Posts

Teacher Education and Teacher Quality

Image
1.0 INTRODUCTION One of the sectors which fosters national development is education by ensuring the development of a functional human resource. The institution of strong educational structures leads to a society populated by enlightened people, who can cause positive economic progress and social transformation. A Positive social transformation and its associated economic growth are achieved as the people apply the skills they learned while they were in school. The acquisition of these skills is facilitated by one individual we all 'teacher'. For this reason, nations seeking economic and social developments need not ignore teachers and their role in national development. Teachers are the major factor that drives students' achievements in learning. The performance of teachers generally determines, not only, the quality of education, but the general performance of the students they train. The teachers themselves therefore ought to get the best of education, so they can in turn

A Brief History of Special Education

Image
Perhaps the largest and most pervasive issue in special education, as well as my own journey in education, is special education's relationship to general education. History has shown that this has never been an easy clear cut relationship between the two. There has been a lot of giving and taking or maybe I should say pulling and pushing when it comes to educational policy, and the educational practices and services of education and special education by the human educators who deliver those services on both sides of the isle, like me. Over the last 20+ years I have been on both sides of education. I have seen and felt what it was like to be a regular main stream educator dealing with special education policy, special education students and their specialized teachers. I have also been on the special education side trying to get regular education teachers to work more effectively with my special education students through modifying their instruction and materials and having a little

Special Education Reform?

Image
I remember 20 plus years ago when I was getting my graduate degree in Special Education and a buddy of mine getting his degree in elementary education told me that his father, a school principal, said that I probably shouldn't waste my time getting a masters in Special Education. He said that Special Education would be eventually fading out of public education. I was almost done with my masters at this point so I figured I would have to take my chances with it, besides what other choice did I have anyways at that point? I got a Special Education job and taught for about 10 year. There were a lot of ups and downs over those 10 years, and eventually I decided that I wanted a change so I got certified and switched over to high school history. At this point in my career I remembered what my friend had said a decade ago and wondered if I was ahead of the curve on schools no longer needing special education teachers, even though it was 10 years later. I wondered if my job was now safe in

Whither Education - An Apathy

Image
Even after half-a-century of Indian Independence, the fate of education, educators and students has hardly improved. The apathy of the power that be, including a large section of society, has not changed when it comes to human resource development and education. Even now there are more than four crore educated unemployed youths in India. India boasts of being world's third knowledge power but effectively this is the lowest when judged against per thousand-population base. Societal degradation, inflicted by political might, is reflected in educational institutions across India. Aberrations have become the rule on campuses that are infested with self-seekers and politicians. Democratization of higher educational institutions, though a noble concept, has in the past 20 years turned campuses into a cauldron of stinking filth. These are managed by affiliations charged with little regard for excellence, honesty and intellectual probity. Unethical and politically-motivated decisions serve

Education and Real Life Challenges

Image
In contemporary circumstances, nearly as a social practice, instruction has been hoisted to the level of a start custom into the cutting edge world. With the guide of formal instructive preparing, individuals secure the aptitudes of perusing and composing. Clearly proficiency, the capacity to peruse and compose, has turned into an imperative for adapting to various difficulties of present day times. As a procedure for guaranteeing that no tyke is prevented the open door from securing getting formal instruction, not sending a youngster to class is a criminal offense in a few sections of the world, particularly in the West. Also, a few governments help their residents to procure formal instruction by either sponsoring the cost or making it accessible at no cost (at the fundamental level, in any event). It is difficult to fit into the cutting edge times in the event that one doesn't go to class. Thu sly, instruction is a need, not an extravagance. Individuals' demeanor to instruct

Good Nerves - Your Secret to Speaking Success

Image
Good Nerves - Your Secret to Speaking Success It is the most not unusual request a speaking teach receives: "Can you please help me to now not be apprehensive in the front of an target market?" And the honest solution is, "No." Famous singers Rihanna, Beyonce and Harry Styles all admit to a degree of anxiety that makes them bodily unwell. Adele once stated, "One show in Amsterdam, I was so fearful I escaped out the hearth exit." Actress Emma Watson has described it as "a sort of paralysis." So, if professional performers suffer tension like this, what desire is there for the rest folks? Don't despair. While it could be impossible to get rid of anxiety, you may remodel 'terrible' nerves into 'excellent' nerves. Here are some tips that I even have used over thirty years of training - so I realize they paintings. 1. Stop seeking to avoid the unavoidable Just earlier than they take the degree, most audio system have a head complet

6 Tips For Effective Online Reputation Management

Image
6 Tips For Effective Online Reputation Management Online Reputation Management: Why Is it Like Whitewashing Your Brand? Online reputation control is the important thing to improve the enterprise instead of just manipulate the popularity of the business enterprise. Businesses are increasing their wings all over the virtual world and turning into tremendous brands inside the marketplace. But the larger a agency grows, the riskier it will become to manipulate. There are many dangers to be taken into consideration: horrific exposure, fake information about the organisation at the internet, and so forth. Such subjects need to be taken very significantly, because a logo is the organisation's front face within the market. Bad exposure can reason the organisation to go with the flow away from the clients. This is in which online reputation management comes in. Here are some factors you need to remember to protect the reputation of your agency on line: Monitoring The Company's Online Ac