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Greetings Learners.
You play a vital part in society. You make choices while learning. Details of making these choices matter, so you may learn more and learn it more efficiently.
Without you, education does not exist beyond imagination and belief. Without you learning to do something new for you, educators do not exist, and society remains stagnant beyond chance occurrences. Without you making choices that others may observe...

June started with a huge opportunity. The physics teacher announced he was leaving and some of the teachers in the department thought I’d be a good match to help rebuild the physics program.
While I teach second year engineering, I do not have a physics credential. This meant I needed to take and pass the CSET subtest II for physics. The only available test date was 10 days after being told about the opening....

Converting from traditional ways of teaching to teaching as applying the science of teaching-learning can be difficult. The science of teaching-learning addresses the issue of teaching from a learners’ view of learning.
The conversion itself is simple, but a hard adjustment for some people. Conversion requires shifting from various forms of guessing what and how to teach (a) lessons today to relying on data others have reported in experimental behavioral and sociological...

The modern teacher’s instruction of lessons shouldn’t evolve by accident. But, for most of us, that’s how lessons evolve. We use an additive model.
Many of us believe we have our own unique way of teaching. We make an adjustment in a lesson here, “experiment” there. Sometimes an increase in student learning occurs, but no one is sure which of what we did resulted in that increase. So, we repeat...