Understanding Autism

Autism is one disability that everyone has heard about. It is also the disability about which educators still know so little. This chapter will inform preservice teachers about autism using the narrative of two young men and their lives with autism. Theoretical groundings of autism, along with the myths, misperceptions, and mistakes surrounding autism are shared in the chapter. Importantly, for preservice teachers, strategies for successful teaching of students with autism will be outlined.

Teaching Culture Online

This chapter explores the ways in which the language educator can be successful teaching culture together with language specifically in an asynchronous online environment. It provides examples of content, activities, and assessments that are meaningful, collaborative, and learner-centered, and that employ mobile technology familiar to the average instructor. In addition, it discusses the new role of the language professor in facilitating an integrated language and culture curriculum in a fully online setting. Through shifting the responsibilities and roles of the instructor, emphasizing social and teacher presence, and employing flexible learner-centered content and activities, previously face-to-face language classes can be successfully transformed to foster cultural competency asynchronously.

Project-Based Learning on the Topic of Aromatic Wax Production

Project-based learning is one of the most effective and successful teaching methods for STEM topics. Project-based teaching is an open-ended teaching method that helps teachers stimulate students’ initiative and teamwork skills and promote creativity. Of the interdisciplinary STEM topics, teaching students how to produce aromatic wax proved an interesting topic, causing excitement to students. Through collaborative teaching, this research has shown that students are very interested in learning to produce aromatic wax. The research results also show that there are five factors that greatly affect project-based teaching: (1) Teachers must split the class into groups to implement projects effectively; (2) Topics must be attractive and motivate students to appreciate, explore and produce STEM products; (3) Students must have a positive attitude, unafraid of encountering difficulties and challenges in completing STEM tasks; (4) Students must be competent to implement STEM products; (5) Students must be facilitated by their school and their parents to complete the STEM tasks. The research findings have important implications for proposing a specific project-based learning curriculum on the STEM topic of aromatic wax production.

Performing skills of Li Yundi in the context of China's leading trends in the piano art development

The article examines how the performing skills of the outstanding Chinese pianist Li Yundi have been formed. Chinese piano art in a short time has reached the significant success. As Chinese performers have made a rapid rise in their skills, we can speak about the formation of special musical-performing principles, based on a strong national basis. Li Yundi's career success owed not only to a successful teaching methodology, but also to a deliberate state policy. The formation of Chinese piano pedagogy lies in the assimilation of European pianist-teachers' experience and the preservation of ancient Chinese national traditions. Chinese pedagogues-pianists often use elements of ancient art ‘Qigong’. The use of teaching methods in the two performing styles of "Wen" and "Wu" traditionally established in Chinese culture is also important. This work is intended to identify the leading developmental trends in Chinese piano performing and their role in the formation of young Chinese pianist Li Yundi's performing skills.The article reveals the peculiarities of Chinese piano performing, with its integration of European piano school performing traditions. Emphasis is placed on the performing problems of Chinese pianists' interpretation of European composers' piano works. Li Yundi, one of the finest performers of Frideric Chopin's works, is a notable example of Chinese piano pedagogy's successes in the multifaceted development of the pianist's personality.

Appeal to the Ideas of A.S. Makarenko in Building the Educational Process in a Modern Primary School

The article discusses the problem of using the didactic ideas of the outstanding domestic teacher Anton Semyonovich Makarenko for the successful teaching and comprehensive development of Russian junior schoolchildren, improving modern educational systems, and implementing socially active pedagogy in practice. Particular attention is paid to the role of the teacher’s personality in the formation of a positive attitude of students to cognitive activity. The methodological techniques that were developed and tested in the pedagogical experience of A.S. Makarenko so that the process of acquiring knowledge and mastering skills becomes interesting, useful and personally significant for each student.

وسائل التعليم واستخدامه فى تعليم اللغة العربية

Media of learning or learning tools are very significant and one of critical factors that contribute to meeting learning outcomes and achieving successful teaching and learning process. Hence, media are the integral part of all teaching and learning developments process. In a broader understanding, media of learning can generally be understood as all of the resources; power, data and finance.All of these can indeed support and complete the learning process so that the objectives can be more easily, effectively, and efficiently realized. Media development is a must-be-met demand in the world of teaching and learning, and because media is also a part of educational technology, it always develops, changes, and increases along with the development of knowledge and technology. Nevertheless, developing media of learning is not that easy, especially when the media are expected to turn the teaching and learning process of Arabic language become more effective.

Voice teacher’s artistic-pedagogical proficiency in the terminological field of scientific research

The article makes an attempt to organize the conceptual-terminological field of research of the phenomenon of “voice teacher’s artistic-pedagogical proficiency” in order to give the most appropriate definition. It is proved that a voice teacher’s artisticpedagogical proficiency is a qualitative characteristic of his professional competence, which is manifested in a specific set of qualities necessary for successful teaching in music pedagogy and concerns teaching students the interpretation of artistic images by means of vocal technique and free possession of pedagogical technique.