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The Early Childhood Years: Building Blocks For Life, Gwen R. Marra
The Early Childhood Years: Building Blocks For Life, Gwen R. Marra
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"In the early childhood years, so much growth and development occurs. It truly is the foundation for the formal learning that happens later in life."
Posting about education in the formative years from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.
https://inallthings.org/the-early-childhood-years-building-blocks-for-life/
The Irony Of A Well-Presented Lecture, Tony N. Jelsma
The Irony Of A Well-Presented Lecture, Tony N. Jelsma
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"My ultimate goal is for students to become independent learners so that they won’t need me or someone like me when they graduate."
Posting about applying flipped instruction in the university classroom from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.
https://inallthings.org/the-irony-of-a-well-presented-lecture/
What If Assessment Was A Gift?, Patricia C. Kornelis
What If Assessment Was A Gift?, Patricia C. Kornelis
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See The Story, Live The Story, Patricia C. Kornelis
See The Story, Live The Story, Patricia C. Kornelis
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Let's Build Something Biblical, Mary Beth Pollema
Let's Build Something Biblical, Mary Beth Pollema
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More and more families are ignoring God's mandate to train our covenant children in the instruction of the Lord (Eph. 6:4) and are choosing to educate their children in secular institutions because they do not see the value of Christian education. Why is this? What can we do about it?
Why Is School Like A Prison?, David J. Mulder
Why Is School Like A Prison?, David J. Mulder
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"Imagine the change in motivation in a classroom that was formerly teacher-directed to one where students have a voice in the learning process!"
Posting about enhancing the student experience from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.
http://inallthings.org/why-is-school-like-a-prison/
Critical Thinking And High-Level Discourse In A 1:1 Environment, Ryan G. Zonnefeld, Valorie L. Zonnefeld
Critical Thinking And High-Level Discourse In A 1:1 Environment, Ryan G. Zonnefeld, Valorie L. Zonnefeld
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Learn about our experiences co-teaching a K–8 methods course using 1:1 tablets in a high-tech lab. This innovative course included a move away from a textbook to a dynamic research-based curriculum supported by NCTM resources and CCSSM as well as integral utilization of apps, web 2.0 tools, and professional learning networks.
Group Retesting To Promote Learning Self-Awareness And Individual Accountability, Robbin Eppinga, Kayt E. Frisch, Jeff Ploegstra
Group Retesting To Promote Learning Self-Awareness And Individual Accountability, Robbin Eppinga, Kayt E. Frisch, Jeff Ploegstra
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Allowing students to retake tests in groups provides them with the immediate opportunity to learn from their mistakes while improving their perceptions of a course. We explore Group Review Advancing Content/Concept Essentials (aka GRACE), a variation on group retesting, which creates a peer learning environment and emphasizes individual metacognition, concept articulation, and accountability. Through an interactive demonstration, we introduce the process, relate some of the literature-reported benefits of group retesting, and share our experiences using GRACE in a variety of disciplines at different course levels.
Sola Gratia: Grace In The Engineering Curriculum And Profession, Ethan Brue
Sola Gratia: Grace In The Engineering Curriculum And Profession, Ethan Brue
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Integral Christian higher education is in vogue. Most Christian institutions of higher education who take their mission seriously make the claim that the education offered to students is one where faith and learning are not separate. It is a belief that their entire educational enterprise is inexorably tied in some way, shape, or form to our new life in Christ. Most engineering programs on Christian campuses are the outgrowth of this perspective. Over the last fifty years, numerous philosophers, writers, scientists, and engineers have developed a solid foundation from which engineering can be understood as an essential calling in the …