My first week in Vientiane, Laos, volunteering with the Association for the Development of Women and Legal Education (ADWLE) is done. The rain has started to fall, so while waiting for a break in the rain let me introduce, ADWLE. Their mission is to promote gender equality, women’s rights and protecting women from human trafficking. They do this work through workshops and a legal aid…
The comment that caught my attention from Susan Cain’s Ted Talk was that the “classrooms are designed for extroverts” (Cain, 2012) with pod seating and group projects. This brought back memories of my first grade class room, with four desks put together and in sixth grade the desks were in a big circle. I have lots of experience with group work from completing my accounting designation…
The comment that caught my attention from the second assigned reading of Student Engagement Techniques was from chapter 6, “From Theory to Practice”. The quote is “[y]ou have to reach out to students. You can’t wait for them to reach out to you. The good students always have and always will reach out, but the struggling students don’t know how to make the first move.”…
Brenda Murray’s instruction strategy is spacing and interleaving. Click on the window below to watch it. Spacing is strategy to help student remember information. It is uses the concept of repetition with time in between each attempt as a way of increasing students recall of material. It is a strategy I use with my students. In class they do problems, then they they are assigned…
