How do they transition hundreds or even thousands of educators and courses from legacy teaching methods and materials?
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Testing was also used as a lever to change teaching methods and to tie teachers to the new national curriculum.
New Labour pressed for nothing more radical than a return to more traditional teaching methods and echoed parents' concerns about school discipline.
Owen, a former pupil of the school, began teaching there in 1974 but resigned in 1991 following allegations about his unorthodox teaching methods and conduct.
But are teaching methods and curricular materials up to the challenge?
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Its teaching methods and curriculums are outdated, says the World Bank.
But they say that too often they are used without a strong understanding of their power to transform education, and many schools still use technology to support 20th Century teaching methods and learning objectives.
Transforming education so that it meets the needs of all children is a complex and difficult task that spans issues ranging from the global shortage of trained, qualified teachers--UNESCO estimates that we need 18 million new teachers to meet current demand--to the problems of overcrowded schools, aging infrastructure, obsolete equipment and textbooks, and outdated teaching methods and curricula.
This rise in prestige has been mirrored by a revamp of undergraduate business programs, with the top ones increasingly resembling MBAs thanks to an emphasis on the rigorous study of economics, statistics and accounting and MBA-like teaching methods using case studies and team exercises.
Khachkar craftsmanship is transmitted through families or from master to apprentice, teaching the traditional methods and patterns, while encouraging regional distinctiveness and individual improvisation.
Instead, it entrenches the idea that kids should teach to uniform, rigid tests and suffer teaching methods that were handed down from the top by inflexible bureaucrats and politicians.
This allows both variance in modes and methods of teaching but also something close to a rigorous and comparable measurement method.
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It also requires participatory teaching and learning methods that empower learners to take action for sustainable development.
The third ingredient is educators trained in improved methods of teaching and learning.
Inspectors have been sent in to check on the state of libraries and laboratories, staff qualifications, and teaching methods.
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Though this is Rolston's first job at the NHL level, he's credited by the Sabres for his attention to detail and teaching methods.
For instance curricula reforms have not always taken into account the books and instructional materials, teachers, teaching processes and assessment methods required to give them effect.
We would give them the tools they need to be effective educators, from autonomy in lesson plans and teaching methods, to strong curriculums from which to work from.
Syllabuses and teaching methods have been specified narrowly.
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Tung has begun to do so by mandating more creative teaching methods, better teacher training and shoring up woefully inadequate primary education.
Having learnt from inspections and international studies which methods work best, it has begun a programme of ensuring that all schools get to know about them particularly methods for teaching basic literacy and numeracy.
The third explanation is the simplest: that the use of computers in teaching is no better (and perhaps worse) than other teaching methods.
The specific objective of this initiative is to diversify literacy and post-literacy programmes in terms of intervention approach, teaching methods, educational aids, sustainability of learning outcomes and the integration of literacy into the process of sustainable development, the prevention of poverty, and the socio-economic integration of beneficiaries.
The trust will be used to support initiatives for improving education standards and to upgrade teaching methods.
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For others, it is a tool for streamlining and improving traditional teaching methods.
Being the first fully online institution of higher learning in sub-Saharan Africa, it has given us an opportunity to develop new methods of learning and teaching.
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"Now if you go into schools you are going to see more computers, " says Lawrence Cuban, an emeritus professor of education at Stanford University and an expert on innovations in teaching methods.
Much of what the government can do would not cost much: for example, passing laws to promote stability in teachers' careers and improve training standards, and encouraging and disseminating good practice, whether in teaching methods or school management.
Some of the people teaching internet marketing strategies actually encourage their students to use these methods and more.
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