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Pre K - 12 Teachers, Undergraduate Teachers October 21, 2019

10 Tips for Creating Rapport in the Classroom

Teaching is the art of imparting knowledge and making students learn by experience. There are so many teachers who understand this, and yet, so many who do not. For example, there are teachers whose lectures in class constantly centre around themselves; there are also those who do not ask their students questions – they go on and on, boring the entire class. Your students will lose interest and attention if you are one of these teachers! It is important to implement techniques on how to create rapport in the classroom.

Graduate and Postgraduate Teachers, Pre K - 12 Teachers, Undergraduate Teachers November 19, 2018

Being a Teacher-Blogger: Tips on How to Get Started

There is a growing body of research which suggests that blogging can enhance education through reflective practice and can help you to look at your own experiences to improve the way you work. In addition, the emerging field of blog psychology tells us that blogging brings a host of mental health benefits, and it offers us opportunities to expand our knowledge.

Pre K - 12 Teachers, Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Teachers February 12, 2018

Learning through Blogging: Implications of Blog Psychology in the Classroom

It was estimated that in January 2017, there were more than 1.8 billion websites. And as most of us know already, a website can be a personal, commercial, governmental website, or a non-profit organisation. Websites are typically dedicated to a particular topic or purpose, ranging from entertainment and social networking, to providing news and education.

Graduate and Postgraduate Teachers, Pre K - 12 Teachers, Undergraduate Teachers December 3, 2017

Help Your Students Believe in Themselves: Self-Efficacy in the Classroom

In his pioneering work, Albert Bandura characterised self-efficacy as the individual’s belief in his capacity to execute behaviours necessary to produce specific performance attainments. It reflects confidence in the ability to exert control over one’s own motivation, behaviour, and social environment. As teachers, this is an important element of human behaviour that can be harnessed to optimise students’ learning experience.

A host of research has already demonstrated that self-efficacy appears to be an important variable because it impacts students’ motivation and learning. But what are the factors that teachers should bear in mind to ensure that self-efficacy flourishes in the classroom?