Sublime

If one of the goals of education is to create inquisitive, knowledgeable people, then you need to give students the most basic signposts that can guide them through a life of learning. And if, as the twelfth-century teacher Hugh of St. Victor put it, “the whole usefulness of education consists only in the memory of it,” then you might as well give

At the end of that semester, students with teachers who expected them to do well did well, and students who had teachers who expected them to do poorly did poorly. While the students had not differed from one another in achievement before the study, they did at the end. Teacher expectancies made the difference in how much their students learned.

Croire en ses élèves Les attentes de l’enseignant envers ses élèves influent de façon radicale sur leurs résultats. Quand le professeur montre à l’élève qu’il espère le voir réussir, il a bien plus de chances d’y parvenir. En revanche, s’il s’attend à ce que l’élève échoue, il risque fort d’y arriver.

“Fixed Mindset.”

Performance in examinations depends upon two factors: nature and nurture – nature being the natural intelligence of the child, nurture being the training and education. Or to use computer language, it depends on hardware and software, the hardware is the size or capacity of the computer, and the software is the teaching or educational programme. Wh

With that in mind, it is not surprising that the single most important indicator of academic success is not to be found in people’s heads, but in the way they do their everyday work. In fact, there is no measurable correlation between a high IQ and academic success – at least not north of 120. Yes, a certain intellectual capacity helps to get into

In helping people sort and store the new material you’re sharing with them, it’s critical to keep their prior knowledge in mind. What do they already know that relates to the new material you’re teaching them?

at the end of the day, it’s the child’s experience that really matters.

JACK OF ROUGH DRAFTS, MASTER OF CRAFTS When I asked a handful of education pioneers to name the best teacher of rethinking they’ve ever encountered, I kept hearing the same name: Ron Berger.