General Education
General Education
How to Help Your Loved Ones Make Healthier Choices
Personal health is, at the end of the day, personal. However, health-conscious people can and should take action to help their loved ones make better wellness choices. Not only is it an objectively good thing to do, but having a healthy social circle will make it easier for you, yourself to start and maintain good lifestyle habits.
4 Reasons to Schedule a Physical Every Year
For a lot of people, a trip to the doctor’s office might seem like a nuisance. Others may have a genuine mistrust of doctors or a fear of medical facilities. As a result, many individuals don’t schedule regular trips to the doctor’s office. Unfortunately, skipping your annual checkup can have serious negative consequences. Here, we’ll list several key reasons why it’s always important to visit your doctor at least once a year –– no matter your age or current health status: 1. Preventative Screening Just because you don’t think you have a health problem, it doesn’t mean you’re actually completely healthy. Many medical conditions are asymptomatic; some may appear innocuous…
3 Healthy Decisions that Can Have an Immediate Positive Impact
When it comes to health and wellness, patience is a prerequisite. Indeed, whether you want to run a marathon, or lose twenty pounds, or develop better eating habits, it could take months or even years to achieve your health goals. However, that doesn’t mean you should ignore the here and now. In fact, making some small changes now can have an immediate and positive impact on your overall well-being. On that note, here are three such actions you can take today that can make a big difference for your wellness in the long run: Talk to Your Doctor If you want to become a healthier person, then the first thing…
How to avoid over-spending this festive season
The festive season is upon us, and whether you’re a Grinch or Buddy the Elf, it can be hard to resist the tempting offers on around Christmas- make-up advent calendar anyone?! But it’s important to avoid over-spending during the festive season to prevent the January blues from scuppering your 2020 plans. Here are tips to help you manage your money this season, without putting a dampener on your holiday plans: Decide how much you can spend Yes, you might want that beautiful Mulberry bag with the signature postman’s lock (hint hint), however Christmas doesn’t give you carte blanche with your money to start splurging on extravagant items. Instead spend time…
How to Be a Useful Parent Volunteer
Many of us like to help out with our children’s activities in our free time as it allows us a little insight into their world. Whether it is a sports team or just volunteering as a chaperone for a school event, there are many things you can do. Here are some of the things you should think about if you want to be as useful a parent volunteer as possible. Drive the Minibus If your child is on a sports team, you will already know how difficult it can be to organise away games. Splitting the kids between different cars is not always the best option. Some parents might also…
Five Signs That You’re Ready for a Doctorate in Education
If you’re an education professional and wondering how to enhance your online resume and advance your career, a doctoral degree may be right for you. Of course, attending graduate school isn’t always an easy decision. You have to weigh the value of your degree against the cost of tuition and fees, the time commitment, and several other factors. (While you can earn a PhD in education, this article will focus mostly on the EdD degree, which is a doctorate designed for educational leaders.) So how do you know if you’re ready for the challenge of a doctorate in education? Here are some tell-tale signs: 1. You want to drive large-scale…
8 Reasons Why Education Is the Key to Success
Education is so integral to how society functions, and how you live your life. This is for a number of reasons, not least of which is the fact that education is the key to all future success, and in most cases the more you learn and know, the more successful you will be. Why is this, and what is it about learning that makes you more likely to be successful in whatever endeavor you decide to move onto after (or even during) your studies? Read on to find out more. You Have Control Of Your Life Without a good education, it is easy to let the circumstances of your birth…
Textbooks Come Alive in Schools
In today’s world of one on one technology, students like to fancy themselves digital experts, hopping from device to device, website to website in an effort to learn and retain new information, demonstrate their growing skill set, and even to assess their knowledge of concepts learned. A growing number of districts are now spending time and money on technologies that they hope will increase student engagement and boost test scores, making us competitive in the global market once more. While there is most certainly a push for increased technology in the classroom and beyond, we have done so with the hope that it will have a positive impact on the…
How Does Education Policy Help Students Focus and Do Their Homework
Education policies or principles that are used to govern the operations of the systems with a collection of rules and laws. There are different forms of education which run through different educational setting and all of them need to be subject to education policies set by the governing bodies while the schools come up with their own education policy to guide the students in class work and a guide on how writing jobs. The education policy affects all people engaged in the education sector. Policies are also used as a guide to acceptable behavior to create a safe environment and a productive conducive learning environment. Education policies help students to…
Online Remote Proctoring: Are Exams to Become Extinct in Distance Learning?
It is found that higher education institutes are slowly moving away from trying to incorporate any kind of summative distance learning (DL) program based exam. They are now more eager to implement more formative and take student centered approach towards assessments.
