A Makerspace in Your Classroom
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Design is knowing which ones to keep.” – Scott Adams A makerspace, an area dedicated to creation and…
Activating Student Engagement
“Cindy Engel studies zoopharmacognosy, or ________________.” I paused the video on the caption so the students in my Speaking and Listening Intermediate ESL class could…
Benefits of Outdoor Education, Part 3: Spiritual Development
While we appreciate as educators the benefits that outdoor education has for the mental development and skills development of our students, there is another benefit…
Benefits of Outdoor Education, Part 2: Emotional and Social Skills
In addition to helping students strengthen their brain function and ability in the classroom, outdoor learning helps improve our students’ mental health and social and emotional…
Benefits of Outdoor Education, Part 1: Brain Function
Many people today believe that education needs to take place inside a specific structure during a set number of hours. Before there were formally structured…
Committed to Teaching
I’d been teaching in the English Language Institute for 6 years and thoroughly enjoyed the last 3 or 4 classes. They had been a delight…
Holistic Teaching in Higher Education
We often think of elementary classrooms when talking about holistic education, but holistic education is just as important in college as it is in elementary…
A palavra oral e escrita
Na filosofia adventista, a Bíblia é uma fonte de conhecimento que envolveu oralidade e escrita, por isso ela está integrada ao nosso currículo.
Competency Based Education Part 6: College and Career Readiness
CBE may be the foundation employees need to onboard rapidly and develop quickly into competent professionals.
Competency Based Education Part 5: Assessment and Progression
“If everyone in the learning process knows what the goal is, students will take more ownership of their own learning and teachers will be better…
Competency-Based Education Part 4: Design and Differentiation
“When considering the elements of design, student empowerment, measurability, and transferability to multiple contexts should drive learning outcomes.”
Competency-Based Education Part 3: Considerations and Implementation
“Adaptation of the current curriculum is not the goal; rather it is to re-engineer education around equity, achievement, improvement, and customization”