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Review Articel Any body may make mistakes. Teacher also make mistakes when teach. What should we do when we make a mistake in teaching? Wendy Petty from EducationWorld.com gives tips to us. She said "I've watched a math teacher make a careless mistake during a mini-lesson, and no one said anything during the long minutes that the mistake remained on the chalkboard. I've wondered, "Do the students not notice? Or do they think it's disrespectful to correct the teacher?" Read the complete articel to get the great ideas to face our mistake. Here ....

The Tips below come from teachers who gives commentary on Help4teachers.com newslatter, i will update here more ... On every assessment that affects student grades, I always put their current grade in the bottom left corner of their paper. This way they get immediate feedback on how this affected their grade and know their status in the course. Heather Netland, Parkers Prairie High School, MN Use Hip-Hop to teach poetry and figurative language. Nora Kings, Four Directions Charter School, Minneapolis, MN. Use large, "rich" words to encourage students to ask, "What's that mean?". Jane Bartlett, Parkers Prairie Elem., MN For small group discussions, I give each student 3 paper clips. Put one cup in the center of the group. Each time you share an idea, you put one of your paper clips in the cup. When you're out of clips, you need to hold off any more ideas until others are finished. Discussion goes til all clips are in the cup then we share our discussions...

Constructivism in Teacher Education: Considerations for Those Who Would Link Practice to Theory. ERIC Digest, Abdal-Haqq, Ismat In recent years, constructivism has received considerable attention in education scholarship, practitioner preparation, and policy formation (MacKinnon & Scarff-Seatter, 1997; Richardson, 1997; Teets & Starnes, 1996). It has been heralded as a more natural, relevant, productive, and empowering framework for instructing both P-12 and teacher education students (Cannella & Reiff, 1994). This Digest identifies major forms of constructivism and considers issues and challenges that surface when implementing constructivist approaches to preservice and inservice teacher education. WHAT IS CONSTRUCTIVISM? Constructivism is an epistemology, a learning or meaning-making theory, that offers an explanation of the nature of knowledge and how human beings learn. It maintains that individuals create or construct their own new understandings or knowledge through...

Author: Mielke, Dan For over 100 years, distance education has served as an alternative method for delivering academic course work to students unable to attend traditional campus-based classes. The format of distance education varies from correspondence-style courses to technologically based courses using the Internet. Distance education offers students considerable benefits, including increased access to learning, lifelong learning opportunities, and convenience of time and place (St. Pierre, 1998). Distance education may be essential for learners who are truly place-bound because of factors such as employment, child-care demands, disability, or remoteness of the location where they live (Rintala, 1998). This digest presents information on the many forms distance education can take and keys to successful teaching with distance education. WHAT IS DISTANCE EDUCATION? Distance education is a method of education in which the learner is physically separated from the teacher and the institu...