Education Quotes by famous people

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Anne Frank:
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Annie Sullivan:
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Aristotle:
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.

Richard Bach:
Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and teachers.

Tapping oracy

Dear colleagues

I am sending you some activities to lighten up the chores of everyday teaching.
Pull your socks up and add some pep to them!!!!!!

http://eltnotebook.blogspot.com/search/label/Teaching%20Speaking


" A teacher who is attempting to teach, without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn, is hammering on a cold iron." - Horace Mann (1796-1859)

Student-centered classes - A study at Yale University

"If the child is not learning the way you are teaching, then you must teach in the way the child learns" - Rita Dunn


A study at Yale University with 3rd through 8th graders, has shown again that instruction involving analytical, creative and practical methods of instruction combined, beats the traditional rote, memory-based teaching technique. Students were divided into two groups, one given a traditional memory based approach and one with the three above mentioned techniques blended. In performance-based and memory based multiple choice tests, the blended method was superior. Let's hear it again for student-centered classrooms.
~~ The Journal of Educational Psychology (Sept. 1999) includes a great study by Reeve and Bolt (Sept 1999) on student-centered classrooms and the teaching styles they exhibit.
The teachers who use these teaching methods effectively are what the researchers call "Autonomy-supportive" teachers as opposed to "relatively controlling" teachers.
The study documented exactly what these autonomy-supportive teachers do in their classrooms.

AUTONOMY- SUPPORTIVE TEACHERS :

**listened more,
**held the instructional materials less,
**resisted giving solutions,
**supported the student's intrinsic motivation,
**verbalize fewer directives,
**ask more questions about what the students wanted to do,
**respond more to student-generated questions,
**volunteer more perspective-taking statements.

In addition, this study substantiated previous studies' claims on the ADVANTAGES OF STUDENT-CENTERED INSTRUCTIONAL METHODS.
Research shows that students in these types of classes are:

** more likely to stay in school,
** more likely to show greater perceived academic competence,
** show enhanced creativity,
** show a preference for optimal challenge,
** show greater conceptual understanding,
**show more positive emotion,
**have higher academic intrinsic motivation,
** better academic performance,
** higher academic achievement.

Mindmapping by Tony Buzan

The human brain is very different from a computer. Whereas a computer works in a linear fashion, the brain works associatively as well as linearly - comparing, integrating and synthesizing as it goes.Association plays a dominant role in nearly every mental function, and words themselves are no exception. Every single word, and idea has numerous links attaching it to other ideas and concepts.

Mind Maps™, developed by Tony Buzan are an effective method of note-taking and useful for the generation of ideas by associations. To make a mind map, one starts in the center of the page with the main idea, and works outward in all directions, producing a growing and organized structure composed of key words and key images. Key features are:

Organization
Key Words
Association
Clustering
Visual Memory - Print the key words, use color, symbols, icons, 3D-effects, arrows and outlining groups of words
Outstandingness - every Mind Map needs a unique center
Conscious involvement

Mind Maps are beginning to take on the same structure as memory itself. Once a Mind Map is drawn, it seldom needs to be referred to again. Mind Maps help organize information.
Because of the large amount of association involved, they can be very creative, tending to generate new ideas and associations that have not been thought of before. Every item in a map is in effect, a center of another map.
The creative potential of a mind map is useful in brainstorming sessions. You only need to start with the basic problem as the center, and generate associations and ideas from it in order to arrive at a large number of different possible approaches. By presenting your thoughts and perceptions in a spatial manner and by using color and pictures, a better overview is gained and new connections can be made visible.

http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/Creative/Mindmap/
Watch a video about Mindmapping with Tony Buzan