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”

 

• Students’ Digital Research: Primed

  
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  I’ve been teaching a Graduate research methods course for several years now at CGU, Visual Research Methods. But this Spring, I have encountered some surprising findings, ones that are echoed in my undergraduate student’s work as well, where I also assign digital coursework that asks students: to account, ...
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• 25 Community Highlights: Mother’s Day to Mamadrama. Steamboat Bill to Beaver Ponds.

  
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  Mother’s Day to Plant Something Campaign. Mamadrama to Steamboat Bill. Beaver Ponds to Fishways… These are just a few of the learning highlights we’re featuring this week!  Peruse our list and make plans to get out into your community and learn while you play! Brunch, Hike & Celebrate for Mother’s Day Not ...
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• How to Get Teenagers to Continue Music Lessons

  
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  Mаnу parents hаvе encountered the situation whеrе thеir child started оut vеrу interested in picking uр music lessons fоr thе piano, violin, cello оr saxophone. Hоwеvеr, thе child ѕооn loses hiѕ оr hеr interest. This often happens in the teenage years.  Imagine thе surprise оf parents аnd ...
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• The Improbable Source

  
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  The Improbable Source from: http://blogs.princeton.edu/librarian/2013/04/unlikely-conversations-and-... read more
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• The Accidental Professor

  
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  When I was a little kid and we went to the beach, I always had this strange and terrifying and utterly disorienting moment where I’d think to myself this is our first day at the beach; we have four more days at the beach, and then this vacation is over.  That sentence, I now realize, doesn’t look strange and ...
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• Navigating Pornography at The Atlantic

  
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  I’ve written about my Navigating Pornography course before ( I Don’t Need to Know if You Masturbate ), but today at the The Atlantic, I give a little overview: I Teach a College Class on How to Think and Talk about Pornography. . Excerpt: Even more than history lessons and an introduction to feminist debates, ...
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• Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: "Homosexuals Cannot Marry Any More Than Triangles Can Claim to Be Four-Sided"

  
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  At the Commonweal  blog, Dominic Preziosi is featuring a dialogue between Peter Steinfels, David Blankenhorn, and Amy Ziettlow about whether liberals can save the institution of marriage. The discussion was sponsored by the Institute for American Values. Jim McCrea points out that one very simple way to save ...
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• Lee Donaghy: Writing Like a Historian -- Developing Students Writing Skills

  
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  Lee Donaghy is an assistant principal at a secondary school in Birmingham in the United Kingdom. "Why are we doing English in history, sir?" came the question as I asked my year 9 history class what kind of word disarmament was. Having anticipated this kind of reaction I had an answer prepared: "Do we only use ...
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• Examination time

  
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  Its that time of the year again when staff and schools roll out examinations as a way of assessing the students learning. Examinations are a useful tool in summative assessment, but of course they are not the only tool in the tool kit. I have been thinking about the advice I give to staff about examinations to ...
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• Does Our Education System Overemphasize Literature at the Expense of Writing?

  
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  Let me start by saying that I’m posing this as a question based on my own experience. If there’s research that flies in the face of what I’m going to suggest, please post it in the comments. Frequently I hear professors lament that students come to Baruch College with inadequate writing skills. This sentiment ...
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• (via Practical, Visual, Three-Dimensional Pedagogy for Internet...

  
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  (via Practical, Visual, Three-Dimensional Pedagogy for Internet Protocol Packet Header Control Fields | Righteous IT )
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• Testing for exactly the opposite of what we need

  
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  via Tom Hoffman at TuttleSVC : Choice Quotes on the NYS ELA Exam Many thanks to Lucy Calkins for having someone throw up  a site to gather comments  about the recent Common Core-aligned ELA exams in New York state. It is a bit of a mess, but kind of charming that in 2013 they chose to hack something together ...
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• Do Communication-Intensive Methods Improve Science Learning?

  
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  In January, I blogged about the collaboration between the Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute and Professor David Gruber , who is teaching Environmental Science 1020.  Both last semester and this semester, students in Professor Gruber’s class were assigned to lab groups and each group produced a Digital ...
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• Music Monday

  
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  Music = Drug!! It’s music Monday and I would like to share this. I found this very interesting.
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• Reviewing for an exam

  
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  Nearly 20,000 people will take an Advanced Placement examination for Comparative Government and Politics next week. Some of them read this blog. These links are for them. Russia profile from the BBC Russian Politics from The Economist The Executive Branch of The Russian Government President of ...
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• ‘People Need to Get Past Thinking That Grading Must Be Done by The People Who Are Teaching’

  
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  In the rush to perfect robo-grading, have we overlooked a more elegant solution? The graders working for EduMetry, based in a Virginia suburb of Washington, are concentrated in India, Singapore, and Malaysia, along with some in the United States and elsewhere. They do their work online and communicate with ...
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• It’s that time again, folks.

  
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  Needless to say, I haven’t been blogging. I haven’t been blogging because EverythingIsHappeningAndAllAtOnceHolyGodAlmightyKnows.  There’s been life stuff and writing stuff and teaching stuff and job stuff and personal stuff and health stuff and angry feline companion stuff and just — well, stuff.  There is, ...
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• Practice FRQs

  
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  If youre not involved in the Advanced Placement Comparative Government and Politics course, you may ignore what follows. On Monday, Ill begin posting sample Free Response Questions (FRQs) for student practice on the Studying Comparative blog . Unlike the questions that appear on the AP exam, I have made these ...
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• 23 Community Highlights: Building Birdhouses to Making Giving Bags. Jurassic Roadshow to Long Island Express.

  
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  Building Birdhouses to Making Giving Bags. Jurassic Roadshow to Long Island Express. Wild Flower Walk to Historical Fashion Show… These are just a few of the learning highlights we’re featuring this week! Get out into your community and learn while you play! Service-Based Learning ♦ Playgroups & Storyhours ...
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• The real voice of young London

  
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  Radioactive 101 is the internet Radio station set up through the Nominet Trust funded Radioactive project and the EU funded Radioactive Europe project . Pontydysgu are proud to be a partner in both projects which aim to give a voice to people excluded from access to mainstream media though Internet radio. Tonight ...
  2 weeks ago

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