Blog Posts on 21st century teaching

Extracting new ideas from the Learners by mentors town on Mar 14, 2010One of the biggest challenges as a teacher is to see our students after exhausting all our effort to impart to them the knowledge’s, is for the learners to come out of the classroom empty handed, this not only breaks the learners Motivation to...

LESSON PLAN by mentors town on Mar 13, 2010SALIENT POINTS IN LESSON PLANNING FOCUS – Subject and Topic that will be the main focus of the lesson plan Construction. PURPOSE – this pertains to the General Objectives and Specific Objectives. The General Objectives(Behavioral Objective) is...

Curriculum Planning and Design by mentors town on Feb 18, 2010Articles written by Peter Gow pretty much complements with the curriculum design i have written, i have been following his posts in the slideshare and found it to be very much interesting. The tidbits he discussed in his curriculum design are very im...

Gagne’s Nine Events of Instruction/Learning by mentors town on Jan 2, 2010Instructional Event Internal Mental Process 1. Gain attention In order for any learning to take place, you must first capture the attention of the student. A multimedia program that begins with an animated title screen sequence accompan...

Comparing the 21st Century Education to the 20th Century Education by mentors town on Dec 22, 2009This video shows and explains the difference of the 2 Educational Perspectives, while we are already part of the 21st Century, our educational system sad to say is still heaven and earth from it. Perhaps some private educational institutions may be a...

Social Learning by mentors town on Dec 7, 2009By Jane Hart *Don’t forget to nominate the authors! By etalbert (NSW Dept. of Education) Very true indeed! i pity the Philippine educational system, while most countries were able to take advantage on the power of the information highway th...

Teaching Practices Overview by mentors town on Nov 1, 2009Teaching Practices using the Lower Order Intellectual Quality Curriculum. CONTENT Content is not necessarily learned in context The content is most important Students master knowledge through drill and practice. Gives more emphasis on cognitive a...

Success in the Teaching Profession by mentors town on Oct 29, 2009Teaching Profession demands a huge investment not just in time and energy, given the amount of responsibility that is placed on the shoulder of the teacher than most profession. Measuring success would entail a lot of things, but the easiest way to m...

U.S Education chief calls for teacher prep overhaul by mentors town on Oct 22, 2009By LIBBY QUAID (AP) WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is calling for an overhaul of college programs that prepare teachers, saying they are cash cows that do a mediocre job of preparing teachers for the classroom. Education Secretary Arne Dunca...