wooden table, the smell of […]
Formal Learning and Informal Learning
Learning can occur outside of school and even unrelated to school work. Quite often it is this learning type that tends to remain etched in the memory of the child for a long time. It is therefore important to have a perfect blend of formal and informal learning.
Jay Cross, the originator of the […]
Using Video Games for Learning
Games by their very nature assess, measure, and evaluate. Interestingly, this is also part of a teacher’s job. Therefore the concept of video games for learning can be developed in the following ways:
Studying games,
As a teamwork project,
Delivering content with games, and
Using games to leverage other skills.
Games can be used as new fiction and […]
Creating Positive Classroom Rules
In order to create an environment of learning, it is important to enforce positive classroom rules. These rules would provide students with positive behavior models to follow. The positive classroom rules need to be designed with certain principles in mind.
Be limited in number (eg. 4-5) so that students can remember them with ease. […]
What are Different Types of Attention?
There are different types of attention that contribute to academic and occupational success. They are as follows.
Sustained Attention – This attention type enables a student to stay on a task for a long period of time. The attention of the student in this case does not move away from the task.
Selective Attention – […]
Why Use Skype in the Classroom
Skype is a free tool that can be downloaded onto any computer. It allows the user to make free video or voice calls over the Internet. Any two computer users with skype accounts and webcams can see and hear each other.
The possibilities of using Skype in the classroom are practically endless! A teacher […]
