Working with Teachers and Schools to Build Character in Children
Source: U.S. Department of Education
Visit with your child’s teachers early in the school year. Tell them what kind of person you want your child to become and what values are important to you. Discuss with them ways that they and the school can reinforce the lessons [...]
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Working with Teachers and Schools to Build Character in Children
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How Can We Teach Critical Thinking?
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How Can We Teach Critical Thinking?
Author: Kathryn S. Carr
Date: 1990
The need to teach higher order thinking skills is not a recent one. Education pundits have called for renewed interest in problem solving for years. As far back as 1967, Raths, Jonas, Rothstein and Wassermann (1967) decried the lack of emphasis on thinking in the schools. [...]
How to Motivate Adult Learners
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How to Motivate Adult Learners
By eHow Education Editor
Teaching adults is its own field, with its own challenges and methods. As a teacher of adults, your task is specialized: they already know most of what they need, but are receiving instruction on something specific like a computer program or a language. Stay focused on what you [...]
Education
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Education
Education encompasses teaching and learning specific skills, and also something less tangible but more profound: the imparting of knowledge, positive judgment and well-developed wisdom. Education has as one of its fundamental aspects the imparting of culture from generation to generation (see socialization). Education means ‘to draw out’, facilitating realisation of self-potential and latent talents of [...]
