Fatima Abu Mufreh

Teaching is one of the most complex imaginable. Both s teachers oueselves and as students and researchers of teaching, we have been awed by the immensity of the task of understanding teaching. We know that a good teacher is many things, among them a caring person. But  a good teacher is also  a skillful practitioner, meaning adept at certain specifiable, observable actions. Skillful teachers are made, not born. They have learned the skills use, and others can look at what they are doing in the classroom and say what is skillful about it. Some skillful teachers do not have vocabulary or the concept fo describing what they already do. They just "know" what to do and do it effortlessly and naturally intuitively, some might say. This effortlessness is an unconscious, automatic kind of knowing. Skillful teachers are clear about what is to be learned, clear about what achievement means, and clear about what they are going to do to help students attain it. And if one thing doesn...

Encouraging Physical Activity in Preschoolers   hosted by edWeb Team    A webinar that I attened on tenth of  march, very much influenced me and opened my eyes to new ways of dealing with locomotor  movements or traveling skills  (encouraging physical activity in preschoolers by dr. Steve Sanders is a professor in the College of Education's Department of Teaching and Learning at the University of South Florida. He has taught and promoted the concept of being physically active for life throughout his career while working with all age levels from university students to infant/parent and toddler movement classes, to teaching preschool, elementary, and high school physical education.   Locomotor Mvements or Traveling skills     Thses  movements  where the body travels through space from one location to another. Locomotor movements primarily use the feet for support however, the body can travel on the parts such as...

Reflections: 1-Teacher's Day At Al Jarmak Secondary School. At that day I feel very happy, the day began and the classes were ready to celebrate with me I start walked into my class with my geometrical tools (Ruler, set-square, compass, and protractor) in addition to my books. I became near the class suddenly a group of children stopped me and ask me about " If I correct the exams or not" then I entered my class with big shouting from my students "Happy Teacher's Day " and then a cute girl "Rand" said to me a letter about that day. She said that: "Though, various countries worldwide celebrate teacher's day on different dates in different ways, but in our country lebanon, we celebrate it on ninteenth march as festival with lots of excitment, joy and happiness. For making this day special for teachers, students do so many efforts by creating various things like they offer greeting cards and gifts to their teacher, organize get tog...