Educational Psychology - 1 views
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This open textbook covers the curriculum for an introductory course on educational psychology. Contents: 1) The Changing Teaching Profession and You. 2) The Learning Process. 3) Student Development. 4) Student Diversity. 5) Students with Special Educational Needs. 6) Student Motivation. 7) Classroom Management and the Learning Environment. 8) Instructional Strategies. 9) Planning Instruction. 10) Teacher-Made Assessment Strategies. 11) Standardized and Other Formal Assessments. 12) The Nature of Classroom Communication. 13) The Reflective Practitioner.
Namibia's language policy is 'poisoning' its children | Education | Guardian Weekly - 0 views
educational-origami - Bloom's and ICT tools - 1 views
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Nominated as "Best Educational Wiki," in 2008 and 2009, Educational Origami is a blog , and a wiki, about the integration of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) into the classroom. It's about 21st Century Learning and 21st Century Teaching. This collection includes the connection of ICT with Bloom's Taxonomy, learning styles, integration, management, and dealing with complex change. The site also houses many resources for teachers to equip them to become "Digital Natives."
Launch of World Atlas of Gender Equality in Education - 0 views
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To mark International Women's Day, UNESCO and the UIS have jointly released the World Atlas of Gender Equality in Education, which includes over 120 maps, charts and tables featuring a wide range of sex-disaggregated indicators. The vivid presentation of information and analysis calls attention to persistent gender disparities and the need for greater focus on girls' education as a human right. The atlas illustrates the educational pathways of girls and boys and the changes in gender disparities over time. It hones in on the gender impact of critical factors such as national wealth, geographic location, investment in education, and fields of study. The data show that: Although access to education remains a challenge in many countries, girls enrolled in primary school tend to outperform boys. Dropout rates are higher for boys than girls in 63% of countries with data. Countries with high proportions of girls enrolled in secondary education have more women teaching primary education than men. Women are the majority of tertiary students in two-thirds of countries with available data. However, men continue to dominate the highest levels of study, accounting for 56% of PhD graduates and 71% of researchers.
Building Peace In Our Backyards, and Around the Globe | Human Rights | Change.org - 1 views
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Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan put quite the punctuation mark on what it means to work for peace. Speaking during the International Day of Peace, shortly before the dawn of the 21st century, Annan said that working for peace can be complicated, complex, and messy. But it's quite possibly the most necessary thing we can do, both in our personal lives and around the globe.
Rwanda: MINEDUC Shifts Focus to Teachers' Quality - 1 views
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"Kigali - The Ministry of Education (MINEDUC) has turned its focus to teacher quality assurance to improve the quality of education. This was declared yesterday at the opening of a two-day summit on teacher education, management and professionalisation. According to the Minister of Education, Dr. Charles Muligande, the quality of education in the country cannot be attained if the teachers who are the backbone of the change are not taken into account. "The enhancement in the quality of education can be attained through improvement of infrastructure. However, unless the quality of the teachers is assured, nothing can be attained," Muligande said."
Opportunities for change. Education innovation and reform during and after conflict - 1 views
Disaster Awaits Cities in Earthquake Zones - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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t is not so much the city’s modern core, where two sleek Trump Towers and a huge airport terminal were built to withstand a major earthquake that is considered all but inevitable in the next few decades. Nor does Dr. Erdik agonize over Istanbul’s ancient monuments, whose yards-thick walls have largely withstood more than a dozen potent seismic blows over the past two millenniums.His biggest worry is that tens of thousands of buildings throughout the city, erected in a haphazard, uninspected rush as the population soared past 10 million from the 1 million it was just 50 years ago, are what some seismologists call “rubble in waiting.”
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Istanbul is one of a host of quake-threatened cities in the developing world where populations have swelled far faster than the capacity to house them safely, setting them up for disaster of a scope that could, in some cases, surpass the devastation in Haiti from last month’s earthquake.
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the planet’s growing, urbanizing population, projected to swell by two billion more people by midcentury and to require one billion dwellings, faced “an unrecognized weapon of mass destruction: houses.” Without vastly expanded efforts to change construction practices and educate people, from mayors to masons, on simple ways to bolster structures, he said, Haiti’s tragedy is almost certain to be surpassed sometime this century when a major quake hits Karachi, Pakistan, Katmandu, Nepal, Lima, Peru, or one of a long list of big poor cities facing inevitable major earthquakes.
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PDHRE: Human Rights Communities - 0 views
Learning Disabilities in Children: Symptoms, Types, and Testing - 0 views
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If you think your child might have a learning disability, you may feel overwhelmed by the information, the numerous tests, and the lack of clarity about how to get the best help for your child. What you need is a roadmap for sifting through the information and finding the valuable support that is available. You also may need a bit of perspective. The brain has an amazing capacity to change and children respond when given the support and encouragement they need. Early intervention and support can really make a difference in giving your child the best chance for success.
BBC News - What next for Scotland's educators? - 0 views
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Earlier in the year, Dirk van Damme, the OECD's head of educational research, said of Scotland: "Too many leave school without qualifications or skills that matter in the labour market." He invited Scotland to take stock. "An egalitarian education culture is definitely not enough," Mr van Damme said. "The egalitarian and optimistic education culture in Scotland may even help to conceal the real issues," he said. Ministers hope improvements may come from an inquiry into what teachers are taught.
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Earlier in the year, Dirk van Damme, the OECD's head of educational research, said of Scotland: "Too many leave school without qualifications or skills that matter in the labour market." He invited Scotland to take stock. "An egalitarian education culture is definitely not enough," Mr van Damme said. "The egalitarian and optimistic education culture in Scotland may even help to conceal the real issues," he said. Ministers hope improvements may come from an inquiry into what teachers are taught.
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Under the radical change, rolled out to all secondary schools in August, teachers and pupils are now free to choose much of what they learn. Continue reading the main story “Start Quote The old system was good if you wanted school leavers good at producing widgets” End Quote And children will find out more information for themselves on the internet, rather than passively taking in information from teacher or a textbook. Supporters believe lessons will become livelier, more thoughtful and up-to-date. Others are worried that learning may become more modest and more hit and miss.
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School board eyes digital textbooks | Toronto & GTA | News | Toronto Sun - 1 views
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"We have textbooks that exist within our system and other systems ... science books, for example, (that) are outdated. We still have science books that call Pluto a planet," says Coteau. "So, with digital technology and digitization of materials, we could really put together a course curriculum that is flexible and has the ability to be changed instantly." The school board spends $8 million per year on textbooks. Over a 10-year period, if half the books are digitized, it could save up to $50 million.
Teachers Protest in Algeria and Jordan | Teacher Solidarity - 0 views
The Press Association: Teacher training 'must be improved' - 0 views
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The system for selecting, training and developing teachers must be changed if Scotland is to produce results to compete on the international stage, an education expert has said. Graham Donaldson said the country already had an education system widely recognised as high quality, yet it was still failing to compete with countries such as Finland and Australia.
Primary school curriculum in Gujarat may see a major shake up - India - DNA - 0 views
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According to top officials of the state education department, government is all set to effect thorough changes in the curriculum of primary and upper primary education in accordance with the Right to Education Act (RTE). Instead of the current curriculum which focuses more on writing answers, the new syllabus will focus more on activity-based learning.Outdated subjects and chapters will be removed and more informative and knowledgeable ones will be added.
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Almost 350 teachers from all over the state will be trained and eventually will be given the responsibility of suggesting changes
Cultivating Peace - 1 views
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The tragic events of September 2001 and the escalation of conflicts around the world have focused attention on the urgent issues of world peace and human security. The seeds of the Cultivating Peace project were sown out of these events and the belief that long-term solutions require substantial shifts in how people of all cultures view global citizenship, conflict resolution, respect for human rights and care for the earth. Cultivating Peace is also founded on the belief that the strongest force available to shape cultural change is education.
Violence breaks out amid massive street protests in Chile; Students demand education re... - 0 views
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SANTIAGO, Chile — Violence erupted on the streets of Chile’s capital and other cities Tuesday as tens of thousands of students staged another protest demanding changes in public education.
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Five days after a banned march ended in nearly 900 arrests, students and teachers marched peacefully in Santiago and elsewhere in Chile on Tuesday, calling for the government to increase spending on schooling and provide “free and equal” public education.As in previous demonstrations, protesters danced, sang, wore costumes and waved signs. But then groups of masked protesters split off and tried to break through police barricades blocking the way to the presidential palace.
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High school and university students have refused to attend class, taken over schools and staged demonstrations to press their demand for fundamental changes in how Chile finances public education.
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