Engaged and disengaged learners: what’s the difference?
Making sure that your students are engaged with learning is fundamental to teaching. Yet it’s often one of the most challenging aspects to achieve. That’s always been the case. Attendance, behavior, discipline – factors like these have been part of classroom dynamics since the earliest schools. What is new? The impact of the digital age. The contemporary student is used …
10 techniques to try with students who struggle to stay attentive
Paying attention in class. It’s absolutely fundamental, yes? Surely students only learn when they listen to the teacher and follow the lesson closely? Actually, maybe not. Today’s digital world presents students with a plethora of demands for their attention – far more than we experienced as children. Some see this as a worry, fearing that we face raising a generation …
How can you talk to parents who don’t seem to care?
As every trainee teacher knows, motivating students who seem disengaged from learning is a fundamental classroom skill. To many practising teachers, it’s actually among the most rewarding aspects of the profession. Less expected: disengaged parents. In fact, meeting a parent who doesn’t seem to care about their child’s educational progress can be one of the most dispiriting experiences a teacher …
ITWORX Education recognized as a CityNext finalist in the 2016 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards
Dubai, UAE — May 31, 2016 — ITWORX Education, a Cairo-based ITWORX company backed by the EuroMena Fund, has been named a finalist in the 2016 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards. It was recognized for providing an outstanding solution in the ‘Public Sector: CityNext’ category, based on its WinjiGo project for Syrian refugees, in the framework of addressing pressing …
35 student rewards that don’t cost a thing
Praise. Encouragement. Compliments. It’s free, but it’s fundamental to teaching. And while nothing beats a genuine face-to-face compliment, there are also countless ways to incorporate rewarding students into your classroom management techniques. This blog piece, quite simply, fires 35 of our favourites at you… Certificates for good behaviour. Certificates for perfect attendance. Certificates for most improved. Certificates for helping others. …
The advantages of a flipped classroom
Flipping the classroom does exactly what it sounds like. It reverses the traditional learning dynamics, completely. With this method, students don’t learn new content in the classroom, by having a teacher instruct them. Instead, they learn it from video and online sources in their own time and place. Meanwhile, problems and assignments that once might have been treated as homework …
