EDUCATION FOR ALL

noreply@blogger.com (Vygotsky) — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 10:12:00 +0800

TEACHING GAMES FOR UNDERSTANDING OBJECTIVES

Objectives are vital in outlining what must be achieved to be competent. Objective can help students to measure their success. Therefore, here are some suggestion for achieving any objectives:

Group Activity

· Come up with an activity before class. This activity should contain clear objectives leading to activity completion. For example, the task of writing a short story should include clearly defined objectives that lead to a good story. These objectives might include coming up with a good character, placing him in a situation, facing him with a problem and finding a solution. Bring the activity into class and ask the students to form groups. Assign the task to each group. Each group should help one another to complete individual objectives step by step. The first group to complete the challenge successfully should be rewarded.

Objective Journal

· Ask students to keep an "objective journal." This journal should be used as a way for students to keep track of personal objectives, ensuring that they are met successfully. For example, if your students have been asked to read Agatha Christie's collection of "Miss Marple" by the end of the term, this journal should be used to keep track of each student's reading accomplishments. Each novel should be taken as an objective. Students should use the journal to break down objectives and structured activities that they are faced with throughout the year. Encourage students to use the journals as much as possible.

Objective Collage

· Ask each student to create an "objective collage" of his own. On paper or canvas, challenge students to illustrate the objectives that they wish to meet throughout the school year themselves. These collages should prompt students to meet their objectives effectively and enthusiastically. The objectives that are illustrated should be dependent on the student and can include objectives spanning over the year, their student careers or longer. The collages should be put on the wall to inspire students to work toward their chosen objectives.

Personal Letter

· Writing a personal letter can be a fun and effective objective-setting activity for students to be a part of in the classroom. At the beginning of term, ask each student to write a letter explaining the goals and objectives that they wish to achieve by the end of the year. These objectives don’t necessarily have to be related to the classroom. They can be home-oriented, too. At the end of the year, letters should be revealed for the first time since being written. Challenge students to find objectives that they managed to meet throughout the school year.

noreply@blogger.com (Vygotsky) — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:01:00 +0800

WHAT IS EDUCATION?

Education or teaching in the broadest sense is any actor experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character or physical ability of an individual. In its technical sense education is the process by which society deliberately transmits its accumulated knowledge, skills and values from one generation to another.

Education creates opportunities and choices for people to develop themselves to be better everyday. Thus, education reduces the twin burdens of poverty and diseases because people know how to seek for money and to find cure. Also, education gives a stronger voice in society as people talk based on fact and not emotionally. Moreover, education can lead to dynamic workforce and well-informed citizens able to compete and cooperate globally. Furthermore, education generates opening doors to economic and social prosperity.

noreply@blogger.com (Vygotsky) — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:48:00 +0800

5 KEY ELEMENTS OF ANTI-CORRUPTION STRATEGY

Move from denial to acceptance of the problem and build a broad agreement among policy makers and stake holders.
Build a coalition.
Improve utility of business processes.
Strengthen institutional mechanism for accountability.
Encourage public participants.

noreply@blogger.com (Vygotsky) — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:14:00 +0800

PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION
Source: http://www.wikipedia.org/

Idealism

Plato

Inscribed herma of Plato. (Berlin, Altes Museum).

Main article: Plato

Date: 424/423 BC - 348/347 BC

Plato's educational philosophy was grounded in his vision of the ideal Republic, wherein theindividual was best served by being subordinated to a just society. He advocated removing children from their mothers' care and raising them as wards of the state, with great care being taken to differentiate children suitable to the various castes, the highest receiving the most education, so that they could act as guardians of the city and care for the less able. Education would be holistic, including facts, skills, physical discipline, and music and art, which he considered the highest form of endeavor.

Plato believed that talent was distributed non-genetically and thus must be found in children born in any social class. He builds on this by insisting that those suitably gifted are to be trained by the state so that they may be qualified to assume the role of a ruling class. What this establishes is essentially a system of selective public education premised on the assumption that an educated minority of the population are, by virtue of their education (and inborn educability), sufficient for healthy governance.

Plato's writings contain some of the following ideas: Elementary education would be confined to the guardian class till the age of 18, followed by two years of compulsory military training and then by higher education for those who qualified. While elementary education made the soul responsive to the environment, higher education helped the soul to search for truth which illuminated it. Both boys and girls got the same kind of education. Elementary education consisted of music and gymnastics, designed to train and blend gentle and fierce qualities in the individual and create a harmonious person.

At the age of 20, a selection was made. The best one would take an advanced course in mathematics, geometry, astronomy and harmonics. The first course in the scheme of higher education would last for ten years. It would be for those who had a flair for science. At the age of 30 there would be another selection; those who qualified would study dialectics and metaphysics, logic and philosophy for the next five years. They would study the idea of good and first principles of being. After accepting junior positions in the army for 15 years, a man would have completed his theoretical and practical education by the age of 50.

noreply@blogger.com (Vygotsky) — Tue, 6 Dec 2011 10:44:00 +0800

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noreply@blogger.com (Vygotsky) — Mon, 5 Dec 2011 21:32:00 +0800

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE PURPOSE?

Lets share your thought and leave a comment after reading this article...

Every day we will face two things in our life; First, something that we like to do. Second, something that we should or must do. Generally, what we need to do usually we neglect to do it... So, lets discover your life purpose that need to be clear and focus. Hence, you will know what to do in this world...

Lets go back to the question. "What is your life purpose?"

Basically, there are three most famous answers:

Some people said that our life is to fulfill five basic needs or five pillars (eat, drink, sleep, rest, and get married/sex). If your answer is this, beware that you are just as same as LIVESTOCK! Just imagine a cow's daily life. Everyday, it wakes up the morning mooing and go to the field to eat grass and drinks water. In the afternoon, it sits down under a tree and rest while chewing the grass. Thus, in certain time they will find their partner for sex. At night, it will go to sleep. The routine will continue until the cow dies.
In other case, several people want to be famous in their life... It is not wrong. But if you put aside and forget others who help you to become famous, then it is wrong. If you choose this answer, remember that you just as same as tress in the jungle. They fight each other to be the tallest in order to get the sun. Thus, not all famous people have a happy life. Some involve in drug, alcohol, and illegal sex.
Lastly, certain people want to gain power and authority. They want to manipulate others with their position and gain wealth. Be careful if this is your answer...You are just as same as wild animal. For instance, a lion will mark it territory with the urine. If other lions try to take over the territory, they will fight each other until one side badly wound or die.

SO, WHAT IS YOUR PURPOSE OF LIFE???

noreply@blogger.com (Vygotsky) — Sat, 3 Dec 2011 18:41:00 +0800

THE PROS AND CONS OF GETTING AN OVERSEAS EDUCATION

Nowadays, many students got scholarship and study overseas. Thus, the number of Malaysian students in institutions of higher education in the United States for the period 2009/2010 increased by 4.2 percent to 6.190 from 5.942 in the previous years. This movement of getting an overseas education ought to be analyzed the pros and cons of the issues. The pros are world class academic system and infrastructure, working experience, improve foreign language, and learn new culture. Despite that, the cons are influenced by negative thinking style and lifestyle, not able to be independent, cost a lot of money and energy, and cheated by native.

First and foremost, the students who study overseas will be exposed to world class academic system and infrastructure. For sure their quality of teaching and learning has a very high standard. In addition, most of the text books are from overseas and many authentic academic materials are produced in U.K and U.S.A. Therefore, the students can have easy access to get many genuine materials. Thus, they can read the book in their original language. For example, the legend medicine book, At-Tibb, which written by Ibnu Sina is in Arabic.

Second, one of the advantages of learning overseas is the students can get real life working experience during spare time at the foreign country. Consequently, it will give added values to them in many ways. Despite getting extra money, they can learn new skills such as dealing with clients and know how to treat them appropriately. Thus, those who work at restaurant can learn how to make native meal and traditional food.

Third, the students can improve their foreign language skills. The native speakers are everywhere. Thus, language is for us to use, not to keep it in the mouth. Nevertheless, the students do not have any choice but to speak in the foreign language in daily chat such as buying goods at groceries shop or any market. In such situation, the students can master their foreign language rapidly and built up their confident to converse comfortably with others native speaker.

Forth, in new places, we can learn new culture and break the cultural encapsulation among foreigners. Therefore, the students can grab this opportunity while studying at overseas. Hence, it will help us to open our mind and built mutual respect on others who have different values in life. Nevertheless, it can enhance diplomatic relationship between various countries. For instance, Malaysian students can learn Chinese culture of business. In addition, the entire gap between cultures will be lessened and no prejudice and stereotype towards others on sensitive issues such as apartheid in South East Africa.

Furthermore, the con of getting an overseas education is mainly about the influence of negative thinking style and lifestyle. In Malaysia, we called it as ‘budaya kuning’ which describe the negative influence from west such as punk head, sexy outfit, and mocking. Some country like USA use harsh word in their colloquial language such ‘fuck you’ and ‘shit’. Thus, they call their parents with names rather than address them properly. Also, alcohol is amiable and people can buy it everywhere. The clubbing lifestyle and too many parties are not suitable for Islamic religion and eastern culture. Despite that, they are also tolerable with gay and lesbian lifestyles which are legally right in their country. Most of the time, they make decision based on logical sense and beyond than our norm.

Next, some students are weak self and not able to be independent when they live abroad. For many years they live with their parents and after finished O-Level they went overseas with low maturity. When they live alone by themselves, some do not know how to get along with new people and strangers. And this make them become passive. Also, they are weak in managing their financial plan. So, they waste their money recklessly without saving for years ahead. When they broke, they tend to borrow money from friends. Moreover, they are easily being influence by their friends and most of the time they loiter at shopping complex or other places.

Furthermore, studying overseas is costing a lot of money and energy. There are many payments and bills that we need to consider. For instance, the flight ticket cost you thousands of Ringgit. If you book a ticket to Jordan, it will cost you approximately RM 2,000 for one way ticket. Thus, the university’s fees are also expensive. I addition, you need to pay for rent house or hostel for your accommodation there. The most basic part is to spend money for food and drinks. Thus, academic books and study materials need to be put into account. On the other hand, we need to pay for public transport to travel to classes.

Lastly, some students can easily being cheated by the natives. Most of the cases are because they do not have money to survive out of the country and tend to find easy money by doing part time job. Unfortunately, they were cheated and involved in criminal. For example, previously there was a genius female student from Malaysia who studied in UK was desperate to get money and she involved in prostitution.

As conclusion, there are pros and cons of getting an overseas education. The students need to be analytical in making decision before continuing their study in a foreign country. As preparation, it is recommended to ask people who have been studied abroad to seek for their experiences and tips on how to adopt and adapt with different academic environment.

noreply@blogger.com (Vygotsky) — Fri, 2 Dec 2011 23:42:00 +0800

HOW TO HAVE VALUE IN LIFE...

Think globally.
Wise in valuing others.
Not selfish. Can give and take.
Always be competitive.
Have manners.
High empathy.
Rational in every action.
Want to improve and be better everyday.
Not easy to sigh.
Never stop to learn and gain experience with humbleness.

noreply@blogger.com (Vygotsky) — Fri, 2 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0800

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noreply@blogger.com (Vygotsky) — Thu, 1 Dec 2011 22:13:00 +0800

SUDDEN DEATH...
DO NOT THINK YOU CAN AVOID IT

Research showed that most of sudden death cases are because of heart problems that stop abruptly.

TIPS to have good heart and healthy cardiology system:

Drink a lot 10 - 12 glass of plain water.
Eat a lot of fruits and fresh vegetables everyday.
Exercise regularly.
Limit the sugar and fat intake.
Eat less rice and wheat products.
Consume more fiber in your meal.
Manage blood pressure wisely.
Stop SMOKING!

* INTERESTING FACT!!

USA and Japan have the most cases of sudden death because of stroke with 3% increasing every year...

noreply@blogger.com (Vygotsky) — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:43:00 +0800

DO NOT DO IT IF YOU DO NOT FALL DUE

Try to get something before the time came often will only bring losses. Logically, try to eat fruit which still not ripe is not relevent.

Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) said:

مَنْ اسْتَعْجَلَ شَيْئاً قَبْلَ أَوَانِهِ عُوقِبَ بِحِرْمَانِهِ

Means: Whoever in a hurry before reaching term, would the consequences be prevented from get. (Al-Ashbah Wa An-Nazair, As-Sayuti, page 195)

noreply@blogger.com (Vygotsky) — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:28:00 +0800

Literature Components

DRAMA

"Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" (Classical Greek: δρᾶμα, drama), which is derived from "to do","to act" (Classical Greek: δράω, draō)."

SHORT STORIES

A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format.

NOVEL

A novel is a fancy word for a book. A novel has no set length. It can range from a few pages to a few thousand pages, all depending on the time it takes the author to convey their story.

POEM

Poetry (from the Greek 'poiesis'/ποίησις [poieo/ποιέω], a making: a forming, creating, or the art of poetry, or a poem) is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning.

noreply@blogger.com (Vygotsky) — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:16:00 +0800

Definition of ASSERTIVENESS

"Assertiveness is being able to stand up for yourself, making sure your opinions and feelings are considered and not letting other people always get their way."

You can be assertive TEACHER/STUDENT without being forceful or rude. Instead, it is stating clearly what you expect and insisting that your rights are considered.

noreply@blogger.com (Vygotsky) — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:48:00 +0800

STEP BY STEP TO LEARN XHOSA LESSON FOR LANGUAGE LEARNER

noreply@blogger.com (Vygotsky) — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:26:00 +0800

DID YOU KNOW?

Research from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD, 2002) showed that

reading enjoyment is more important for children’s educational success

than their family’s socio-economic status

noreply@blogger.com (Vygotsky) — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:46:00 +0800

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noreply@blogger.com (Vygotsky) — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:25:00 +0800

PRINCIPLE OF LITERATURE

Learning is fun, meaningful, purposeful

Teaching is learner-centred

Integration of salient new technologies

Character-building infused

noreply@blogger.com (Vygotsky) — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:56:00 +0800

5 Ways For Teachers to Get Organized

1. Prepare important calendar dates. Make sure you have a storage plan.

2. Create organizational system folder for each class.

3. Have a folder with the school policies and regulations.

4. Always bring notepad to jot down any unexpected event for unexpected event.

5. Always be punctual and have back up plan.

noreply@blogger.com (Vygotsky) — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:13:00 +0800

Famous American converts

Dave Chappelle - comedian and television star
Loon - American hip hop and rap artist
Preacher Moss - American comedian and comedy writer
Keith Ellison – first Muslim to be elected to the United States Congress
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor) - retired basketball player & the NBA's all-time leading scorer
Mos Def - American rapper and actor.
Yusuf Estes - a former Christian minister, became a Muslim chaplain

noreply@blogger.com (Vygotsky) — Sun, 9 Oct 2011 10:21:00 +0800

ENGLISH SUBJECTS FOR DIPLOMA IN UiTM MACHANG
BEL 100 Peparatory English
BEL 200 Mainstream English I
BEL 250 Mainstream English II
BEL 315 Communication in the Workplace