Information for Teachers
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I'm tired and want to sleep, but I still have eighteen exercise booklets to correct.
Lay your head down to rest a minute and look at this from the side. :) You will find: 1. a bald headed man, or 2. a happy person. Sometimes you have to look at the world from a different angle.
How to solve a discipline problem? This may not work for you, but I heard this jewel from young teacher, "I made the boy who was naughty my assistant."
Love every child that is trusted to your care. Believe that every child will learn. Don't give up on any child because of what someone else has said about them. Give each child a fresh start at learning.
Keep adult problems out of the classroom. The classroon is a place for the students to learn. Learning can be destroyed by allowing outside problems to interfere with the relationship between you and your students. Leave your home problems at home and solve them when you get back home. There is better for you and for your students.
When your school is considering changes, evaluate every change by asking, "Is this in the best interest of the children?" Participate in proposed changes. Make your views heard. Remember that while change is uncomfortable, it is often necessary. Give changes a chance. What seemed unacceptable at first may become positive after a period of adjustment. If there are changes you'd like to see in your school, take them to your director and your school supervisors. Build support for your ideas with other teachers. Look for successful examples of your ideas in other schools.
Hold all your students perform to the same standards, regardless of who their parents are or where they live.
Have your students' parents work with you on their child's education. Most parents are concerned about the child's performance. Send home assignments for them to do with their children. We cannot force parents to help us educate their children, but if we give them the tools and the encouragement, we can help them begin.
U.N. Education Forum Agrees Free and Compulsory Basic Education
Delegates from 181 countries attending a United Nations-sponsored World Education Forum have resolved to ensure free and compulsory basic education for all by 2015. The framework plan, adopted at the end of a three-day meeting in the Senegalese capital, lays special emphasis on educating girls, children from ethnic minorities and those with learning difficulties. The forum heard that more than 113 million children, mainly girls, lack primary education, while 880 million adults are illiterate. International donor institutions told the forum they would support individual countries in their efforts to improve basic education. As well as national delegates and several U.N. agencies, more than 100 non-governmental organizations took part in the forum, which was addressed by U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan Wednesday during a tour of West Africa
The English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was entertaining a visitor one day when the conversation turned to children. "I believe," said the visitor, "that children should be given a free rein to think and act, and thus learn at an early age to make their own decisions. This is the only way they can grow into their full potential."
"I would like you to see my flower garden," Coleridge interupped his visitor, and he led the man outside. The visitor took one look and exclaimed, "Why this is nothing but a yard full of weeds!"
"It used to be filled with roses," said Colerlidge, "but this year I thought I would let the garden grow as it willed without my tending to it. This is the result."
Ann Karpova wrote her diploma paper about her research and experiences in the use of music to improve student interest and accelarate learning while teaching a foreign language. Sumy Ped. Inst. 1998
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Web Sites
Holidays:
Leaning Tower of Pisa:
Official Web Site: http://torre:duomapisa.it
Unofficial Site: www.endex.com/gf/buildings/ltpisa/ltpisa.html
Other Info: www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pisa/
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: http://unmuseum.mus.pa.ua/wonders.htm