OF METHODS & PHILOSOPHIES

All about picking your philosophy, method or style off the Pedagogy Tree

• 4MAT theory on learning styles
• A miscellany of methods: unschooling, Reggio Emila, objective method & more
• A Tokyo high school adopts Task-based Language Teaching method focusing on mastery, over conventional method of translating passages into Japanese
• About the Algo method
• “Algorithm of Microcycles” Method (in music education)
• Anti-schooling: The hybrid between homeschooling and unschooling
• Are you getting on the “brain train” bandwagon?
  • Brain research, brain-training and brain-boosting article links:
  • How learning about the brain can help you teach or homeschool better
  • World’s best known learning and memorization brain techniques
• Constructivism “student-centered learning vs. traditionalism
• DaVinci Method: ADD a medical disorder or a DaVinci genetic & personality trait?
• Discussing Open Court
• Does method matter? Charlotte Mason vs. Classical
• Does method matter? Montessori vs. Waldorf
• Does method matter? Traditional vs. non-traditional (MI theory, Reggio Emilia, Project method, etc.)
• Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training DS Game Improves Kids’ Math Skills
• Dr Shichida’s “spy-kids” school
• Finnish teacher writes math book for Japanese kids
• Flipped classrooms in Japan
• Great Books Program (and Mortimer Adler’s Great Conversations) approach
• Highlighting is a waste of time: The best and worst learning techniques
• IB system, enquiry-based method & individualized learning
  • Background paper study shows UK universities rate IB Diploma highly
  • I.B. program expands globally
  • The IB programme stretches students but doesn’t suit all students…says one headmaster
• Indian style education gets an A / Emphasis on mental math, computers and English proves popular
• Japanese preschoolers experience Swedish-style eco-friendly outdoor nature program
• John Dewey in Japan
• Just visiting: Classical Education and Travel
• Kagan Structures – what are those?
• Ken Watanabe’s Problem Solving 101
• Korean math: “Educational policy and curriculums of Korean school mathematics in the late 19th and early 20th century“
• Kunskapsskolan: Swedish free schools
  • Swedish school system going the way of Japan’s
• Learning and memorization brain techniques
• Math instruction: best practices and problems (1) 
• Math instruction- best practices and problems (2)
• Multiple choice as a learning method or technique
• “Nanatsu no Shukan J” (The 7 J habits): 214 cram schools, 87 private middle and high schools use the program based on The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by U.S. educator Stephen Covey
• New reading system and instructional method (Synthetic Phonics) pioneered in Clackmannanshire (UK) wins backing
• Newspaper in Education program
• Notes on Japanese school note-taking methods and memory techniques
• Old fashioned methods that work
• Osama bin Laden & frameworks for understanding history
• PBIS -Q&A
• The Pimsleur Approach
• Raising literate kids the kamishibai way
  • Couple telling story of kamishibai in U.S.
• Research shows “sage lecturer” method ineffective, active learning better
• Rhythmics and Eurhythmy in Japanese education
• Russian School of Mathematics and Kumon methods pick up popularity in the U.S.
• Saluting the soroban (J-abacus) | Related: The invention of the abacus and soroban
• Singapore math
  • Box clever: Singapore’s magic formula for maths success
  • Singapore Math approach: Challenging Maths Made Easy
  • US teachers get lessons on Singapore maths
  • Where to buy your Singapore Math materials
    • Singapore math – reviews by homeschoolers
      • Singapore math makes a difference
      • The Singapore model math method (external link)
• Spiral curriculum or method – a definition
• Team teaching approach in Japanese schools
• The “curriculum of family”: Educating your child for real life
• The boom in Indian math education
• The case for phonics-based reading curriculum
• The common sense of copying: a look at the early influence of U.S. educational methods on the Japanese math curriculum

• The ER method
• The Japanese math curriculum
  • U.S. turns to Japanese textbooks to teach math
• The Kumon method
  • The Kumon method in the news
  • The NY Times on the Kumon tutoring phenomenon
• The MAT method
• The Project Approach
• The Spalding reading method
• The value of the integrated approach
• Tony Buzan’s methods adopted by top UK school
• Tony Buzan’s mind mapping method
• What’s the “spaced learning” concept?
• What is a Blended Learning Environment? See also Does the teaching approach that blends technology with traditional teaching methods work better than a purely traditional learning approach?
• What is the 21st century educational curriculum?
• Why Finnish schools are tops…
  • CS Monitor takes a look at the Finnish education system
• ZAP policy (Zeroes aren’t permitted): How a school boosts student achievement

Updated:   June 2014