Active Learning
Essays

Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin White Masks. Trans. Charles Lam Markmann. New York:

Active Learning Style in Hands-On Science Learning and Assessment

Learning is the process of acquiring new knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, preferences or understandings. Simple forms of learning involve a single stimulus. A stimulus is anything detectable to the senses, such as…

As Tomlinson (2010) points out in "Notes from an Accidental Teacher," a "zeal for learning" is one of the five elements and practices that make up effective teaching (p. 22). This element has the most significance for…

This week's readings have been helpful in showing that it is important to consider the challenges that new writers face -- especially if those writers are young ESL's. The idea of Peregoy and Boyle (2013) to use…

Entering young children into education at a very early age can help them to make the critical developmental steps toward social and intellectual maturation. Often, therefore, the benefits of early education can be seen…