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Author :: Freda J. Glatt, MS  |
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| Article Title :: Martin Luther King, Jr. Teaching Tips |
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| Who was born on January 15, 1929? A man who believed in equality and peace...Martin Luther King, Jr. Here are some ways to honor this man. NOTE: If you live in a country other than America, adapt these activities for a significant person in your country's history.
1. Draw a silhouette of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s face against a plain background; then add lines to create a puzzle. Add words that rhyme with 'king' in the spaces of the face and words that rhyme with 'men' in the background. Color the first set of words brown and the second set of words red. NOTE: Vary the activity by adding equal math problems in the face and unequal math problems in the background (ie: 4+6=2+7+1 v (read full article) |
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| Category :: Reference & Education Articles |
Author :: Frank Holes Jr. |
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| Article Title :: Emergency Lesson Plans, Real Lifesaving Tools for Teachers |
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| Everyone gets those situations in life where an emergency has come up, and you don't have the time (or sometimes the ability) to get a good lesson plan in to school for your students. Maybe you have a family emergency or a disrupted travel plan and you just cannot get into school to leave detailed lessons. That is why it is essential for you to have an emergency lesson plan available and handy.
The emergency lesson plan should be able to be used at ANY point in the year. It doesn't have to fit in with what you're currently doing (nor should it - it is to be used when you cannot leave normal sub plans). The lesson should be related to your normal curriculum, but it could be a supplement (read full article) |
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| Category :: Reference & Education Articles |
Author :: Matt Garrett |
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| Article Title :: GirlsÂ’ Boarding School |
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| Is your girl child feeling pressured in the co-ed classroom environment? Do you want to bring up your child in a healthy all girlsÂ’ environment? Well then waste no time to admit your girl to a good and reputed girlsÂ’ boarding school where she will receive the proper training to develop a self-belief that will help her to become tomorrowÂ’s leader.
Education is not just attending school and learning facts. Your child should have to develop skills to meet the challenges of the future. A girlsÂ’ boarding school will give your girl the right environment to learn and grow. Girls in a boarding school find a close-knit community, wide variety of clubs, teams and activiti (read full article) |
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| Category :: Reference & Education Articles |
Author :: Chris Lewis |
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| Article Title :: A Tribute To Maria Montessori |
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| "The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life — by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality. The training he needs is theoretical, i.e., conceptual. He has to be taught to think, to understand, to integrate, to prove. He has to be taught the essentials of the knowledge discovered in the past — and he has to be equipped to acquire further knowledge by his own efforts."
— Ayn Rand, "The Comprachicos"
The state of education in New Zealand is a shambles. Parents who are concerned about the future well-being of their children are searching desperately for educational alternatives. The increased demand for private (read full article) |
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| Category :: Reference & Education Articles |
Author :: Mike Nelson |
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| Article Title :: Acting Camps: Preparing Your Young Actor or Actress for Industry Success |
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| Helping your young acting hopeful prepare for a successful acting career can be an incredibly rewarding experience for the parent. All parents like seeing their children being creative, expressing themselves, and, most importantly, having fun.
It should be stated, however, that forcing a child to participate in any pursuit they don't like is not just counterproductive but harmful to the child. Your role, as the acting hopeful's parent, is to caringly nurture your children's expressed interests and not force them into a pursuit in order to live vicariously through them. One would have to be born under a rock to have missed some of the more public examples of what can happen when (read full article) |
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| Category :: Reference & Education Articles |
Author :: Jean Feingold |
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| Article Title :: Joining a School Band |
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| From selecting the right instrument to learning to read music, being in band can enhance a student's education. Even children with no musical background can join their school's band. How is this possible? It's because all the basic aspects of playing a musical instrument and reading musical notation are taught at school. No one can predict whether a child will have musical ability, but even those whose parents are not musical have a chance of success. The most important factors in whether a child will do well are regular practicing and desire.
Finding an instrument
Selecting the right instrument is an important part of joining a band class. Band directors wil (read full article) |
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| Category :: Reference & Education Articles |
Author :: Rene Graeber - |
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| Article Title :: Speed Reading - Getting The Main Idea |
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| Getting the main idea in reading is central to effective studying.
You must learn what the author's central idea is, and understand it in your own way.
Every paragraph contains a main idea. Main ideas are perfect for outlining textbooks. Make it a habit to find the main idea in each paragraph you read.
Extracting Important Details
Extracting important details mean that you locate in your reading main and most significant ideas.
There is usually one important detail associated with every main idea. The more important details you can identify, the easier it will be to review for examinations because you have made a link between (read full article) |
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| Category :: Reference & Education Articles |
Author :: Paul Callis - |
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| Article Title :: Space Exploration - What's Out There? |
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| The first Space Exploration started in 1957 with the launch of the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, sent into space by the Soviets. Since ancient times people have dreamed of leaving their home planet and exploring other worlds not known to man. Every era through out history has had a belief as to what the "heavens" are made form. The Greeks believed that the stars and space were made of a material called "Quitenses", and other culture once thought that the stars were made of their peoples passed away.
We know now what stars are really made of; they are made of various gases that explode over and over again. Up until about 43 years ago people did not have the means to trav (read full article) |
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| Category :: Reference & Education Articles |
Author :: LeeAnna - |
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| Article Title :: Today's Military High Schools There Not Just For Troubled Teens Anymore |
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| Military high schools today are claiming they are not the “punishment” places they used to be. Remember hearing the phrase, {or maybe you actually were told this by your parents}, “If you don't straighten up, your going to military school.” Today, military schools in general want to change their image, and they don't take teen's who don't want to be there anymore either. Many young people have graduated from military high school every year, and they want to dispel the myths that have surrounded military high schools for years. Some of these myths may sound familiar to you.
Military High Schools Are For Students With Discipline Problems. {MYTH}
Milita (read full article) |
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| Category :: Reference & Education Articles |
Author :: Frank Gerace - |
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| Article Title :: The American English Accent:: The "Explosive" T And P Sounds |
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| The "explosive consonants"
Earlier we said that the vowels are an important factor in hearing a "foreign" accent. But it is not only the vowels. The consonants also must be mastered.
When we say that English consonants are "explosives", we mean that they are pronounced with a sudden release of air. It is this characteristic that marks the accent of an English speaker when they try to speak your language. You should try to speak like an American and you will be reaching for the American English way of pronouncing the consonant. It is the characteristic explosive nature of the English consonant that is the basis of so many jokes about the pronunciation of the English (read full article) |
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