10 Best Audiobook Apps for Bibliophiles [Android] The wont of reading books was very common few years ago but currently, people can hardly find the time to read a book from cover to cover due to their busy life routines. Audiobooks provide you with an easy way to listen to your favorite book rather than read it. You can do this while driving to work, or while taking the daily commute, while doing your daily job or running the threadmill at the gym. There are many audiobook apps that contain thousands of audiobooks in their database. You can search, download and listen to the book of your choice by using these apps. In this post, I have pooled together 10 best audiobook apps, both free and premium, for Android devices. 1. LibriVox Audio Books comes with a free audiobook app that has an interface that is easy to navigate. Each audiobook can be streamed or downloaded. [Free – Download App] 2. [1-month free trial, $14.95/month – Download App] 3. Here’s another great source for audiobooks. [Download Android App – Download iOS App] 4. 5. 6. 7.
How classrooms look around the world — in 15 amazing photographs To mark last month’s World Teachers’ Day (sponsored by UNESCO , the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), photographers from Reuters took pictures around the world of educators with their students in a telling exhibit of the very different circumstances under which children attend school. Here are 15 pictures taken by Reuters photographers, revealing the spectrum of “classrooms” — from those with literally no resources to those well-stocked and housed. Teacher Mahajera Armani and her class of girls pose for a picture at their study open area, founded by Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), outside Jalalabad city, Afghanistan September 19, 2015. (Reuters) Class one children aged between six and seven years old pose for pictures in their classroom at Gifted Hands Educational Centre in Kenya’s Kibera slum in the capital Nairobi, September 16, 2015. A class at Tyburn Primary School in Chatsworth, Durban, South Africa, September 15, 2015. local true false
Music Lessons Were the Best Thing Your Parents Ever Did for You, According to Science If your parents ever submitted you to regular music lessons as a kid, you probably got in a fight with them once or twice about it. Maybe you didn't want to go; maybe you didn't like practicing. But we have some bad news: They were right. It turns out that all those endless major scale exercises and repetitions of "Chopsticks" had some incredible effects on our minds. Psychological studies continue to uncover more and more benefits that music lessons provide to developing minds. The following list is a sampling of the vast amount of neurological benefits that music lessons can provide. 1. Several studies have found strong links between pitch processing and language processing abilities. 2. Music is deeply mathematical in nature. 3. 4. Surprisingly, though music is primarily an emotional art form, music training actually provides bigger gains in academic IQ than emotional IQ. 5. Children who start studying music early in life develop stronger linguistic abilities. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.
The Hamlin School Embraces No Rescue Policy for Parents to Encourage Resilience in Children “In an effort to promote independence and responsibility, the school encourages a policy based on the premise that choices have natural consequences — both positive and negative. Students often learn best when they learn from their mistakes. If a student forgets an item at home or fails to complete an assignment, for example, parents are asked not to bring items to school. If a parent does bring an item for the student, it will be the teacher’s discretion whether or not to allow the student to have it. Allowing girls to work out solutions to their challenges on their own or with a caring adult at school builds confidence and resilience.” Raising our children can often feel like groping in the dark, but some simple truths are as clear as the light of a California day: Children forget. In a perfect world, the No Rescue Policy would be unnecessary. Detach your identity from your child’s. How to Raise an Adult by Julie Lythcott-Haims Permission to Parent by Robin Berman Wanda M.
Why teachers should stop trying to hide their emotions in school (iStock) There is a great deal of talk about how schools need to address the social and emotional needs of students, and that is indisputably true. But this post isn’t about that. Brosbe likes hands-on learning and talking about social justice, and he says that he loves the different challenges that every day brings nin his class. By Ruben Brosbe I was recently called into a meeting unexpectedly and given the news that one of my students would probably not be returning to school this year. After discussing logistics such as how to mark her attendance and what to tell her classmates, I was dismissed. Teachers — especially those of us who spend all day with the same students — forge deep relationships with the young people in our classrooms. [Teacher: ‘Why are they in my class?’ We don’t often talk about it, but at the end of the year, along with the sweet relief of summer vacation, there’s a pang of sadness. Meanwhile, school, district and state leaders tend to be men.
Intellectually Gifted Kids And Learning Disabilities Often Go Hand In Hand Mention the terms “intellectual giftedness” and “learning disability” and there is a general understanding of what each term means. However, most people are unaware that in many circumstances the two can go hand in hand. Current US research suggests that 14% of children who are identified as being intellectually gifted may also have a learning disability. This is compared to about 4% of children in the general population. No-one has been able to explain this discrepancy. While children who are intellectually gifted are acknowledged, the fact that some of these students could also have a learning disability is ignored. Identifying a gifted student with disabilities While generally referred to as “GLD” (gifted with a learning disability), these children are also referred to as “twice exceptional” (2e), and “double labeled”. GLD children are often hard to identify. Difficulties arise with identifying these children as they generally fall into three categories: What needs to be done?
A’s for Everyone: How Grade Inflation Is Wrecking Higher Education A report card of straight A’s might make parents paying a pretty penny for their child’s college education feel a diploma is worth the financial sacrifice. But according to the most comprehensive analysis ever of grade inflation in higher education in the United States, nowadays even the most average students are likely to be given A’s. Although all those A’s might make American students feel—or appear—smart, in the long run, it could make them less employable compared with their legitmately high-achieving peers around the world. “It’s likely that American competitiveness will suffer if we continue to water down undergraduate education,” former Duke University geology professor Stuart Rojstaczer wrote in an email to TakePart about Grade Inflation, the report released Tuesday on his website. RELATED: 5 College Majors With the Lowest Unemployment, and 5 With the Highest Rojstaczer has become known as “Mr. The rise in college grades during the Vietnam War was well documented.
Effective School Discipline As a general rule, the more school discipline issues that you handle directly and on the spot, the higher your status will be amongst your pupils. Use assertive discipline , raise and lower your status at will, create a positive learning frame and learn to create rapport on a regular basis, and in the long-term, most of the behavior management problems that you encountered at the start of your teaching career will disappear. This is because, in time, the children that you teach will come to know what to expect, both from you and your lessons. You will have established firm boundaries, in terms of school discipline, so that the pupils will have no need to go in search of them. After a few terms or a year or two in a school, your 'reputation' amongst the pupils that you teach will have spread. Both staff and pupils will at some point make a judgement about your ability as a teacher and you will feel settled and 'accepted' by all. Are there some people who are unsuited to teaching?
Apply for a Teacher Travel Grant This Summer Summer is the perfect time to research and apply for a teacher travel grant. The key is to look in the right places and write a compelling application. Then, once you win an award, you might find yourself kayaking the length of the Mississippi River while developing a river ecology unit. (At least, that’s what one teacher did with a Fund For Teachers grant.) To help you get started, here are some tips for writing winning proposals, a few inspiring articles, and a list of interesting travel grants that you might want to research or apply to this summer. The Best Places to Look Edutopia has covered travel grants in the past. Also, the Institute for International Education is an organization that anyone interested in educational travel should get to know. Grosvenor Teacher Fellowships From National Geographic: Each year, National Geographic and Lindblad Expeditions take K-12 geography teachers on expeditions around the world. Other Great Travel Grant Sources Writing an Awesome Application