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The Role of Motivation in Education

Few things are more important in raising a child than motivation. Teachers must be motivated to teach well. Students are motivated to learn. In the early years of education the case is easy. Children are naturally curious and eager to learn new things. As youth turns into youth, yet it falls short of the cause. […]

The Benefits of Cooperative Learning

Constructivist theories of learning propose that students should discover information for themselves, developing and questioning knowledge as necessary. Social learning theorists suggest that learning is heavily influenced by interaction with, and input from other individuals. A highly effective teaching strategy known as cooperative learning fuses these two perspectives of learning, taking a group discovery approach […]