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Volume 2 Month 6 Day 18 - Teaching and learning activities

Teaching and Learning Activities
Higher Levels of Learning
*How to produce big gains in your student learning
While preparing to teach, or throughout the semester, ask yourself what am I doing to encourage my students to:

learn how to learn
be motivated
help them change their values
learn how to interact better with other people [...]

Volume 2 Month 6 Day 15 - Tools for creating ideas

·        Absence Thinking: Think about what is not there .
·        Art streaming: Keep creating until you get through the blocks.
·        Assumption Busting: Surfacing and challenging unconscious assumptions.
·        Attribute Listing: Listing attributes of objects and then challenging them.
·        Brainstorming: The classic creative method for groups.
·        Braindrawing: Good for reticent groups.
·        [...]

Volume 2 Month 6 Day 6 -Using poetry to help with pronunciation

The problem with the English language is “pronunciation” because what you see in English is not necessarily what you say.
Take for example the following words: “off” has the same pronunciation as “cough”. This might be difficult to believe as the spelling is completely different. Look at the following words whose vowels are pronounced exactly the [...]

Volume 2 Month 6 Day 1 - Why your students don’t do their homework

I’m sure every teacher has shaken their heads at one time or another and thought or said “Why don’t those students do their homework?” Although that is usually a rhetorical question that is quickly forgotten once planning the warmer for the next lesson kicks in, I think looking at the real answers can be the [...]

Learning New Vocabulary Words

Visual learners should: 1. use flashcards. 2. play Post-it vocabulary memory games. 3. work with various word puzzles. 4. draw pictures of words often.
Auditory learners should: 1. read the words and definitions aloud. 2. record themselves saying the words and definitions. 3. playback these recordings.
Kinesthetic learners should: 1. look at the word and definition before [...]

Complete IIT JEE Syllabus

JEE Mathematics Syllabus
Algebra
Algebra of complex numbers, addition, multiplication, conjugation, polar representation, properties of modulus and principal argument, triangle inequality, cube roots of unity, geometric interpretations.
Quadratic equations with real coefficients, relations between roots and coefficients, formation of quadratic equations with given roots, symmetric functions of roots.
Arithmetic, geometric and harmonic progressions, arithmetic, geometric and harmonic means, sums [...]

Everything about Dyslexia

Living with the Dyslexic Child
 
How I help my child master his/her disability.
 
We have compiled this information to help you understand what dyslexia is and how you, your child and our teachers can provide a positive learning environment that will ensure the success of your child.
 
Download : 37-common-characteristics-of-dyslexia
 
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Proposed Grading System For Classes IX and X - CBSE

Proposed Grading System for Classes IX and X - 2010-11
Candidates are divided into 4 major Groups

Group

% Marks

Class

Distribution of Candidates

 

Grade A

75and Above

Distinction

3 Grades in the ratio 3:2:1

 

Grade B

60 – 74

I Division

1 Grade for all candidates

 

Grade C

33-59

II/III Division

3 Grades in the ratio 1:2:3

 

Grade F

32 and Below

Failure

2 Grades in 0-19 and 20-32 range of marks

 

Grade

Grade Value

Qualitative Value

 Languages

Other than [...]

Environmental education - Video

Two thinks that could be learnt from the video
1. Confidence of putting the words across  a huge audience.. Students learn to give speech …
2. Environmental education
 
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SSB Interview

SSB Interview
Armed forces offer very exciting career to young men and women in several fields. Career in the forces, in addition as a career, is also an adventure in itself. To ensure that appropriate candidates are chosen, a comprehensive selection process is adopted by the armed forces through Service Selection Board (SSB) interview. This system [...]