Nowadays we hear a lot about the sad conditions in our public education system. There is a clamor for a weeding out of the bad apples in the faculty ranks. The question arises as to what the balancing act is all about. There is a difference between incompetence and poor performance. It seems to me … Read more
As a trainer, are you informed about the performance of your students at all times? Do you maintain a proactive or reactive approach to teaching? Do you have supportive teaching strategies designed to help students grow? You may have established a routine for your class assignments and address students when they ask questions or submit … Read more
Learning is a complex process. We learn by building on past experiences; by trying; by starting with simple tasks and combining them over time to accomplish more complex ones; and through insight and understanding of the relationship between different parts of a problem. Research shows that for teaching to be effective, a learner must be … Read more
Jobs and the economy were the focus of President Obama’s State of the Union address. The potential federal job market is expanding and it is important to learn the steps to finding a federal career. Many of President Obama’s ideas will mean no new jobs in the next five years. However, these jobs will likely … Read more
Teaching with technology helps expand student learning through assistant teaching goals. However, it can be thought-provoking to choose the best technology tools while keeping the goal of student learning in mind. An expert can find creative and constructive ways to incorporate technology into our lessons. What do we mean by technology? The term technology refers … Read more
There are many schools out there that are already using a range of educational software programs, but they have not used them for one purpose or another. There are many reasons for this – first and foremost, the employees don’t know how to use the software, sometimes they don’t have the time or sometimes the … Read more
Double translation is a method explained by Roger Ascham, a Renaissance humanist who was the teacher of Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth I), who was herself an accomplished linguist, in his treatise The Scholemaster (1570). . He derives the method from Cicero and recommends it as a method that quickly leads to “true word choice … Read more