25 Beautifully Illustrated Thought-Provoking Questions A question that makes you think is worth asking… At the cusp of a new day, week, month, or year, most of us take a little time to reflect on our lives by looking back over the past and ahead into the future. We ponder the successes, failures and standout events that are slowly scripting our life’s story. This process of self reflection helps us maintain a conscious awareness of where we’ve been and where we intend to go. It is pertinent to the organization and preservation of our dreams, goals and desires. If you would like to maximize the benefits of self reflection, our new sister site, Thought Questions, is for you. Remember, these questions have no right or wrong answers. Here’s a sample of 25 recent thought questions posted on the site: Thought Questions is updated daily. Title photo by: Oberazzi For all other photo credits please refer to ThoughtQuestions.com Related 6 Questions that Will Save Your Relationships May 21, 2014 In "Life" 20 Questions You Should Ask Yourself Every Sunday
Vanillekipferl Recipe Enjoy a little Austrian Christmas atmosphere at home with this wonderfully light, crescent-shaped cookie. Ingredients:180 g butter 70 g of shelled and ground almonds 50 g sugar 2 egg yolks 210 g plain flour How to make them: Quickly mix all the ingredients to a short-crust dough and leave it in a cool place for one hour. Store the cookies in a sealed tin for several days for them to become crumbly. But make sure that you hide your Vanillekipferl well, so that nobody can get at them before you can! Guten Appetit!
Poorest pupils 'weaker at maths' 22 November 2012Last updated at 22:12 ET The scheme focussed on pupils aged six and seven The poorest children are twice as likely to struggle at maths early on at primary school, research suggests. But a study found a short but intense tutoring scheme enables struggling children to make strong gains. The report on 47,237 children with weak numeracy levels in England's Every Child Counts scheme found 73% went on to meet average levels. The analysis was for the scheme's annual report The tutoring involved half an hour of daily tuition over three months. The scheme was originally managed and funded, directly, by the Department for Education. It is now run by Edge Hill University and has developed into two schemes, Numbers Count and 1stClass@Number. Instead of being automatically offered to schools, head teachers now decide whether they want to buy it in as a means of helping their pupils. 'Sustained progress' And, after just 3.7 months of support, they made average gains of 15.7 months.
30 Challenges for 30 Days Did you know that it takes 30 days to form a new habit? The first few days are similar as to how you would imagine the birth of a new river. Full of enthusiasm it gushes forth, only to be met by strong obstacles. The path is not clear yet, and your surroundings don’t agree. Old habits urge you to stay the same. But you need to stay determined. So, take a moment to reflect on the question ‘Who do I want to be in 5 years?’ Check out this short TED talk first to get inspired: Now pick one or more challenges and stick with them! However, be cautioned, picking too many challenges at the same time can easily result in a failure of all of them. #1 Write a I-Like-This-About-You note/text/email each day for someone (Easy) This is the perfect way to let someone else know you care. #2 Talk to one stranger each day (Hard) This is a great one to cure approaching anxiety. #3 Take one picture each day (Hard) #4 Re-evaluate one long-held belief each day (Intermediate) Do you love yourself? We recommend:
English Russia » Daily entertainment news from Russia. In English! STEM Students Must Be Taught to Fail Elizabeth Gerber is a public voices fellow with the OpEd Project and the Breed junior chair of design in the McCormick School of Engineering and School of Communication at Northwestern University. She is the founder of Design for America. Within minutes of losing the presidential election, the Republican party was back on its feet, and preparing for the 2014 election cycle. In that way they were like most competitors. Star running backs, for instance, are tackled a dozen times in an ordinary 60 minute football game. As a mechanical engineering professor at Northwestern University, I believe that that's precisely what we should be teaching our students in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) subjects: how to fail. [Check out the U.S. But STEM educators are teaching our students the opposite. Here's one of the critical reasons STEM educators don't teach falling: because we ourselves are out of practice. [See a collection of political cartoons on the economy.]
Perception . . . Something To Think About. . . Washington, DC Metro Station on a cold January morning in 2007. 4 minutes later: The violinist received his first dollar: a woman threw the money in the hat and, without stopping, continued to walk. 6 minutes: A young man leaned against the wall to listen to him, then looked at his watch and started to walk again. 10 minutes: A 3-year old boy stopped but his mother tugged him along hurriedly. 45 minutes: The musician played continuously. 1 hour: He finished playing and silence took over. No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the greatest musicians in the world. This is a true story. The questions raised: *In a common place environment at an inappropriate hour, do we perceive beauty? *Do we stop to appreciate it? *Do we recognize talent in an unexpected context? One possible conclusion reached from this experiment could be this: How many other things are we missing?
Locuri de muncă în străinătate | Tjobs.ro Please Stop Using the Phrase 'Achievement Gap' | Education on GOOD Recently, I've been more and more troubled with the phrase "achievement gap." I was a 1999 Teach For America corps member and recently, in my occasional work with the organization, I've begun to share my concerns about what this concept suggests. Because of America's racial history and legacy, the cross-racial comparison that holds up white student achievement as the universally standard goal is problematic. Further, the term "achievement gap" is inaccurate because it blames the historically marginalized, under-served victims of poor schooling and holds whiteness and wealth as models of excellence. And, as with all misnomers, the thinking that undergirds the achievement gap only speaks of academic outcomes, not the conditions that led to those outcomes, nor does it acknowledge that the outcomes are a consequence of those conditions. In Beloved, Toni Morrison taught us that usually "definitions belong to the definers—not the defined." Indeed! I encourage you to watch your mouth.
Before I Die What matters most to you Interactive public art project that invites people to share their personal aspirations in public. After losing someone she loved and falling into depression, Chang created this experiment on an abandoned house in her neighborhood to create an anonymous place to help restore perspective and share intimately with her neighbors. 2011, New Orleans, LA. Cordoba, Argentina. Najaf, Iraq. Brooklyn, NY. Almaty, Kazakhstan Savannah, GA. Pohang City, South-Korea. San Francisco, CA. Johannesburg, South Africa. Cordoba, Argentina. Time-lapse photography Blossoming Pelargonium. 2 hours are collapsed to a few seconds A sunset time-lapse Moving clouds time-lapse Time lapse video of mung bean seeds germinating a timelapse with a GoPro camera mounted on a bicycle helmet during a bike ride in Chicago Time-lapse photography is a technique whereby the frequency at which film frames are captured (the frame rate) is much lower than that used to view the sequence. Processes that would normally appear subtle to the human eye, e.g. the motion of the sun and stars in the sky, become very pronounced. History[edit] Some classic subjects of timelapse photography include: cloudscapes and celestial motionplants growing and flowers openingfruit rottingevolution of a construction projectpeople in the city The technique has been used to photograph crowds, traffic, and even television. The first use of time-lapse photography in a feature film was in Georges Méliès' motion picture Carrefour De L'Opera (1897). From 1929 to 1931, R. Terminology[edit]
American Teachers Do More Work for Less Pay Than Their International Peers | Education on GOOD American Teachers Do More Work for Less Pay Than Their International Peers American Teachers Do More Work for Less Pay Than Their International Peers zoom with mousewheel or pinch Ever wonder how the hours American teachers work and the salary they earn compares to teachers in other industrialized nations? Well, the picture's not pretty. In this infographic courtesy of the Future Journalism Project, American educators work the most hours of all industrialized nations, but are the fifth lowest paid after 15 years on the job. And how do we compare to the country that's number one in the world in education according to international tests, Finland? hat tip Alexander Russo
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