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Using drama as an effective method to teach elementary students

Research indicates that drama is effective in teaching the elementary curriculum. It can easily be adapted and integrated to teach all subject areas. It is proven to be successful through personal experiences, recent brain research, and a study of widely accepted learning theories. “Human beings are storytelling primates. We are curious, and we love to …

Humour promotes learning

What if there was a free magic pill that could reduce your students’ stress, anxiety, and tension while increasing their self-esteem, alertness, creativity, learning, and memory? Would you prescribe it? Finding a treatment that is free and without side effects and helps to improve learning and memory would seem to be an improbable task. However, based …

Classroom decorations tips

According Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development study, students in OECD countries receive an average of 7 590 hours of compulsory instruction during their primary and lower secondary education. Though classroom structure remains synonymous, it’s formative design has the power to discourage or invigorate students. Classroom decor can have a subtle, yet longstanding effect on the learning …

Math class needs a makeover

Today’s math curriculum is teaching students to expect — and excel at — paint-by-numbers classwork, robbing kids of a skill more important than solving problems: formulating them. Dan Meyer shows classroom-tested math exercises that prompt students to stop and think.

JUMP Math develops understanding and love of math

JUMP (Junior Undiscovered Math Prodigies) Math is a mathematics teaching system dedicated to developing the potential of each child. It achieves its goals by promoting an understanding of mathematics and a love of it – both in students and in their teachers. JUMP Math is a complete system – it contains materials for students and …

How to teach kids to love science

At the Harbour School in Hong Kong, TED Senior Fellow Cesar Harada teaches citizen science and invention to the next generation of environmentalists. He’s moved his classroom into an industrial mega-space where imaginative kids work with wood, metal, chemistry, biology, optics and, occasionally, power tools to create solutions to the threats facing the world’s oceans. …