Teaching and Learning Aids

Waikato professor awarded honorary doctorate from US

8 Feb 2012

University of Waikato Professor Michael Peters has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the State University of New York (SUNY) Empire State College – a college with 20,000 adult students who study for SUNY degrees at 35 different locations around New York state and online.

'Always teaching both languages' in third-grade classroom

7 Feb 2012

Roxana Cervantes’ third-graders are learning about the water table in her dual-language classroom.

Want to Raise Young Leaders? Don't Hand Out Rewards So Easily

7 Feb 2012

In my first year teaching I gave my students so much candy as reward for behaving that my class had a cavity epidemic. I was afraid that if I didn't bribe my students with candy they wouldn't participate. And I wasn't alone. Lots of teachers hand out small rewards, from candy to stickers, as a way of encouraging good work. But according to research from Allen Gottfried, a professor of psychology ...