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Authentic Teaching Authentic Learning

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AUTHENTIC TEACHING AUTHENTIC LEARNING     Authentic teaching is not all about teaching to know, but teaching to performance-basis and creativeness. Authentic teaching performance reflects some fairly and accurately real learning by all students. As well as for the students who are engaged through virtual learning. A standardized test could bring about backward design for the students. This is a red flag.   An authentic assessment should seek to avoid the use of traditional assessment where the students learning styles are ignored.   The objectives of learning are well stated in the lesson plan and students' active involvement in the instructions that are been given in our feedbacks.   When there is authentic feedbacks come from every key player in the demonstration of the instructional strength and success. Some of the Handling Negative Thoughts authentic way to assess students' knowledge and achievement are keeping profiles, portfolios, exhibitions, performan

INAUTHENTIC LEARNING

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  INAUTHENTIC LEARNING   Beware of inauthentic learning most especially during this new normal life we and children now live. The information processing theory in psychology views learners as active investigators of their learning. This means that every learning process requires the learner's involvement.   Communicative learning approach was taken to an unusual dimension in 1944 around World War II by David Horsborgh with his innovative thinking and charismatic leadership he introduced activity-based learning at Rishi Valley School in India.   His philosophy emphasized that learning can be best when it is initiated by the surrounding environment and motivated by providing optimum opportunities to learners. Learners are viewed unique, intelligent, and talented. Therefore, learning must remain active, not passive, hands-on on the experiment, and student-centric.   Today in the New Normal, teaching and learning must adopt authentic learning. Teaching and learning

SCHOOL CLOSURE LIKELY TO HAVE SERIOUS IMPACT ON SCHOOL CHILDREN.

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SCHOOL CLOSURE LIKELY TO HAVE SERIOUS IMPACT ON SCHOOL CHILDREN.   Apart from the profound economic and social consequences the school lockdown has placed on the educational system in Nigeria, the lockdown may also bring traumatizing experience to the generation Z and Alpha. These are the generations that constitute our preschool, primary, secondary, and tertiary institutes. According to UNESCO, over 90% of the world’s students have been affected by the school closure. This is in addition to the 13.2 out of school children that were yet to receive education in Nigeria. How traumatizing can this lockdown really be to our children? A declaration of state emergency over rape and sexual violence against young ladies and children tripled during the country’s coronavirus lockdown. In some instances, the culprits were adolescents who should have been in school. The idle minds become the devil’s workshop. It took us just a simple announcement of school closure by the Honorable Min