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”
Competency-Based Education, Part 2: Definitions
“Competence-based education focuses on leading students to a combination of knowledge, skills, and attitudes that enables them to carry out a specific function.”
From the Classroom to the World: A Writing Assignment That Became a Published Book
“Meaningful learning requires students to recognize how their learning relates to ideas they already possess and actively connect the new ideas to the familiar.”
Competency-Based Education, Part 1: Introduction
“Historically, education has been delivered through a systems-focus approach, with the priority put on content acquisition and standardized test scores.”
The Power of Story Part 4: Story as a Teaching Methodology
Capture the attention of your audience, make your point, make the application, and sit down.