Using teaching techniques he had studied over the summer, Mr. Sockel, 23, asked his students to complete a survey about their study habits and access to the Internet, then administered his first test of time management.
A modified Delphi process was used to identify useful teaching techniques.
In addition, Ms. Alvarez said she had been told to use the teaching techniques from the new literacy curriculum in her Spanish classes.
Maybe professors should not pass out their power points before classes begin, or use other teaching techniques.
The original goal was that the degrees would use new teaching techniques and technologies to bring down costs; so far, many of the programs are unchanged.
If you want to dramatically improve at golf, surfing or tennis, it is common to go to a multi-day immersion camp, where top instructors use advanced teaching techniques and technology to help you get better.
The course uses many teaching techniques: short lectures, individual and group exercises, videotaped presentations, role-plays, case discussions, video clips, and writing assignments.
In the majority of countries -- even the most advanced ones, programs designed to help technologically displaced workers have been poorly funded, used ineffective teaching techniques and have been run by inefficient bureaucracies.
In September, the Association of American Universities, which represents 61 of the largest research institutions, announced a five-year initiative to encourage faculty members in the STEM fields to use more interactive teaching techniques.
At True North, all the teachers use Lemov-documented teaching techniques, which accounts for the early academic success seen at that school.
