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Celebrating Presidents Day: The Education of Our National Leaders

Posted in Education by anshbookstore on December 27, 2022 @ 6:11 am

As the leader of the most powerful country in the world, the President of the United States must responsibly manage both domestic and international affairs. Lucky for us, though many Presidents did obviate the traditional college and university system, each did clearly possess the willingness to educate himself. So in honor of President’s Day, let’s examine some of the more unique educational paths to the Presidency.

Presidents

George Washington, our very first Commander in Chief, attended the College of William and Mary to obtain his surveyor’s license. Even though the early death of his father abruptly halted Washington’s formal schooling, he remained an enthusiastic proponent of education. In his will, he provided resources and funds to support three different educational institutions.

Many people overlook the fact that Thomas Jefferson was an intellectual. It wasn’t that he just smart a President, he was an exceptionally smart person. At the age of 16, Jefferson enrolled in President Washington’s alma mater, the College of William and Mary, where he studied mathematics, metaphysics and philosophy. Jefferson graduated after only two years, with highest honors – and proceeded to earn admission into the Virginia State Bar some five years later.

Seven score and eight years ago, Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, proclaiming a birth of freedom and equality in the nation. Through his conquests on a less beaten road, Lincoln personified the American Dream-in total, Honest Abe received approximately 18 months of formal education, most of which was provided by unqualified instructors. Lincoln was mainly self-educated and a self-guided reader, spending countless hours digesting every newspaper and book that came his way.

Three prominent individuals reached presidency from military-educated backgrounds. Ulysses S. Grant and Dwight D. Eisenhower claimed their stakes at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. And even though President Eisenhower’s parents rejected militarism, they couldn’t say no to a free education. Before Jimmy Carter’s stint as a successful peanut farmer and one-term president, he bested hundreds of other midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy, graduating 59th in his class of 820.

Not only did Teddy Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt share the same last name, they were fifth cousins and Harvard College alumnus as well. Teddy was an ambitious reader with a photographic memory, earning Phi Beta Kappa honors and admission into Columbia Law School-he dropped out of law school after only one year to pursue a career in politics. Better known as FDR, the younger Roosevelt followed Teddy’s footsteps. FDR was also admitted into Columbia Law School, but dropped out after passing the New York State Bar.

Some of our more recent presidents are no slouches either. Bill Clinton earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, received a Rhodes Scholarship to study government at Oxford, and acquired a J.D. from Yale Law School. Contrary to the opinion of many folks on the left, George W. Bush is no dummy. George W. is a Yale alumn, and he is currently the only president with an M.B.A.-from Harvard Business School, no less. Our prevailing chief executive, President Barack Obama, graduated from Columbia College with a degree in political science. He is also the second president to have earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

As evidenced by the contrasting degrees of education among our presidents, no standard institution or instruction is needed to ascend to the highest office in the land. Although many of our previous leaders earned degrees from highly-ranked universities and colleges, many others emerged from humble, unassuming beginnings. Success is only limited by self-imposed restrictions. Pay homage to our presidential predecessors and celebrate your potential triumphs as well.

Source by Lela Saz

24 Dec

After Decades of Conditioning, India Is Re-Aligning Itself With the Culture of Entrepreneurship

Posted in Education by anshbookstore on December 24, 2022 @ 6:09 am

Globally, entrepreneurship has become a key engine for employment generation. As policy makers grapple with economic uncertainty and cultural changes, large corporations that traditionally created jobs are biting the dust. From 2003 to 2013, 712 corporations disappeared from the Fortune 1000. One can safely extrapolate that very few Fortune 1000 companies will be around in another 30 to 40 years. However a new breed of risk-takers and innovators in the form of entrepreneurs are beginning to line up on the horizon of business world. According to a report by the Kauffman Foundation, industrial era companies in the US dismissed more jobs than they created in contrast to high-growth startups that created the maximum number of new jobs between 2000 and 2010. Facebook has been credited with having created 4.5 million new jobs, directly and indirectly. This global trend makes a strong case for supporting Indian start-ups and entrepreneurs as a means to create future employment.

However, it is even more important to create a support system that ensures the survival of the start-ups beyond the first five years. In other words, once invested in a start-up, return on investment (ROI) can be assured only when the investment finds further sustenance. This is critical as 70 to 95 percent of start-ups fail or exit, resulting in disproportionately high job destruction. Studies have shown that 47 percent of the jobs created by start-ups are eliminated by exits in the first five years. It is the surviving 53 percent of businesses that witness rapid growth and bring about broad-based job creation.

This means that government policy must be attuned to the practical needs, while addressing the pain areas, of Indian entrepreneurs. The policy must address: funding to be more easily available to entrepreneurs; creating a large pool of experienced mentors and advisers who provide inputs around manpower and resource management, legal and marketing, partnerships and technology; and providing mechanisms to improve access to local and global markets.

It is evident that supporting entrepreneurship is a medium to long-term approach. The question that needs an answer is: what type of entrepreneurship should be prioritized for support so that success and subsequent job creation is assured? Today’s marketplace has become hyper competitive. Just take a look around. There are more choices available to consumers and enterprise buyers than ever before. There are new business models that don’t require buyers to own products or commit up front to long-term subscription of services. Delivery systems have changed, allowing businesses to reach customers in remote locations and new markets, bringing down geographical and political barriers. Entrepreneurs are innovating to give birth to entirely new asset-light business like Uber, Ola, Airbnb, Oyo Rooms, Zomato, Foodpanda, PayPal and Paytm. These businesses are re-shaping entire industries, forcing traditional players to re-think their strategies.

Igniting the spirit of entrepreneurship and sustaining it is also a long-term undertaking. Not everyone is blessed with the DNA of entrepreneurship. A culture of free enterprise needs to be nurtured. Today, one of the nations to have taken positive steps towards creating such a culture is the US where 1,600 colleges offer over 2,200 courses that ‘skill’ students in entrepreneurship. These courses build knowledge through academic studies, practical industry experience via apprenticeship programs, entrepreneurship clubs, boot camps and access to investor networks and support systems. Education, without doubt, is a way to ensure higher success rates for entrepreneurs. In India, we need to create cost-effective and scalable education models that help reach students using video and mobile technology on MOOC platforms that transform teaching into learning, thereby eliminating the need for massive armies of instructors and trainers.

Lastly, a substantial demographic in the form of Indian women remains untapped. Of the total number of entrepreneurs in the country, only 10 percent are women. However, even within these small numbers, women entrepreneurs from India-Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Sulajja Motwani and Ekta Kapoor to name a few-have been in the limelight. Significantly, a Dow Jones study has confirmed that start-ups with female executives have a higher chance of success. What they need to succeed is education, vocational training, access to funding and interaction with entrepreneurs and buyers across the world. According to The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), annual growth of the Indian economy could improve 2.4% if the country implements pro-gender policies.

Historically, Indian society and the education system have focused on creating doctors, lawyers, accountants, etc. These professionals are a necessity. But after decades of conditioning, the nation is re-aligning itself with the culture of entrepreneurship. We are at the cusp of entrepreneurial success. This opportunity must not be lost for the lack of policy and world-class support systems

Source by Atul Raja

21 Dec

Special Education – Placement, Is Inclusion Best?

Posted in Education by anshbookstore on December 21, 2022 @ 6:08 am

The IEP is written and now there should be some discussion about placement. What options are there and what is best for your child? Those are the questions for the team. Like the IEP, the placement decision is very important to the success of your child. IDEA, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, is very specific about what should be provided to students with disabilities. IDEA says that your child should be educated in the least restrictive environment (LRE) where they can make effective progress. Below we will look at some of the options available for placement of students with disabilities.

LRE – Least Restrictive Environment

What does that mean? Well, historically kids with disabilities were segregated from attending school with their typical peers. They were either kept at home or sent to “special schools” or they were put in basement classrooms and weren’t allowed to socialize or participate with everyone else. Plus, they weren’t taught what everyone else was taught, like math and science. Education Reform changed that and subsequently IDEA was reauthorized in 2004. IDEA says that students should be educated in the least restrictive environment with the services and supports necessary for them to make effective progress. Whenever possible children should be with their typical peers and attend their neighborhood schools. They are to be provided with the same curriculum and are required to maintain the same standards for academic requirement. The terms mainstream, integration, and inclusion, are the new catch phrases to define when kids are provided LRE.

Inclusion

There are many placement options, so what does that mean for your child? When you start to talk about placement, the first potential option should always be the class where your child would be if they didn’t have a disability. The team should consider what accommodations, services, and supports your child would need to be successful in that environment and then provide for them on the IEP. If it is determined that your child will not make progress in the regular education classroom, other options can be considered. The goal should always be full inclusion. Inclusion is not a specific place but the pursuit to include students in classrooms and in environments with typical peers to the maximum extent possible through out their school day.

Partial Inclusion

Some students will be provided with what is termed partial inclusion. Perhaps they attend some regular education classes but go into a separate classroom for math or reading. Maybe they attend a resource room or academic support class once a day to assist with all academic subjects. Whatever it looks like, it should provide for the students needs and assist with their effective progress.

Substantially Separate
Some students will need to be in classrooms with small number of students and specialized teachers. This is a substantially separate setting. The goal should be to transition or integrate out of that classroom and into the regular setting as much as possible. The benefits of socialization and peer interaction experiences in a regular setting have to be balanced with the benefits of academic success and progress in the smaller setting. A lot of IEPs have a mix of both to allow for the unique needs of students with learning disabilities but need social experiences to develop socially.

Out of District

Some students attend school in private schools or collaborative schools that specialize in working with students with specific disabilities or sets of needs. This should always be considered a last resort and only when all other options have been tried and been unsuccessful. It is important to balance the needs for a student to be provided with what they need as well as the opportunities they miss by not being educated in their neighborhood school.

Source by Lynne M Adams

18 Dec

E-Book – Getting Better Grades

Posted in Education by anshbookstore on December 18, 2022 @ 6:07 am

We all know that getting good grades in school, college or university is a big issue for almost every student. Students also have to face incredible competition in their academic life and getting good grades in such a good competition is an issue for almost every student. The main reason of not getting good grades is that students study harder, not smarter. They do study, but do not know the ways and tips to study well and smarter. Most of the students use to spend thousands of dollars every year on getting tuitions or useless study guides, but get very little benefit out of it. There are also a lot of students who cannot afford to pay fees to tutors and unable to spend on study guides. In both of the situations, what is there to combat all these issues? Of course there is an exceptional solution to these problems. Dr. Marc Dussault has recently introduced an E-Book “Get the Best Grades with the Least Amount of Effort” to solve all these problems.

This book not only helps you to get top grades, but also gives you an understanding on the way students should study. Here you will find excellent secrets to study speedily and cut your study time up to half with better results than ever. Here you will be guided through step by step ways to get desired results in your exams or tests. Get the in-depth knowledge of what are you getting in this all in one package below:

* You will discover different techniques to jump from your current grades to ones that will make you proud.
* The way to complete your homework faster than ever, and how to get ready for your tests or papers in a very short period.
* You will discover different ways to get A’s or B’s while maintaining your social life.
* You will also be taught on how to reduce or even eliminate bad study habits and get outstanding academic results.
* How to become a “Super Learner” whatsoever you are dull, illiterate, or don’t want to study with care.
* You will get a “5-Step System” which will help you in managing your social activities, academic tasks, family responsibilities, and any other pending tasks.
* The most important thing this Product offers is “Six excellent & powerful methods to remember everything that your teachers say in class”.
* Different techniques on improving your confidence and concentrating on studies.
* Techniques to keep difficult & hard to remember things in mind easily.
* How to get top position in exams every time.
* What to do when you are continuously getting bad grades despite of having too many efforts.
* You will also find a detailed discussion on ” Should students do their reading for all the subjects in one sitting or no”
* You will also discover “Seven Studying Shortcuts” to save your time incredibly without having any effect on results.

There are countless other benefits and tips that you will be finding in this all in one package to get good grades. Moreover, you will also receive some excellent bonuses with this package. A little detail about these bonuses is as follows:

Full Color MindMap of the Entire Book: You will be given an A4/8.5 x 11″ sheet containing all the tools, tips and techniques so that you can have an instant access to all the content of the book. You will also receive a detailed colored MindMap for each chapter up to 10 weeks.

A video to overcome Panic: You will get a video giving you 5 strategies to overcome panic attacks or stress that you normally face just before your exam.

Guarantee:

What if you are not satisfied in any way with this invention? If this is the case simply return it within 60 days of purchase through email and get your money back with no questions asked. So, you are completely safe and your money is in your pocket, even after purchasing this product.

Price:

You might be thinking that this program would cost a lot as it is coming with excellent bonuses and 60 days money back guarantee, but in fact it costs nothing, the author has priced the entire downloadable digital package for $27 only, together with 60 days guarantee. This price is really nothing to get such a great product. This is what we normally spend in a normal day on us, so why can’t we spend to get a way to get excellent academic results. So, don’t think and just get for it right now. Write “Get the Best Grades with the Least Amount of Effort” on Google, and get it

Source by Nabeel Shaukat

15 Dec

Time Management Tips – How to Establish Boundaries That Safeguard Your Time and Energy

Posted in Education by anshbookstore on December 15, 2022 @ 6:06 am

Time management tips can teach you how to regenerate your vitality immediately by setting boundaries, utilizing these 3 powerful strategies:

Comprehend how your time choices shape your quality of life. Genuinely appreciating the full power of your time choices requires and builds grit. Why? You genuinely realize what an enormous responsibility you carry in your own two hands. Yet assuming that level of ownership actually creates courage, because life becomes infinitely more exciting! No more wasting energy in blaming others. Your moment-to-moment choices grow more meaningful. This brings your essential focus to here, now. “Here” is where you live. “Now” is where all your power resides.

Assertively prioritize activities that energize you. Consciously shaping your life through making your best possible time choices certainly helps you prioritize your activities. One of the most powerful techniques for energizing your time choices is to clearly identify your motivation. For example, if you resent going to work, you are draining your incentive and casting yourself in the role of the hapless victim, dragged through life by circumstances. You owe it to yourself to stop and consider the dignified reasons you go to work, like putting food on the table. Protect your energy by refusing to blame life for time choices you can make and remake at will. Then again, if your livelihood is demoralizing even when you invest your best efforts, you owe it to yourself to explore new avenues. Even in the most uncertain times, you benefit by examining and weighing the cost of each option. You will go through life more alert, more curious, and with enhanced vitality. And new doors will open.

Successfully establish boundaries to promote your priorities. To say “Yes” to one fresh opportunity, you must say “No” to others. This essential discipline is worth all the assertiveness and social skills it requires. Your zest for life is rallied in the following ways:
- Establishing a hierarchy of priorities strengthens your core. Who you are is determined largely by what you consciously choose, and what you are willing to relinquish in return. This is where the rubber hits the road, and where you gain essential traction to move through your day.
- Establishing boundaries shapes your life. If you feel obliged to say, “Yes,” to all demands, your life becomes no more than a receptacle for others’ agendas. Own your life. The more you simplify your commitments to support what truly matters to you, the more easily you can fulfill them without feeling depleted.
- Setting boundaries clarifies significant relationships. By presenting a defined self with clear priorities, you invite others to follow your example. Although submerged conflicts may surface in ways you first find uncomfortable, addressing those conflicts frees up enormous energy to be authentic and straightforward.

As you see, establishing and maintaining time boundaries is key to a healthy, fulfilling and productive life! Experience for yourself how following through, patiently and persistently, accepting setbacks, yields remarkable dividends of vitality and optimism.

Let time management address the whole of your life. If you are clear you want to live your best life, make time choices that will deepen and enlarge your moments, no matter what comes your way. This “heart-based” time management honors and enhances the significance of your life, each and every moment.

So, ask yourself: How can you seize the opportunity right now to make more meaningful time choices?

Source by Paula Eder

12 Dec

Psychological Tips for Effective Studying

Posted in Education by anshbookstore on December 12, 2022 @ 6:04 am

STUDY STRATEGIES

* Revise regularly- Revision should be continuous if you are to gain a deep understanding of the subject. It should not be superficial and rushed. Cramming might help you remember a few facts but it will not give you the overall understanding of a subject, which you should be studying for in your University Education.

* Be systematic- You should begin organizing a study schedule as soon as possible in the start of the semester

* Use varied techniques- besides making summaries of your lecture notes, use varying strategies for your revision. Draw up schemes showing the relationship between the concepts you have studied in your subjects or form study groups with your fellow students to discuss the different topics and the relationships between them to reinforce both understanding and recall.

* Use relationship to memorize- Understanding the relationships between pieces of information, such as their similarities and differences, and using their relationship to information already known is a definite advantage during stress of an examination.

* Practice previous exam papers- You should obtain copies of previous exam papers as early as possible in the revision process. Doing these exams in the required time limit will give you practice in applying what you have learnt to specific topics and practice in examination techniques. This will also give you a good idea of the format, time limit and the number of questions in the examination.

* Attend lectures- Pay attention in lectures and tutorials and so on for information relevant to exams. For example what topic might be expected in a test etc?

Stress the following areas in your revision:

o Points emphasized in class or in the text

o Areas the Professor has advised for study

o Questions in study guides, past questions and reviews at the end of textbook chapters.

STUDY HABITS

* Decide what to study (choose a reasonable task) and how long or how many chapters, pages, problems, etc. Set and stick to deadline.

* Do difficult tasks first. For procrastination, start with an easy interesting aspect of the project.

* Have special places to study. Take into consideration, lighting, temperature, and availability of materials.

* Study 50 minutes and then take a 10 minutes break. Stretch, relax, have energy snack.

* If you get tired or bored, switch task/activity. Stop studying when you are no longer being productive.

* Do rough memory tasks and review, especially detail, just before you fall asleep.

* Study with a friend. Quiz each other compare notes and predicted test questions.

STUDY SKILLS

o Physical environment- Choose situations, which make you feel comfortable, for example a particular space in the library, in your own home or study room in halls of residence.

o Plan a time table- Use a time schedule to prioritise study times and try to stick to your schedule.

o Mental activity- Remember that your concentration span is limited. So do not sit for 3-4 hours at a time starting at one page of notes. Wait for an hour or so reading and making extra notes. Draft out or use real exam questions from past papers and consider how little you know and understand

o Stop to take a break- Have a coffee or short walk and mentally review what you have achieved. Return to your studies.

o You will find that the process of activity and review will be useful and will help you to set a pattern of study.

o Quality of study- Remember that it is not time itself spent on studying which matters, it is the quality of the exercise of studying. Develop an understanding of the material you are working on. Information simply committed to memory will rarely see you safely through your exams.

o Choice of material- Don’t shy away from material which you find most difficult to understand because if you do it will be precisely this material which will be problematic for you in the exam. Take this material first.

o Problems- If there are sections of the syllabus, which you cannot understand, try to find the appropriate lecturer to help you. But try not to leave this until the day before the exam. Ask someone on the same course as you. If these strategies don’t work for you try using a variety of different textbooks, some authors explain difficult concepts better than others.

CONCENTRATION

Concentration is the ability to direct one’s thinking in whatever direction one would
intend. We all have the ability to concentrate sometimes.

Think of the time when you were engrossed in super novel or in a cinema -Total
concentration. But at other times your thoughts are scattered and you mind races from
one thing to another. Learn and practice concentration strategies.

Poor concentration- External causes

-Internal causes

REVISION

Revision is a process of looking over past work as preparation for examination. It is an activity which can produce good results and reduce ‘exam nerves’ if it is carefully planned and carried out in a systematic way. Black coffee and sleepless nights just before your exams rarely allow you to do justice to your talents.

Towards end of a course, a review of your completed written work and of past examination papers will often indicate the existence of close links between exam questions and essays, assignments and project work. On this basis, you select your own best work and use it for revision. Work, which has been less successful, should contain advice from a tutor and this can be followed up.

What revisions can do for you:

* Extends your ability to assess your own knowledge and understanding.

* Provides an opportunity to analyze this in relation to the requirements of the examination.

* Enable you to pass examination and gain recognition for your talents.

GUIDELINES FOR SUCCESSFUL REVISION

* Make sure you know well in advance the topics to be covered in the particular exam.

* Keep copies of all course documents, projects, essay questions, title of assignments and reading list on file.

* Make this the basis of your revision. Resist the temptation to try to start your course all over again from the beginning.

* Review your own the assessed work, making a selection of that with the best grade.

* Compare your own work with the question asked as past question papers.

* At this stage it is vital that you will have enough material to answer all the likely questions.

* If you decide on to expand what you have already got, look at less successful papers and see if you can improve them by careful editing, filling in gaps, correcting errors of fact or understanding.

* Reduce each piece of work to note form.

TIME MANAGEMENT

Avoid overload.
Organize your hours to include ample time for rest, relaxation, sleep, eating, exercising and socializing.
Break the study time into manageable amounts of time to avoid boredom and loss of concentration. Sessions lasting 20-30 minutes are the best Studying for six half hour sessions is much more effective than studying for 3 straight hours.

Don’t put everything off until the last minute.

PRACTICE EFFECTIVE STUDY TECHNIQUES

Have appropriate study environments.

Split large task into more manageable tasks.

Read for comprehension rather than get to the end of the chapter.

Be prepared to ask questions as they come up during study, rather than waiting until just before and exam.

Don’t wait until the last minute to complete your projects.

Read the syllabus as soon as you get it and note all due dates( and milestone times) on your calendar.

Be a model student.

Be attentive and participative in the class and punctual, prepared and eager to learn.

BE ABLE TO BE FLEXIBILE

The unexpected happenings, e.g. Sickness, need to be able to fit into our schedule.

Know how to rearrange your schedule when necessary (so that it doesn’t manage you, but you manage it).

HAVE A VISION

Don’t forget the big picture.

Why are you doing the task? Is it important for your long-term goals?
Have and follow a personal mission statement (personal and career) Are your activities ultimately helping you to achieve your goals.

Know what is important to you.

(What do you value most)

Have a positive attitude.

Source by Dr. Hari S. Chandran

09 Dec

Microsoft DP-100 Exam Guide to Success

Posted in Education by anshbookstore on December 9, 2022 @ 6:02 am

Data science career is rapidly booming in the IT industry. Data scientists are more in demand due to the increasing demand. It is the best time to start learning data science. The reasons mentioned make DP-100 certifications important and mandatory to learn for data science aspirants.

Microsoft Azure Data Scientist Certification overview:

The DP-100 is Azure Data Scientist Associate Certification by Microsoft. This certification aims to use machine learning and data science knowledge to run and carry out workloads of machine learning on Azure. It utilizes the Azure Machine Learning Service. It helps create and plan a working environment suitable for data science workloads on Azure, instructing the predictive machine learning models and executing the experiments.

Benefits of Microsoft DP-100 Certification:

Data Scientists are in high demand currently. A certification of this mentioned on the resume can help to bag a high-profile job.
A Microsoft certification can immensely enhance the earning and the career opportunities.
Various reviews have acknowledged that a Microsoft certification has helped them secure a good job in a reputed company with high payment raise.
A candidate with a DA-100 certificate has a higher chance of getting selected among many individuals.

DP-100 Exam Prerequisites:

Fundamental understanding and knowledge of Microsoft Azure
Should be expert with python language and must be able to work with python data.
Should be aware of various libraries like Pandas, Numpy, and Matplotlib.
Should understand topics of data science.
Should be able to prepare the data.
Should be able to train machine learning models using libraries such as Tensorflow, Scikit-Learn, and PyTorch.

Information about Microsoft DP-100 Exam:

It is certified by Microsoft.
Azure Data Scientist Associate is the certification name.
DP-100 is the exam code.
The exam is for 180 minutes.
The Number of Questions varies between 40 – 60.
The Passing Score needed is 700.
The exam costs about USD 165.00.

How to Prepare for the DP-100 Exam:

Microsoft Azure Data Scientist Associate certification can be earned by following the best practices. Some steps are mentioned below to help in the preparation of the exam.

After deciding to take the DP-100 exam, go through the official page of the Microsoft DP-100 Certification. Information about “Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure” is stated there.
Next, start learning about the syllabus topics. Scroll down the exam objectives and understand them carefully. DP-100 enthusiasts can find the most important domains that should be studied.
Practicing is an important aspect of clearing out the exams. Enroll yourself in a training course before appearing for the actual exams. Free online courses or paid online courses can help to gain insights into the exam pattern of DP-100. Third-party professionals can take the training.
Practice tests are of great help in determining where you need more practice and sufficient knowledge to crack the exam. To avoid mistakes and to overcome them, practice tests are a must.
The official page provides various links to resources and study materials that might help prepare for the DP-100 exam. Take help of them to understand the topics in depth.

Source by Shalini M

06 Dec

Helping Your Pre-Schooler With Math-Avoid Learned Mistakes

Posted in Education by anshbookstore on December 6, 2022 @ 5:59 am

Now that you are actively working with your preschooler’s math and language skills, you are discovering that some learning is easy and almost immediate while other learning is difficult and needs repetition. Sometimes LOTS of repetition! One important thing you need to understand, though, is that “unlearning” a mistake is very difficult and needs to be avoided at all costs.

Please understand that I am not saying your child must not make mistakes. In reality, mistakes are a necessary part of learning. What I am referring to is avoiding LEARNED mistakes. It is important that a mistake not be repeated without correction so many times that it becomes learned.

Researchers have known for decades that the brain easily learns survival-related skills, like touching a hot stove only once. The brain’s sole purpose is survival, and learning non-survival-related skills is difficult for the brain. In the second article of this series: “7 Things you Must Always Do,” item #7 discusses the importance of using “brain-friendly” techniques with your child, and it lists many different examples of such techniques. One of those techniques is frequent review–often called practice or repetition.

Researchers agree that repetition is necessary for many types of learning to occur but the recommended amount of repetition has changed considerably over the years. When I began teaching in 1972, educators believed a skill could be learned with only 4 to 7 repetitions. More recent brain researchers have adjusted the figure much higher. It is now believed that 20 to 50 repetitions are necessary for learning to occur.

Fortunately, preschoolers LOVE repetition. They love reading the same books, playing the same games, and singing the same songs over and over again; and each repetition moves skills, vocabulary, and facts closer to being learned. However, a practiced mistake can become a learned mistake and a learned mistake is very difficult to eliminate. It can take HUNDREDS of correct repetitions to “unlearn” a learned mistake. Yes, that says HUNDREDS of correct repetitions! If you have ever tried to “fix” a bad habit, you know just how true this is.

So what does this mean for you? It means that you must always supervise what your preschooler does, and lovingly correct mistakes as they happen–because they WILL happen. Never criticize your child for a mistake. Gently direct them to discover the correct response and reward it. It also means you NEVER have your child work on worksheets, workbooks, smartphone apps, or computer programs without your very close supervision. All of these tools make practicing mistakes far too easy. Ideally, you don’t ever use ANY of these things with a preschooler at all, but that ia a topic for another day.

Your child’s learning needs to be directed by you. You can prevent learned mistakes from ever happening. Yes, you are THAT important!

Source by Shirley Slick

03 Dec

Developing a Professional Library and a Resource Centre for Teachers of Mathematics

Posted in Education by anshbookstore on December 3, 2022 @ 5:58 am

This article is a follow-up to the article “Should the Teaching of Mathematics in Secondary Schools be Resource Based?” it will detail my experience in setting up such a centre in the secondary school where I was head of the Mathematics department.

I was appointed at a time in Queensland (mid 1980s) where the mathematics syllabus for years one to ten was being reviewed by the Education Department to meet the needs of all students and reflect the changes in the field of Mathematics.

Several years later, an even more radical review was made the Mathematics syllabuses in years 11 and 12.

As a result of these changes, it was obvious that we needed to expand our teaching pedagogue. This meant we needed to acquire teaching aides to assist in our using a variety of pedagogue.

For me as department head, I needed to develop a list of resources we needed and find a room in which to store them and a procedure to use them.

My first task was to develop a professional library for my teaching staff. In consultation with the school librarian, I arranged for all the professional reading texts on mathematics teaching to be “borrowed” by my department and placed in our resource room. Each year, I budgeted to add to those books.

I would purchase books on all the new syllabus topics, problem solving, text books from other states, new texts written for the new syllabuses and I would scour second hand book shops looking for old texts.

The next task was to review the syllabus to be introduced in the following year to assess the resources we needed to implement particularly the new topics E. g. Earth Geometry. The new syllabus was introduced a year at time. I would need to put the name those resources in the development section of my budget. I would need to take into account the student numbers to decide on what amount of resources I would need. Initially, I would purchase one class set to investigate its usefulness before purchasing more in the future if those resources proved useful.

Below is a short list of resources that I had in the resource centre. It is not exhaustive. They include: sets of old textbooks to use for specific topics; maps and charts; metre rulers; sextants; tape measures; dice; counters; trundle wheels; graph and coloured paper, light cardboard; four operations calculators; graphics and scientific calculators*; laptops*; line papers for assessment; videos; films; and the list could go on. Copy of all our computer software was also store securely here.

Each year, our school entered various Mathematics contests. The contest booklet were collected and stored for classroom use in the future.

Past copies of assessment items were stored as a resource for teachers to use to create revision test and as a guide to the standard of testing required in each year level.

We were lucky to have our own teacher aide allocated to our department. She oversaw the resource room and this was her base. I made sure that she had the best computer, printer and software available to her. She would oversee the borrowing of resources and organise resources ready for collection for the relevant teaching period on a written request.

As part of the resource push, each teacher was given a tote box for their day to day needs in the classroom. Each year they were allocated an amount of money to spend on the resources they wanted. I would purchase these resources in bulk. Each year the teacher could add to their tote box.

Some final comments:

Ensure that the resources available for a particular topic are stated in the work program with suggestions on how to use them.
Always evaluate the initial use of a resource before you purchase more.
Encourage your staff to share the successful ideas they used involving particular resources.
Encourage your staff to make suggestions for additional resources.
Don’t purchase resources where small items, if lost or stolen, prevent the future use of that resource.
Stocktake each year so you can discover what resources needs to be replaced or expanded.
With computer software, always test its usefulness in the classroom before purchasing a licence for many computers as these programs can be expensive. There may be ways to purchase software through your local education authority to cut costs.
Easy to use simple computer software is often more effective in a classroom situation than the more sophisticated programs.

Source by Richard D Boyce

30 Nov

Renaissance Science, Plato’s Optics and Fuller’s Fractal Utopia

Posted in Education by anshbookstore on November 30, 2022 @ 5:57 am

The Parthenon of ancient Athens is considered to be a cultural icon of Western civilisation. Recently it has revealed optical principles that are now transforming our basic understanding of modern science, bringing about a new Renaissance.

In 1687 a Turkish military commander used the Parthenon to store gunpowder during a military engagement against a Venetian cannon bombardment. One Venetian shot exploded the gunpowder leaving the Parthenon in a state of ruin. The present restoration of the Parthenon used computer technology to measure where the various parts of the original structure fitted into place. From that process an important find was made. The Parthenon had been very carefully constructed to conform to lost optical engineering principles.

While records of much of ancient Greek science have been destroyed as pagan heresy we do know that there once existed optical engineering principles for a spiritual reality. Plato recorded that engineers who did not understand such optical principles were barbarians who were unfit to call themselves philosophers.

In her online book, A Fuller Explanation, Professor Amy Edmondson, Novartis Chair at Harvard University, wrote about Plato’s optical discoveries. She admonished Buckminster Fuller for his enthusiastic delight in new found truths but forgave him for appearing to take the credit for Plato’s engineering principles relevant to spiritual optics. We can assume that these principles relate to the optical secrets hidden in the Parthenon. The term ‘spiritual reality’ can now be equated with holographic reality, which is known to be associated with the functioning of liquid crystal fractal logic. That logic is relevant to Buckminster Fuller’s theory of synergetics, a spiritual life-force energy that acts in defiance of the logic that upholds modern mechanistic science.

During the 5th Century AD such life-force speculation challenged the power of the Christian hierarchy. Pope Cyril of Alexandria appears to have excited followers of Christianity to riot and burn scrolls belonging to the Agora, or Great Library of Alexandria. The Custodian of the Library, the famous mathematician, Hypatia, was murdered by the rioting mob. The 2009 Hollywood film, Agora, records the events leading up to her death in 415. History records that Saint Augustine, at that time, wrote that Hypatia’s mathematics belonged to the work of the devil.

Recently the NASA High Energy Astrophysics library has published papers explaining that the Classical Greek World-view was constructed upon the geometry of fractal logic. Modern science readily accepts that fractal logic extends to infinity but remains governed by the second law of thermodynamics. Einstein classified the second law as the premier law of all of science. As this law, also known as the universal heat death law, condemns all life to eventual extinction, any infinite fractal logic life-science becomes inconceivable. Augustine’s classification of Hypatia’s life-science as the work of the devil can be now seen to have seriously contaminated modern science, a contamination of great concern to Buckminster Fuller. Following NASA’s fractal logic publications it would seem reasonable to be able to demonstrate errors in the 20th Century popular evaluation of Augustinian philosophy.

Encyclopaedia Britannica lists Augustine’s mind as the crucible which most completely fused the Platonic tradition of Greek philosophy with the religion of the New Testament, influencing both Catholic and Protestant beliefs today. Fuller’s synergetic life form mathematics, derived from Plato’s spiritual optics, is now the basis of a new medical chemistry developed by three 1996 Nobel Laureates in chemistry. If Hypatia’s mathematics was tied to Plato’s fractal life-science logic, then Western scientific culture would appear to be in a state of spiritual confusion. In his book, Beyond Socrates, the noted Cambridge University philosopher of Greek thinking, F M Cornford. included Plato as one of the greatest fathers of the Christian Church, which is simply an impossible concept if Plato’s work is considered to be the work of the Devil.

The second law of thermodynamics completely governs every aspect of mainstream Western technological culture. While mainstream science readily accepts that the fundamental property of fractal logic is that it extends to infinity, this fact can not possibly be comprehended within Einstein’s 20th Century world-view, in which all life is sentenced to heat death extinction. Now we can see the significance of the title of Fuller’s book, Utopia or Oblivion.

This book echoed the thrust of the famous 1959 Rede Lecture, delivered by the molecular biologist C P Snow, who warned that unless modern science reunited with the Classical Greek life-science ethos, civilisation as we know it must be destroyed. The Parthenon’s lost optical secrets can be seen to be a rather important discovery.

Source by Robert Pope