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  2. TPR Storytelling - Wikipedia

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    If the teacher asks a question, then the students answer the question. [15] The students can answer the questions with just one or two words. The point of asking these questions is not to force the students to speak; rather, the questions are a method of checking comprehension while simultaneously repeating the target vocabulary in context.

  3. Lesson - Wikipedia

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    A group of lessons may be linked together in a unit plan, scheme, or work. The detail of the plan may vary with some being a simple list of what is going to be taught in a lesson with others working including much more detail, such as a time plan and the learning aims and objectives.

  4. Autodidacticism - Wikipedia

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    James Watt was a surveyor and instrument maker and is described as being "largely self-educated". [15] Watt, like some other autodidacts of the time, became a Fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the Lunar Society. In the eighteenth century these societies often gave public lectures and were instrumental in teaching chemistry and other ...

  5. Direct method (education) - Wikipedia

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    Employ different examples of Element that are easy to understand, changing country/city names, people names, and words student already knows. Keep a list of everything taught, so proper testing may be done. D. Observation and Notation: Teacher should maintain a student list of words/phrases that are most difficult for that student. The list is ...

  6. Catechism - Wikipedia

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    Codex Manesse, fol. 292v, "The Schoolmaster of Esslingen" (Der Schulmeister von Eßlingen). A catechism (/ ˈ k æ t ə ˌ k ɪ z əm /; from Ancient Greek: κατηχέω, "to teach orally") is a summary or exposition of doctrine and serves as a learning introduction to the Sacraments traditionally used in catechesis, or Christian religious teaching of children and adult converts. [1]

  7. Not only a matter of education - HuffPost

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    are some of the questions that this paper – as part of a series of papers on the assessments on education reforms for Hispanics in the US –aims to answer. In this first paper, we provide the reader with an overview of the main reform trends in improving Hispanic education.

  8. Socratic questioning - Wikipedia

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    Socratic questioning (or Socratic maieutics) [1] is an educational method named after Socrates that focuses on discovering answers by asking questions of students. According to Plato, Socrates believed that "the disciplined practice of thoughtful questioning enables the scholar/student to examine ideas and be able to determine the validity of those ideas". [2]

  9. Glossary of language education terms - Wikipedia

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    Words that carry meaning; usually nouns, verbs and sometimes adjectives and adverbs. Context clues Clues used when guessing word meanings; clues that provide students with meaning or comprehension based on the environment in which a word is found. Contrastive analysis Comparing two languages to predict where learning will be facilitated and ...