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By Education Specialist, May 7, 2012 12:27 pm

Enhancing Learning Through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: The Challenges and Joys of Juggling (JB - Anker)

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The Challenges and Joys of Juggling There has been growing demand for workshops and materials to help those in higher education conduct and use the scholarship of teaching and learning. This book offers advice on how to do, share, and apply SoTL work to improve student learning and development. Written for college-level faculty members as well as faculty developers, administrators, academic staff, and graduate students, this book will also help undergraduate students collaborating with faculty on SoTL projects. Though targeted at those new to the field of SoTL, more seasoned SoTL researchers and those attempting to support SoTL efforts will find the book valuable. It can be used as an individual reading, a shared reading in SoTL writing circles, a resource in workshops on SoTL, and a text in seminars on teaching. Contents include: Defining SoTLThe functions, value, rewards, and standards for SoTL workWorking with colleagues, involving students, writing grants, integrating SoTL into your professional life, and finding useful resourcesPractical and ethical issues associated with SoTL workMaking your SoTL public and documenting your workThe status of SoTL in disciplinary and institutionalcontextsApplying the goals of SoTL to enhance studentlearning and development.

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By Education Specialist, May 6, 2012 12:30 pm

Through the years, the academic setting has become less and less friendlier for students, especially for children. Although today, there are far better classrooms, more skilled teachers, and even tools like such printed materials, these-oftentimes-are not enough to change the fact that there is more pressure on the kid’s shoulder. This is why it is very important to supplement this setting with tutoring as early as toddler hood years in school.

Today, many parents as well as teachers-probably because of very busy schedule and lots of work that need to be done-tend to become less observant to the child’s behavior when it comes to their academic life in school. In fact, up to now, many of them still do not know the reason behind the steady loss of children’s interest in their studies-too much assignments and less tutoring.

Many experts believe that assignment is one of the things that the students-especially the younger ones-hate the most because they feel that they no longer have time to enjoy and have fun inside the house. For parents, this is the time to take a good look at your child’s behavior when it comes to school or to doing assignments because this will enable you to help the child the soonest possible time.

Seeing the signs

For you to know if your child or your sibling needs tutoring at home, the best is you confirm that the child is somehow suffering from what is commonly called, “school fatigue” due to tons of assignments. Any student who show three or more of these signs need immediate tutoring sessions especially when they are at home so they could easily catch up with the lessons that they might have been missing. Experts say that the child needs constant tutoring if he or she:

• Manifests persistent frustration. This is the major sign of kids who are losing interest in school due to lack of academic help from people around him or her. At first, this may be vague and can be mistaken to tantrums-especially to younger kids-but eventually, this behavior will become more and more noticeable because it will manifest in other things as well as places not only at school but inside the home as well.

• Is too much overwhelmed. This sign can be easy to distinguish in a child especially to those who usually don’t get overwhelmed in other things. You will know that there is decrease in academic interest when a child starts to complain about assignments and other school work even if these has not been explained by the teacher fully.

• Fails repeatedly in completing any assignment or a school project. This is a very alarming symptom for the child because this shows that the problem affects his or her everyday function in school. If nothing is done the soonest possible time, it may manifest to his or her other behaviors later on in life.

• Intends to ignore distractions. This leads to the child to juggling two or more tasks in one time without having to finish anything. If ever there one would be finished, it will be haphazard or dissatisfactory.

• Experiences head on struggle to staying in one task. There is no available tutoring help for the child if or her she manifests this symptom. This is because the confidence of the child is greatly affected, thus, disabling him or her to complete anything thinking that he or she will not be able to do it the right way.

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By Education Specialist, May 4, 2012 12:36 pm

Textual Scholarship: An Introduction (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)

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This fully revised and updated edition of the bestselling "Textual Scholarship" covers all aspects of textual theory and scholarly editing for students and scholars. As the definitive introduction to the skills of textual scholarship, the new edition addresses the revolutionary shift from print to digital textuality and subsequent dramatic changes in the emphasis and direction of textual enquiry.

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Before starting a tutoring program, it is a good idea to talk to your tutee either personally or through phone. Construct a tutoring schedule and explain how much time you are supposed to tutor given your program requirements. You must report to your mentor teacher about the strengths and weaknesses of your new student and assess how you can offer help and achieve goals on developing his or her literacy. Then ask your mentor teacher to introduce you to your new student/s formally.
When you are in the classroom, explain your purpose and ask the students to call you not with your first name. In that way, students will realize that you are a professional rather than a peer. Make notes of your observations in your tutee’s class but be sure that you keep your notes to yourself.

According to Cathy Roller, “there are two general principles of effective tutoring: (1) establishing a warm, supportive environment, and (2) scaffolding children’s learning. Roller recommends tutors to:

1.) Get to know the learner like his or her interests, strengths, and needs.

2.) Give specific praise as this will increase his or her confidence.

3.) Keep the session moving. Don’t focus too long on one activity as it will bore your tutee and make it less that he will want to work with you.

4.) Be a model. Model your own enjoyment of reading and writing. if you demonstrate your engagement with literacy, you let your tutee realize the advantages of improving his or her skills.

You must keep in mind that your tutee has a number of other important activities and commitments in addition to tutoring. You must be aware of, and sensitive to, these activities and commitments. Be yourself and don’t try to be a peer to your tutee. See yourself as a professional and not a pal, in that way, you will make more progress and gain positive results.

Gather information about the existing literacy program for your tutee. Examine materials from classes and ask him to explain what is going on in class. His explanation can provide considerable insights on how he perceives both the work he is being asked to do and his own skill levels as a literacy learners. You can also ask his teachers some additional information on what the classroom program looks like and how you could support it. You are better equipped as a tutor if you can understand your tutee’s school approach to literacy. In this way, you can incorporate and reinforce learning better rather than distract the existing school literacy instruction of your tutee.

It is very important that when you are doing your first interview to your tutee that you try to know something about your student’s hobbies, musical tastes, friendships, sports, family, favorite books, school performance, and career aspirations. In this way, your tutee may come to trust you more quickly. Sometimes it’s hard to get young people to open up so you must develop ingenious ways to trade information.

Listen carefully when your tutee is answering your questions. Don’t insert your own words and push too hard in eliciting information. Talk about topics your tutee is willing to discuss and then move on. You will learn more over time. Some adolescents need to develop a long-term relationship before they are willing to share too much. Start each session day by asking how is she? But don’t spend the entire session discussing personal matters.

Remember, that you and your tutees relationship is basically for learning and literacy and not for counseling.

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By Education Specialist, May 2, 2012 12:28 pm

Many people find that in the courses of their careers they wish they had the ability to go back to school for even further education. Unfortunately, not everyone has the good fortune to live in the vicinity of a university that offers graduate level studies in the career they have chosen. Chances are that a good percentage of the population does not and if they do chances are even better that they have very busy personal and professional lives that make intensive graduate studies difficult to pursue at best.

If you are one of the many people that feel you have made your choice and are stuck with your undergraduate degree or that a post graduate degree is simply out of your reach, I hope you will read this article with great interest and learn that there options available to you no matter how far away from a university you live or how little time you have to devote to your graduate studies.

A graduate education is a very intensive course of study that is very narrow and specific. In other words, many students find that their graduate coursework is their favorite by far as it gets into the meat of the subject matter of their interest rather than merely hitting the highlights. Only a small percentage of the population at this point in time has a graduate education. Though this does not necessarily guarantee you any employability it can provide you with very specialized knowledge or skills that will help you perform your job better and qualify you for more interesting and specialized positions in your field of study.

If you would like to pursue a graduate education but feel you are too far from the nearest university that offers a comprehensive graduate education in your field, you might be surprised to find that the nearest graduate level curriculum is as far away as your living room or your favorite Internet caf? Online courses give new hope to potential graduate students. Many of them will actually allow you to work around your work schedule and at your own pace while trying to achieve your dreams of higher education and life long learning.

Online courses are becoming more widely accepted across the nation and around the world. We live in the information age and it only makes sense that we are taking control of our educations by using services and demanding services like online courses in order to further our educational goals. At the moment there are only limited offerings for graduate studies, most of them centering on educational fields with only a few graduate degrees offered in other fields such as the medical industry. As demand grows so will the availability of graduate courses and degrees that are being offered online.

If you happen to be fortunate enough to live relatively close to a university that offers graduate studies in your field you might want to check with the university and see if they offer weekend graduate classes. This is a new trend that seems to be growing in popularity as a valid option for those who hope to return to college but can’t afford to give up precious work or family time during the week. These courses are much more intense than your average once or twice a week night course but they allow you to pursue your graduate degree in a much quicker manner than traditional programs have allowed and are much more employer and family friendly. Of course you also have the option of taking one or two classes at a time at night in order to achieve your graduate degree as well. Masters degree students only need to take 9 hours a semester in order to be considered full time students and qualify for financial aid.

All in all, you do not need to sacrifice your goals of graduate studies in order to maintain your career or achieve some sort of balance between work, education, and family. Whether you choose online courses, night courses, or weekend courses for your studies you have many opportunities to achieve the degree you desire without sacrificing heavily in order to do so.

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By Education Specialist, May 1, 2012 12:33 pm

The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship

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At the end of his 1994 book, The Soul of the American University, George Marsden advanced a modest proposal for an enhanced role for religious faith in today's scholarship. This "unscientific postscript" helped spark a heated debate that spilled out of the pages of academic journals and The Chronicle of Higher Education into mainstream media such as The New York Times, and marked Marsden as one of the leading participants in the debates concerning religion and public life. Marsden now gives his proposal a fuller treatment in The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship, a thoughtful and thought-provoking book on the relationship of religious faith and intellectual scholarship. More than a response to Marsden's critics, The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship takes the next step towards demonstrating what the ancient relationship of faith and learning might mean for the academy today. Marsden argues forcefully that mainstream American higher education needs to be more open to explicit expressions of faith and to accept what faith means in an intellectual context. While other defining elements of a scholar's identity, such as race or gender, are routinely taken into consideration and welcomed as providing new perspectives, Marsden points out, the perspective of the believing Christian is dismissed as irrelevant or, worse, antithetical to the scholarly enterprise. Marsden begins by examining why Christian perspectives are not welcome in the academy. He rebuts the various arguments commonly given for excluding religious viewpoints, such as the argument that faith is insufficiently empirical for scholarly pursuits (although the idea of complete scientific objectivity is consider naive in most fields today), the fear that traditional Christianity will reassert its historical role as oppressor of divergent views, and the received dogma of the separation of church and state, which stretches far beyond the actual law in the popular imagination. Marsden insists that scholars have both a religious and an intellectual obligation not to leave their deeply held religious beliefs at the gate of the academy. Such beliefs, he contends, can make a significant difference in scholarship, in campus life, and in countless other ways. Perhaps most importantly, Christian scholars have both the responsibility and the intellectual ammunition to argue against some of the prevailing ideologies held uncritically by many in the academy, such as naturalistic reductionism or unthinking moral relativism. Contemporary university culture is hollow at its core, Marsden writes. Not only does it lack a spiritual center, but it is without any real alternative. He argues that a religiously diverse culture will be an intellectually richer one, and it is time that scholars and institutions who take the intellectual dimensions of their faith seriously become active participants in the highest level of academic discourse. Whether the reader agrees or disagrees with this conclusion, Marsden's thoughtful, well-argued book is necessary reading for all sides of the debate on religion's role in education and culture.

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By Education Specialist, April 30, 2012 12:24 pm

Tutoring, whether it is traditional or online, is slowly experiencing an increase in demand. A lot of parents are already hiring tutors for their kids, it is all because of continuing increase in academic demands. There are more students inside a classroom and teachers are finding it difficult to help all of the students.

Busy and working parents, find it more convenient to enrol their children in post-school tutoring whether it is traditional and face-to-face or in the more flexible online tutoring. Other parents would prefer to tutor their own kids.

Whether you have professional tutors or doing some tutoring of your own, they all seem to agree that teaching kids can be challenging sometimes. What are some tutoring tips that you can use to make tutoring your own kids or other people’s children easier?

• Build rapport and communication.

Children are already inside classrooms and listening to teachers most of their day, the least that they would need is somebody who would meet them after class and sound like their classroom teacher. The clear difference is, tutoring is not classroom instruction. Tutoring is a positive reinforcement of what children learned inside the school.

Aside from teaching and discussing lectures, you would also need to give an ear to the children. How would you know where exactly they are having problems, if you do not even bother listen to them? It would be great if children would be able to ask you questions, make mistakes and correct them in a relaxed manner. Children find it easier to open up once they realized that their tutor is actually somebody they could talk to and not somebody who would intimidate them.

If you are tutoring your own kids, then make sure that they are involved in the process. There are times when simple and decent talk with our children is very tiring and difficult, what more on making them sit for few hours to get some additional instruction? If you are a parent tutoring her own kids, then try using words that would give positive disposition and encouragement.

If you are tutoring for somebody else’s kids, make sure that you have a healthy and steady communication with the child’s parents. Tutors would find handling parents to be more difficult than handling the kids. To make sure that you are communicating with the parents, you can start in the beginning.

Some tutors would update parents about the sessions daily or every two days. This would help the parents understand the children’s academic strengths and weaknesses and get their expectations straight.

• Structure and time management

Make a structure or a plan for the children. You can give the children exercises or homework which do not demand too much time. You can give them easy writing exercises or practice exercises. Remember that they also have school homework to do but you do not want them to disregard tutoring sessions easily, too.

Since, you are dealing with children, it is absolutely necessary to give them time to breathe for awhile. Children have short attention span, you could not contain them for such a long time. You can try giving them fun exercises and homework to do. Just do not make it too frequent, you want to avoid being somebody who spends most of the time playing than tutoring.

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By Education Specialist, April 28, 2012 12:25 pm

Hell Under Fire: Modern Scholarship Reinvents Eternal Punishment

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Of all the teachings of Christianity, the doctrine of hell is easily the most troubling, so much so that in recent years the church has been quietly tucking it away. Rarely mentioned anymore in the pulpit, it has faded through disuse among evangelicals and been attacked by liberal theologians. Hell is no longer only the target of those outside the church. Today, a disturbing number of professing Christians question it as well. Perhaps more than at any other time in history, hell is under fire. The implications of the historic view of hell make the popular alternatives, annihilationism and universalism, seem extremely appealing. But the bottom line is still God's Word. What does the Old Testament reveal about hell? What does Paul the apostle have to say, or the book of Revelation? Most important, what does Jesus, the ultimate expression of God's love, teach us about God's wrath? Upholding the authority of Scripture, the different authors in Hell Under Fire explore a complex topic from various angles. R. Albert Mohler Jr. provides a historical, theological, and cultural overview of 'The Disappearance of Hell.' Christopher Morgan draws on the New Testament to offer three pictures of hell as punishment, destruction, and banishment. J. I. Packer compares universalism with the traditional understanding of hell, Morgan does the same with annihilationism, and Sinclair Ferguson considers how the reality of hell ought to influence preaching. These examples offer some idea of this volume's scope and thoroughness. Hell may be under fire, but its own flames cannot be quenched by popular opinion. This book helps us gain a biblical perspective on what hell is and why we cannot afford to ignore it. And it offers us a better understanding of the One who longs for all people to escape judgment and obtain eternal life through Jesus Christ.

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By Education Specialist,

Education is one of the most important investments that you will ever make. It is something that you should have in order to have a good job with a good salary. College education in particular will land you that job you want with a salary that will be more than enough to live your everyday life comfortably.

This is why it is important for you to know that college education can cost a lot of money. Today, college education can be very expensive. Many companies today are requiring a college degree in their applicants. And, you also know how good jobs are really hard to find today. By having a college degree, you will be able to have a better chance in getting that job you want.

However, not many people can afford a college education. This is why many students are working hard in their academics in order to get a college scholarship. Some are also working hard in sports in order to get discovered by college scouts and offer them a sports scholarship.

So, if you want to get to college but you don’t have enough money, you should work hard academically or you should work hard in your game.

Basically, there are three types of college scholarship grants that you should consider. These grants can be given to college students and to soon-to-be-college students. The three types of college scholarship grants are athletic scholarship grant, academic scholarship grant and departmental grant. Each of these college scholarship grants have its own criteria that you should consider before the grant is awarded to you.

• Academic Scholarship Grant – This type of scholarship grant is awarded to students who are eligible for GPA. Some colleges offer this grant to students who have achieved an exceptional academic performance before they enter college. You have to consider that academic scholarship grants are awarded to students who have received honors. This is why you should work hard in your academics in order to get this type of scholarship grant.

Once you have been awarded this type of scholarship grant, the college will be requiring you to keep up maximum rating. If this is not achieved by the end of the term, probational status will be given to you until the grades have reached the required level. If this is not achieved, this kind of scholarship grant will be revoked.

• Athletic Scholarship Grant – There are also scholarship grants awarded to athletes who have performed well in their sport. This kind of scholarship grant is a type of scholarship that many students apply for. This is because athletic scholarship grant doesn’t necessarily require you to achieve high academic grades. You only have to excel in your sport in order to get discovered by a scout and put you in a scholarship.

• Departmental Awards – this type of grant is provided to students who have excelled in a particular department. The departmental grants are given to students in order to keep the students in that particular department.

These are the three types of scholarship grants that you can aim for. If you don’t have the cash to finish college, then you should study hard, excel in sports, or be good at a particular department.

Always remember that a college education will be the one to determine what your future will be. With a college education, you can make your dreams come true.

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By Education Specialist, April 26, 2012 12:24 pm

The issue about the rising cost of education is not new for everyone, be it for rich people or for the those just barely earning a living.

However, this is not of so much of a threat for those who want to enter college but are not capable to meet its expenses. This is because of the two choices made available for them, first is the scholarship programs. And the second is the student loans. They may apply to either of the two.

Basically, the scholarship gives off monetary award which do not require the beneficiary to repay it. Unlike the student loan, the money that was lent to the students will be paid after some time with the corresponding amount plus interests.

Hence, it seems to be apparent that taking a scholarship program is more convenient than the student loan. Yet, you should know that both still consists of its advantages and disadvantages.

In scholarship, the students need not worry about finances throughout his college years. Almost thousands of scholarships are made available yearly. The systems of the programs depend on the financial needs of a certain student.

Although, it doesn’t necessarily mean that you are not intelligent because you were not be able to acquire a scholarship. There are various types of scholarship, one is for the intellectuals who acquire and maintain high grades. The other is the specific scholarships designed for the ones who excel in definite fields, for instance, in the field of sports, math, science, music, stage performers and others.

Those who belong in average I.Q. may still win a scholarship. They may not possess the remarkable level of intelligence to win a scholarship, but their talents may secure them one.

Moreover, there are also scholarships designed for certain races, minorities, and other sectors of the society that needs monetary support. And scholarship is not just confined to college students, the students who would want to pursue further study may also benefit.

There are also several institutions that offer scholarship programs to their members, examples of this are the religious organization and union groups, etc.

Now, if you think you won’t be legible for any scholarship, there is still one option – student loans.

Student loans, as mentioned above is the financial aid given to the students to pay their tuition with the agreement to repay it with the corresponding interests in a given period.

Scholarships do not require for repayment, but student loans do.

The advantage of a student loan is that it will give you freedom to move as a regular student, without the pressure of maintaining high grades and you can do your other activities without thinking of the conflict in the training schedules.

The hassle is when you would consider it, student loans need to be repaid the moment you graduate; you have to pay to the very last cent plus the interests.

If you are the bread winner of your family, paying for it will be another burden though you already have secured a job.

Anyhow, it will depend on you, the important thing is you finish your college education and secure a diploma, be it from a scholarship or through student loans.

The achievement of earning your college education amidst the hindrance of money is the thing you will always be proud of.