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Andre N JonesPublished 5 years ago in Education5 Tips on How to Learn Your Partner's Native Language
At the age of 24, I never thought I would learn another language. I took German throughout high school, and regrettably, I never gave it 100 percent, which left me with just the basics. But now, I have the greatest motivation of all. My husband is Brazilian, and speaks (Brazilian) Portuguese. Only a few of his family members know English, so it is vital that I learn as much as I can to be able to communicate with them effectively. Also, in the future, when my husband teaches our children Portuguese, I want to be involved in their learning process of both English and Portuguese.
Alice Broadbent LeãoPublished 5 years ago in Education6 Top-Notch Tips to Simplify Assignment Writing
What do you do when you get an assignment from your college or university? Do you begin drafting immediately? Or do you just freak out that you have got so many assignments and exams and you don’t know how to finish them on time? Do you leave it until the last minute and then frantically work upon it or get assignment help?
Job Fields That Are Growing Rapidly
IT Field The tech industry is a fast-growing field today. This is one of the fields that is advancing from strength to strength in the job market. There are thousands of jobs in great demand in IT, but there are so many specialties to choose from. Where will you start? Don't worry, all of them pay in the high two to three-figure incomes per year. If you are a person who loves to innovate, then IT is the place where there is lots of it taking place. IT affects the way people are living, and it improves the quality of peoples' lives daily. The one characteristic thing is it touches every kind of field of professional development like medicine, journalism, transportation, agriculture, and real estate, to name a few.
Mikkie MillsPublished 5 years ago in EducationNavigating Life Away from Home: First Year College Students
You are a college freshman, 18 years old (or even 17, like I was!). Away from home. No parents around. A roommate (or roommates, if you are in a triple) with unknown living habits. Questions running through your head: does he or she snore? Will we be the odd couple—one messy, one clean? Will this room still look and smell fresh by October? Is she a chipper morning person to my slow-rising, “I need coffee before I speak,” mood? How much laundry detergent do I put in the machine? I have to wake up on my own?!
Stephanie S YoungPublished 5 years ago in EducationDaniel Howe's 'What Hath God Wrought' Is a Biographical Masterpiece
Arthur Schlesinger, a historian who taught at Harvard University, once commented that when writing history, “objectivity is not neutrality.” One could argue that this is the case with Daniel Walker Howe and the book What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America—1815-1848.
Shain ThomasPublished 5 years ago in EducationDropping Out of University & the Aftermath
I hope that this provides some insight into why I wear the "Dropout" label as a badge of honour as well as give you all some insight into why I am the way that I am.
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I recently moved over 500 miles to a new city I knew nothing about. I thought it would be an exciting adventure, a new chapter in my life. I thought I would make new friends and travel new places. Life would be good, I'd find a job easily, and live happily for a few years. That my friends, is called pure ignorance.
Josie CampbellPublished 5 years ago in EducationDauntless Teaching
I led a training this summer where teachers were introduced to a new science curriculum newly adopted by our district. The room was filled with excited but nervous energy. Many teachers commented about how they were excited to teach the new content and how the new curriculum would be so much better for their students. However, on the flip side of that coin, I also heard, "I'm not sure how I'm going to do this." The echos of this statement are familiar to me because, as an educator, I have whispered those words to myself multiple times over the years. I know how it feels to be presented with something new and being overwhelmed with the time and energy it will take to implement it into my teaching practices. During this training, these teachers were presented with the obstacles of time and technology, and I could almost read the defeat on some of their faces when they realized they were going to have to overcome challenges they weren't prepared to take on this school year. I cannot count how many times I have felt this way myself over the years. Usually, this defeated feeling comes when I'm told I need to collect behavioral data, or when I have to come up with Plan F for student intervention. But what I have learned recently is that it is these moments that are allowing me to grow as an educator. When I lean into the uncomfortable and overwhelming situations with a belief that there is a solution, then I find myself trying instead of letting the feeling of defeat win.
Marci BrodockPublished 5 years ago in EducationWhy Frosh Week Was Awesome and Showed Me Why High School Sucked
Frosh week or O Week, whatever you may call it, is the university way of welcoming students to campus by showing them all that’s available to them in the most hyped up fashion possible. Now say what you will, but my experience was truly astounding. I met the most genuinely welcoming people I’ve ever encountered, and was able to step up and out of my comfort zone because as soon as I set foot on campus I knew I was home. I know starting a new chapter in life can seem daunting and literally paralyzing. If you read on though, I promise you’ll have an awesome first week at university, hopefully a better high school experience, or if neither of those apply to you perhaps you’ll get something out of this anyway.
Zachary BoulangerPublished 5 years ago in EducationHow Can a Student Apply for a Personal Loan?
A personal loan is touted as one of the best ways to get funds in times of need. And this is the truth because it stands as one of the loans that could be granted by the lenders with or without collateral from the borrowers. However, when this loan comes without collateral, lenders try to make up for the security they fail to get from the collateral by looking at the credit history of the borrower and setting the interest rate accordingly. This makes it one of the loans with the highest interest rates. Students are among those that will always need money for different reasons, and because most of them cannot lay their hands on any collateral to present for the loans, this becomes one of the best options to consider.
Bob FloresPublished 5 years ago in EducationReview: This Is How It Always Is
REVIEW: This Is How It Always Is by Laurel Frankel This is a stunning novel by Laurie Frankel, depicting the transition of the youngest in a family of five children, from Claude to Poppy. While this book is fiction, it is loosely inspired by the author’s own life; her own child made the same transition at a young age. This personal inspiration bleeds into the storytelling, the novel feeling consistently real and raw throughout. The detailed capturing of a child struggling with their identity, and how this impacts the rest of the family, is both a guttural and beautiful read. Frankel does not shy away from the controversial or complicated elements of the issues at hand, the brutal honesty of the family’s battle with a society lagging behind the children it is raising shining through in moments of pain, betrayal, and above all, strength.
Pandora OggPublished 5 years ago in Education