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The availability of books, reading materials, pictures, in our homes would help enhance reading among our children. It helps make our homes reader or learner friendly.

There are simple ways we can help our children learn.

Getting a secured place at home to help our children sit and learn is an added advantage.

Purchase a table and chair and place it at a secured place in the room and label it appropriately, example "Study Corner" or "Reading Corner"

Materials you can keep at Home to Improve Reading.

1. Holy Bible

2. Holy Qur'an

3. Magazines

4. Newspapers

5. Story Books

6. Pictures

7. Documentaries

8. Teaching Learning Materials

9. Writing Materials ( Books, pens, pencils, erasers, markers,chalkboard, whiteboard, etc)

10. Electronic devices

11. Computers (Radio, Calculator, Tablets, Phones, iPad, etc )

12. Adventure Movies

13. Animated - Children Films.

14. Toys

Materials Needed To Prepare Teaching & Learning Materials:

1. Cardboards

2. Manila Cards

3. Glue/Starch

4. Markers

5. Pencils

6. A4 Sheets

7. Old Calendars/Magazine

8. Crayons, Colour Pencils, Paints etc.

What to Do?

1. Cut the Manila Cards into several rectangular shapes and use same to label appropriately everything in the room.

2.You can also use it to prepare word cards or sentence cards.

3.Use the Glue or Starch to paste all the labels and cards appropriately.

Friday, 20 March 2020

20 Ways to Prepare for Exams

20 Ways to Prepare for Exams - Augustana University.

Routinely review your class notes. Your short-term memory is limited, so you need to distribute your learning over a period of time. Focus on the main points and organize the information into smaller, more manageable parts.
Access free study aids. Check the front of your textbook to see if the publisher provides any online learning resources. Browse Quizlet for other ideas.
Minimize distractions. Turn off the TV, cell phone, computer and other potential interruptions.
Set specific measurable goals for each study session to keep yourself on track. Reward yourself with naturally enjoyable activities, such as playing X-box or browsing Facebook.
Before you begin, mentally warm up. How does the material relate to what you already know or discussed as a class? Prepare your brain to make connections. Link new information to the prior knowledge you have already acquired. Forming these associations will help you retrieve information later and makes the material more meaningful.
Match your learning to the assessment method. For example, if your Human Anatomy test gives you a definition and then asks you to recall the word, do the same when you study. We tend to perform better on a recall task when the way we encoded the words matches the way we need to retrieve them.
Predict possible questions. Review old tests, study guides or the course objectives. Learn more about identifying test questions.
Develop summary sheets for each class. Condense information from your notes and textbook on index cards, post-it notes, or ready reference concept sheets.
Create mnemonic devices. Acrostics, rhymes or acronyms may help you remember information.
Create visual reference points. Write it down several times. Duplicate the pictures from your memory for lab practicals. Highlight your notes with different colors. For example, in your history class you could use a pink highlight to note dates, blue for names, and yellow to signal events.
Draw it. Create tables, diagrams, mind maps or pictures to represent the organizational schema of the information.
Explain it aloud. Go into an empty classroom and pretend to teach the material to someone. Using your own words helps you assess your comprehension, which ultimately aids your memory.
Identify examples or illustrations that embody the concept and demonstrate ways you will utilize the information. This makes it meaningful and relevant, while giving you feedback on your comprehension.
If you think you know your stuff, prove it. Quizzing yourself problems avoids overconfidence and helps you identify gaps in your recall. Answer the questions at the end of the chapter in your textbook. Complete practice problems. Cover up your notes and try to explain them. Create flashcards. If you find yourself struggling to remember, try different techniques to learn the material.
Evaluate, analyze and synthesize the information. What standards or rules can you infer from the information? What can you conclude, hypothesize or recommend? Compare and contrast the information. Critique it. This deepens your learning and helps you own the information.
Take short breaks. Your brain can process a limited amount of information and benefits from some rest.
Stay healthy. Get some sleep and avoid caffeine. Seriously – your brain with thank you.
Don’t go it alone. Form a study group and develop a practice test together. Meet with the professor, a tutor or a learning specialist if needed. Contact the Student Success Center and develop a study strategy with a learning specialist.
Manage your anxiety. By listen to calming music, stretching or breathing deeply, you can avoid stress and release negative thoughts.
Finally, examine your beliefs about learning. It does not happen quickly and intelligence is not fixed. Stay positive and persist, believing that your hard work and techniques will make a difference.

Sunday, 1 March 2020

Guide to GES Best Teacher Award.

Best Tips for Successful Interview.

Learn the skill of interviewing:

ON THE DAY OF INTERVIEW

👉Be at the venue an hour before time.

👉Know your Interview Room.

👉Sit closer to the Interview Room or at designated place provided by the organisers.

👉Try recalling some basic facts about education, teaching, learning, etc.

👉Don't worry if you are not able to recall. This occurs due to a phenomenon known as "Mental Black Out".

👉Be relaxed. Drink little water depending on the weather. Avoid cold water when the weather is cold. This causes frequent urination.

👉Interview is not an examination where you receive "powers" from others. Don't move to where others have grouped discussing the interview.

👉Look for the registration sheet and register.

👉When it time for the Interview to begin get all your particulars organised, pray and get Going.....

DURING THE INTERVIEW

👉Knock and wait till you hear enter

👉When you enter Greet them politely and wait till you are asked to sit before you sit.

👉Sit gently and thank them.

👉Be relaxed. Humbled. Optimistic. Honest and Confident.

👉Ask for explanation of questions when you do not understand.

👉Answer the question honestly and dispassionately.

👉Where you don't know the answer to a question, be honest and accept your ignorance. You are not Google to know and keep every information.

AFTER THE INTERVIEW

👉Thank them and leave when you are told to go.

👉Do not engage in post - mortem after the Interview.

👉Go home and thank your creator and pray for success.

Some Questions for GES Best Teacher Award.

Describe yourself.

Describe your professional development.( Professional Portfolio)

Describe your teaching Philosophy.

Describe using specific examples how your teaching Philosophy have helped in solving an educational problem in your Career.

What makes you think you are the best for the Teacher Prize.

Apart from teaching your children, which is mandatory, describe other work (voluntary and Free) that you have carried out to solve a specific problem in your area.

Describe some modern Pedagogies that you know and have applied in you teaching.

Which of these is important: Content or Methodology? Explain.

What do you know about the Ghana Education Service, Ministry of Education, NACCA and NIB?

Do you have what it takes to be the next best Teacher?

How do you deal with recalcitrant teacher?

Mention any four Codes in the GES Codes of Conduct and Professional Ethics.

Describe the composition of the PTA or the SMC.

The Ghana Education Service has banned the use of canes in schools. What is your view on this?

List any five classroom management techniques used by teachers.

Describe briefly how you dealt with a child in your class you considered stubborn.

Sunday, 1 December 2019

Stop using Exams Results to define quality eduaction

Society sometimes confuses memorization with learning and passing examination with success.

Memorization or Passing Standardized Examinations does not guarantee quality education.
We should not pressurized children to memorize and excel in examinations.
Politicians should not forced teachers to pass through hell to ensure their candidates pass Standardized Tests.

The society should not deceive itself into believing that remarkable performance in a Standardized Tests such as the BECE and WASSCE shows quality tuition and quality education.

Education goes beyond all the above. The quality of Education of any nation can be seen in several facets of our national life. It shows itself in our economy, agriculture, industry, religion, development, and the general standard of living of the citizenry.

Quality education would even decide which people govern us. Are you not surprise governments do not give the needed resources and attentions to education. If they do, why should schools be under trees? Why should some schools be without teachers? Why should we have schools without computers or electricity and yet are expected to be Digitally Literate? Why should we have schools without the adequate number of texts books? Etc.

This should tell you that no politician sincerely wish to improve and provide quality education. What we have currently is well rehearsed gymnastics, sometimes unrehearsed, and daily noise making in our schools.

Why are the politicians educating their children in the top International Schools outside the country and yet keep on partying and praising themselves for providing quality education.
The high rate of graduate unemployment in the country currently should tell all of us that there is something wrong with our education.

If you want to destroy any nation, do not use atomic bomb or nuclear weapons just destroy their education system and you can get them.

The problem with most of us is that we concentrate on our children passing examinations. So no wonder we will organise series of 'extra classes' just to make them memorize lots of meaningless facts and figures.

Teacher welfare and motivation have not been tabled in any discussion either in parliament or at Cabinet Meetings. The current situation is even worsening the plight of the Ghanian teacher. Government have absorbed all the fees and have cancelled any form of money collection in schools. Yet, government have not made any provision to pay these absorption. The meager allowances such as the Capitation Grants that schools used to carry out some of its activities are the same source that government is tasking schools to pay for some of these "absorption".

We should not in an attempt to win political points deny schools of the needed resources and yet come back and punish same schools for not improving education in the country.
The Ghanaian child deserves the best education. Governments should as a matter of urgency increase the Capitation Grants and provide all the needed resources to schools. However, if government cannot do it, then government should create employment avenues for parents and should allow parents carry out their parental responsibility of educating their children.

We cannot continue to pay lip service to the issues surrounding education. We, more than any other person know that increased enrollment is not synonymous with quality education. We cannot guarantee our future generation quality education if we continue handling our schools, children, teachers and the curriculum the way we have done it all these years.

Our educational system needs complete overhaul. We need a reform that would take care of the learner's need, the teacher's need, and a reform which will provide a direction for the future.
Ghana's education is on the verge of collapse. We need to rescue and give direction to our education policy.

Our educational should not be left in the hands of politicians who will just do something to impress the populace all with the aim of scoring political points.

By:
AminuWrites
(Educational Evangelist and Coach)
Contact: 0244299706

AminuWrites PLC

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