Learning Is Something to Treasure

                                               Effective Teaching Effective teaching takes time and effort. “Effective teaching is much more than an intuitive process. There are many techniques, skills, and practices that can make a teacher effective.  In my opinion, being an effective teacher means allowing an environment that enables students to learn in the classroom to their best abilities.  When effective teaching is practiced, students develop a love for learning and gain new knowledge about what they are studying. Effective teaching depends on if different learning styles are implemented into lesson plans.  It is important for a teacher to realize that not every student learns in the same way. Some students may be better visual learners while others are better at hands on activities. Incorporating different learning styles will let e...

Teaching Children with Learning Disabilities Teaching learners with disabilities is a daunting task for educators. Teachers must begin with understanding the different types of disabilities. Some children have trouble in reading properly (dyslexia), other children have trouble in math reasoning (dyscalculia), while others are unable to identify and use correct language structure (dysgraphia). Other learning disabilities include inability to see and hear.  All these disabilities present learners with difficulties in reading, calculating, speech, and interpersonal skills. Learners with learning disabilities have problem in organizing time and are thus unable to finish their work at the same rate with learners with no learning disabilities. If the teacher is fast, learners with disability will absorb and retain very little information.  Their comprehension and retrieval of information is low and teachers have to devise and employ appropriate strategies. A simplified...

All professionals working in a school can work to prevent high school dropouts, teachers have a unique ability to reach individual students on a more personal level. Unfortunately, many teachers don’t know how to help prevent students from dropping out. There are some effective strategies that teachers can use to improve retention rates and encourage their students to stay in school until graduation.These include - paying individual attention ; encouraging students to study ; providing them support ; making the teaching learning process intresting ; etc .