Category: Learning and Teaching
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Alternative Schools: A Pathway to Flexible and Inclusive Education
Imagine a place where education adapts to the students, not the other way around. Alternative schools are exactly that. They break away from the…
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Attachment and the Classroom
Attachment theory is a psychological theory developed by John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth in the 1950s and 1960s. It proposes that infants and young…
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Why Is History So Boring?
By Efrat Shapir Obviously, history is not boring. Even Canadian history. So why is it that students find this subject in particular so dull?…
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How we help students fail in 4 easy steps
Of course I never want your students to fail, or your teaching to be anything less than exceptional. I put these observations forward so…
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Habits Inhabit Online Learning
What are the pitfalls and strengths of online learning? When we venture into the online world of information, it is first and foremost a…
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The Value of Doing Things Badly
For a while I worked with a teacher who had mastered the art of getting students involved. She often talked about the obvious fact…
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One Idea To Rule Them All
I have often mused that if we could teach one idea per course per year, that would be enough. How many courses, how many…