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This website is consacrated to some important aspects of education. At the beginning a short description of education, as it is understood now, is given. The important notions of learning and teaching are exposed as well as some useful tools for acquiring knowledge and skills.It is shown that professional teachers play a key role in educational process. Scientific approach based on psychology, philosophy, biology, and sociology proves to be particularly successful for achieving good and durable results in education. The meaning and importance of higher education as well as its institutions are considered in detail. The key factors of educational activity of educational institutions sre analyzed through the prism of their teaching and research activity.Particular emphasis is made on the role of education in the modern economies.Some very important aspects of learning are described paying particular attention to psychological aspects of information perception.The site describes the teaching process as a creative activity intended to make the education most effective and profitable. The effective teaching and learning are impossible without taking into account the priciples of educational psychology and its influene upon educational process.	Scientists also speak of the fourth modality – the self talk... Higher education involves work for a degree qualification... Educational psychology has always been a part of teacher preparation... Teachers must understand a subject well enough to explain its essence to students. The purpose is to establish a knowledge base for students.The passing of knowledge allows students to become useful members of society. Good teachers can translate information, experience and wisdom into knowledge that studenst can understand, retain and pass to others. Studies suggest that the quality of teachers is the most important factor affecting student performance.. A teacher creates the course materials to be taught and then enforces it. Pedagogy is the different way a teacher can teach. Being a teacher is the art and science, referring to style of instruction. Resources that help teachers are a lesson plan, or practical skill involving learning skills. A curriculum precises standards. These standards can change, depending on the situation in the educational process. Some principles of effective teaching emerged from research in classrooms. They address aspects of curriculum, instruction, assessment, and management practices that support effective instruction. It focuses on learning outcomes and positive student attitudes towards schooling. Some principles are rooted in the logic of instructional design In addition; attention is given to modern theories of teaching and learning and to the standards statements circulated by organizations representing the major subjects. The principles rest on fundamental assumptions about optimizing curriculum and instruction. Curricula assume different types of learning that call for different types of teaching, and so no single teaching method can be the method of choice for all occasions. An optimal programme features a mixture of instructional methods and learning activities. What constitutes an optimal mixture of instructional methods and learning activities evolves as instructional units progress.Students should learn at high levels of mastery and progress through the curriculum steadily. This implies that, at any time, curriculum content and learning activities need to be difficult enough to challenge students and extend their learning, but not so difficult as to leave many students confused or frustrated. Instruction should focus on the zone of proximal development, which is the range of knowledge and skills that students are not yet ready to acquire on their own but can acquire with help from their teachers.