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There are some crucial college lessons that you just can't learn inside a classroom: how to make friends, how to manage your time, how to set fire to boats and release them into the Charles. The most important teaching to remember from your university experience, it seems? WASH YOUR HANDS...
...simply targeting new ones. If layoffs must be made, they should be done so based on a combination of seniority, years of teaching experience, and performance evaluation. Researchers have suggested a combination of “student-assessment data and principal evaluations” to assess effectiveness in the classroom and make cuts accordingly...
Which suggests a classroom technique for ADHD kids: Don't overly tax their working memory. Rapport, who used to be a school psychologist, says the average teacher doesn't understand how ADHD kids process information. "If you go into a typical classroom," he told me, "you might hear, 'Take out the book. Turn to page 23. Do items 1 through 8, but don't do 5.' And you've just given them four or five directions. The child with working-memory problems has dropped three of them, and so he's like, 'Page 23 - what I am supposed...
...also has a decomp room where they store bodies that have been decomposing for any length of time. So we went to that room and got to smell the stench of death. That was like the initial kick in the butt. Then after that, we had a month of classroom training. We would do mock search-and-recoveries out in the woods, looking for fallen soldiers Stateside before we were deployed. (See "A TIME Photographer's Iraq Diary...
What will set this curriculum apart from previous ones may be the extent to which Gen Ed courses tie the subject matter to students’ lives outside of the classroom...