Integrated Lesson in Teaching Oral Skill

Improving Teaching through Lesson Study

Using Japanese Lesson Study in Teaching Mathematics

The teaching and testing of mathematics is now a global phenomenon. It cannot escape our attention that there are some countries that appear to be more successful than others. In particular, Japan and other Asian countries seem to score higher marks in international tests consistently. While it may be sensible to question what such tests actually measure, it is also important to see if we can l...

The oral microbiome: A Lesson in coexistence

1 Department of Oncology and Diagnostic Sciences, Dental School, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, 2 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, 3 Graduate Program in Life Sciences, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology Program, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryla...

Reflections upon Teaching a Poorly-Conceived Lesson

Using a “failed” mathematics lesson as a mini-case study, I explore some of the challenges inherent in teaching an inquiry-style mathematics lesson. The ensuing discussion centers around two issues: the preparation and subsequent scaffolding involved in guiding students to desired understandings, along with the tension inherent in “telling” and “not telling” in an inquiry-style pedagogy. I reso...

Latent Skill Embedding for Personalized Lesson Sequence Recommendation

Students in online courses generate large amounts of data that can be used to personalize the learning process and improve quality of education. In this paper, we present the Latent Skill Embedding (LSE), a probabilistic model of students and educational content that can be used to recommend personalized sequences of lessons with the goal of helping students prepare for specific assessments. Ak...