Teachers can make a significant change in their teaching methods by incorporating place-based learning (also known as expeditionary learning, experiential learning, or simply learning from the environment). Place-based educational places the education process in the context of the natural world. …
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Chaplaincy settings
A ecclesiastic endorsement is not sufficient to allow you to increase your chaplaincy expertise to include professional settings. This includes healthcare providers (hospitals/hospice centers, psychiatric patients wards), correction agencies or prisons. At ICPT, you will need to take …
The overall educational vision for a district’s public school districts is created by school boards. This includes setting the school’s curriculum and creating and maintaining board policy. They also elect school officials and supervise administrators.
What is a school board?
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AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION is on the verge of destroying the country for a long period.
In 1951, William F. Buckley’s jeremiad God & Man at Yale sounded the alarm. Politicians and pundits alike have followed his lead ever since. This …
What is culturally sensitive teaching? Why it matters
Diversity helps to improve school culture and student performance. Research shows that students perceive themselves as a representation of their future. This is how they form their expectations for others and themselves …
Although sex education is a controversial topic, young people and teens need to be educated about the body and how it functions.
Sex education not only teaches us about sexual health but also teaches students how to treat themselves and …
Nothing is constant in a profession that is rooted in the continuum of health-and well-being.
Our profession has been strengthened by years of research that is constantly evolving. Continuing education is one way to ensure that the profession has access …
Education is not about teaching students the skills of successful professionals or wise men, but rather to give them the objective content and science they need to be able to do so when and where it suits them. A classical …
You’re interested in a degree as an elementary teacher, but aren’t sure where to start. Maybe you have asked yourself, “What is an elementary education degree good for?”
This article will talk about the career paths and job and career …
College students tend to think of general education classes as mere extenders to their occupation-appropriate courses (Vander Schee, 2011). They are blind to the fact that these classes can improve their academic major. Many students assume that these courses are …