You have completed the training needs analysis. You have documented the results and confirmed with the business unit manager that training is indeed warranted, because you have confirmed a lack of needed skills and knowledge.
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If the growth of blended learning is inevitable, does leadership matter? That’s a question I sometimes get after I give a speech about disruptive innovation and the advance of blended learning.
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We have elementary education all wrong. It is time to ease up on our kids, an expert tells Salon If you are hoping to raise a child who always shares, who follows all the rules, and doesn’t act angry once in a while, you will want to skip the books by Heather Shumaker.
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Too often when we talk about “innovation” in education, we point to that new set of Chromebooks or those shiny new Smartboards as examples of our efforts to change what we do in the classroom.
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By its title, For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood…and the Rest of Y’all Too by Dr. Christopher Emdin isn’t for me.[1] I am indeed white folks, but I do not teach in “the hood.” I also teach college, rather than in the K-12 system that Dr.
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Homework is one of the most frequently and fiercely argued-about questions when it comes to education.
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If you have a kid of your own who reads, where does he/she sit when reading at home? Everywhere and anywhere is the answer. They lay on the floor, they slouch on a sofa or sit upside down on a sofa hanging over the arm.
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Like most 25-year-olds, Julia Rozovsky wasn’t sure what she wanted to do with her life. She had worked at a consulting firm, but it wasn’t a good match. Then she became a researcher for two professors at Harvard, which was interesting but lonely. Maybe a big corporation would be a better fit.
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The average American high-school student spends seven hours a week on homework. The average for students across all developed countries is about five hours (pdf). Is it all a colossal waste of time?
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