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Improvement of reading quality is one of purpose in education. Students will be able to master their reading material if they are supported with quality of good reader. Reading comprehension is hardly required to assist student improvement in their learning. Actually, teacher has had separate tips in assessing reading comprehension, but sometimes untapped optimally. There are tips drawn from Alvimann & Morgue article to assist teacher in assessing reading comprehension, that is using questions which is often applied by journalist in interview. Reading comprehension is easily catched and assessed by giving 5 W & 1 H questions. Yes, questions of standard journalist interview, What, Who, When, Why, Where, and How. Question of "What" is applicable to open what's going on the reading materials. Question of “Who” is applied to ask whosoever involving in the reading material. “Where” is applied to know case existence or places in reading material. “When” is applied to kn...

By Kang Bull Why is education important ? It may be a question from our daily life, but everybody has their special reason to answer it, so am I. I just mean that importance of education is the efficiency to know our life need. Education is not just so called “school, collage, doctoral or etc. Education is our daily growing life, and we get everything benefit from our environment. So, think that our life is education it self, and it is the real education purpose. I have some reasons why our life is education it self. Education is a real important thing in human life. Education aims to point and guides man to be adult, at least it is the definition and philosophy of education from WJ. Langveld. A man can Interact with others of course requires morale peripheral and human capability, causing good social interaction. Without education, someone will become awkward and cannot interact carefully with others. Since baby, humans always gets education and knowledge from their environment. Baby ...

By Kang Bull Fast reading skill is one of learning elements. If you a teacher, you should have the correct tips on how to make your pupil enjoy their reading materials and give them ability to read fast. Fast reading is very important to the pupil, with it they can get more information and subject capability through their short learning time. On the other hand, Fast reading skil gives more valuable matters in order to get and catch a lot of subject material on school. It has right affective side to student, and brings them more chances to finish their learning on time. There are many ways how to be a fast reader. I may give some tips an explanation on it: When read, don’t busy your self with the order of alphabets on the words. just read the word not the alphabets. It is called block read tip. Word by word, not the alphabet. With this tips you should able to read the sentence without knowing all alphabets of it, ya, just read like reading your short massaging service (SMS). "i lek...

Author: Johnson, Robin Creating differentiated art curricula to accommodate artistically talented students' individual needs may enhance student performance and program outcomes. This Digest discusses (1) individual education plans for artistically able students with exceptionalities, (2) subgroups of students with dual exceptionalities, (3) methods of teaching students with dual exceptionalities, and (4) methods of teaching students with specific disabilities. INDIVIDUALIZED EDUCATION PROGRAMS (IEPs). Since the passage of The Education for All Handicapped Children Act in 1975 and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) in 1990, the landscape of art education has changed dramatically. Students with exceptional educational needs (EEN) are mainstreamed with their peers to fulfill the requirement that they be "educated in their least restrictive environment (LRE)" (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 1997). Although students with EEN are frequently...

Communicative Language Teaching: An Introduction and Sample Activities Author: Galloway, Ann This digest will take a look at the communicative approach to the teaching of foreign languages. It is intended as an introduction to the communicative approach for teachers and teachers-in-training who want to provide opportunities in the classroom for their students to engage in real-life communication in the target language. Questions to be dealt with include what the communicative approach is, where it came from, and how teachers' and students' roles differ from the roles they play in other teaching approaches. Examples of exercises that can be used with a communicative approach are described, and sources of appropriate materials are provided. WHERE DOES COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING COME FROM? Its origins are many, insofar as one teaching methodology tends to influence the next. The communicative approach could be said to be the product of educators and linguists who had grown di...

Author: Coburn, Louisa Student evaluation of teacher performance, or student ratings, is one of the most controversial techniques used to identify teacher effectiveness. Few faculty members question the usefulness of ratings in providing feedback about teaching that can result in improved instruction, but many continue to challenge student rating use in making personnel decisions (Marsh and others 1979). This Digest offers a rationale for the use of student ratings, describes the research findings concerning the validity and reliability of such ratings, and identifies the major issues involved in designing and administering rating forms and reporting their results. ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT OF STUDENT RATINGS Aleamoni (1981) offers the following arguments to support the use of student ratings of teacher performance: --Students are the main source of information about the learning environment, including teachers' ability to motivate students for continued learning, rapport or degree of c...

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...