Higher Learning

The higher education landscape has been dramatically changed over the past decade. Rapid rise of technology such as online programs and social media are transforming pedagogy and forcing huge changes in higher education systems. The number of students growing and student population is remarkably divers in ethic, race, gender, socio-economic and learning style today’s. Moreover, employers have higher expectation today and students should be truly prepared for the demand and complexities of the…

positive relationships necessary for learning. The first vital reason why multiple intelligences ought to be encouraged at schools is because such an approach motivates students to learn and to be successful. Above all, the theory of multiple intelligences facilitates learning process; thus, multiple intelligence theory should be completely utilized. To exemplify, if a student is a visual learner, teaching by using images leads to more successful learning. On the other hand, when a…

a mixture of different learning methods to better improve one intellect. One of these methods is standardized testing, regrettably the United States seems favor this method so much it over uses it. Most of the United States seems to agree that standardized testing is important, it is so important that is the student do well in the tests the school or teacher might get extra money and reputation. Because of this the educational purpose is lost, and the schedule for learning is structured around…

There were also questions to gauge the students’ personality as far as if they viewed themselves as outgoing and social or reserved and shy. The survey included questions to determine the learning styles of the students using the multiple intelligences such as visual,…

visitations, intensive interviews, class observations and shadowing students for a full day. Using value-added methodology Rutledge and Cannata identified 8 high schools, four in each district that had higher or lower levels of academic growth on state assessments for three consecutive years and higher…

choice in the learning experience. In creating a Glasser School system an individual must understand that there is a need for change. The new way of changing the structure of the school system is by having mandatory PLC (Professional Learning Communities). Within theses PLC the team of teachers will meet to on a schedule time to plan on certain standards and objectives, to create assessments and set goals. In creating a PLC meeting it allows the teachers to target the students learning styles…

others learn how to ‘play school’, but never really learn important objectives in their courses.” – Bergmann and Sams, Flip Your Classroom. The flipped classroom is a relatively new teaching approach that stems from its role in addressing the learning needs of students and involves flipping the traditional model of classroom instruction (Alvarez, 2012; Bergmann and Sams, 2012). In traditional setting, students spend class time listening to lectures and, if time permits, they work on examples…

will help students create patterns to connect to the various curricular disciplines. The learning is structured around themes to help students obtain the main concepts of the lesson or unit. (Loepp jots.v25i2.a.6). An integrated curriculum can effectively assist critical thinking in students by combining Geography and Social Studies with History it focus on students to gain the basic skill needed to acquire higher level thinking. Students must be able to see the connections that an integrated…

more in depth learning environment. The students were given the opportunity to take the lesson to a whole new level. The teacher in this lesson allowed the students to bring in new strategies to meet their own learning styles. The lesson was broken day by the days and required full participation from each of the students involved. This lesson addresses Fink’s ideas because it provided a model for course design that aligned learning goals with a method for assessing student learning. The…

S. (2009). Health-related intensity profiles of physical education classes at Different phases of the teaching/learning process. Biomedical Human Kinetics, 1, 86-91. This research study looked at three different types of teaching/learning processes and the intensity (measured by heart rate) at which physical education students performed. The three types of teaching learning were: acquiring and developing skills, selecting and applying skills, tactics and compositional principles, and…