By: Kent Messner | 2010-04-03 | Business Over the last seven years, I've led and participated in business process management initiatives in Fortune 500, start-up and mid-market companies. Every project teaches you new things, and one of the best places to start learning is by assessing the knowledge base of your audience. read more
By: Alusine Melvin Moseray Kanu DA | 2012-03-25 | Culture Listening is an active process of receiving, processing and interpreting stimuli. Many definitions of listening has been proposed including understanding of auditory messages that are transmitted through the medium of sound. Though listening is vital to the communication process, it is sometimes neglected in formal study and understanding the listening process helps to show us how to improve. Our choices of listening include selection of attention, sustaining the process and understanding. read more
By: Benny | 2012-03-07 | College More than fifty studies show that careful sequencing, monitoring and control of the learning process raise the learning rate. Pre-testing helps determine what should be studied; this allows the teacher to avoid assigning material that has already been mastered or for which the student does not yet have the pre-requisite skills. read more
By: kayla | 2011-06-19 | Learning disabilities Some teachers in class take on teaching in another way than their peers. They feel that students learn better if they're actively mixed up in the process, not being placed in a chair taking notes or studying at home alone. read more
By: sandralewis | 2010-10-07 | Free Web Resources How could handchipped stones, ancient ruins, old broken dishes, and antiquated garbage help students learn about the world and themselves? Within archaeology, these seemingly irrelevant items can enlighten students about the world around them through science, culture, and history read more
By: RuiMing | 2010-11-05 | Reference & Education Mandarin studies are similar to other educational facets in that the best way to solve an integrated problem is use a comprehensive approach. This little entry notes three ways in which Mandarin can be considered such a problem and how it can be solved. read more
By: Bob Hartzell | 2010-03-27 | Careers Getting a teaching degree and getting a teaching license are two different processes, and sometimes the completion of the degree is several steps removed from obtaining a license. This article is about the process and all the variables. read more
By: David Kartuzinski | 2010-03-27 | Language There is a way to teach yourself french. It takes some practice but it is most certainly a must do action if you will be visiting Paris or other French speaking country. Below are a few Basic Phrases and explanations of when and what situation you would use them. Practice saying them out loud and try to match the pronunciation. read more
By: Talal | 2011-09-09 | International studies There are many benefits to studying abroad - you will acquire cross-cultural experience, gain new perspectives on your chosen field of study, and make many new friends. But studying in the United States offers additional opportunities and challenges for aspiring teachers, as the field of education is changing dramatically read more
By: Thomas Manner | 2012-05-18 | Mental health Memory is the way in which we store, retain and recall information and experiences. We can recall sights, sounds, smells and emotions through memory. There are three main ways in which memory is formed and retrieved. They include: encoding which is the way in which we receive, process or combine received information; storage which is way in which encoded information is kept; and retrieval which is read more
By: Chris Cornell | 2010-11-26 | Reference & Education Teaching is a very sacred and important profession. A teacher plays a very vital role in grooming of a nation. read more
By: Roy Cone | 2010-03-31 | Music You know riding a bicycle is not much fun if you don't know how. It is the same with the ukulele. The good news is that the ukulele is easy to learn, and just like bicycle riding once you learn how you will never forget. Come get in on ukulele fun. You can do it. read more
By: Aijaz Ahmed Gujjar | 2010-03-19 | College Practice teaching is the most important part of teacher training programmes. It should be the central pivot of the professional training. Good and effective teaching is achievable art, but hard work, patience and struggle is needed for it. Practice teaching is the practical aspect of teacher training and it is the collection of factual and dramatic characteristics. During the practice teaching stu read more
By: R. Chris Wilkins | 2010-03-30 | Reference & Education Mr. Wilkins continues his discussion about poetry and the best way of introducing and teaching poetry to our students without, that is the key, without turning them off. Easier said than done, but definitely doable. A must read for any teacher braving the waters of poetry. read more
By: Humaira Kamran | 2010-11-02 | Childhood education Teaching and learning are not independent processes belonging to the teacher and the student respectively rather they are the result of social interaction and the meanings the teacher and the students construct together. Unless and until interdependence of teacher and student in the teaching/ learning process is recognized and accepted education in our schools will continue to "produce students with certificates but not necessarily employability, students with grades but no creativity, students read more