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The rapports that you create with your teachers can greatly influence your school experience – both inside and outside the classroom. Cultivating strong connections with your instructors can even benefit you throughout the course of your professional career. But how do you begin to develop these relationships? Standing out – in a positive manner – […]
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“Education is what people do to you and learning is what you do for yourself,” said Joi Ito in his TED2014 talk. “You’re not going to be on top of mountain all by yourself with a #2 pencil … What we need to learn is how to learn.” Indeed, traditional education may not be for
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Sometimes, a teacher just doesn’t like you, and it sucks. Maybe you accidentally disrespected them once, and they never forgave you. Maybe you weren’t a great student in the beginning of the year, and they don’t want to give you a second chance. Whatever the reasoning behind it, dealing with a teacher who has it
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Vice President-elect, Professor Yemi Osinbajo yesterday said teachers in the country’s public schools will get free tertiary education when the next administration is sworn in on May 29, this year. Osinbajo disclosed this during a consultative meeting with Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State and members of Nigerian Union of Teachers, NUT in Ikeja. The
When it comes to you succeeding at school, being the teacher’s pet really does go a long way. A team of German researchers compared the personalities of teachers with their students before asking the tutors to rate each pupil. They discovered that when the teachers and students shared similar traits, the teacher was more likely
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Failure is a positive act of creativity. Scientists, artists, engineers, and even entrepreneurs know this as adults. But in schools, the notion of failure is complicated. Any practice – athletic, artistic, even social – involves repeatedly failing till one gets the experience or activity right. We need to “keep the challenge constant so players are
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Chinese police are hunting a violent teacher who beat four terrified children with a textbook in his office. The pupils, the eldest of whom is just seven, were rushed to hospital after being found cowering and covered in blood by another member of staff at the school in Ankang in Shaanxi province. The art teacher,
Even the smartest college students suffer academically when they use the Internet in class for non-academic purposes, researchers have warned. They say that the huge number of students who take phones, tablets and laptops to lecture could be seeing their grades slip. The researchers say students would perform better without their gadgets – but admit
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A high school student was arrested and charged for allegedly changing the grades and attendance records of his classmates. Investigators say that the opportunistic teen got his hands on a teacher’s log-in details before gaining access to the school’s computer system at Orange High School in New Jersey (US). The 16-year-old was charged with multiple
