The first contact with your child’s teacher, in many ways, is the most important, This is the time you are building rapport and developing a relationship of trust. Therefore, an appropriate time and setting are important for the first brief encounter. A phone call, a note, or, best of all, an initial face-to-face meeting is [...]
1. Monitoring The key to this principle is to circulate. Get up and get around the room. While your students are working, make the rounds. Check on their progress. An effective teacher will make a pass through the whole room about two minutes after the students have started a written assignment. She checks that each [...]
One of the more frustrating assumptions in the mix of modern parenting advice is the idea that all kids are born as identical clean slates. I suspect the increase in this attitude is partly due to the loss of large families. With the total fertility rate in Australia down to 1.88 children per woman, the [...]
It's one thing to be an entrepreneur, and yet another thing to be a successful one. What separates both of them is simply a combination of key features which when applied consistently and creatively goes a long way in determining the difference between success and failure. Let's take a long, hard look at these: 1. [...]
I have come across different leaders in different part of the world and one thing that I find common to all of them is the discipline they all possess. It is not wrong to say that exceptional Leadership is learnable but the way to go about it is the way of hard work and self-discipline. [...]
Ever heard the famous adage "Do not put off until tomorrow what you can do today" Do you often find yourself doing more pleasurable things in place of less pleasurable ones, and putting off important tasks to a later time, sometimes to the "last minute" before a deadline? Like waiting until the last week to [...]