5 Ways Early Childhood Education Can Benefit Students

5 Ways Early Childhood Education Can Benefit Students by Lama Chivi ========== Educators and parents alike understand that children can benefit from every encounter since these serve as an avenue for learning. Through their experiences, children — especially those in their first five years of life — can learn important life skills like socialization, cooperation,

How to Find Your Dream Job when Moving into the City

How to Find Your Dream Job when Moving into the City People have always told you that if you love what you are doing, you will not even feel that you are working. This is true for most people. There are some people who realize that they are meant to be counselors in camp. The

How did the DBM compute the so-called P26,000 take-home pay of the teachers?

  With the recent double salary increase for policemen and the military in the Philippines, public school teachers are also asking for the same thing. Though the government has expressed that they are looking for ways to increase teachers’ salaries, Department of Budget & Management (DBM) says that wage hike for teachers is not a priority and this

School Lunches Play An Important Part In Education

By Bushra Manna Schools in developed countries typically provide free lunch for the students. This is an effort to recognize that how truly essential the school lunch is to a child’s diet. It is that one meal in a day that is really designed to support young people’s academic performance. In some nations, great attention

Are you renewing your PRC license? What is CPD all about?

    As per guidelines of the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC), professionals are to take continuous professional development (CPD). For professional teachers, we are required 45 credit units in order to be able to renew our licenses. These 45 credit units need to be accumulated in  3 years. (Click photo below to enlarge) Personally, I think this

Why do parents need to be involved?

I found this photo (see below) on Facebook and I’m reminded that as teachers, we need to constantly tell the parents of our students to follow-up and guide their children in making/doing their assignments or homeworks. Our students, especially the younger ones, need guidance and supervision in accomplishing their requirements to avoid what happened in the picture

With the resources that you have right now, what will you do to help yourself achieve your goals?

With the resources that you have right now, what will you do to help yourself achieve your goals? That was the question given to us during the Division Level Table Topics contest earlier. We were only given 1-2 minutes to answer the question so I tried to be as concise and direct to the point

3 Characteristics Every Special Education Teacher Must Have (Esp. in Public Schools)

I recently attended a training on Special Education Mainstreaming and Inclusion and as a teacher, I realized that there are characteristics we need to possess in order for us to effectively handle children with special needs either in a Mainstreaming or inclusion program. During one of the talks in the training, the speaker presented these

7 Things You Need To Know About Senior High School

What is Senior High School? SHS covers the last 2 years of the K to 12 Program. In Grades 11 and 12, students will go through a core curriculum and subjects under a track of their choice. What will students learn in SHS? What are the tracks? Studetns may pick a track based on how he

3 Things I learned about Empathy Education and Bullying Prevention

Recently, I joined an International Conference on Empathy Education and Preventing Bullying in Schools. It was organized by Move This World, Inc.,  “a global nonprofit that uses creative expression as a vehicle to transform conflict, violence and bullying in communities”. On this three-day conference, many ideas and campaigns on Anti-Bullying were discussed and the participants were able