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”

• In Education Reports There Would Always Be False Negatives And False Positives

  
  education & tech — Authority: 118
  There is not doubt the teaching career as it is now was originated as a slavery profession back in history. Anywhere I have been, the problem for teachers seems to be the same, no value in regards of their the time, effort, sweat, and even tears that goes into daily teaching activities. Following a considerable ...
  12 hours ago

• Confessions of a Converted Lecturer

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 746
  "I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material. Who was to blame? The students? The material? I will explain how I came to the agonizing conclusion that the culprit was neither of these. It was my teaching that caused ...
  14 hours ago

• Travels & Travails in Digital Media: From Blog 2 Page to Screen 2 Santa Cruz

  
  MEDIA PRAXIS — Authority: 120
  I begin with a video (where I say among other things that I’ve been working for two years on a project about teaching, writing about, and publishing/presenting in the digital humanities and this raises contradictions about vernacular, audience, duration, translation and more) all to be demonstrated in this post ...
  20 hours ago

• WoW: The guild effect for teachers

  
  NetFamilyNews — Authority: 495
  There are lots of good reasons why an assistant superintendent of schools would start a guild in World of Warcraft (WoW) – all laid out in a fascinating profile of the Cognitive Dissonance Guild and its educator members in The Journal this month. But the reason why Catherine Parsons, assistant superintendent for ...
  23 hours ago

• 25 practical ideas for using Mobile Phones in the Classroom

  
  Pontydysgu - Bridge to Learning — Authority: 422
  We have been writing a lot about ideas on how mobile devices, and particularly phones might be used to support learning. But most of this work has been from a somewhat theoretical angle. Now Jenny Hughes has written a great guest blog on the practical work she has been doing on the use of mobiles in schools. ...
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• Teach them to finger themselves

  
  Kenneth Woods- A View From the Podium — Authority: 121
  I’ve been delighted to see how many responses I’ve had to my last post on fingerings and bowings. By a complete coincidence, I found this morning I have another comrade in arms, Alban Gerhardt, who writes – I don’t know how it sounded out there in the hall – but at my seat in the (acoustically very ...
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• Teaching Experiences: From Pedagogy to Heutagogy

  
  education & tech — Authority: 118
  Learnforever Blog: Many educationalists, and even some corporate learning and development professionals, talk a lot about pedagogy. From the classical Greek, this literally means leading the child , but it is widely understood, in educational circles, including further and higher education (i.e., education that ...
  2 days ago

• Dear Theory of Knowledge Students

  
  Reflections on Teaching — Authority: 411
  Thank you very much for having me in your IB Theory of Knowledge Class on Tuesday. Here were some of the things that I saw while I was in your class: You started with warmup which was to write down three main points for creating a good presentation for an upcoming project. Speed dating was next. You lined up like ...
  2 days ago

• User-generated content, User-generated contexts and Learning

  
  Pontydysgu - Bridge to Learning — Authority: 422
  This is a short video – the first in a new series of Sounds of the Bazaar videos – made as a contribution to a workshop on ‘Technology-enhanced learning in the context of technological, societal and cultural transformation’ being held on November 30 to December 1 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria. This ...
  3 days ago

• Well, just exactly do we want?

  
  Sliced Bread — Authority: 396
  NSW DER is finalising the ambitious  wireless   2009 netbook rollout involving some  65,000 Lenevo  netbooks to Year 9 students and teachers.  Important yes, but sorry to sound underwhelmed, it is only one step towards the learning revolution needed. A Pantene Moment if ever there was one. Separating ...
  3 days ago

• Creating a Studio Blog on MTH

  
  The Collaborative Piano Blog — Authority: 129
  My latest article for Music Teachers Helper looks at how you can take advantage of MTHs functionality to create a constantly updating stream of information tailored to the needs of your studio, all in the password-protected area of your studio website: Turn Your Studio Announcements into a Blog for Students and ...
  3 days ago

• “The Fountainhead”, Muggledom, and a road to feminism: why I both loathe and appreciate Ayn Rand

  
  Hugo Schwyzer — Authority: 471
  In my reprint of a post about young conservative students, I made a crack about Ayn Rand. Since Rand has been the subject of a pair of recent biographies, and has been much discussed on the right as a kind of ideological mother figure of the so-called Tea Party Insurrection against the Obama Administration, I think ...
  3 days ago

• A Market for Math Teachers (But Hardly Anybody Else)

  
  Curriculum Matters — Authority: 580
  These are tough times to be looking for work as a teacher. Unless, it seems, youre hoping to become a math teacher. Thats the conclusion of a recent report, which finds that nationwide demand for teachers has fallen in all 60 fields examined over the past year. Only one subject area—math teaching—was found to be ...
  3 days ago

• How personal is too personal?

  
  cac.ophony.org — Authority: 418
  photo credit: Torley Since my last two posts have focused on administrative kinds of issues (professional development and assessment) I thought maybe I should write about something a little more practical this time around, something more directly related to teaching. In attempting to incorporate more writing ...
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• Strange World Out There: Doctors Wife Represent Real America, Upbraids Congressman for Supporting Health Care for All

  
  Bilgrimage — Authority: 428
  It’s a strange world out there, and only getting stranger. Here in Arkansas, our latest little tempest in a teapot is an email circulated by a doctor’s wife following an incident at a wannabe upscale Little Rock restaurant several days ago (wannabe, because we don ’ t know from real or fake, good or bad, ...
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• Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009: The Final List

  
  Darcy Moore's Blog — Authority: 110
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• Choosing and Promoting a Math Curriculum: Not as Easy as It Seems

  
  Curriculum Matters — Authority: 580
  If ever you needed a reminder of why state and national officials are wary of attempting to dictate the curriculum in local schools, consider the experience of a single South Dakota district. Creating a uniform curriculum is not as easy as it seems. Officials in the Rapid City school system settled on an approach to ...
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• E. Ellison

  
  International Edubloggers Directory — Authority: 128
  E. Ellison, Ireland, Secondary, Languages I am Irish and I.C.T teacher who has a passion for integrating I.C.T into language learning. I believe that I.C.T has a lot to offer and can be used as an effective tool to support and enhance teaching. I have developed my own interactive toolbar for Irish Speakers and an ...
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• Sunday Rant – A Plea for the New Media

  
  College English — Authority: 420
  Are there any Math teachers out there who still refuse to use a calculator? Who still use a slide-rule and memorize times-tables? To me, that’s the same as the way many of my colleagues, not just in my department, but everywhere, seem to be in a state of denial about the importance of new developments in web ...
  5 days ago

• What Teachers Wish They Could Say To Parents

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  A former student, now a third -grade teacher, asked me to consider this question: "What do you do when you have a kid you cant stand?" She made me nervous. But Ill do my best. Im taking a deep breath and getting ready to duck when defensive parents start throwing educational toys at my head. The irony, of course, is ...
  6 days ago

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