One Room School Model

Most of us are familiar with the old one room school house.
We probably never attended a one room school; however,
we have probably all viewed “Little House on the Prairie.”
There is a special magic in the ideal of teaching in a one room
school, I will attempt to explain it.

Today’s public school does things that the “Old One Room
School House” could not do. Today’s school separates our
children by age and accomplishment. Generally, all the five,
six, twelve, fifteen year olds are taught with others their same
age. If school has society’s goal of educating and socializing us
to take our role in the community. Where in a healthy community,
other than our public school system, are we able to find our
community divided by age? I question whether it is a healthy
situation for our youth to be segregated in this fashion.

Let’s take a close look at the “Old One Room School House” model.
This form of schooling initially came about because the community
was limited in funds and could not build multiple structures or rooms
to segregate the students. A five year old might sit next to a ten
year old who in turn may be sitting next to a fifteen year old. The
one room school house school’s produced children that had a full
understanding of reading, writing, and arithmetic. In many
communities the school may have had as many as forty children in
the class. This number of students we are told by today’s teachers
as being too large to adequately teach or assist each student in
mastering skills. Yet, the teachers a hundred plus years ago did just
that. They taught, they supervised the individual student in
mastering the skills of reading, writing, and arithmetic. Our history as
a country, state, city, and communities is evidence of the fact that
they were taught. Why were teachers one hundred years ago able to
teach where today’s teachers say they cannot.

In the old school house model, the teacher taught subjects as needed.
If you had one student who needed to grasp an advanced math
concept, say trigonometry, the entire class was exposed to the
instruction. The majority of the class may have been active doing their
particular level of math, while listening to the lesson the teacher was
presenting to the trigonometry student. What does this mean? A student
will have heard a subject taught multiple times before he may master the
learning skills needed. This one room school model had another asset that
is not being adequately utilized today. This asset is the tutor, or fellow
student. When you have students of varying accomplishment, you have
others who can help and assist their fellow students acquire new skills.
This helps both the struggling student and the tutor. How often have you
heard a teacher of a Sunday school class say they have learnt more by
teaching than we, the class, will learn by being taught the lesson. Working
to teach and clarify a subject to a student causes the teacher to gain a full
understanding that may not have been required to just master the skill. Our
one room school house teacher becomes a supervisor of student teachers.

Our community is a mixed age population. Have you seen today’s kids
ostracize other children due to age differences of only a year or two? I
am not discounting the fact that a teenager would not want to
congregate with a ten year old. Our community needs us to learn to
socialize ourselves with groupings of people from all ages. The skill of
social involvement with others from different spheres is required by a
healthy active growing community. A young child, a toddler in today’s
society is often put with other toddler’s to play. Watch these toddlers
play. Most of the time the toddlers are NOT interacting with one
another, they are playing with a toy while removed emotionally from
their surroundings. Take the same toddler and have them play with
their parents and siblings, you will see active interaction between the
toddler and siblings, parents.

Homeschooling returns us back to a system that has worked
successfully for centuries. The historical past of the United States and
the world as a whole document our growth and accomplishments of
mixed age socialization. It has been a recent social experiment to
segregate our youth by age. What is and has happened since its
adoption into our society shows its failure.

Home schooling our children is a correct choice for them individually
and society as a whole. A home schooled child learns to take on
responsibility for their lives. As in the one room school model, they
too become involved with helping others.

Margene has been actively involved in education since the early 1980’s. Her children have been homeschooled; two of her four have attended public school. Margene is an administrator for a private home school academy.

Making the Human Brain Stronger; A Theory

Is it possible to make the human brain thicker; meaning more connections and able to work more efficiently? Well if thickening the brain would in fact do this, yes there may very well be a way to make it thicker. How so you ask? Well I have this theory you see?

A few years back I had once thought on using sound waves, microwaves at low power settings, perhaps even directed energy of some sort, we may be able to thicken the brain. Of course if we did this we would need a healthy brain, which had all the right nutrients, along with special amino acids and during the process we would need higher rates of cardiovascular levels to continue cooling. How do I know this will even work? Well, I am not sure if that would work, but the brains seems to deliver to itself defenses against such things which may cause it to strengthen and protect its self allowing the brain protect its self. I think I wrote an article on that theory and I will have to dig it up one of these days.

My concept was to make a normal human brain better, stronger and faster in processing without over heating it. This would allow human-computer interfaces or plug in memory chips to work at very high rates of speed; has military applications, etc. And well who knows it might even help autistic children some how; although I must admit I do not have any children and I do not know much about autism, so it is hard for me to consider all these points fully because I have not read enough on the subject to be properly versed.

Just observational experiences thus far. Anyway the brain is a fascinating subject and one of my favorites. Perhaps some one will read this article and ponder on this theory of mine somewhere out there in cyber space. Consider all this in 2006.

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Little Known Ways to Save Money for College

One of the phrases that parents dread the most is this: college money. As
soon as their child is born, parents tend to think about the future and
actually make plans for their kids.

They instinctively think of a profession that they want their children to
have in the future: some want their kids to be the next Bill Gates, a
big-company CEO or a world famous surgeon.

As a student, you have to do your part in saving up for your own college
fund as early as you can, even if your family is well-off. Getting a college
degree costs a lot and graduating would be more of an accomplishment if
you know that you have contributed your share in your education costs.

Before filling up those college application forms and constructing your
essays, take a look at these ways on how you can save up for your college
money:

1. Start early.

A college degree is very important. You may look at it from an emotional or
a practical view, but in the end, you can still say that a college education
reaps more benefits than being just out of high school.

Depending on whether you were sent you to a private or public school, your
parents would more or less have an idea about the costs of your going to
college.

As a student, you need to work with your parents in saving up early.

Use summer vacations as an opportunity to start saving up for your college
fund. Allot a part of your earnings as college money and make sure that you
do not tap into it for any other purposes.

2. Be creative in tapping your resources.

Use special occasions like your birthday or Christmas to add funds for your
college tuition. On your birthday, ask a close relative to contribute to
your college money instead of giving you other gift items.

If you cannot do this yourself, your mom or dad should be more than happy to
ask your relatives – grandparents, aunts and uncles – to consider as a
Christmas or birthday gift a contribution for your college funds.

Do for yourself the household chores that your mom or a neighbor would
usually pay for – like mowing the lawn, cleaning the attic or garage or
doing painting jobs. Save a part of this money for your college tuition.

You can even use a coin bank to save up. Every cent would help – just make
sure to resist the temptation of breaking your piggy bank before you need
to.

Part of your monthly allowance from your parents is another resource that
you can tap into.

3. Work with your parents in planning for your college money.

In the end, majority of your college money will come from your parents. Show
them that you are responsible enough to take part in the decisions regarding
your education.

Ask them to explain to you the plan that they have as well as investments
that they made for your college money. After all, it is your education – and
your future – that they are investing for.

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The Power of Homeschooling

There are 3 powerful reasons why homeschooling works. These include:

(1.) Homeschooling enables exposure to a broad range of people, ideas, and places. Homeschooling is so flexible that it allows family field trips whenever you want. This provides a great way to learn through taking tours, meeting knowledgeable people, and volunteering. What is even better is that you can take advantage of these opportunities during the week when there aren’t crowds and when the tour guides, or educators, have time to answer your individual questions. Add in some library books and videos, the writing of thank you notes, the writing of a portfolio entry describing your “adventure,” and the possibility of giving an oral presentation to other homeschoolers and you’ll see just how powerful this can truly be. This also teaches your child(ren) that there are great teachers to be found in every walk of life.

(2.) If you own your own home business, homeschooling provides opportunities to teach your child(ren) business skills. Starting a home business today is relatively easy and painless. Involving your child(ren) in your home business is an excellent opportunity to teach them skills which will serve them well in any livelihood they might choose as adults. Just think of the various business opportunities that avail themselves. For instance, you can teach your child(ren) how to do basic bookkeeping on the computer.

(3.) Homeschooling allows great flexibility for vacations. You can easily take vacations in the off-season when prices are significantly lower and crowds are rare. For instance, if your family enjoys camping, you can go during the week, or in the weeks before Memorial Day and after Labor Day.

As you can easily see, homeschooling allows a family to do so much of what they truly love to do. That is the greatest power of homeschooling.

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Victimization Survey

Property victimization may include the stealing of vehicle or vehicle’s various parts or damages carried out on that particular aspect, vandalism, pick-pocketing whereas violent victimization may include beating, attempted injury by weapon (e.g. knife) or objects (e.g. chair) being raped or sexually or physically assaulted. Prevalence and frequency are one of the essential ingredients for analysing the documents retrieved from the survey. Prevalence implies whether the individual has been victimized by a crime during a given measurement period, whereas, frequency implies the number of the occurrence of the victimization during that particular time frame.

The analysis of the survey may encapsulate several different areas of measure of problem outcomes including non-domestic violent offending (felony assault), serious and severe property offending (felony theft), serious domestic violence offending, serious domestic violence victimization, marijuana use, poly-drug abuse, problem drug use, mental health problems.

The analysis also considers the effects related to age cohort, gender, race/ethnicity, majority/minority and socioeconomic background of parents. The analysis is restricted to the three youngest NYS age cohorts. The sample of the respondents primarily satisfy the requirement of participants who are young enough not being experienced in certain problems especially being unexposed to the use of illicit drugs, whereas, on the other hand, the samples must encompass the requirement of being so much old that they have the opportunity to experience all sorts of problems.

The final year of the survey that is 1992, NYS has been conducted the measurement for adult mental health problems by emphasizing on the cycle of depression, anxiety and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

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Forms of Education

The way I see it, education is imparted in only two ways. One is through teaching from one’s own experience, and the other is by making the candidates experience them for their own. Both the forms are useful at their own point of times.

When the child first learns to go to school, it is essential that he learns from others’ experience – that is an experience for him. And by the time he goes out of college with a degree in his hand, and goes for a job, it now becomes important that he gains experience on his own by interacting with his field of choice.

When he has worked like this for a few years and gained some exposure, he now has two options. Either continue like this, or get his experience verified (in other words, get a degree based on his experience) and then increase his monetary worth in the market – for, after all, it is for money that a person works in this world of material living.

The second option is more prudent? He can opt for one of the numerous life experience colleges out there, but as a precaution he should choose wisely between the universities as many of them are fake. He should look for a university which is accredited. He should look for a university which has excellent customer care. He should look for a university whose ratings in the market are fairly high. This is because in online life experience colleges there is high chance that you would not be required to face the college at all.

Coffee Shop Chalkboards

The mid 1800s saw chalkboards being used in schools across America. Teachers were saved the task of rewriting information for each and every student on their individual slates. The popularity of chalkboards increased because it allowed teachers to teach a larger number of students at the same time. After no time, the ever expanding American railroads were transporting large chalkboards all over the country.

People began to see the many advantages of chalkboards. They saw it as an excellent way to reach a message to a wide audience. This feature of chalkboards made them very appealing for different businesses. To start with chalkboards were referred to as blackboards as they were made of black materials. This trend continued through the 1960s, when green boards came to be favored over the traditional black.

The change was partly due to green’s aesthetic appeal over black and a few other practical considerations. Traces of erased chalk were not as readily visible on green as on black.

Many businesses use chalkboards for different purposes. Coffee shops use them as their menu boards, as it is common for the menu and offerings at a coffee shop to change daily, or even more than once a day (including breakfast, lunch, and dinner specials.) Chalkboards are a cost-effective way to update frequently changing information for the public to read. As the contents of the chalkboards were changed everyday, the chalkboards would be a source of curiosity for passers by. Coffee shop owners profited from this attitude by highlighting different specialties in a decorative manner and enticing customers to come in. Passers by, who otherwise would not have ventured to enter the coffee shop, would be lured by the attractively written displays on the chalkboards.

With all the new ways of advertising available today, chalkboards have not totally gone out of style. Several coffee shop owners still prefer chalkboards to write out daily menus. The only difference is that the quality of chalkboards being used today is far more superior to what was in use earlier.

Chalkboards were originally made of slate. Now they are made of far more resilient material and are available in several sizes and styles. Coffee shop owners make use of colored chalk to make attractive displays.

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