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How to Impress your Friends With Spoken Japanese Even If You’re a Total Beginner
How To Impress Your Friends With Spoken Japanese Even If You’re A Total Beginner
Yes, you really can speak Japanese if you have 10 minutes to spare each day.
The idea of course is to have a well planned out learning system that only requires you to set aside 10 minutes each day for learning Japanese.
The key to learning Japanese is really quite simple. If I were to summarize it, it would be….
L.A.R. (Learn, Apply and Repeat)
One of the biggest mistakes most beginner Japanese learners face is to Apply and Repeat what they had studied before.
What’s the point of learning new phrases and vocabularies only to forget about them later? It’s pointless right?
Imagine that you’re learning a list of 20 Read the rest of this entry »
No CommentsStudent teachers: Why you shouldnt try to be buddies with your students – Part 10
When student teachers try to be buddies or friends instead of a role model to the students in the classroom, the authority of a student teacher goes out the window. Student teachers must maintain a friendly yet professional relationship with his or her students at all times. When a student teacher allows a student to believe they are more than teacher and student, the line is blurred and the student will not respect, nor believe he or she needs to concern themselves with assignments in the class.
Student teachers cannot control what happens with his or her students when the relationship is looked at by the student as a friendship. Once the respect is lost by a student for his Read the rest of this entry »
No CommentsExplaining the unit study approach to homeschooling – Part 8
Unit studies are a wonderful way to get an in depth study of a particular topic. They also offer a lot of flexibility in a variety of areas. The time limit is flexible, it can take as little as a week or up to a month or more. The other subjects chosen to be incorporated is another area of flexibility. Finally the grade level of student or students being taught can be one or more. Unit studies can be purchased at a variety of homeschool supply stores or teacher stores. Some instructors may choose to utilize the internet where a large variety of topics are available. Instructors who are creative can easily develop a unit study on their own.
No CommentsExplaining the unit study approach to homeschooling – Part 6
A simple Unit for use with many ages. This is easily adaptable and can be fun. You cover several subjects.
Science
math
reading
arts
writing
language arts
computer
Use the five senses to describe a pumpkin… a leaf..
It looks like
It feels like
It smells like
It sounds like
It taste like
Guess how many seeds are in a pumpkin, then count to see who was right.
Guess how much the pumpkin weighs. Now weigh it? Were you right? What about after cleaning it? whats the difference in weight? Is there a difference?
Make a fall tree, we printed out some leaf pictures and the kids will color them it will be a big tree when we are Read the rest of this entry »
No CommentsExplaining the unit study approach to homeschooling
The unit study approach to homeschooling is a great option for anyone wanting to maximize learning, and break away from the traditional teaching methods. My children are ages 7 and 12. We also have a new homeschooling pal who works with us, and he is 11 years old. This means that we have three and grade levels to accommodate. We could either spend a lot of money on separate curriculum, that we will have to teach separately, or we can use unit studies.
The approach to our unit studies is very simple. I give the children a topic such as “plants”. The children are first taken to the library to search for books Read the rest of this entry »
No CommentsWhy Learn Japanese?
There is so much that can be gained when you learn the Japanese language. You just have to consider that while Japan has the second largest economy in the world and has 120 million people, not many of them know how to speak English. Even if the Japanese have studied a mandatory 6 years of English classes in their public schools, there are still many of them who do not speak the international language of trade at all.
Start Learning Japanese Now
So, it is best that you start learning the Japanese language now. There are no limits as to what you can achieve when you are armed with the language that has great bearing in Read the rest of this entry »
No CommentsStudent teachers: Why you shouldnt try to be buddies with your students – Part 7
When starting out on our careers, we all wanted to be that teacher. The one that will always be remembered, the one that inspires their students to achieve great things, the one their students reminisce about years after they have left school. There are teachers like that – I remember mine – but they don’t achieve that revered status by being a buddy.
Unlike other professions, teaching means you do not spend the majority of your day with your colleagues, but with a group of young people for which you are responsible. However, that relationship is an important one if you are to achieve the primary objective for your day – that of ensuring that learning takes place. Read the rest of this entry »
No CommentsStudent teachers: Why you shouldnt try to be buddies with your students
Making the shift from a college student not much older than the students that are being taught, to a professional teacher, can be a challenging transition for student teachers. It is important not to cross the line and try to be buddies with students because your professional teaching career is what is at stake.
1. Best intentions can be misconstrued.
One of the most serious problems with being buddies with students is that it is simply a lawsuit or at minimum a reprimand just waiting to happen. All too often students or parents will misconstrue the relationship and even if it is well intentioned, you are putting yourself at risk for accusations of improprieties. The potential accusations, true or Read the rest of this entry »
No CommentsFree online resources for academic research
Researching term papers for college and grad school has never been easier. Long hours slogging through dusty card catalogs and endless dimly lit stacks of forgotten tomes is strictly a thing of the past! If you long for a human touch, your friendly reference librarian is still there waiting for you, but these days you’ll probably e-mail her rather than just show up!
Don’t let the ease of on-line research lull you into complacency. Finding a few good sources is not going to impress your professor. Remember that your classmates have access to the same resources, too! If you want to stand out, you have to use on-line resources and you have to use them more judiciously and thoroughly than your Read the rest of this entry »
No CommentsThe Numbers: What Are They?
There’s a question asked by any number of bored sophomores – and hard-working, frustrated adult learners as well – a question many math teachers dread, and that a few of the best welcome: “What does this math stuff have to do with everyday life?”
The question may strike some teachers as rude and aggressive, but it actually has a strong basis. After all, mathematicians themselves stress the fact that theirs is a discipline based on purer and purer abstractions, so that even a problem that may seem the simplest imaginable – for example, the problem of what a number is – requires a high level of theorizing to be answered. In fact, we can come to understand how math Read the rest of this entry »
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