Unique Solutions for Unique Learners
Young children are very curious about their world. They learn by interacting with their environment, posing questions, and exploring the possibilities. Stimulating activities spark their curiosities and promote critical thinking and increased motivation. As they begin to develop phonemic awareness, for example, they recognize that sounds are like building blocks that can be used to read more…
In today’s day and age, technology has become a central part of the education process. Students of all ages have access to a plethora of knowledge and resources via the Internet. Some organizations have made it their mission to make online learning as easy as possible for students by creating user-friendly sites with instructional videos read more…
By Erik Lessac-Chenen Specializing in Physics, Math, Writing and Standardized Test Preparation While students often see the summer as a time to leave the classroom behind and head for the beach, lake, or pool with their friends, I always like to remind them of all the scientific principles they’re unknowingly learning about while cooling off. read more…
City physics educators retool their teaching in summer school From GothamSchools, 7/16/12 by Rose D’souza On most days, Room 404 in Zankel Hall is a laboratory used by graduate students at Columbia University’s Teachers College. But for the next two weeks, the lab is the temporary headquarters for a group of educators who are rethinking what it read more…
In my own experience, I have found that encouraging intuitive understanding in mathematics tends to overwhelm many students. They show little interest, often asking if they can just memorize it or learn a trick. While memorization presents an easy way to get a good score on a test or complete homework, it can create a read more…
Several weeks ago, the My Learning Springboard blog featured a piece about a wonderful invention completion called “Wouldn’t It Be Cool If…” created by Time Warner Cable’s Connect a Million Minds and music artist will.i.am’s i.am.FIRST. This contest asked kids to come up with the most innovative and creative invention to make the world a read more…
Operating without a permanent exhibition space until the re-design of its 5th Avenue home is complete in 2013, the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum has applied an innovative and creative solution to introduce the design process to students in classrooms across the city. “Target Design in the Classroom” is an education program that teaches students read more…
My thoughts about teaching and learning have come a long way since I first thought about being a teacher. I used to think that it was most important for me to know what I wanted to teach and how to deliver that instruction. While I believe that’s still important, I also know that it is read more…
Someone always asks the math teacher, “Am I going to use calculus in real life?” And for most of us, says Arthur Benjamin, the answer is no. He offers a bold proposal on how to make math education relevant in the digital age. Arthur Benjamin makes numbers dance. In his day job, he’s a professor read more…
The goal of science education is much more than teaching students specific science content, it’s teaching students how to think with an emphasis on hypothesizing, planning, testing, reasoning from data, and drawing conclusions. Many of us are familiar with the scientific method, but science teaching, particularly at the elementary level, should focus on process skills. read more…
Dana Chivvis, NBC News, covered a story about teaching innovation through experiential learning on NBC’s Education Nation website. The program, called “Tools at Schools,” was a partnership between The School at Columbia University and aruliden, a design firm, to rethink classroom furniture. Don Buckley, the school’s director of innovation, calls this partnership “Education 3.0.” Chivvis read more…
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