pedagogy

Pedagogy refers to the methods and instructional tools used by teachers in educating students. It pertains to the entire spectrum of educational styles from urban education and coping with the needs of poverty and violence to special education and the education of children with needs and gifted students.

Pedagogical styles, then, will vary as student needs vary. The more intense student needs are, the more tool teachers will need in order to facilitate their education. Some of these tools pertain to how lessons are administered, the use of technology within the classroom and the role of storytelling in an educational setting.

Bloggers, especially those that are also educators, love discussing pedagogy as teachers often share differences in instructional approaches. Typically, difficulty in student achievement is reflexive of deficiencies on a teacher’s pedagogy. Thus, bloggers readily discuss pedagogy as a means of gaining the necessary tools to help their own students achieve and learn more.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “pedagogy”

• course evaluations

  
  In the Middle — Authority: 422
  by J J Cohen The fall semester trickles to its end, and such is the perversity of the academic calendar that the time has arrived to think about the spring, with its vigorous new crop of students, papers, and grade complaints. Im teaching the newest course in my rotation, Myths of Britain , and as a prelude to ...
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• Off-Limit Term Paper Topics

  
  Positive Liberty — Authority: 586
  On another thread, Jennifer comments , when I was a teacher I too came to the realization “Certain topics are forever off-limits for the Write A Persuasive Essay assignment,” and I’d’ve loved to discuss that subject with Mr. Hanley, and maybe share some teacher war stories with him My list of off-limits ...
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• Our Ideas are Interactive

  
  The Edge of Tomorrow — Authority: 108
  I read a great post by a student in my grad class last week that has me thinking again about the idea of a backchannel.  I wrote about this a while ago , but it seems the topic has surfaced again recently about the value of a backchannel. The past several conferences I have attended have tried to implement a ...
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• Enlightenment from Education’s Past

  
  John Connell: The Blog — Authority: 491
  For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been jumping back and forth between two recently acquired books. The oldest, Essays on Educational Reformers , by RH Quick, dates from 1880 (although the edition I have is from 1910) and the other, Problems of National Education , ed. John Clarke, was published just a year after ...
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• We Are All Technology Teachers

  
  always learning — Authority: 93
  Last weekend I was honored to present a session at the Bridging the Gap conference at Yokohama International School in Japan. YIS has hosted this community conference annually since 2001, and the topic for this year was “The Future of Education: Using Its Tools Today.” The three day conference included formal ...
  4 days ago

• Teaching and changing ones mind

  
  Lisa's (Online) Teaching Blog — Authority: 105
  “If you never change your mind, why have one?” – Edward de Bono We are, as teachers, in the business of changing minds. Despite this, we are often reluctant to change our own. Over the years, I’ve adopted a number of policies, many of them draconian. When I was a new teacher, these were designed to keep ...
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• Classroom Practicality

  
  connect. create. question. — Authority: 108
  I snipped this image from a PDF of a scholarly article I’m reading about a new tool (at the time) that was designed for inquiry-based learning in science classrooms. The actual article and the actual tool are not important, but the challenge listed here is. I should note that this challenge (or some form of it) was ...
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• How to Walk Into a Classroom And See Children Learning

  
  education & tech — Authority: 120
  You are already familiar to some of the most popular education websites and blogs, but what I would like to recommend is The Educators Royal Treatment. The select group of authors are educators with a large trajectory in the education field. If you pay a visit to the site you may find Ken Royal. He is the author ...
  5 days ago

• Why Most People Think Memorizing Historical Facts is Useless (and Why It Isn’t)

  
  History At Our House — Authority: 93
  Why do most people think that memorizing historical facts is useless? Because the way history is taught nowadays, it generally is. Here’s a great example… Who hasn’t been asked this question in what passes for a history or “social studies” class over the past fifty years? What is worse, the question ...
  6 days ago

• Action Research Sharing

  
  Greg's Blog - principal (le?) learning — Authority: 108
  This week we have begun sharing back the Action Research Projects which teachers have been engaged in this year focused on our ICT PD Cluster goals.  Staff meeting on Tuesday was almost completely devoted to people sharing the things they have been the focus of their learning  this year.  The thing that struck me ...
  6 days ago

• HIT REFRESH: Leading and Blogging

  
  Darcy Moore's Blog — Authority: 112
  Welcome to our blogging workshop today for the  NSW English Teachers’ Association annual conference.   Before we commence, lets gather some data using a great online tool called Survey Monkey  (only for conference delegates please). A key issue: why do you want to blog? What is your purpose? What do you want ...
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• Adjuncting

  
  MediaCommons — Authority: 114
  This semester, I am adjuncting an online-only science fiction class at a nearby university that caters to full-time workers, bringing my number of simultaneously held paid jobs to three. Because I am primarily a freelancer, I think of things in freelance terms: maximizing money earned, minimizing time and effort. It ...
  1 week ago

• Elements of Success

  
  Stackelberg Follower — Authority: 105
  When asked to rate different skills and abilities that contribute to success of graduate students in economics, 51% of grad students at top-15 programs said knowledge of the actual economy was "unimportant". HT: Economic Logic .
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• Mixed modality learning with mobiles – 20 things to do in the classroom with Wiffiti

  
  Pontydysgu - Bridge to Learning — Authority: 492
  Are wiffys tweets with attitude? Following on from 25 ways of using mobile phones for learning, I thought I might blogsquat on Graham’s blog and look at some of my favourite mobile apps. Today I am being excited about Wiffiti.  You can get yourself a free account (just Google it) then create a screen, load a ...
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• 5 Resources for Digital Rhetoric & Writing

  
  beyondwords | a blog for professional writers, editors, and designers — Authority: 119
  What do you think of when you hear the word “rhetoric”? Many may first associate rhetoric with politics, but what about the rhetoric of a design, or a video game? Rhetoric is about understanding how and what is communicated through language, whether oral, written, or visual. In fact, the study of rhetoric teaches ...
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• Students Work Should Be Published at The End of Every Unit of Study

  
  education & tech — Authority: 120
  The Innovative Educator: During a recent visit to a school I was disappointed because although the school is noted as being a model technology school I was hearing from students, teachers, and leaders that the students had “handed in” a lot of great work, but none of it was being published. Instead their ...
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• Elemente meines PLE

  
  Ralf Appelt — Authority: 410
  In meinem Seminar zum Thema PLE habe ich angekündigt einige Dienste vorzustellen die in einem PLE verwendung finden könnten, bzw. dessen Zentrale sein könnten. Ich fand es naheliegend ganz einfach die Elemente vorzustellen die ich tatsächlich nutze. Vorab sei noch erwähnt, dass ich der Meinung bin, dass eine ...
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• Handbook for teachers on practical use of Web 2.0 and social software

  
  Pontydysgu - Bridge to Learning — Authority: 492
  Some of you may remember that in May I posted an order form for the EU Taccle projec t handbook on e-Learning – snappily entitled “Teachers Aids on Creating Content for Learning Environments.” Don’t be put off by the title – in my mind this is the best practical handbook I have seen yet about using Web @.0 ...
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• Happy Birthday, Carl Sagan

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 621
  I’m a bit late on this, but Carl Sagan would have turned 75 on November 9. The Skeptic Society’s Michael Shermer has set up a nice tribute to him. The thing I admire most about Carl Sagan isn’t his academic credentials, impressive though they were. It’s that he wasn’t afraid to be a popularizer. In fact, ...
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• The New Media School

  
  Pontydysgu - Bridge to Learning — Authority: 492
  Last Wednesday I was honoured to speak (via skype) at the launch of the New Media School in Bucharest. The launch took place in the Modern Art Museum who are a partner in the project. The New Media School is a fascinating initiative by the students union to promote social and collaborative learning. For me the most ...
  1 week ago

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