Differentiated Assessment
There is a quote from Chapman & King's book, 2012, that “There is no one tool that works for all students.” Generally, assessment tools are an essential component of the educational process. It...
Self-Paced Learning
When most people think of learning, images of a scheduled online training or classroom full of learners may come to mind. Yet, learning that involves classes as a group, or cohort-based learning, is...
Expanded Learning Opportunities (ELOs)
The way students spend their time outside the classroom significantly shapes their achievements in lifelong learning. Afterschool learning time, which is called Expanded Learning Opportunities (ELOs)...
Student Behaviour and Discipline
The National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environment (2023) defines discipline as: “the rules and strategies applied in school to manage student behaviour and practices used to encourage...
Teachers' Emotions and Productive Career
In teaching, knowledge and emotion are bound together. Teachers impart knowledge and act as role models and mentors for their students. A growing body of research has examined the essential role of...
Social Learning Theory (SLT), Why does it matter?
It is quite normal that learning is not limited to acquiring knowledge yet works to improve the social interaction and attitudes of students, where they learn from each other. In the simplest term,...
Proven Benefits of Memorisation for Students’ Learning
Memorisation skill referred to as an effortless skill, however, this skill constitutes an important, even if it’s at the lowest levels in Bloom’s taxonomy of learning outcomes., it’s the...
Omani Teacher’s Day: How to Support Teachers in the School Environment?
Teachers are an invaluable portion of the educational structure, as well as the backbone of societies. Through teachers, communities develop and prepare for the future. Moreover, if the nation's...
Is a competition/competitive learning environment suitable for students?
There is notable criticism of the current school system, especially regarding how it stresses testing and competition. Some argue that this system doesn't help students learn effectively and that...
Developing Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)
“International evidence suggests that educational reform’s progress depends on teachers’ individual and collective capacity and its link with school-wide capacity for promoting pupils’...
How to enhance students’ motivation?
Students’ Motivation is one of the essential learning elements that either teachers or parents work on to improve learning. To this end, numerous studies have sought to investigate motivations to...
Finding Hope at the Examination Times: Hopeful Thinking
“I hope I get an ‘A’ on this test!” How many times have teachers heard these exact words from their students? Goodness knows, most teachers would certainly love for their students to get an A,...
Games-Based Learning Assessment
Game-based learning has become significant in the digital era as a new instructional option in recent years due to its support of learning motivation. Classroom platforms shows have given way to...
Finland’s Successful Education System
Finland is ranked top in economic competitiveness, corruption-free governance, level of use of information and communication technologies, and best education system. The actual value of the Finnish...
Critical Thinking Assessment: Classroom Methods for Building Skills
Considering the challenges teachers face in today’s educational environment, one of the responsibilities that teachers face in the 21st century is teaching students to control their (logical)...
Looking Beyond “Lesson’ Plans
Veteran teachers are still keen and committed to their students, looking to develop their practical and effective teaching strategies. Pons (2001, p5) stated that there are “two major contexts in...
Youth Skills and Its Implication in Their Educational Excellence
Education is an indispensable tool for the upbringing of youth in society, as well as the acquisition of learning skills at an early age is a youth pathway to thriving. Moreover, research results...
Summer Learning loss and Narrowing Achievement Gap
Interesting, exciting results published in 'American Research' Journal, followed “students in grades 1 through 6 over five summers, show 52% of students lost an average of 39% of their total school...
Attention to learning processes: How students learn
Learning was defined by Unesco as a “process that brings together personal and environmental experiences and influences for acquiring, enriching or modifying one’s knowledge, skills, values,...
Bridging the Gap Between the Education and Future Skills
With future skills, there are several key reasons that the educational gap has been a major issue in the debate. Despite all the efforts focusing on curriculum development to keep pace with the global...