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From balancing your course load to forging relationships with classmates to extracurricular involvement, these are the tried and true methods to nail your career as a student.
Conquer Kindergarten: Literacy
As a first year teacher, I was bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. I could not wait to have my own classroom and my own students to teach. I landed a job teaching Kindergarten. I loved teaching my students, but teaching a class of 35 students with a huge variety of academic levels was definitely overwhelming. I was shocked at how unprepared some students were, and when I say “unprepared,” I mean they had never heard of the letter A. Throughout the year, I was amazed at how much the students progressed. However, I know that if some of them had begun the year with more prior knowledge, the students and I both would have had an easier time. Here are my suggestions for how to best prepare your child for Kindergarten when it comes to reading and writing.
By Haley Peterson8 years ago in Education
My First Year of School
Like the vast majority of six year olds, I was extremely excited from the realisation that I would be starting school in a month’s time. In Australia just about every school (independent or state school) has a uniform in which their students wear. One night in January mum brought my new uniform home for me to try on, just to see if it would fit. While I was wearing it I felt so grown up and asked mum if I could wear it all the time. Though I was told that I couldn’t wear it until I started school because it had to be clean for my first day.
By Rebecca Sharrock8 years ago in Education
The Difference Between High School and College
The age old question that every high schooler wants to know. And the answer that college students realized they cared way too much about. Obviously, high school and college are very important times developmentally. But there are two pieces of development that I want to focus on: social and emotional. So, what is the difference between high school and college?
By Wesley Holm8 years ago in Education
Keeping the Kids Home
Ah, winter in Canada. It can be a beautiful and fun thing, but it can also wreak havoc on the school system. Depending on what region you live in and how intense the winter is, buses could be cancelled fairly often. This disrupts learning and progress for students, but it is largely unavoidable.
By Samantha Reid8 years ago in Education
High-Risk Inner Students Systematically Doomed to Street Life?
I was always the quiet girl, lurking in the background of every school that I attended in my youth. I didn’t make many friends; I had terrible facial eczema, I was chubby and extremely nonverbal in social situations. However, I was always acutely aware of my surroundings. When I was in the sixth grade, I started feeling the pain of my peers; it melded with my own and weighed heavily on my spirit. I suffered in silence as they acted out and I watched as they were disciplined or discarded as troubled children with no potential.
By Ashley Lacey8 years ago in Education
Motivational Teaching - Motivated Students #2
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Franklin If you retrospect to school years, how would you describe that period of time? Joy, fun, pleasure?... Or, maybe, boredom, tiredness, stress?...
By Lubow Dabrowska-Szpakowicz8 years ago in Education
Passing Exams
The first and most important step is to understand and truly believe that tests do not measure how smart you are. The only thing they measure is your ability to answer questions in a subject area. They do not predict whether you will be able to do a job nor do they predict how well you will be able to do your job. It’s just questions and answers. I’ll say it again…tests do not measure how smart you are.
By Melissa Matheson8 years ago in Education
Am I Stupid for Dropping Out?
Have I made the most fatal mistake of my life? After three successful years of university, I dropped out. I had a good reason (one that you don't really need to know about), but I was still surrounded by shame. I dropped out right in time for me to graduate. One more year, and I would have completed my undergrad. Another year after that, I would have earned my teaching degree. But despite all of that, I dropped out anyway. Am I a loser?
By Amanda Doyle8 years ago in Education
How To Survive Your First Semester at Uni. Top Story - January 2018.
Having only been at uni for one semester, it seems a bit pointless to write something like this as I am probably just as clueless as people who haven't gone to uni yet, but I know that if I had read something like this there would definitely be a few things I would've done differently.
By Sophie Moule8 years ago in Education
School
School is either that awesome period of your life where you make a ton of friends who will stand by you your whole life, or it can become one of the loneliest places on the planet and can give you depression and anxiety. There is no in between. The grades and the classes you study are like the small print in the terms and conditions. The people around you and the emotions they ensue are what really affect you.
By nailinthewall writes8 years ago in Education
