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How to Help Your Child Choose a Major
College comes with so many different decisions, and quite a few of them involve the major that a student is going to pursue. Before they begin school, have an open and honest discussion with your children to aid them in selecting the best major for them. This sound advice also apply to teachers as they try to advice students regarding which path to follow. Here’s what you need to know.
The Implications of a Disappearing Recess Period by Ben Hirshberg is a scholarly paper that focuses on how pressure from high-stakes testing has resulted in less recess time in many American schools and its negative impact on the children involved. The paper is very well referenced and can be obtained by sending Ben an email at ben@benhirshberg.com. If you are looking for ammunition to save or expand recess if your school, Ben is your man.
Preventing Plagiarism: Tips and Techniques by Laura Hennessey DeSena (©2007, National Counsel of Teachers of English: Urbana, Il) offers teachers (and even parents) ways to promote original thinking and head off plagiarism at its sources. Assignments that use free writing and original sources can build student confidence and critical thinking skills so they will be less likely to use online paper mills and cut and paste without attribution. Every college and secondary school teacher should have a copy, so click the icon at the bottom of any page to purchase. Even teachers of younger students can adapt the ideas presented here.
Tioki is a cool new social media place where educators with common interests can connect. The tioki professional network gives educators access to the most valuable resource out there – other educators! With tioki you can see what other educators do, use, and know. Tioki makes it easy to get advice, tools, and practices to address your most pressing needs. Your professional network will automatically expand and your ability to learn from and grow with others who share your interests and passions will expand. Once you finish this review, be sure to go to tioki.com for your free access.
Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin (©2011, The Penguin Group: New York, NY) will help you to become indispensable, which Seth sees as a choice you can make. It you are not happy with the impact you are currently making, this book may be the answer. Although written from a business perspective, Seth gives schools some blame for stifling linchpin behaviors. I hope educators can use this book to prepare their students to be linchpins rather than cogs in a machine. Be sure to click the link at the bottom of any page to buy this valuable book.
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