Sentences with phrase «teach by rote»

[9] These teachers do not teach by rote but attempt to find new invigoration for the course materials on a daily basis.

Many religious people I have talked to don't even know much about their faith, only what they are taught by rote.

But were St Thomas Aquinas alive today he would not be teaching by rote from a textbook first published in the 13th century.

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Illustrations by Ruth Rowland The need to reform U.S. mathematics instruction dates back to the early 19th century, when cutting - edge educators railed against rote instruction and called for new teaching methods so students could better understand meaning in the complex system of quantitative reasoning.

Most important, however, the standards recommended certain areas that should receive «decreased attention» in grades K - 4, including «complex paper - and - pencil computations,» «long division,» «paper - and - pencil fraction computation,» «use of rounding to estimate,» «rote practice,» «rote memorization of rules,» and «teaching by telling.»

In the digital age we live in, going back to learning times tables by rote seems like an archaic form of learning, which is likely to be difficult for the already stretched teaching profession, so coming up with enjoyable paths of learning for both the educator and the student is more than likely the best option.

For many parents (and some teachers), they were taught a process for solving problems — often by rote — with little understanding when they were at school themselves.

It's All About the Content Content consumption in a connected environment is significantly different from content consumption in linear teaching, where the textbook was king and learning was by rote.

Believe it or not, you can teach skills, be explicit about them but also integrate and personalise learning so children can think rather than learn by rote and mindlessly repeat what they are told.

A key reason that flipped teaching and learning marries so well with the active classroom is that by pushing some of the rote instructional practice outside of, and prior to, class sessions, it frees up valuable face - to - face class time for applied learning pursuits.

The misuse of and over-emphasis on test scores caused by pressures from media, corporate - style education reformers, and misguided federal laws has forced schools nationwide to teach to these tests, focusing one - sidedly on rote skills and ignoring higher - level thinking.

Authors Amy Heineke and Jay McTighe provide the answers by adding a lens on language to the widely used Understanding by Design ® framework (UbD ® framework) for curriculum design, which emphasizes teaching for understanding, not rote memorization.

He said: «By rote learning people think students are going to be practicing ad nauseam and that is going to be the preferred approach to teaching our students.

Probably because when people think of teaching knowledge, they conjure images of rote memorization of dates and other facts, perhaps reinforced by the rap of a ruler.

Age - old strategies involve rote memorization of ancient algorithms; but modern teachers have also begun to develop curriculum over the years to effectively teach the idea of algorithms, that there are multiple ways of resolving complex issues by breaking them into a set of procedural steps.