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Improving teaching and learning: A thermos bottle keeps things hot and cold, but how does it know?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2016

Jim Ysseldyke
Jim Ysseldyke*
Affiliation:
National Center on Educational Outcomes, University of Minnesota
*
Address for: Jim Ysseldyke, National Center on Educational Outcomes, 350 Elliot Hall, University of Minnesota, 75 East River Road, Minneapolis, MN55455 USA.
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Abstract

The topic we are addressing in this session is improving teaching and learning. We are talking about improving teaching and learning. I assume our focus is on improving teaching and learning for those students who are resistant to instruction and for whom we need to intensify our instructional efforts. These students are present in all of our classrooms. There are three things that are necessary in order to improve teaching and learning. We must know:

• Where we are going (goals)

• How best to achieve the goals (effective strategies and tactics)

• Whether we have achieved the goals (accountability)

Type
Research Article
Information
Australasian Journal of Special Education , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , 1999 , pp. 133 - 147
Copyright
Copyright © The Australian Association of Special Education 1999

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