Knowing Our child's learning ability - Each and every child is different and so also is their learning ability.

Some may learn and understand faster than others. Some children, whether they are in school, junior college or university, may require some additional help to grapple with their school or college work. Often it is not that the child isn't capable, it is just that he might not be able to fully understand what he heard in class and may need to revise what he has learnt or get further explanations on the subject. Such a child should consider taking extra tuition in that particular subject to enable him cope.

The advantages of having a home tutor

Although home tuition in Singapore is expensive, it has several advantages. It helps your child improve his or her performance in class. If your child is lacking in confidence or independence, then giving him home tuition may assist him reach his full potential. Some children have uncertainties and problems with certain subjects. By taking home tuition, the tutor is able to identify the child's strengths and weaknesses and will be able to tailor the tuition to focus on the needs of the child without neglecting the child's strengths. Also this allows the tutor to go at the child's pace and allows him to focus on the areas that need the most attention.(see HERE) Having a home tutor could also be less intimidating for a student who is shy and finds it difficult to speak in front of a group. Taking tuition at home provides the child the flexibility of choosing the preferred time and days when to have his tuition and he gets to have it in the comfort of his home.

Look for a proficient home tutor

When looking to provide your child with home tuition in Singapore, there are some factors you have to consider. It is essential that you find a tutor that has the right academic qualifications, has the proficiency to teach the subjects required and the right personal demeanor to tutor your child. It would also be advisable to do a background check on the tutor or the agency who is supplying the tutor.

A home tutor can help boost your child's performance in class

When your child reaches Junior College level, it might help to boost his or her performance in class by providing some extra tuition, especially if you find your child's grades are lower in a certain subject. If you find that your child has a lower grade in economics than in any other subject, then finding him a good JC Economics tutor could help improve his or her grade to bring it up to the level of his other subjects.(see HERE) There are several agencies or individuals that offer JC tuition in Singapore, but it is important that you find the right tutor who will be able to help bring out the full potential in your child.

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New Lure Technology for Caroline Robins School 2013 - Caroline Robins elementary school is about to get

an $800,000 investment to make it a technological hub. If all goes as planned, by next September the underused Westview-area school will be home to a newly renovated resource centre with computers, tablets, video cameras and other equipment, in an effort to change the way students learn.

"We're really trying to set Caroline Robins up as a bit of a lighthouse school for the system, so we can see what's in the realm of the possible," Saskatoon Public Schools deputy director of education Barry MacDougall said.

Teachers from other schools will be invited in to see how Caroline Robins students not just consume information using tech tools, but are challenged to analyze, evaluate, and create.

"The technology is evolving so rapidly, so we want to get out a little bit in front of it," MacDougall said.

Earlier this week, the public school board approved $700,000 to renovate parts of Caroline Robins. Earlier, the board approved another $100,000 for equipment.

The investment comes to a school that already has one of the highest ratios of computers per student of any school in the division - partly due to previous investments in hardware, and partly because of low enrolment.

MacDougall said the plan is to renovate the school's existing prekindergarten and kindergarten areas to become a modern learning resource centre. The division will then renovate classrooms at the front of the school into a primary years suite, adding a door to a new outdoor play area designed for the tots.

The division has also submitted a proposal to the ministry of education to open a new daycare centre in the school's existing library space, MacDougall said.

Withman Jaigobin, division superintendent for Caroline Robins, says beefing up digital equipment isn't simply meant to move work that could be done on paper onto computers (see HERE).

"That will be impressive, the technology we have, but what we want to be more impressive is the instruction and the learning style, and how the students will be interacting - how the students will be learning, and what they'll be producing in the process, which will look different," said Jaigobin, who is also the superintendent responsible for technology in the division.

The initiative, which will start with a focus on children in kindergarten to Grade 4, will challenge students to express their ideas in ways other than putting pen to paper.

Jay Salikin, educational consultant for technology, says class assignments could be done in the form of a video, or a blog post, or in collaboration with someone in another country.

"We're trying to really change the look of the classroom, from the teacher standing at the front lecturing to 30 students, to having the kids working together collaboratively and creating things, and getting into critical thinking," Salikin says.

The program follows the introduction this year of another experiment at two public elementary schools and Marion Graham Collegiate. Rather than confiscating cellphones at the door, teachers encourage students to use them for schoolwork, and loan out some devices from the libraries.

The division chose Caroline Robins as a test site because it's one of a handful of Saskatoon schools that's so underused, it has empty classrooms. Families from the nearby new suburb of Hampton Village are sending most of their children to Dundonald School, which is now over capacity. Caroline Robins, however, could easily accommodate another 100 students (see HERE).

"We have overcrowding issues at Dundonald," MacDougall said. "We are setting out very deliberately to make Caroline Robins as attractive as possible to residents in the neighbouring community."

Including a childcare centre may also help draw more families to the school. This month's provincial budget included funds for 500 new daycare spaces across Saskatchewan. MacDougall hopes to find out later this spring whether Caroline Robins can host 50 of them.

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Brevard Schools Drawing Interest - Richard Webb, a Realtor with Coldwell Banker Paradise in Indialantic, told FLORIDA TODAY a sale could be worth millions.

“We’ve got a great opportunity to solve a problem here,” said Webb, who declined to identify his client for competitive reasons. A sale could help alleviate a financial crisis that’s causing Brevard Public Schools to eliminate teaching jobs and institute various student fees.

Another possible solution to keeping the schools open also is gaining steam. Clearlake Middle in Cocoa, Gardendale Elementary on Merritt Island and South Lake Elementary in Titusville are slotted to close at the end of this school year.


Late last week, Canaveral Port Authority Commissioner Bruce Deardoff said he plans on asking the port board to give enough money to Brevard Public Schools to keep the three schools open for two more academic years. Port commissioners could vote Wednesday morning on the $5 million proposal.

Webb is representing a company that has charter schools in Florida and other states, and is seeking to enter the Brevard market. Charter schools are publically funded but are privately-run schools.

When asked about a potential sale, Brevard School Board Chair Barbara Murray said the board is “open-minded,” but is interested in the district staff’s proposal to re-purpose the schools for internal use. Doing so is expected to save the district money because leased space will no longer be needed.

“We’re going to entertain and look at all of our options,” Murray said.

Consolidating adult education and alternative learning centers, for example, is expected to save up to $550,000 a year. It’s part of the prioritized list of $30 million in savings that was approved earlier this month.

School district leaders are planning to convert Clearlake to one such center. Other district offices, such as technology repair and virtual schools, also will move to the school.

Source: floridatoday.com

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Subject To Learn Elementary Education 2013 - Elementary education teachers need to be qualified with many subjects. They need experience in English, mathematics, language, history and management. When you are determined to increase your qualification in English then you to give much time of learning English language. You need to learn grammar, linguistics and English literature. I recommend you to be an English teacher in elementary education school if only you have a strong passion for English.

Elementary education degree - Science and special education

Bachelor in science and special education designs for those who are determined to be special education teacher. You need to learn how to deal with students who are disabled and have behavioral problems. Students with disabilities need extra care from special education teacher. You need to keep patience dealing with disabled children.
Bachelor degree in elementary education emphasis with math design for those who have passion to be math teacher in elementary education school. If you are passion enough for math then you take bachelor degree in elementary education specialized with math. As math teacher you need cover theory, probability, function, data analysis, descriptive statistics, geometry and problem solving.
After bachelor degree you are able to apply teaching post in elementary education school. But master in elementary education is important. You get extra value to be head of elementary education school. After retirement you will get benefit of getting a job in various administrative institutions.

Elementary education degree - License

You need license of applying for elementary education teacher. If you fail of getting license you will not be able to apply the teaching post. The qualification for getting license differs state to state in the USA.
If you are teaching one state as elementary education teacher you are not able teach other state without getting license of state you have recently gone.
Elementary education degree is the best option of building good career. There are lots of options before taking decision. Some students want to be doctors, engineer, artist, professional photographer. Elementary education teaching definitely opens many options. These options change way of life. Career of elementary education teaching increases dignity in society.
Taking degree: there are two ways of taking degree. One is going to university physically. Another one is taking a degree through online. Online teaching has become very popular nowadays. Students take online degree from anywhere in world. One most important thing is to select accredited institutions. Accredited institutions provide quality degree. Non-accredited schools provide degree but degree does not help you by getting a job. Employers do not give you importance when applying for a job post.

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Straight out of Scarsdale - A law professor forwarded me links to a couple of law school-produced podcasts/youtube videos flogging the "versatility" of what one of them actually refers to as the "magical" JD degree.

The first is from Cal Western --  a school whose 2011 graduates had average law school loan balances of around $175,000 when their first payments came due in November of that year, and whose employment statistics are morbidly fascinating in a car crash sort of way: 104 of 285 graduates purportedly got legal jobs, broadly defined, not counting solos, while 76 were either completely unemployed or simply untraceable.

I got about halfway through the 27 minutes of it, but that's more than enough.  Steve Smith, the dean of the school, talks at length about the purported versatility of law degrees, citing "being a CEO" or a "politician" as potential alternative non-legal careers (he discusses Barack Obama's career as an example of what you can do with a law degree other than practice law, in what appears to be a completely sincere and non-ironic way, although who can tell any more in this crazy mixed up pomo world of ours?).

The really disturbing part of the thing involves an African American professor, who talks about growing up in south central Los Angeles, and overcoming adversity to become a lawyer.  Although I have no basis for judging the sincerity of his particular mental state, one of the most deplorable things law schools are now doing as institutions is to cynically exploit the hopes and dreams of people from marginalized ethnic groups and modest socio-economic backgrounds. (In some cases ignorance rather than cynicism may be the formal cause of this exploitative behavior, and while this is the more charitable interpretation, we're reaching a point where ignorance is no longer distinguishable from the sort of willful blindness that is in some ways morally worse than conscious exploitation).

As difficult as law has become as a career path in general, it's even more difficult and potentially catastrophic for people who don't have the sorts of family financial backing, cultural capital, and social connections that are proving ever-more crucial to success in a particularly hierarchical and status-obsessed profession.  (It should be unnecessary to add that many of these vulnerable people are white.  Nevertheless, I believe we law school faculty and administrators from ethnic minority backgrounds have a special obligation to do what we can to make sure our institutions are not exploiting vulnerable members of our communities, given that "ensuring access to justice" is such a politically convenient translation of "getting people to take out loans they won't be able to pay back.").

The other paen to the versatility of law degrees is this short Youtube video from Chicago-Kent, featuring Dean Harold Krent, who was last glimpsed at ITLSS arguing that getting a law degree was a good entree into the worlds of journalism, counseling, and investing. (Key words and phrases in the video: "network," "sports agent," "help other people," "intellectual firepower.")  It's a semi-slick production -- although the sound quality of the dean's contribution is sketchy -- and it would be interesting to know if this kind of thing is worth the money the school is spending on it.

Something that would be even more interesting to know is the extent to which arguments that a JD is or at least was "versatile" have any basis in reality, since as even Smith acknowledges there's simply no longitudinal data on this  issue.  This of course doesn't stop either him or Krent from arguing that it is, which tells you all you need to know about the extent to which intellectual integrity plays a role in these particular corners of legal academia.

Source : insidethelawschoolscam.blogspot.com

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Telling Online Elementary Education Degrees - An Online Elementary Education degree can offer students the chance to start out in a career within the educational sector, teaching school children in elementary schools. Many teachers will tell you that teaching positions are both fun and enjoyable. To be a successful teacher one would need to have excellent communication and social skills and also to be able to interact with the children in a kind but firm manner. Parents think of their child’s education as one of the most important factors of growing up and strict rules are in place to ensure that each child is treated fairly and in a way which will aid in the learning process and therefore the level of achievement. The ability to pick your own learning hours and schedule your course timetable around any family or work related obligations is an essential benefit for many and an Online Elementary Education degree gives you just that. A good way to gain a bit of experience is to work as a substitute teacher or a

classroom assistant before applying for a full time career.

Courses and Degree Levels

Students can choose which field they want to specialize in when entering full time employment, some of the available departments include; mathematics, history, English and music. For the more athletic of you out there, physical education could be a good option. The courses will cover some basic but useful ways to implement different teaching styles, ways to help pupils remember the information taught during lessons and new ways to motivate the children to become more involved and look forward to learning. Each teacher will have a different style of teaching, so it will be up to each individual to build on and apply their particular style. Teachers also play a role in behaviour management and can be responsible for relaying information to parents in regards to how their children are progressing and which areas they need to work on.

Job Outlook

An average salary of an elementary school teacher is about $35,000, however this could rise with the right attitude and enough experience. Some elementary school teachers decide, after a while, that they want to go on to pursue a career within a secondary school or maybe as a principle, an Online Elementary Education degree can be a strong foundation to start with in these situations and will give graduates the ability to further their career as time goes by. Elementary school teachers are also responsible for the organisation of educational trips and incorporating fun and exciting techniques within the curriculum. As a teacher you will need to be able to work to a time scale and also follow strict subject requirements.

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Tips build the career of your child with the elementary education programs - As we all know that education plays a vital role in the life of everyone, it helps in changing a person’s thinking about other people in the world. Children when are growing need a helping hand who can teach them the basics of life and other things which could change the way they see the world. It helps the children in building a bright future for them as with education a child can learn a lot and can also build a strong foundation for them.

There are many elementary schools which have started to improve the life of a child and provide them with the basic idea about life and how to go about it further. There are many courses which gives great benefits to children so that they can build a strong future.

There are elementary education programs which have been started to build the career of the children so that they can become great in terms of future as children require guidance and understanding when it comes to building a future for them. There are many online elementary schools also which provides the best education to people so that they can build a great foundation in terms of future. There are courses which usually includes different domains of studies. These elementary schools help in providing people with the best education which would be helpful in building the future and also in making the child realize the importance of education in their lives.

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