Just because you’re stuck with their policies doesn’t mean you need to be stuck with their mindset. —Michael Fullan. Finding ways to engage students and adults has not been an easy task during the ...
Lost in today’s nonstop hand-wringing about the endangered species of higher education is the importance of teaching and learning mutually between students and professors across ages and ranks. The ...
What makes a good elementary teacher, and how can teaching systems support this? Ontario has a generalist teaching model at the elementary level, meaning elementary teachers have a foundational ...
The focus in the classroom was primarily on delivering content and practicing skills through carefully crafted lessons in the earlier part of my career. More often than not, purposeful application of ...
Learning isn’t confined to lecture halls, labs and seminar rooms. It also thrives on dialogue, collaboration and shared experiences. In fact, learning is seldom a one-way street. By explaining, we ...
As seen in the ABC series Old People's Home for Teenagers, intergenerational learning programs can result in mentally stimulating and reciprocal learning experiences for both students and older people ...
The world is moving fast towards an ageing society. Life expectancy is increasing. In developed countries, those born 2000 and later could reasonably well hope to live for 100 years. That means rising ...
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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Working to understand and appreciate differences between western and Chinese approaches to education could contribute to the cross ...