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Interest in Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences and its appli- cation to education has been substantial since the publication of Frames of Mind in 1983 and Gardner’s keynote address in early 1984, for a standing- room-only crowd at…

Think back to your first days as a teacher. What kind of support did you receive from your district? If you have taught for fewer than ten years, you may have been assigned a building mentor or you were required to attend “skills sessions” that…

A Japanese student once told me that good university students have “eyes that shine,” presumably the opposite of many students who have eyes that express listlessness. I am interested in why so many students have eyes that do not shine, and yet…

The Government’s recent agenda for inclusion in schools and the focus on preventing and reducing exclusions has further raised awareness as to the specific needs of students with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties. Many mainstream…

We study the integration of fuzzy level sets associated with a fuzzy
random variable when the underlying space is a separable Banach space or a
weak star dual of a separable Banach space. In particular, the expectation and the
conditional…

Throughout my educational career, I have had the opportunity to be a “pro- fessional gypsy.” I taught self-contained elementary grades 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , and 6. I also taught a combined third and fourth grade class (today known as “multi- age”)…

The mandate to expand and improve science education for the 21st century is global and strong. Implementing these changes, however, is very complicated given that science education is dynamic, continually incorporating new ideas, practices, and…

Let me first give you a short description of what an affiliate program really
is. You sign up with an affiliate program, send visitors to the merchant’s
site (the merchant is the owner of the affiliate program), the merchant’s site
then…

This book is the story of the convergence of two major architectural systems:
Chinese traditional architecture and the French-derived methods of the École
des Beaux-Arts. Unpredictably in the early twentieth century, the two systems
coalesced in…

So you want to be a successful online teacher—you are to be commended! Being a great teacher comes naturally to a select few. Others of us spend years fine tuning our craft, seeking additional learning and education, reflecting on our practice, and…