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- accountability and performance evaluations have, in many instances, taken on disproportionate importance to the basics of teaching well and effectively and maintaining a good dose of active and engaged learning in our classrooms
- If you don't have faculty who are productive, engaging, and relatively happy, the learning process for students can be seriously flawed. ultimately, it is the faculty who are the most important part of any thriving university.
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Why Girls Tend to Get Better Grades Than Boys Do - The Atlantic
- Gone are the days when you could blow off a series of homework assignments throughout the semester but pull through with a respectable grade by cramming for and acing that all-important mid-term exam. Getting good grades today is far more about keeping up with and producing quality homework—not to mention handing it in on time.
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"In order for Japanese people to be able to make necessary contributions and play an important role in the future of the world as a member of the international community, it is vital that Japanese people cultivate an interest in other countries. In particular, I have a strong desire to see the younger generation on which the future of Japan depends upon, look outward to the world" (¶4).
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Hunter S. Thompson On Finding Meaning - Business Insider
- Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective.
- So if you now number yourself among the disenchanted, then you have no choice but to accept things as they are, or to seriously seek something else. But beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life. But you say, "I don't know where to look; I don't know what to look for."
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Excellent Academic Journals to Stay Up-to-Date in EL Writing | TESOL Blog
In this TESOL Blog post (2014.09.19), Elena Shvidko shared descriptions from websites of 11 journals carrying "articles related both to research in second language writing and writing pedagogy" (¶1, 2014.09.22). - See more at: http://blog.tesol.org/excellent-academic-journals-to-stay-up-to-date-in-el-writing/#sthash.RB7SItgV.dpuf
Sunday, September 28, 2014
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Time to revive our love for the English language | Free Malaysia Today
This Sept. 13, 2014, article announced a national requirement for public university students in Malaysia to demonstrate proficiency in English before they graduate.
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This Sept. 14, 2014, article announced a national requirement for public university students in Malaysia to demonstrate proficiency in English before they graduate.
- the competency that a person possesses and his confidence in communicating in the language does not happen overnight. Similarly it cannot be evaluated with just one exam or course
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Tomorrow's Professor eNewsletter: 1349. Making the Most of Small-Scale Research
"The posting below looks at what makes for quality small-scale research and the reasons why such research can be important" (Folks, ¶1, 2014.09.18).
Sunday, September 14, 2014
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PhraseBook for Writing Papers and Research in English
"The PhraseBook helps you build advanced language competence and writing ability in English. Rather than concentrating on rules and exceptions as many books, the PhraseBook focuses on writing, providing the tools for you to write in your subject" (A tool for building advanced language competence and writing ability, ¶1, 2014.09.12).
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How Does the Brain Learn Best? Smart Studying Strategies | MindShift
In this article, Chen summed up an interview about Benedict Carey's book, How We Learn: The Surprising Truth about When, Where, and Why It Happens, highlighting and exemplifying take-away messages for self-directed learners as well as teachers.
- pupils today can change the way they study to exploit the brain’s quirky learning processes, using the strategies revealed by memory and learning research
- Students need to understand that learning happens not only during reading and studying, but in all sorts of ways, so that they can examine their own habits to know which ones may be helping or not, and make adjustments
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Tomorrow's Professor eNewsletter: 1347. Establishing a Research Agenda
This article is an extract from: Fechter, Sharon Ahern. (1999). Chapter 4, Academic research. In Virginia Bianco-Mathis & Neal Chalofsky (Eds.), The full-time faculty handbook ([n.p.]). London, UK: Sage Publications, Inc.
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Boom-Bang Homework Assignments | Edutopia
"Multiple sources recommend about ten minutes per night in the first grade, then add ten minutes for every subsequent grade, for a maximum of two hours in all subjects by the 12th grade" (2. How much homework is recommended, ¶1 [of 1]).
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MultiBrief: Grading practices that better support 21st‑century learning
In this post, Stack (2014.08.25) suggested four ways of developing or improving grading practices: 1. Separate and acknowledge the role of both formative and summative assessment. 2. Stop averaging averages to get more averages. 3. Separate academics from academic behaviors. 4. Use rubrics and a rubric scale, not percentage scores.
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Caplan (2012), Grammar Choices for Graduate and Professional Writers
"Grammar Choices is a different kind of grammar book: It is written for graduate students, including MBA, master’s, and doctoral candidates, as well as postdoctoral researchers and faculty" (Descriptions, ¶2, 2014.09.08).
