Active Teaching Methods as Means of Developing Students’ Creativity

In the article, you can get an answer to such questions as the place of a lecture in education and on the basis of this concept about the content of a lecture, what can and cannot be talked about. You cannot give all the material in a lecture. In fact, both an inexperienced teacher and a teacher with vast experience can make one methodological mistake: they want to include all their knowledge in the lecture. The teacher, trying to have time to present all the prepared material, lectures quickly. This of course reduces the effectiveness of the lecture. This note provides specific suggestions and discusses the didactic and psychological conditions for organizing the lecture. This article is recommended for university professors for use in lectures.

Has the Allocation of Certain Teachers Impacted Student Achievement and Upward Economic Mobility? The Case of Forsyth County, NC Elementary Schools

Forsyth County, North Carolina has one of the lowest rates of upward economic mobility in the entire United States. Researchers find that one of strongest correlates of upward mobility is the quality of schools in the local system. Using 2018 and 2017 NC Public School Report Card (SRC) data for Forsyth County elementary schools, I find that the percentage of experienced teachers at a school is a significant predictor of school performance. At high-performing schools, a much larger share of their faculties consist of highly experienced and educated teachers, compared to low-performing schools that predominately serve economically disadvantaged children. Experienced and high-quality teachers can have significant long-term impacts on elementary school children, especially those who come from underprivileged families. Yet in Forsyth County, schools with greater shares of economically disadvantaged children have lower percentages of teachers with these characteristics. I argue that the Forsyth County school system can assist in reversing low mobility rates by allocating more experienced teachers toward low-performing elementary schools that serve mostly disadvantaged children. This will insure that these schools have higher experienced-to-inexperienced teacher ratios, while also helping to reduce teacher turnover.

The challenges faced by english teachers in Bogotá during the pandemic in the Colombian context

This article presents the reflections and considerations from the voice of a novice English teacher, in the context of a remote teaching practice carried out in a public institution, in times of pandemic derived from the Covid 19. The effects of this situation on the educational environment have become a major concern as teachers and students have become involved in this new home school dynamic. Thus, attention must be paid to the effects that both the unexpected shift to online teaching and learning and the quarantine have had on teachers, students, and parents. This article aims to provide a perspective of a novice English teacher, highlighting the challenges faced by him/her in this pandemic circumstance in Bogotá. To develop it, a qualitative and interpretative look was adopted by the researcher, who used the teacher’s diary as a tool. Finally, the successes and failures of this experience in which the inexperienced teacher made an incursion mediated by technology are presented, highlighting, by way of conclusion, the commitment required from the family, the educational community and above all the student, who have developed a crucial role in the advancement of this remote education.