Terrific tools for oppositional-defiant (ODD) youth and children
Ruth Wells :If you are a teacher who finds that “nothing works” to manage some students, this article may help. It’s way past time for...
Campus Cronical
English aural-oral skills assessment policy and practices in Bangladesh Secondary Schools
Ranjit Podder :(From previous issue)The other five participants believed that there was very little scope to go beyond the curriculum as it was centrally designed...
Teen pathology and the art of self-surfing
Robert DePaolo :In discussing psychopathology among children and teens it is helpful to begin with early psychological development. Most mental practitioners in the field of...
English aural-oral skills assessment policy and practices in Bangladesh Secondary Schools
Ranjit Podder :(From previous issue)Nunan (1988) maintains that, as language teaching and learning is skill-based, language proficiency must be determined in terms of behaviour. According...
English aural-oral skills assessment policy and practices in Bangladesh Secondary Schools
Ranjit Podder :Research indicates that assessment systems dictate classroom practices although they do not always have a positive impact on classroom behaviours. Although Bangladesh secondary...
Managing an elementary class of diverse learners
Andrew Leichsenring : You are an early career Elementary school teacher and it is the start of a new school year. You walk into your...
The war on teachers
Bruce Deitrick Price :The stats leave no doubt. There is huge dissatisfaction among teachers. The turnover rate is very high. We need to answer the...
Reasons for teaching kindness in schools
Ripple Kindness :Most people have heard the phrase ‘random acts of kindness’, which refers to a selfless act of giving resulting in the happiness of...
What has to be from teacher to student?
Elesa Eddie :I thought my second grade educator was a heavenly attendant. She had long, sandy blonde hair and a grin for everybody. What’s more,...
Teaching in English at Tertiary Level in Bangladesh
Mohammad Shamsuzzaman and John Everatt :University of Canterbury (From previous issue)The Americans discovered that unlike them, the British taught writing as a process of individual...
Understanding self-actualization
Bruce D Price :Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) was an American psychologist who created a theory of psychological health based on fulfilling inborn human needs, from the...
Common core works at heritage elementary
Taylor B :In Kiko Hermosillo’s fourth grade classroom at Heritage Elementary charter school in Glendale, students played a “Jeopardy”-style game to review a math exercise...