Teaching Strategies

In most parts of the world, learning beyond letter grades has slowly gained momentum within the education system. The rationale behind this is mainly to prepare students for the challenging and changing future. The competency based learning model is a good example of this concept. Teachers can certainly make good …

Let’s imagine this scenario: it’s the new year, and you decide to change some aspects of your life – start afresh, work out more, eat healthier, sleep better, read more books, etc. Now fast forward to April; did you check everything off your goals list? Well, probably not. So, what’s …

Think about this for a minute; how did you learn to ride a bike when you were little? Learned to make a sandwich? Or learned to write your own name? The answer to these questions would probably be that you learned these things from someone else – most likely from …

Let’s imagine a scenario: You have just finished explaining a lesson, and you find out that every student was able to grasp the concept, except for a few students. You keep explaining the concept more than once, but nothing gets through! Teachers often face this situation, and although it can be …

“It is not what is poured into the student, but what is planted, that counts.” – E.P. Bertin. Teaching vocabulary words and definitions might be troublesome and frustrating for lots of teachers since they think that it is almost impossible for students to understand new terms without memorizing them. What …