Most students, no matter the level of education they’re in, procrastinate when it comes to doing their homework. However, before you assume anything, it is important to note that the reason that students procrastinate is not that they are lazy. Not at all. This happens because they tend to give more importance to the things that seem fun and easy at the moment. As such, they fail to find homework answers until when it is too late. But is there something you can do to avoid this bad habit? Well, apart from turning to online resources to help find homework answers easily, here are other tips to help you get your homework done as soon as possible. 1. Find Out...
Social narratives (also known as social stories by Carol Gray) are HUGELY necessary whenever change is occurring in the special education world. Social narratives can be used for anything from classroom rules, a trip to the doctor, all the way to changes in routine or teachers. For Back to School season, (with a huge push during the First 10 Days) I use social stories to explain routines and systems in the classroom. This means things like Classroom Rules, Riding the Bus, the Playground, Fire Drills, Lunch Room, Recess, and more are directly taught through social stories (and routine visuals of course!) In the past I always made these books into a paper packet for each student. I had students complete...
Gabay Guro, PLDT’s flagship educational program, provides free online trainings for teachers nationwide through its recently launched ‘Learning Never Stops’ campaign. As of May 30, 2020, Gabay Guro has led 13 e-learning sessions on Facebook with over 300,000 views to date. The online training videos uploaded on the Gabay Guro Facebook Page are all for free. These videos are available for replay which allows teachers to go learn at their own pace.Topics of the live training and recorded webcasts include life learnings from the quarantine, virtual teaching 101, flipping the classroom, improving students' reading and comprehension, as well as teachers' mindset improvement in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.Through the comments sections and webinar discussions, many teachers have expressed their gratitude to Gabay Guro and the speakers for...
Yesterday, my post was on an article on Greg Ashman’s blog post.Here is Jennifer Buckingham’s tweet in rebuttal to my post. Jennifer Buckingham @buckingham_j @luqmanmichel and @greg_ashman Luqman, your insight about the importance of correct pronunciation of phonemes is neither original nor unique. It is well established even if not always perfectly implemented. That is why your views are not getting the attention you seek. Slurs against Pam and me won’t help. Soon after the tweet above it was liked by Greg Ashman and Pamela Snow.I never claimed that my insight of correct pronunciation is either original or unique. However, the fact that I have written that it is the wrong teaching of the pronunciation of phonemes of consonants which is...
We’ve all been stuck reading the same paragraph over and over again without gaining comprehension of what all these words were trying to…
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