Boarding school

In the 21st century, self-directed learning is an essential skill require for educational world. This learning approach increases the motivation of students to learn, since they are the makers of their own knowledge, they experience a sense of independence while learning. It is a type of learning in which the learners are allowed to work on authentic problems and diagnosing their learning needs with or without help from others. Self-directed learning can be implemented in a variety of ways such…

Life is a journey which involves bettering yourself and gaining knowledge. All people have brains to think, interpret, and create anything they can imagine in their mind. But have you ever wondered if your perception of reality was truly real and not a giant deception. A man named Descartes had a very similar thought. In fact, Descartes decided in order to really know the realness of existence he had to forget all the knowledge his mind had gathered through his lifetime. The man disregards all…

“All learning is understanding relationship”. She wants to sensitive “school educator” in their way to approach and to teach children, especially tuff children. Rita is a teacher since forty years; she saw and was part of many reforms in the education. Her main idea is that we should focus more on connections between people. Like she said, we are always speaking about reasons why children are not learning or giving up from school: poverty, tuff live etc.. But rarely about the human connection…

CLIMATE CHANGE: HOPE’S ROLE IN PRO-ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIORS As climate change becomes an increasingly recognized serious issue, the need for environmental education (EE) and education for sustainable development (ESD) for young people and in schools is also becoming increasingly relevant. Traditional environmental education has aimed to help students better understand causes, impacts, and solutions to environmental issues and to inspire critical thinking around ethical issues, conflicts, and…

chapter talks about predictors of teacher burnout which are job stress, how safe the environments, and peer support (Jeanne H. Ballantine, 2015). Self- efficacy had four outliers that had to be followed to prevent burnout and eventual departure of the school. The text had a study to see if job stress, safe environments and peer support had a correlation with burnout. The results showed that there was a significant effect every year on teacher burnout. Chapter 5 goes more in depth than the peer…

There are many curriculum development models that are presented to us from well-known scholar, like, Hilda Taba, Ralph Tyler, William Alexander, which would help in clarifying the process of curriculum developmental. For the program, we have applied Hilda Taba’s Model which is, Taba’s Curriculum Developmental Model. This curriculum model demonstrated teacher’s approach, which she believed that it should be the teacher who design the curriculum rather than authorities. She also believed that,…

Williams and Lawson (1998) suggested patterns of social behavior are influenced by parents, schools and other institutions. Taking this concept to look at gender inequality, it may be indeed true. Upbringing is one of the first forms of education children receives, parents act as role models of the children. They play a huge role in influencing of social behaviors, and in this context, on gender inequality. Parents can influence their children from the way they divide their roles between…

MESSAGE TO THE PARENTS We all love our children and we will go the extra mile to make sure that they are well-prepared for the future. But if we gauge their abilities based on the skills necessary in this century, will they be found fit and qualified? Based on studies and statements of experts, there are identified skills today that we must make sure our children develop in the course of their schooling years. One of these is English proficiency. With that, I would like to focus on one…

argumentative essays. I find that argumentative essays take planning and an outline. Another thing that helps, is knowing your audience. Knowing who your audience is helps to know how much explanation you need to put into the essay. My last paper in high school was an argumentative essay. We had to come up with our own topics and then went through the process of collecting sources. My teacher did a mini lesson on how to site our sources and it truly helped. Doing a mini lesson on how much…

child at school is limited and also funds for aftercare is balanced between working and needing to provide. Underestimating parent’s abilities As most children come from impoverished backgrounds, teachers believe that the parents do not have sufficient knowledge or understanding to support their children through school. Many of these parents make up for this by having active discussions with their children with regards to what they did at school and how the importance of doing well in school…