Drum majors, is the band ready? The inquisition echoes across the field. Friday night lights shimmer off the bells of horns, your elbows ache at attention. In just a few moments, you will get the command to raise your instrument and set off on the sub-ten minute journey known as the field show. A coordinated movement of some 100+ students, all in matching [...]
Though most teachers roll their eyes at the class clown, humor can actually have a beneficial role in the classroom. While the usual comic interruptions to a lesson may not be helpful, incorporating play and laughter into a lesson plan is an effective way of encouraging children’s social emotional development, particularly for children with developmental disabilities. Clowning is a form of comedic performance [...]
I’ve always been drawn to the allure of a long book. In middle school, I remember lugging around a hardcover copy of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, proudly turning startled heads as I thumped the book to my desk during break time. I took a certain pride in wading through these long books, feeling that there was something to be [...]
For most people working in a professional field and for colleges, it’s become clear how valuable internships are. You may have perhaps landed where you are now as a worker because of your internship experience. With many universities and campuses making internships a prerequisite for graduation, one can see a trend in higher education to arduously prepare students for graduating into a chaotic [...]
The best part of story time was when the teacher finished reading a page aloud and rotated the book, revealing to an eager class the wide, glossy pages of illustrations illuminating what we’d just heard. John Locke understood this when he argued that pictures were essential to a child’s comprehension of a story as for children, showing is always better than telling.[1] By [...]
For many professional companies nowadays, the process of content development is crucial to their success across various industries. Whether it be in the economic, educational, or electrical services industries—the role of content and its development is key for not only the actual product or service any industry is providing but to every industry as a whole. That’s why the significance of quality assurance [...]
In this mediascape, the forms literature can take varies wildly. Whether you want to pop in some headphones and listen to hours of someone reading you a story or if you want to simply pull an ebook up on your smartphone on the train, you can enjoy books from the comfort of anywhere. The dissemination of literature like this seems to be a [...]
Humanities vs. STEM If you’re on any secondary education campus that offers degrees in both humanities and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) studies, then you are bound to come across the ongoing debate of the value of which field of study is more ‘valuable.’ You might even hear a group of STEM students during finals bemoaning all the cramming and memorization for [...]
Do you ever just sit and wonder why? Not about anything in particular, but about everything in particular: how the sea works, why the sun shines, what happens in our brains when we dream, etc. You might know the answer to these questions, but that force at work that forms these questions, what keeps our minds hunting for answers, is curiosity. When considering [...]
It’s often said, ‘it takes a village to raise a child,’ and when it comes to their academic achievement, the saying certainly stands strong. For a student trying to succeed in school, it takes more than just a great school system or dedicated teacher to reach success; it requires the intervention and involvement of a child’s caretakers and community for them to reach [...]