scholarly journals You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover!

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerry Pope
Keyword(s):  
Life Skills ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Real Life ◽  
School Community ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
The World

Everyone has a ‘story’. Many different events and experiences shape our lives. Just like a book, the stories inside people are fascinating! When people share these stories with others they become a ‘living book’. We have used ‘Human Libraries’ at William Clarke College in a new, innovative way. They provide our K-6 students with a wonderful opportunity to connect with diverse members of our school community and beyond, listen to their personal stories, communicate with them, build relationships, explore and learn. By participating in a ‘Human Library’ they acquire life skills, widening their understanding of others and the world. Students are hungry for real life experiences and ‘living books’ inspire them!

scholarly journals Walking a Mile in Their Shoes: Empowering Learners Through A Human Library!

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerry Pope
Keyword(s):  
Life Skills ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
School Library ◽  
Real Life ◽  
School Community ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
The World

Many different events and experiences shape our lives. Everyone has their own unique story.  Just like a book, the stories inside people are fascinating!  When personal stories are shared with others they can become extremely powerful resources. They provide our students with a wonderful opportunity to connect with diverse members of the school community and beyond, communicate with them, build relationships, empathise, explore, understand and learn. By participating in a ‘Human Library’ students acquire life skills, widening their understanding of others and the world. Your school library should have one!  Students are hungry for real life experiences and ‘living books’ inspire them!

scholarly journals READING AND LITERARY EDUCATION IN IST-IIIRD CLASSES OF PRIMARY SCHOOL AS A SOURCE OF MULTI-ACTIVITY OF STUDENTS

2016 ◽  
pp. 58-69
Author(s):  
Teresa Yanitska-Panek
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Literary Education ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Narrative Description ◽  
Attitudes Towards Reading

Literary education is very important in the process of forming the personality of the individual. It is necessary to implement a number of conditions in order to student’s contact with literature was a great experience. Reading can be seen as a way of man’s existence in the world of symbols and information. Reading can also be a medium through which cultural content reaches to the recipient and enrich and improve his language and engage him emotionally. Reading is an act of great importance, austerity and effort, and at the same time it is an act of preparing the reader and the recipient to the reflection.Many authors emphasize the value of reading, inspired many motives. The authors draw attention to the different attitudes towards reading of the text which have been described by Lech Witkowski, philosopher and pedagogue in 2007. Eight status of the text in the course of reading are specific hints for teachers and non-pedagogical readers how to treat the text. The philosopher’s look on the function of reading puts this ability in a variety of contexts and makes that people interested in reading can become seekers and creative.The reading is determined the following learning outcomes: student reads fluently, correctly, fluently and expressively aloud texts consisting of words discussed during classes. These texts relate to real-life experiences of children and cognitive expectations. A student also understands short texts read silently; student correctly reads aloud texts written own in a notebook and texts stored on a PC. The student working with text by searching for the most beautiful piece. He is also able to distinguish in literary texts the forms such as narrative, description and dialogue.

Creating a Digital Learning Community for Undergraduate Minority Science Majors

2013 ◽  
pp. 34-52
Author(s):  
Gladys Palma de Schrynemakers
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Learning Community ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Global Environment ◽  
American Education ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
The World ◽  
Global World ◽  
Unites States

Over the last three-decades, educators and policymakers have been alarmed about the state of American education and whether the Unites States can continue to lead the world in innovation. At risk is the performance of our students and their ability to be competitive in today’s increasingly complex and challenging global environment. Clearly, while the importance of education in a global society vis-à-vis the welfare of a nation needs no defense, we must understand through real life experiences how complexity and competitiveness inform the global world.

scholarly journals Stories in Children’s Literature. An Analysis of Transcendent Language

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 1018-1020
Author(s):  
Cristina Guarneri, Ed.D.
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Real Life ◽  
New Words ◽  
Children's Book ◽  
The World ◽  
Source Of Information

Children’s literature plays an essential role in their development through the use of characters that they become familiar with, which become like friends. Stories have become a useful source of information for increasing reading skills, which are necessary for the development of new words. It is through the fiction literature that is based on real-life where children are able to understand traumatic events and complex ideas. They are able to understand life experiences and diversity of the world that they live in. Even with increased learning through literature, the National Literary Strategy conducted a study of words to show that children need 100 words in order to read a “real” children’s book. It is essential to distinguish between ‘restrictive texts,’ which allow for fewer perceptions to take place for active reader judgment of text that enables critical and thoughtful responses.

scholarly journals Psychic Trauma of Youngsters in R.K. Narayan’s The World of Nagaraj

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 49-51
Author(s):  
Gabriel Karthick K
Keyword(s):  
Life Experiences ◽  
Real Life ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Deep Insight ◽  
Psychic Trauma ◽  
Indian Context ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
Insight Into

The article examines the psychic trauma of youngsters during the crucial stage of their life. It gives a deep insight into the practical issues faced by youngsters, as explained by R.K. Narayan in his novel. It describes the complex transition of an adolescent mind into adulthood. The themes of the novel The World of Nagaraj are closely attached to real-life experiences of youngsters and also engross the psychology of young minds. The main objective is to analyze the common psychic issues of youngsters in the Indian context.

scholarly journals Priority towards Subjective and Experimental Framework inTeaching-Learning Process in Engineering Education for Millennial Learners

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 1234-1237
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Subjective Experiences ◽  
Video Clips ◽  
Experimental Learning ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Concepts

From the time of 20thcentury, the world has undergonecomplete change in the field of Engineering Education. Learning environment in Educational systemofMillennial's, for very short concentratedpeople who prefer interactive, experiential and collaborative learning,usually they are informal and choose to have friendly relationships with teachers. Educational system in engineering classes for such Learners with dynamic and technology driven people do not prefer long lectures anymore. The design objective is to understand the cognitive and social developments in easier way that outcome in faster learning, and also to redesign classrooms and other learning environments. So that Learners can learn more passionatelywith completeness in the topic/ subject and to make them self Learners.This paper provides a meaningful teaching objective that relates with real-life experiences, Lectures mixed up with methods like video clips, concept charts, and PowerPoint presentations with key concepts based on the summary, also creating collaborative subjective experiences with social networking platforms.Finally, this paper concludes bydiscussing the experiments being applied in our institution (VIIT) to make engineering education practicalby means of experimental learning

Advocating Globally to Shape Policy and Strengthen Nursing’s Influence

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Benton
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Healthcare Service ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Nursing Profession ◽  
International Council ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Service Policies ◽  
Nursing Associations

The International Council of Nurses is a federation of national nursing associations that works to enable nurses to speak with one voice so as to influence health policy and advance the profession of nursing. In this article the author highlights how nurses can advocate for the nursing profession by coordinating nursing actions to develop both public and healthcare-service policies. He addresses issues that are common in many parts of the world and provides examples drawn from real-life experiences that illustrate how nurses in El Salvador, Rwanda, Paraguay, Papua New Guinea, and Iran have worked in their countries to coordinate their actions and advocate for public and/or healthcare service policies within their countries. He concludes by noting that all nurses must do their part and use a wide range of opportunities creatively, and with clarity of intent, to improve the profession and the lives of the millions of people who depend upon us.

scholarly journals Making a Difference through Effective Instructional Strategies

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 135
Author(s):  
Luisito Nanquil
Keyword(s):  
Instructional Strategies ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Diverse Learners ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Classroom Setting ◽  
The World ◽  
Making A Difference ◽  
The One

This article depicts the challenges of language teachers (and all teachers) in the delivery of the instruction and evaluation of the learning process. The author expressed his own views and perspectives regarding the present situations confronting language teachers and other teachers of different subjects. While technology provides the things we need in the classroom setting, there are considerable impediments teachers are facing. What could be the roles teachers in the academy have to fulfill and execute so that they can assist diverse learners? This paper discusses and explains imperative thoughts and reflections that can serve as a guide or framework for all teachers who need clear insights and sensible directions. The method used by the researcher is simply narration-description where he presented his heartfelt and life-relating experiences to the target readers and researchers. To support his claims, he intentionally inserted real-life experiences, observations, and testimonials of teachers and personnel whom he met in his academic journeys. From the thoughts of the author-researcher, it is hoped that readers would be get inspired whenever they fell down and stressed because this essay would remind all who are engaged in teaching that the one of the best professions (if not the best) in the world is being a teacher. Other careers are not possible without the caring and guiding hands of the teachers.

Exploring Citizenship: Unit 4 My Heritage

EDIS ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (5) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
John Rutledge ◽  
Joy C. Jordan ◽  
Dale W. Pracht
Keyword(s):  
Youth Development ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Development Program ◽  
The Real ◽  
Volunteer Leaders ◽  
Youth Development Program ◽  
Major Revision ◽  
The World ◽  
Individual Needs

 The 4-H Citizenship Project offers the opportunity to help 4-H members relate all of their 4-H projects and experiences to the world around them. The 4-H Citizenship manuals will serve as a guide for 4-H Citizenship experiences. To be truly meaningful to the real-life needs and interests of your group, the contribution of volunteer leaders is essential. Each person, neighborhood, and community has individual needs that you can help your group identify. This 14-page major revision of Unit IV covers the heritage project. Written by John Rutledge, Joy C. Jordan, and Dale Pracht and published by the UF/IFAS Extension 4-H Youth Development program. https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/4h019

PROMOTION OF LIFE SKILL EDUCATION FOR ADOLESCENTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Drdillip Giri ◽  
Jyoti Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Social Competence ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Life Skills ◽  
Regular Education ◽  
Peer Pressure ◽  
Educational Setting ◽  
Life Skill ◽  
Mental Functions ◽  
Educational Application ◽  
The World

This article focuses on the importance of Life skill education, which is an educational application of life skills to develop psycho social competence which helps an individual to develop his/her positive behaviour, so as to deal with the challenges and demand of everyday life. It is psycho social because it mainly deals mental functions such as awareness, attitude, leadership, creativity, appreciation and interaction with self, others and environment. It is a study of abilities, coping with peer pressure, emotion conflict and stress. UNICEF in 2009 has recommendation life skills based education should be given with the regular education. It has insisted LSBE should be contributed to a self inclusive gender free educational setting. Therefore research on LSBE is carried out massively in all parts in the world related to this education recently.

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