WAYS TO REFORM EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES: A REVIEW
Keywords:
Instructional practices, Amendments, student Engagement and achievementAbstract
In the study the researcher reviewed psychological researches for improving educational practices leads students and teachers engagement. Such practices are accountable talk, Directed and Negotiated class discourse, teacher responsiveness, Administrative leadership, Human relationship leadership and Instructional leadership and involvement activies. All these practices will beget more positive student responses, which, in return, will beget more positive teacher responsiveness, and ideally leading to an upward spiral of student engagement. In short the study focuses on the ways to reform educational practices that are result of the educational studies about teaching learning process, classroom behavior and achievement of the students. The study recommends the routine use of these ways to reform educational practices with empirical evidences to sharpen the teaching- learning processReferences
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