Self-Assessment is the most overlooked, yet possibly most valuable aspect of assessment for students at all levels and in all fields. Self-assessment encourages students to reflect on their learning and results in their consciously improving how they learn. Because self-assessment is new for most students, instructors can implement strategies to support the development of students’ [...]

Student motivation, especially intrinsic motivation (the motivation that comes from within ones self), is a critical part of the education process. Motivation is a necessity so that learning becomes a continuing, improving, interesting and hopefully enjoyable process
A teacher, must develop and encourage classroom motivation, i.e. think of and find ways to motivate students to reach [...]

Pupils having Communication and Interaction Difficulties
Pupils with communication and interaction difficulties face a multiple barriers to learning. One of the bitter and most frustrating experiences of human beings is the inability to express their needs. This happens with a child who is having a difficulty in communication and interaction. Similarly, trying and failing to understand [...]

Common School System to develop National System of Education
Understanding of the Common School System is based on the Report of the Education Commission (Kothari Commission) 1964-66. According to CSSC “A Common School System (CSS) means a system of education providing education of an equitable quality to all children irrespective of caste, creed, community, language, gender, [...]

Impediments to learning created by teachers in classroom
Many a times in classrooms, teachers unintentionally, create some barriers to learning. For a teacher it is important to know not only how learning takes place but also what can impede or block it. Teachers can unknowingly create many obstacles that can act both as a temporary or [...]

During the primary school years, teachers come up with the problem of teaching a child how to do good reading. Teaching how to read is an important and yet often difficult task. Having knowledge of effective reading skill can help teachers not only to educate the students but to prepare them for their career. Some [...]

Studying for finals and midterms tends to be automatically linked with stress. In fact, where stress is already built into a situation where you need to call up all the important information that you have learned in each of several classes over the course of several months, the last thing students need to do is [...]

Governance of School Education in India; Edited by: Marmar Mukhopadhyay and R. S. Tyagi; First Published in: July 2001; Published by: National University of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi; List Price: Rs. 500 (Hardbound); Pages: 340    
 
The book ‘Governance of School Education in India’ is an edited publication of National University of Educational Planning [...]

Happy New Year to you..
We all tend to shudder with distaste at the expression “New Years Resolutions”. The phrase brings to my mind pulling myself up by my sorely lacking in self-discipline, boot strings and dredging up basically the same old and tired lists of resolutions I make every year. You know the ones: lose [...]

 
Here is a collection of report card comments for assessing different skills of students.
50 Quick Report Card Comments for Assessing Students’ Math Skills
When you have to write comments on your student’s report card concerning math skills, it is very important that you give the parents of your student’s information on how to correct the various [...]