"What makes a Good Teacher?":
Positive - Thinks positively and enthusiastically about people and what they are capable of becoming. Sees the good in any situation and can move forward to make the most of difficult situations when confronted with obstacles. Encourages others to also be positive.
Dependable - Honest and authentic in working with others. Consistently lives up to commitments to students and others. Works with them in an open, honest, and forthright manner.
Organized - Makes efficient use of time and moves in a planned and systematic direction. Knows where he or she is heading and is able to help students in their own organization and planning. Can think in terms of how organization can be beneficial to those served.
Committed - Demonstrates commitment to students and the profession and is self-confident, poised and personally in control of situations. Has a healthy self-image. Encourages students to look at themselves in a positive manner, careful to honor the self-respect of the students, while encouraging them to develop a positive self-concept.
Motivational - Enthusiastic with standards and expectations for students and self. Understands the intrinsic motivations of individuals, and knows what it is that motivates students. Takes action in constructive ways.
Compassionate - Caring, empathetic and able to respond to people at a feeling level. Open with personal thoughts and feelings, encouraging others to do likewise. Knows and understands the feelings of students.
Flexible - Willing to alter plans and directions in a manner which assists people in moving toward their goals. Seeks to reason out situations with students and staff in a manner that allows all people to move forward in a positive direction.
Knowledgeable - Is in a constant quest for knowledge. Keeps up in his or her specialty areas, and has the insight to integrate new knowledge. Takes knowledge and translates it to students in a way which is comprehensible to them, yet retains its originality.
Creative - Versatile, innovative, and open to new ideas. Strives to incorporate techniques and activities that enable students to have unique and meaningful new growth experiences.
Patient - Is deliberate in coming to conclusions. Strives to look at all aspects of the situation and remains highly fair and objective under most difficult circumstances. Believes that problems can be resolved if enough input and attention is given by people who are affected.
http://www.totalesl.com/PreparingYourTeachingResume.php
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
"Critical Thinking" Is Often Just a Dumb Slogan -by Bruce Deitrick Price
The goal of education has always been to achieve critical thinking.
Needless to say, this involves a two-step process: first, students learn a great deal about a topic, whether in history, science or art; then they learn to arrange the information in new ways, to set one fact against another, to find new insights among this knowledge.
Not anymore. Today's educators are in a hurry; they don't bother with the first step. They jump directly to step two. In this scenario, students who know nothing are expected to talk intelligently about it. What absurdity.
Having just heard about X, can you discuss X? For example, the Ottoman Empire, its rise and fall? If you are like me, you know nothing about this complex subject. We will seem completely goofy if we discuss it. Talk about plunging self-esteem. Try chatting about the Ottoman Empire when you know nothing about it.
Far from empowering our students, this upside-down approach just makes them feel foolish and inadequate.
Today's educators have many dogmas, perhaps the chief of which is that students need not memorize (that is, know) anything. Everyone must have an empty head. But that's not bad enough. Then the educators want to add charade on top of ignorance. Students are suppose to engage in deep and meaningful thinking about all the things they don't know.
My impression is that our educators disdain basics and academics equally. All facts are a nuisance; any knowledge is undesirable. But this approach, even in ed circles, might seem somewhat difficult to defend. So they airbrush on a whole layer of lies and distractions. They commence the cover-up...Look, parents, at all the critical thinking! The creative thinking! Your children are so much more advanced now, so much more liberated. Without all that silly knowledge stuff, today's students can soar! They can see new things, things that no one saw before, because their vision is not obscured by facts.
Sure, I'm being a little satiric. I know you want to ask, What's the point? Because you and I know that our educators are immune to satire. These are people who tell ignorant students that a class will now engage in critical thinking, and then they stand the there and pretend that it is happening. Shazam!
It's probably futile but I want to sketch (if only for parents and children) what should be standard operating procedure. Starting in the first grade, students learn the basics in each subject. This foundation is added to in the second grade, the third-grade, the fourth grade, and the fifth grade. As children enter middle school, more reflection is appropriate. Meanwhile, more facts are learned. At this point we can honestly say that children are engaged in some degree of critical thinking.
The goal, as they move closer to college, is to engage in more and more critical thinking. Students will know what they're doing. If they are genuinely engaged in critical thinking, they will be proud of themselves, they will want to do more. But if the so-called critical thinking is a game whereby schools place camouflage over the ignorance of the student body, the students will know this and they will be ashamed.
Needless to say, this involves a two-step process: first, students learn a great deal about a topic, whether in history, science or art; then they learn to arrange the information in new ways, to set one fact against another, to find new insights among this knowledge.
Not anymore. Today's educators are in a hurry; they don't bother with the first step. They jump directly to step two. In this scenario, students who know nothing are expected to talk intelligently about it. What absurdity.
Having just heard about X, can you discuss X? For example, the Ottoman Empire, its rise and fall? If you are like me, you know nothing about this complex subject. We will seem completely goofy if we discuss it. Talk about plunging self-esteem. Try chatting about the Ottoman Empire when you know nothing about it.
Far from empowering our students, this upside-down approach just makes them feel foolish and inadequate.
Today's educators have many dogmas, perhaps the chief of which is that students need not memorize (that is, know) anything. Everyone must have an empty head. But that's not bad enough. Then the educators want to add charade on top of ignorance. Students are suppose to engage in deep and meaningful thinking about all the things they don't know.
My impression is that our educators disdain basics and academics equally. All facts are a nuisance; any knowledge is undesirable. But this approach, even in ed circles, might seem somewhat difficult to defend. So they airbrush on a whole layer of lies and distractions. They commence the cover-up...Look, parents, at all the critical thinking! The creative thinking! Your children are so much more advanced now, so much more liberated. Without all that silly knowledge stuff, today's students can soar! They can see new things, things that no one saw before, because their vision is not obscured by facts.
Sure, I'm being a little satiric. I know you want to ask, What's the point? Because you and I know that our educators are immune to satire. These are people who tell ignorant students that a class will now engage in critical thinking, and then they stand the there and pretend that it is happening. Shazam!
It's probably futile but I want to sketch (if only for parents and children) what should be standard operating procedure. Starting in the first grade, students learn the basics in each subject. This foundation is added to in the second grade, the third-grade, the fourth grade, and the fifth grade. As children enter middle school, more reflection is appropriate. Meanwhile, more facts are learned. At this point we can honestly say that children are engaged in some degree of critical thinking.
The goal, as they move closer to college, is to engage in more and more critical thinking. Students will know what they're doing. If they are genuinely engaged in critical thinking, they will be proud of themselves, they will want to do more. But if the so-called critical thinking is a game whereby schools place camouflage over the ignorance of the student body, the students will know this and they will be ashamed.
by Bruce Deitrick Price
Monday, April 26, 2010
Especially for those who love Music!
I came across this web page when I was looking for a cool Music Player for my new, lovely and handsome laptop!
A music player which you can download songs, chat, connect to Ipod / PM3 and be a DJ of imesh.
Download free music from here!
http://search.imesh.com/
imesh.
A music player which you can download songs, chat, connect to Ipod / PM3 and be a DJ of imesh.
Download free music from here!
http://search.imesh.com/
Thursday, April 22, 2010
IMAGE FROM SOLAR SATELITE 
Researchers showed off brightly coloured images and short movie clips of the sun from the Solar Dynamics Observatory in a webcast on Wednesday.
The satellite was launched Feb 11. Dean Pesnell, the chief scientist, says it already has disproved at least one theory, but he didn't give any details.
Richard Fisher, director of Nasa's heliophysics division, says the satellite is operating flawlessly.
It carries three instrument packages, one built by the University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics and two built by Lockheed Martin in Palo Alto, California. -- AP
This image made from an April 12-13, 2010 video provided by NASA shows an eruptive prominence blasting away from the sun. The prominence appears to stretch almost halfway across the sun, about 500,000 miles. -- PHOTO: AP
BOULDER (Colorado) - NASA has unveiled the first images from a new satellite designed to predict disruptive solar storms, and scientists say they're already learning new things. Researchers showed off brightly coloured images and short movie clips of the sun from the Solar Dynamics Observatory in a webcast on Wednesday.
The satellite was launched Feb 11. Dean Pesnell, the chief scientist, says it already has disproved at least one theory, but he didn't give any details.
Richard Fisher, director of Nasa's heliophysics division, says the satellite is operating flawlessly.
It carries three instrument packages, one built by the University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics and two built by Lockheed Martin in Palo Alto, California. -- AP
taken from: http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/TechandScience/Story/STIStory_517763.html
SAVE OUR EARTH NOW!OUR EARTH IS SICK!IF WE DO NOT DO ANYTHING NOW, OUR GENERATIONS ARE GOING TO SUFFER!WE ARE GOING TO DIE!
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
New Experience.New Exposure.New Opportuniy=.New Road
Stephen R Convey says, "just remember that every moment, every situation, provides a new choice. And in doing so, it gives you a perfect opportunity to do things differently to produce more positive results." (taken from his book, 7 habits of Highly Effective People)
Oftentimes, people are afraid of changes; afraid of new challenges and afraid of new ideas. We tend to think, analyze and consider every possibility (either good or bad) which we are going to face. We dare not make big decisions as we are afraid of failures; we are afraid of criticisms and we are afraid of being losers in the game. New ideas usually receive criticisms. We hear more nega-thoughts (taken from who moved my secret from Jay Gerard) than posi-thoughts.Their judgment of your problem and idea might not be as right as your judgment. You know yourself the best, you know yourself well and you have been living with yourself for years;therefore, you look , perceive things in wider aspect;wider angle and in different views. Therefore, good to listen to criticisms and opinions but those are only guidelines for your decision-making.It is not necessarily for you to accept.
Most of us do not know what we want in life or perhaps we have not thought of this question before or maybe we just "live a day then count a day"(in mandarin). It is not wrong to live such way. Everyone of us has different ways of living and everyone of us has some sorts of purpose of living.But, do we know why do we live on earth? What is the purpose of living? To eat? To enjoy? We understand that we come to this world is not to enjoy. We have so many things to do - most of the time, to better our life and to make ends meet. Back to the question, since we have done so many things with one purpose - to have a better life - Do we do it blindly without any goals and objectives? or we do because we are asked to or we have no choice? Yes, sometimes, we have no choice. We do things just to satisfy the other party. Don't you think that is tiring?If we are given a chance to showcase ourselves, what would you do?Would you stay or would you move on to try?
We must know what we want in life. That's important. However, the most important thing is we must be given a chance. Chance or opportunity is a leading path for a person to further develop what they want in life (my new quote). If a person is not given a chance, I believe no matter how much he / she tries to achieve in his / her, he / she would end no way.
Whatever you do, there is always a starting and there is always an ending (my new quote)
Therefore, I recommend this book - Who moved my secret by Jay Gerard to you. Hope you enjoy the book. I am now reading 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R Convey which I have come across weeks ago but have not had a chance to read.
Thank you, Mr. Si*** for recommending me the book.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
VAIO SONY (intel core i3 processor)
This is my new laptop after I possessed my ACER laptop for 7 years!YAHOO!
FREEBIES:
8 GB thumbdrive
Headphones
Anti-virus
Keyboard Protector
Mouse
Cleaning Kits
Carrying case
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