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How to Improve Your Critical Reading, Writing & Thinking Skills

Vishal Jain — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 02:09:09 +0000

Critical thinking, reading, and writing are among the most important skills necessary for succeeding in high school and college. Teachers will assume that their students already have mastered basic academic skills. Now they will expect them to take more responsibility for in depth learning by reading and evaluating information then writing their [...]

How to Assess Critical Thinking Skills in High School

Vishal Jain — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 02:03:44 +0000

Critical thinking is the educational terminology for a student’s ability to think logically. As a student matures, his thinking is ideally trained to go from simple summarizing and repetition of facts to the ability to tie facts together and interpret them to prove a requested point. This skill is essential to life [...]

Using Lateral Thinking Puzzles

Vishal Jain — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 01:55:36 +0000

Help Your student Become Smarter and More Confident

Lateral thinking puzzles are basically the ability to solve problems using non-traditional methods in order to create and identify new concepts and ideas. By using puzzles, riddles, and other mind exercises, students are able to think of new ways to find solutions to problems by [...]

Summer Reading for Kids

Vishal Jain — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 01:54:02 +0000

Need some summer reading books? How about games and activities? Here are some fun ways for children to keep up with their reading during summer.

Reading over the summer is a great way for kids to keep up with their reading skills, along with helping to build their vocabulary skills. This can be achieved [...]

Volume 3 Month 5 Day 25 – The reading process: Research supported teaching strategies

Vishal Jain — Tue, 25 May 2010 06:16:45 +0000

Reading is a highly complex, integrated activity that daunts as many as 33 percent of the population.

Many children become proficient readers regardless of how they are taught. However, for children who experience difficulty learning to gain meaning from print, reading must be systematically and carefully taught. Mastering the following components of the reading process is essential [...]

Volume 3 Month 5 Day 21 – Debating Current Issues

Vishal Jain — Fri, 21 May 2010 06:08:45 +0000

Debating current issues is a great way to develop a student’s critical thinking skills and maximize student participation in the classroom. Successful debates involve the selection of audience centered topics. In preparation for the debates students utilize research from library databases and the internet. On the day of the debate students should bring copies of research, [...]

Volume 3 Month 5 Day 18 – Move to Learn – Unlock the Potential of the Brain

Vishal Jain — Tue, 18 May 2010 06:03:04 +0000

There are about as many nerve cells in the brain as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy. The unique set of connections between neurons that each of us develops determines how we view the world, shapes our future experiences, and indeed, determines who we are. Successful students have developed rich, connected networks of neurons. [...]

Volume 3 Month 4 Day 21 – A Parent’s Note to a Teacher

Vishal Jain — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 03:23:04 +0000

From: The Heart of a Teacher “A Parent’s Note to a Teacher” by Anonymous

I’m the voice of a grateful parent whose child was in your class… the one who needed help to find his way You’ve been a special blessing as you helped my child succeed and I’m thankful for the part you had to play You gave him so much more than [...]

Volume 3 Month 4 Day 16- Cultivating the ‘Other Part’ of the Brain

Deepshikha Singh — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 03:30:32 +0000

Being Nothing, Doing Nothing: Cultivating the ‘Other Part’ of the Brain

Because our minds are crowded, we crowd our lives—with busy schedules, multiple activities, plans and projects for a better life. We rarely, if ever, take the time to investigate who or what it is that is generating all this, much less inquire if it can stop. [...]

Volume 3 Month 3 Day 26- Educational Reforms

Deepshikha Singh — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 04:00:40 +0000

Today, it has become a big requirement of the country to make the education system more rational, meaningful, more convenient, and more palpable to mind, more conducive, friendlier. Today, the education has become a mean to eliminate self. It has been wiped out by making mandatory provisions of subjects and uniform system of education. Therefore, there [...]