Great article about using school resources more effectively:
Education Site Explains How Schools Can Be Much More Efficient
Price's article discusses four basic tactics which schools can use to increase effectiveness:1 School and teacher must be totally committed to each subject. (Clearly, teachers have to major in the subjects they will teach.)
2. Teachers shouldn't hesitate to use every teaching aid and visual aid, every technique or gimmick, that will make classes more exciting, fun, and memorable. (Fun is an important part of the ergonomic approach. If children think, "hey, this is easy," that's half the battle.)
3. Repeat, repeat, repeat. And then say it again some other way. The idea that you can go once over a subject, and expect people to recall much of it, is not realistic.
4; Every course is ideally a gigantic mnemonic device, a matrix of interconnected facts. Posted by cmwillis at June 25, 2007 9:29 AM | TrackBack