...Effect of Guidance Services on Study Attitudes, Study Habits and Academic Achievement of Secondary School Students Abid Hussain Ch.* Abstract The substantive aim of the study was to examine the effect of guidance services on students’ study attitudes, study habits and academic achievement. An experimental study was devised for the purpose. A guidance programme for secondary school students was developed by the researcher. An experiment was conducted to explore the effectiveness of guidance services in terms of improvement in students’ study attitudes, study habits and academic achievement. Ten null hypotheses were tested to explore the effect of guidance services on students’ study habits, study attitudes and academic achievement in five subjects. All the hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The results of the study indicated that the guidance services have significant effect on the students’ study attitude, study habits and academic achievement Introduction The quality of a nation depends upon the quality of its citizens. The quality of citizens depends on the quality of their education and quality of education besides other factors depends upon study habits and study attitude of the learners. Quality of education is reflected through academic achievement which is a function of study habits and study attitude of the students. Thus to enhance the quality of education, it is necessary to improve the study habits and study attitudes of the students...
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...Teamwork is a skill that is extremely important for many working adults and sports are an excellent way to start building this skill. Sports are all about working as a team and coming together with your teammates to accomplish something. Even more individual sports such as track help build teamwork because you still practice with others and get better and improve together. The marine corps website states that “Working as a team to reach a common goal helps children develop communication and problem solving skills that will benefit them on the field and off.”(5 reasons why). The marines put tons of emphasis on teamwork so them saying that sports can help your child develop these skills shows how effective sports can be at teaching kids these...
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...guiding students to stop and think about what is going on and helping students make better choices or calm down while taking a break. Often, students are sent to the “Think Chair” simply to gather themselves. The goal is to get a student ready to learn and to keep instruction as seamless as possible. Eventually, we would like to get students to notice when they, themselves, need to take a break. Please be patient with teachers and your child as we put this strategy in place in our classrooms. Do not be alarmed if your child tells you they had to ‘take a break’ or even several breaks these first weeks of school. It’s a natural part of the back-to-school learning curve. It might feel odd at first, but will eventually be a normal part of our classroom. We have used it for many years with much success and I expect this year to follow suit. Since this is so common in our room, I will not be notifying parents of every break taken, but will contact parents if a trend develops or if taking a break is not working. 3rd Grade Room 203 [pic] [pic] If you know in advance that your child will be out for a family trip or pre-arranged absence, you are required to send a note to Ms. Williams, our Principal, for approval. Failure to do so may result in unexcused absences. If your child is out and the absence is unplanned, please send a signed note to school the day your child...
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...Book Review Gladys Johnson Anxiety is discussed as it is related to fear. Anxiety and fear are not the same. Two factors in youths that have been studied are anxious youth’s autonomic arousal and tension, and apprehension and worry. Fear occurs when there is threat. Fear is activated by the sympathetic nervous system, which some of the signs are dilated eyes, pounding heart rate, and sweating. Research has been done that reveals amygdala has an important role in fear. Fear occurs when the threat is definite, and anxiety may be present without the perception of danger. Worrying is an example of anxiety that exist when negative thoughts are present. Worrying serves as a cognitive avoidance strategy that exhibits emotional processing. Phobias and anxiety are generally inherited. A top-down study was done on children of adults that have an anxiety disorder was studied. A bottom-up study was done on parents of children with an anxiety disorder was studied. Research was done on genetics and environmental influences in regards to anxiety in children and adolescents. The environment plays a crucial role in the presence of phobias and anxiety in youths. The role of learning process of conditioning and modeling with its relevance on childhood fear and anxiety; as well as family factors and its association with anxiety was discussed. Societal and cultural factors that is associated with fear and anxiety. The idea of family members being associated with childhood anxiety...
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...America: Dumbing Down Our Students Back in the day, school was a place to learn. It was a place to get smart. Now it has turned into a psychological headquarters. It is like America is saying, “Who cares, as long as our students feel good about themselves.” Schools have stopped teaching important facts. Some teachers do not feel their students need to know what was taught back in the day. According to Charles J. Sykes, “In a 1990 survey of college seniors, 42 percent couldn’t name the dates of the War Between the States within half a century” ( Sykes, 4). Why don’t our teachers care anymore about teaching about important events or even science? Many of them have said it is because they just are not useful facts. I would have to disagree. I believe that you should know the background of this country you live in. I think students need to be taught about our founding fathers. I fear for our future generations. The school systems are dumbing our students down and they are too worried about how the students are feeling than what they are learning. So the question we are all asking teachers along with the school system is, “Why are we allowing students to be dumbed down?” How are we going to elect a president in the future who never had a background in math, science, or most importantly, history? Our future generation does not know what we were taught when we were in school. Some public schools have even removed certain subjects because they are not necessary or the school cannot...
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...insight into various factors that influence the motivation or seemingly “lack of” motivation in everyday students. Educators are made aware of techniques they can use and those to avoid helping to influence each student’s academic motivation constructively. Realizing that motivation does not solely come from the student, but that other variables, controllable and uncontrollable, influence the academic motivation of the typical learner will allow educators, parents and the community to ignite an inexhaustible motivation in “all” students. Theories of Motivation Education for all students, regardless of their abilities, is a constant, increasing concern in our nation. Standards have been put in place for “all” students to achieve, despite learning disabilities, special needs, personal interests, backgrounds, or confidence/motivation levels. Many students are labeled as being unmotivated about learning and lazy by teachers, administrators, and others looking from the outside in without considering various factors. Anderman & Anderman (2010) emphasize that, “teachers can and do impact student motivation” (p. 2). Knowledge of the impact that educators have on their students and the theories that influence student learning are tools that educators can use to create motivation in each child...
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...life throughout that time was my best friend Rebecca. We had some great times together and what she did, I did. I have always followed in her footsteps and never made a path of my own. We didn’t uplift each other in any aspect. So you could say we weren’t good for each other. In February of 2013 we ended our friendship for good. Although it was tough for me considering we had been friends for 12 years, it was the best thing for me. I gained a whole new set of friends. These friends motivated me to be a better person, to go after the things that I want in my life and to do things that were going to give me a better chance at becoming what I wanted to in life. This is why I am currently enrolled at Midlands Tech and why I am on the roll for your class. Without...
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...I have always loved spending time with kids, and have found an interest in science. I have always wondered what it would be like when a child walks into the doctor's office and you diagnose them with all those fancy terms that the parents don't even understand. That is why I want to be a pediatrician, a children's doctor. I would like to be the person who comes in after a medical assistant takes your blood pressure, weight, height, and more. I would be the one to diagnose the illnesses and prescribe the medication for their illness. The job can be tough both emotionally and physically. Emotionally, I will witness children with severe illnesses going into surgery, with more courage than most adults would have. Also, seeing parents struggle watching their child in so much pain. Physically, the hours can be dreadful, up to 100 hours per week. Although, I still believe this is a suitable career for me because it deals with helping children,...
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...Sports overall targets your child; approach to learn; ability to think, communicate; physical well-being; and social development. The social development aspect of adolescent development targets kids particular abilities to make, build, and sustain relationships with adults and peers. Through sporting activities your children will acknowledge and accept their feelings which will allow them to express their feelings a lot more successfully to you about situation they may go through, but in the process they will be able to grasp and answer the emotions of other kids. As parents you want to be involved in your child sporting activities but not too involved to the point you’re a pushy parent. Expectations should be put on their behavior in a sense of how they behave towards others. That kind of expectation is a good expectation because ultimately you want them to have fun but at the same time you want them to develop social skills that will instill positive interaction and respect for their peers. Give some decision-making responsibilities; let your child experience the luxury of sports and reinforce boundaries and rules when it’s necessary (Holt, N. L., & Black, D. E, 2007). Don’t force perfection or put your expectations on to their performance, especially in the team atmosphere because due to parent’s lack of encouragement, many times children lose confidence in themselves, then resent you because they’re uncertain of their identity and capabilities to compete; which would cause...
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...The importance of science education for children Published 03/11/2008 Science Communication 17 Comments Tags: Science Education One of the features of wordpress is a list of what web searches have led people to your blog (or at least hits anyway) and they themselves can be fascinating glimpses into what people are interested in or what information on (mostly Tyrannosaurus and Jurassic Park). A recent one was the title of this post and it is a very interesting question (precisely it was “what is the importance of teaching science to children?”). Apart from the fundamental answer (well, everyone should know a bit about biology, chemistry and physics, much as they should know a bit about history, geography, art and maths) it is a good question. What does science bring to the table? It’s hard to put in specific terms, but science as a concept (as opposed to just learning facts and theories, or heating stuff in test tubes) has some nice ideas to offer that would be useful for many people to learn and would be useful throughout their lives. Concepts such as logical deductions and inference, parsimony, and not accepting arguments (or dismissals) based on authority but from evidence, and scepticism would all be handy. Teaching someone how to appraise and evaluate conflicting evidence and any bias in that evidence would be useful ‘life skills’ for pretty much everyone. Let’s face it, it ultimately comes down to trying to spot patterns, work out reasons for them, and to spot errors...
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...Education in A Positive Work Place Stanford, Education in my perspective is one of my most passionate fields of my life. It’s let me view several aspects of children’s lives and helping the children develop a stable level for their academics. I have the passion for volunteering, and helping the children grow tremendous amounts of potential in their academics, so they can prosper, contribute, and have a passion to contribute their skills to society. These perspectives have shown me that education is their key to each child’s soul and future. The ambiance of the school feels endless and ecstatic as it is derived, and driven in such an atmosphere that’s professional and not a very hostile environment. The children come to school and yearn their education in many different aspects to grow abroad. Each day that the children show up to school I yearn to greet them ,encourage them, and direct them towards the zenith of every vowel, color, letter, book, and playful object that helps them develop to the next level in their education. Furthermore, I love the way the teachers focus and implement the skills that STARRS State exam guidelines have to help the children reach and learn every area of their souls’ intelligence to work diligently. The Children themselves demonstrate that they love their books. Coloring, taking field trips to engage in feeling solids and playing different centers that visualize what they’ll want to grow up to be. These techniques...
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...Lorenzo’s Oil “Lorenzo’s Oil” is a very dramatic, heartbreaking movie based on a true story. The story starts off of the Odone family coming back from Africa. Their fiver year old son Lorenzo Odone starts to have some odd changes in his behavior during school, and later on at home. He starts to have fits which is unusually for Lorenzo. As well he had two accidents that left him injured. The parents Augusto Odone and Michaela Odone decide to take him to the children’s hospital to see what is wrong with him. They find out that their son Lorenzo has a rare diseases known as ALD (Adrenoleukodystrophy). It is a rare heritable genetic disorder that affects only males ages 5-10. It is passed on by mothers who are carries of this disease. What happens is that the brain function declines, due to the lack of myelin sheath being removed from the brain nerve cells. When there is no myelin the nervous system starts to fail. Lorenzo muscles started to get weak, and had less control over things. After Lorenzo’s father Augusto learned all about the symptoms (blindness, deafness, seizures, and death), him and Michaela start to study about the disease. They are determined to find a cure for the disease, and tried to seek more help from scientist and doctors. Sadly, the doctors and scientist seen Lorenzo as just another patient and were not able to do anything to help Lorenzo. This is where the problem started. Lorenzo was used as a “rat” for the scientist and doctors so they could study his...
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...One thing you can do as an individual staff member would be to learn about your students and be empathetic to things that happen. Understand that some of these students who are in poverty may not always be on time for class or they may not be able to bring in things to share with the class. You as a teacher need to learn about each and every child in your class and offer help if needed to those families that are in need. Another thing you could do is to send child development information or nutrition information home with your students for parents to read. A parent may have time at the end of the night to read something that you send home so if you send home information they can use they may benefit. “On December 10, 2015, President Obama...
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...they usually do not have any problems with language disabilities. The third is Pervasive Developmental disorder (PDD-NOS) or also called atypical autism. Most people that are diagnosed with PDD-NOS usually have fewer and much milder symptoms then the others. People that are diagnosed with PDD-NOS may only have challenges in social and communication areas. Although there are different types of autism, they all require the same attention to the signs and symptoms of them. Autism is usually detected in early childhood. It will appear in the first three years of life. Often the child will seem to be normal and then regress. Some parents have described it as their child use to talk and then all of a sudden they just stopped talking. There are also some parents that suspected something was not right for a long time and it didn’t become more obvious until around the fifteen to eighteen month stages. Not one child with autism is the same. It affects children and adults in...
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...Career goals in Psychology Lynda Reyes PSY 215 Careers in Psychology I want to be a psychologist. I would love to learn all about the way people act, think and feel and at the same time try to help them. I have a very easygoing personality and I love to have fun and laugh. I ask a lot of questions, and I think I am very easy to get along with. Some career goals I have is to finish college, I would like to find a job I want to keep that I could make a career out of, and just take it one day at a time because I have desire to make the right decisions and live a pleasant life. I first became interested in psychology a couple years ago. I feel like I need to try and help make a difference, and that's what I would like to spend the rest of my life doing. The field of psychology is divided into subfields each of which deal with a different area, and since working with and helping people is a good feeling for me, community and social services is an excellent job group. When going into the field of psychology, one is able to explore many different careers. I’m also interested in forensics. The field of forensic psychology has grown in the 21st century because courtrooms recognize the value of psychologist’s testimonies to help juries reach a clearer verdict. Like all fields in psychology, forensics has many perspectives, they can focus on law enforcement psychology, the psychology of litigation, correctional psychology, and forensic psychology (Nietzel, Bernstein, & Milich...
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