Mother nature a great teacher Local outdoor opportunities for the entire family By Tammy Marashlian Signal Staff Writer tmarashlian@the-signal.com December 15‚ 2008 When it comes to teaching kids about nature‚ parents can turn a park into a classroom‚ a park ranger into a teacher and hiking into homework. By exposing kids to nature as early as possible‚ children can appreciate the natural world and learn about the environment first hand. Why nature? "Teaching them to appreciate nature
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A study on Leisure reading habits and interests among secondary school students in Sri Lanka P.H.A.S ABEYRATHNA FACULTY OF COMPUTER SCIEINLE ANL iNi OKMATION TECHNOLOci 3 UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA KUALA LUMPUR 2004 P serpu takaan Uniyersi t Mal aya iii 5 2 2 II I ABSTRACT This is an exploratory study of the leisure reading habits and interests among secondary school students and their use of the school library facilities. Using simple random sampling‚ three hundred male and
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life was my grandmother. My grandmother was a retired College Principal‚ but for me she was always my Grandmother. She taught me the kinds of things that school teachers never could teach in the classroom. Because my parents were at work and my grandmother was retired‚ I spent a lot of time with her. She was a mother‚ a grandparent and a teacher at the same time. She always prepared an interesting activity for the day. We visited museums‚ theatres‚ went to the zoo‚ visited the library‚ watched movies
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and the school compound was to be turned into a place of beauty." (Backpack 270). There is still no signs of negativity about Obi. One day Obi sees that his work has been scandalized and he was very upset. He did not like the fact that the teachers would let the
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Narrative Essays use story telling elements to make their points. They look like short stories rather than traditional academic essays. Narrative essays don’t have to be fiction; often‚ they depict real life events. Authors of narrative essays often use them to explore and find the meanings of important events in their own lives. A Not So Quite Recess When I was growing up‚ my father was in the military‚ the United States Army to be exact‚ and every few years we would be transferred to a new
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of an audience gives a person courage that they didn’t even know that they possessed‚ and they can then go on to use this courage and confidence in other situations in their lives‚ thus creating a better life for them. Music education is the best teacher of this self-confidence‚ and I believe that most children wouldn’t have the same confidence if they didn’t have a music class every week. This is a very strong point that I would make as a school board member. I believe that self-confidence is a
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TEACHING TECHNICAL ENGLISH AND GENERAL ENGLISH Introduction English today has become more than the Lingua Franca of the masses. It has become the lifeline. The call of the hour is for the academia to well-equip itself with the most competent language skills. Only then can suitable help be extended to the beneficiaries‚ the students. My paper will focus on the nature of General and Technical English today. It will also attempt to show how Technical English and General English can be made more student-centric
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McKeachie‚ 1979; Centra‚ 1993‚ 2003)‚ and some studies found did affect student evaluations (Basow & Howe‚ 1987). Since students are the recipients and raters of instruction‚ they can provide an important‚ unique‚ and necessary perspective on judging teacher effectiveness. Student evaluations are commonly used to make decisions regarding faculty salary‚ awards‚ and promotion and tenure; therefore‚ it is imperative to consider all the major variables that can influence student evaluations. Although there
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The Teacher | | | | I was twenty-six the first time I helda human heart in my hand.It was sixty-four and heavier than I expected‚its chambers slack;and I was stupidly surprisedat how cold it was.It was the middle of the third weekbefore I could look at her face‚before I could spend more than an hourlearning the secrets of cirrhosis‚the dark truth of diabetes‚ the black lungsof the Marlboro woman‚ the exquisitepainful shape of kidney stones‚without eating an entire box of Altoidsto smother
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