Smart and Active Teaching Learning Methodologies

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In many schools, teachers feel their teaching job very boring and dull; while students feel very uneasy with the teachers and also with the school. It is because of our routine working system. In several schools, teachers are not interested to do some innovative. They feel easy and comfortable with traditional teaching style and think nothing should be done.
            In these situations, it is very difficult to improve the situation. But it is not a solution! There are several ways to develop the education and classroom teaching. Teachers have to open their mind for new ideas and also new challenges. They have to welcome the innovative ideas and innovative teaching learning methodologies. They have to discover the new models and new techniques to create an interest among their students and their staff.
Many educators have been searching new and effective classroom teaching learning techniques for their schools. They want to make learning fun. Would you like to do something innovative in your school? Why not?
If you have such questions like-
How to make a smart classroom?
How to make classroom teaching active?
How to make teaching interesting and smart?  
How can we make interesting and smart classroom environment?
What is the smart way of teaching?
What are the active teaching techniques?
What is the smart teaching?
If your answer is “Yes” than this article is for you.
We are living in such world where many persons have been doing a lot of work for learning theories, innovative learning styles, effective learning styles, developing advanced learning resources, different learning skills, self directed learning, interactive learning and virtual learning also. Now we are familiar with smart learning, smart class learning and we are going to introduced e learning and online education in our classrooms. So it will be very nice to know about these smart, active, interactive and modern learning methodologies. Internet technique helps us to discover more smart learning methodologies. Now it is possible to discuss about our teaching learning experiences to wider community through internet. Many persons are doing a nice work in this field to make awareness about innovative education and e learning 
     There are several innovative and smart teaching learning methodologies to make our classroom smart, active, innovative and interesting.
    Active learning methodology is an active methodology for teachers. In A.L.M. there are main focus on the student’s activity and group activity. Teachers have to help the students to learn. Now teacher's role is changing in learning. Teacher is as a facilitator in learning.
    Smart learning is the new vision in education using computer, internet and multimedia in classroom teaching. It is really a smart teaching learning way, because it is the teaching of the modern age. Smart learning introduces worldwide approach in our classrooms. Internet is the ocean of knowledge. Smart learning is a smart and innovative learning concept for smart teachers of a smart school. Smart learning gives a unique learning opportunities to the students.

It is an active learning technique, useful in various subjects. It makes teaching learning more interesting. It is more useful in primary and Pre    primary classes. Activity Based Learning provide great opportunities to the students through interesting activities. It may be used in our day by day classroom teaching easily.

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Smart Schools and Online School Management

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Smart School and Online School Management


      By the revolution in internet and online management system, it is a general question that what the use of internet revolution in school management is. During the e revolution we saw a lot of changes in different sectors. Different departments are online now. In beginning we saw it as an unknown changing and sometimes different question rose. But now we realized that these innovations were necessary and now we feel very comfortable due to these innovations.

      In several offices several paper work placed by online feeding. Some innovative departments adopt internet revolution and became more and more smart. We realized those innovations customer friendly. In the light of these examples we should prepare a work plan for “online school management system”.



     The Need of Online School Management:

      Talking with schools and teachers we feel that there are some innovations needed. A fast growing economy and faster lifestyle need faster working system. Now everything is going to be online. So our schools are also deserved to be online and up to date with the world’s latest technology.

    While talking about online school management, we have to understand the concept of smart schools. In a smart school where all teaching learning systems are smart, innovative, multimedia based and computer oriented the concept of online school management will be very easy to apply. We are introducing on line techniques in our education system to manage various data and also for planning, so it will be convenient us to follow the online management system in our schools.

      By the development of e learning and online education, teacher’s role and responsibilities may be changed. Actually we think that teacher’s duty is only to teach the students and the school headmaster’s duties are manage the school, follow government’s order, to do a lot of paper work, maintain school’s records and also to teach the students. School manager or school headmaster do a lot of work and also maintains several records. In this situation his teaching work affects. So it should be a main point in online school management system to reduce the work load of school managers (school headmasters).


       How to apply "Online School Management System"?

       In making of “online school management system” strategy a comprehensive survey of teachers, school managers, headmasters and educationalists is needed. We have to adopt online school manage system for easy and powerful working culture. It also needed to pay proper attention on children’s development and our social, economic and other burning issues. Online school management needs proper developments in our fundamental structures such as nonstop electricity supply in schools, better internet connectivity, trained teachers and school managers, and also a strong will power of the policy makers.


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Plan Your Studies in a Better Way

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Good grades aren’t necessarily achieved by ones who study day and night. Instead, those who know ‘how’ to study are better scorers. Planning allows you to diminish the burden of a chore, and so is the case with studies.

A lot of students complain for lack of interest in studies. However, the fact is that studying can become an interesting task, if you do not take it as something you are ‘obliged’ to do. Otherwise, it would definitely rub out your interest and zest.

Listen and store
Do you listen to the lecture carefully in a class-room? If you do, you will never face issues in studying later. Grasp the idea and store it in your mind. Later on, try to pick out examples from life around you, regarding the topic. In this way, you do not need to learn anything by heart.

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Reading books, browsing internet and discussing often about the concerned matter to get additional information. Plus, choose an environment in which you feel relaxed and can concentrate well. Your mood will play, then, a little role in your studying hours.

Scheduling
Time is limited and you need to give hours to multiple courses. For that, schedule your week. You can divide days and timings to the courses, and don’t forget to add up your free minutes. Remember, at the end of the semester, you must have given equal attention to every subject.

Propose a new idea
Whatever you study, does not serve a sole purpose of providing facts. You should be inclined towards generating a new dimension to what you have learned so far. This will bring you new horizons to discover.

Relax
Lighten up the pressure of studies and unwind at proper intervals, during study and also every weekend. You must freshen up your mind before facing a new quest.

The suggestions are not limited to the aforesaid but will let you at ease while studying for sure.
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The Future Measurement of Common Core State Standards

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The Common Core State Standards are receiving a great deal of attention, some of which has been positive and some less so.  The matter of their utility is not yet resolved; currently, my view is that, if these standards are [1] well constructed and [2] adequately and responsibly measured, they are promising for their focusing power to improve instruction and lift student achievement in some areas.  On the first point, standard construction, my view is optimistic:  the notion of curricular standards is a good one, and I see no reason why we are incapable now of deriving strong and useful sets of standards for our students.  Moreover, these standards, however flawed they may be, are probably an improvement upon most states’ standards to this point.  Ultimately, they will be enormously influential to administrators, students, and producers of classroom materials, and conceivably will raise the average quality of curriculum delivery to our students.  Still, we are left with the issue of adequate and responsible measurement, and here is where I see significant cause for concern. I believe that public focus should shift more towards the Common Core assessments currently under development (PARCC and Smarter Balanced Assessment). Ultimately, these assessments will comprise a critical aspect of the overall program and its success or lack thereof; therefore, in this post I will describe certain concerns related to their imminent future use, and predict key consequences.

Over-Promising:  All assessments are inherently imperfect, yet you might not think so from the hype surrounding these still-developing Common Core assessments.  For instance, Arne Duncan indicated that they will be an “absolute game-changer in public education”; meanwhile, the test-makers indicate that these assessments will draw on higher order skills by “leveraging technology” with use of “innovative items,”  in spite of the well-documented, longstanding issues of validly/reliability assessing such skills up to the present date (e.g., see 2011 Pearson review here).  Perhaps these assessments will improve upon prior ones, but the smart money favors at least some level of pessimism.

Minimal Piloting Prior to Widespread Implementation:  Currently, each of these assessments is set to be released in 2014-15, which allows precious little time for field testing prior to widespread and high-stakes (see below) release.

One Assessment, Many Uses:  Even if these assessments deliver as valid/reliable measurement tools, they may still be corrupted by the many ways in which they are to be put to use.  All the while being used, conceivably, to provide meaningful feedback to students, parents, and educators, federal incentives ensure that these assessments will be used as measures of teacher, principal, and overall school effectiveness; in many cases, results will even figure into educators’ annual compensation and future employment prospects.  

Narrow Focus:  Meanwhile, these tests focus initially upon just two subject areas: English/language arts and mathematics.  It is by this point fairly well established that narrow high-stakes testing often yields narrowed curriculums and more limited experiences for students (e.g., see here); we can expect such an impact to be exacerbated within a context in which expectations are raised, and the test is linked in many cases to educators’ livelihoods.

These are just a sample of the potential issues associated with the future measurement of students’ attainment of Common Core standards (for more detailed reviews, see hereand here).  Altogether, I am concerned that something which could have been positive may be tainted or squandered, on account of trying to do too much, too fast with its assessment. 

By: Joe Malin 
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Is internet changing our Education System?

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        Is internet changing our Education System?


     
Since last few years we have been watching many changes in education and educational management system. We see that computer technology as well as internet revolution increased the speed of data and information very quickly. It became by the help of internet, online education management system and by e revolution. Hence we are discussing about internet education, education and internet and use of computers in education.

The impact of internet on education:

       We have been realizing that internet is a very effective tool in education. Now there are various e learning software and online training software are available easily on the internet. Internet brings a technological innovation in education. It make possible to use the latest technology in education. Internet makes a digital revolution in educational technology. Now several educational institutions have to develop the computer and internet based learning management systems. Internet brings new aspects in education. Now education through internet is not only a dream, but it is the more common and more relevant. We can say that the Technology changed the education. Now different schools and universities are using latest technology for education. It is the great scenario of the “Education of the 21st century”. There is a lot of importance of the use of internet in education today. Now android and tablets are in the market. They have a lot of online e learning opportunities so.

      Now several information sends by e mail, online feeding or by another electronic medium. So transfer of data became easy, quicker and sometimes cheaper.



     When we see such type changes in educational management system and find that it will be so usual, we have to think the another coming modifications in our education, Because technology changes several habits, trends and working system. In our society, use of internet is becoming very common by the mobile revolution. Now everyone puts internet in his pocket as a mobile phone. Internet is being more popular in villages also.

Mobile and androids brings a great innovation in internet revolution


      Mobile companies are providing high speed internet services, so it became easier to be online. There are a lot of fully multimedia mobiles available in market at a very low prices. Android and tablets are now very easy to afford. These new generation devices have a wonderful e learning and online learning opportunities also. The next generation "digiclass" and "digischool" is not so far away.Several universities made their management system innovative with the help of internet. Now it is possible to study online or to attend a lecture of a reputed university at the home by the help of internet. Our schools are also being innovative. In several innovative schools; teachers have been using multimedia supported teaching learning system for many years. Now they may able to arrange online classes. Imagine if in a school of a distant and rural village, how wonderful it will be to take part an online two way class attends by the student. It will be more exciting if those students see tow way online video chatting first time in their life. 



         If online two way classroom teaching learning system is success; then there may be start another discuss about this way of teaching learning system. The discussion may be classified into two categories: first online teaching learning system in a classroom and second the online teaching learning system out of the school. It will decide the direction of internet based online education and internet based teaching system. However we have to search the positive, teacher friendly, student friendly and society friendly teaching learning systems and we have to modify our education as the changing time.

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