Education Moon

This last month of school, where I am teaching has become an onslaught of testing for both students and teachers. Testing not only occurs at the beginning of the year with a series of post tests and milestones, but at the end of the year with benchmarks, SAT/ACT, EOPAS, and […]

Teaching

The Most Important Personal Attributes You Need to Function As a Teaching Assistant

An investigation of the literature reveals seven personal attributes that teaching assistants (TA) need to function in their day-to-day tasks. These are: 1. Ability to positively relate or interact with students and teachers 2. Disposed to teamwork participation – a team player 3. Disposed to sharing knowledge/teaching 4. Willingness to […]

Teaching

A Reflective Approach to Teaching Practicum Debriefing (RATPD)

The reflective approach to teaching practicum debriefing (RATPD) is a strategy that aids University teacher educators and school-based mentors in the task of developing student teachers’ ability to reflect. It is a practical user-friendly tool grounded in Schön’s (1987) reflection-on-action and the idea of Zeichner and Liston (1996) which states […]

Teaching

Teaching In A Boys’ Prison

“Cover!,” the guard yelled. Everyone fell to the ground and covered his head. I thought it was some kind of drill and started to do the same but the probation officer who issued the command touched my arm and said,” not you, ma’am. So went my first week in the […]

Teaching

Future Teachers of America

I’ve shared in previous articles some of my college class challenges. Currently, I am tackling beginning algebra. Initially, I had enrolled in pre-algebra but the class was cancelled. I haven’t had math since I was 14. I got a C in basic math back then. Now, I am being exposed […]

Teaching

Project Based Learning, and Students’ Inability to Provide Meaningful Research

Currently I have taught in both the high school and middle school settings. One of the key things that I have noticed between both of these populations is that their ability to do research and answer inquiry style questioning is nonexistent. When I returned to school in 2013 to work […]

Teaching

Three Ways To Stimulate Language Development for Children

Language Formation and Development Children develop language at a very rapid pace from birth up to the age of five. Studies have even suggested that children have been learning language from conception, while they are developing in their mother’s womb. Sensory and brain mechanisms for hearing are developed at 30 […]

Teaching

Using Puzzles in Early Childhood to Develop Prereading Skills

I was an inner-city classroom teacher in a new, open-space school, part of a 4th grade team consisting of 4 teachers and 100 students. Sixteen of our students could not read even at the 1st grade level. They were all boys, and of course, these students were the ‘behavior problems’. […]

Teaching

Model Drawing: A Fun Precursor to Writing for Young Children

Children in kindergarten, and even sometimes in preschool, are expected to learn to print the letters of the alphabet correctly. However, often these young children have not developed fine motor skills sufficiently to enable them to experience success when forming the required letter shapes. Many articles have been written to […]

Languages

The Role Of Translators And Interpreters

Businesses are done all over the world. A company may have its branches across different parts of the world. You know that different countries have different languages, and one language that is spoken almost all over the globe is English, which is known as the international language. Interpreters and translators […]

Home Schooling

How to Create the Perfect Homeschool Environment

Once parents decide to step out of the norm of a regular private or public school and take matters of educating their children into their own hands, they don’t readily realize the huge task in front of them of transforming their homes into an environment conducive for learning. While a […]

Mathematics

Unexpected Connections in Mathematics: Descartes, Algebra, and Geometry

A remarkable property of the mathematical world is that sometimes there are unexpected connections within different areas of the world of mathematics. Often, a mathematician will study one area of mathematics, realize there are direct correlations with the properties of another area of math, and connect the two to find […]

Science

User Requirement Specification

A user requirement specification, abbreviated as URS, is a document written by a buyer outlining the requirements of an equipment he/she wants to buy. The buyer can also be an organization. More specifically in the pharmaceutical field, the company’s user department prepares the URS and hands it over to the […]

Home Schooling

Junior Year Is Critical for College Success

If your home-school student is interested in attending college, junior year is probably one of the most critical times for them to be on task. It’s the time when they should be looking for colleges, taking college prep tests, and honing their essay writing skills. Paying close attention during junior […]

Biology

Are Tobacco Product Users – Chewing, Smoking Getting Any Benefit Whatsoever Due to Nicotine?

As a former athlete and runner, I am certainly no one who would ever be a spokesperson for a tobacco company. I value my lungs and their ability to produce oxygen for my body, I don’t want anything to happen to them, nor do I want anyone else’s lungs to […]

Science

Operational Qualification

The operational qualification is a series of tests done to check and clarify the proper operation of a system. The test requirements outlined in the functioning requirements and specification. The tests should all take place before the system s taken out for use or sale. Depending on the individual needs […]

Languages

Mass Media Literacy Reflections for Language Instructions

“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.” Galileo Galilei Mass media forms thrive today. As development show itself scientifically, students experience various media forms through technologies. These flourishing materials shouldn’t be ignored; it is the role of ESL teachers to keep abreast […]

Science

Principle of HPLC

HPLC (High-Performance Liquid Chromatography) is a chromatographic technique used to separate mixtures or compounds in the field of analytical chemistry, biochemistry and in the manufacturing sector. HPLC thus plays a critical role in the pharmaceutical field since its used to test the products and ingredients used to make them. Simply […]

Online Education