The Underachieving School - John Holt

... people, particularly other children. The most interesting thing in the classroom - often the only interesting thing in it - is the other children. But he has to act as if these other children, all ... dive from the top of the storage cabinet into the middle of the parachute, and then onto the mattresses on the floor beneath. Even when they missed the mattr...

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2014, 12:26

... understanding the meaning of a text without knowing the meaning of all the words. The only words that should be pre-taught are the ones necessary for understanding the main idea of the text. - Letting ... of their education, their information, their understanding of the world and of human affairs, their ideals, senses of values and their appreciation”. Seeing the import...

Ngày tải lên: 27/12/2013, 20:26

... six-year-olds, have they got their pigeon-holes in there [in their intended classroom, previously used by a pre -school class]?” The answer is “no” and she says, “Then we can let the seven-year-olds ... common in the Swedish pre -school. The session went on for approximately thirty minutes and then the red group left together with the pre- school teacher. The schoolteache...

Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 16:33

... into the school improvement process. Over the course of the pilot program, the schools made great strides in creating healthy school environments. As required by the HSC approach, each school ... many ways the school principal is the most important and infl uential individual in any school. . . . It is his leadership that sets the tone of the school, the climate f...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 09:20

... nip-and-tuck then. For hours we kept up a steady fire at the Indians, who circled the house with blood-curdling whoops. We killed a number of them before they finally took themselves off. Then ... not the men who stampeded head-over-heels to the diggings, but the men who stayed behind and opened up some kind of business which the gold-seekers would patronize. These were the reap...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 08:20

... never with quite the same ardor. The two pairs kept near each other, about the house, the bird-boxes, the trees, the posts and vines in the vineyard, filling the ear with their soft, insistent ... other. One pair occupied one of the bird-boxes in the vineyard and reared two broods there during the season, but the other pair drifted away and took up their abode somew...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 13:20

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 02:20

... the executive (the rector) rather than with an independent body like a governing board. An interesting detail of the governance structure of HSE is the posi- tion of the academic leader of the ... highlight the story of the development of the university. One is the entry of a new participant into a crowded and com- petitive higher education market. Another is the transf...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 06:20