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Dec 03

Teaching Tip #17: 7 things to keep in mind while assigning group projects

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  Assignment of group projects need clarity of planning and instruction. Here are 7 things you need to keep in mind while assigning them: Ensure that the task is challenging and interesting enough for the students.For example: “Prepare a travel Read more

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Dec 03

Teaching Tip #16: How to plan homework

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Assigning the right kind of homework and following it through is an important skill which every teacher needs to learn. The following are some tips for planning homework: Maintain a homework diary. A daily record is necessary both for the Read more

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Dec 03

Teaching Tip #15: 10 thing to keep in mind while organizing a historical trip

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Historical trips bring the subject alive and often create a deep interest in learning history. For a trip to be successful, however, some amount of planning needs to be done to ensure maximum learning from the experience. Here are some Read more

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Dec 13

Teaching Tip #14: Pecha Kucha

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One of the biggest challenges for an audience today seems to be to sit politely attentive through a tedious presentation! Having sat through such tedium, many a presenter would do well to relook at yet another way to remove possibility Read more

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Dec 12

Teaching Tip #13: Relevance of VUCA in Education

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The term VUCA originated in the US military in the late 1990s and is a way of assessing and providing for the changeability of general situations and events. Today, in management studies, it is a panacea to all sorts of Read more

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Feb 23

Teaching Tip #10: Whiparound Strategy

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Whiparound is an instructional tool teachers can use to check for understanding in a group setting and for summarization. While the whip around strategy may not provide individual, student-level information about understanding, it offers a low threat environment and helps teachers Read more

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Jan 19

Teaching Tip #9: The Nudge

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What do you and I mean by a Nudge?  Besides knowing it to be something that goads a laggard forward, did you ever think it could assume the role of a methodological approach to get learners to respond? Well, not Read more

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Jan 19

Teaching Tip #8: The Zeigarnik Effect

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It was the year 1920. Bluma Zeigarnik, a Lithuanian scholar in Gestalt psychology sat in a restaurant watching waiters. Zeigarnik noticed that the waiters seemed to remember complex orders that guided them to deliver the right combination of food to Read more

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Aug 11

Teaching Tip # 7: Think Aloud Strategies for the Classroom

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Thinking aloud is a time tested instructional strategy that helps students learn how to monitor their own thinking as they read an assigned passage. They are directed by a series of questions which they think about and answer aloud while Read more

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Aug 11

Teaching Tip # 6: Five Teaching Techniques to Teach High Frequency Words

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The following techniques activate different parts of the brain while learning high frequency or sight words. These techniques use many repetitions of the word, namely, seeing, hearing, speaking, spelling, and writing. The physical movements help to retain the student’s attention Read more

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