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All college students know that the hardest year of their college experience will be the freshman year. They do not know the layout of the college or anybody else that goes to the college. College freshman have obstacles that they need to overcome to make sure that they succeed both socially and academically; which is where the top ten list of how to survive your freshman year comes in.

1. The first secret to surviving your freshman year is to find out the layout of the entire college campus. If you are allowed, you should get to the college a few days before you actually start classes and just walk around and figure out where the classrooms are, where the cafeteria is and where any other important offices may be that will help you find your way around. This will help you to know where you are going which will save you time and frustration through the first week or so of your freshman experience.

2. The next secret is to spend time in the library; this will help you in both your socialization and your academic experiences in your first year. In the library, you will be able to find references for any subject you need and you will have the opportunity to meet other students in the process.

3. You will also need to master the art of the search engine. Sites like Google and Bing will save you when you start studying for an exam or are working on a term paper in the middle of the night when the library is closed. Since the internet is always on, you can always count on these sites to help you with your research of any topic.

4. Do not just keep your head in your books all year; get out and socialize and go to college parties. While you want to get good grades in college you also need to make friends and have a social life. It does not hurt to take a break once in a while where you can mingle and (continue reading…)

Do you think that surviving college is easy? Well, think again. There are a lot of things in college life that will shock you. Hence, you have to be prepared. Of course, this article is not intended to scare you. It will just give you a heads up on what to expect. Here are some of the things that you usually see or experience during college.

People are more liberated. If you are a conservative student, I know that college will shock you. You’ll see a lot of students rallying outside of the campuses. And of course, things that are not allowed in high school seem normal for college students. Some schools allow smoking provided that they are in the proper area. I’m not saying that it’s chaotic in college. But it’s not as disciplined as your old school.

They don’t care if you have a flashy car. I would like to point out that college isn’t a popularity contest. People will not look at you just because you are carrying the latest Hermes bag or driving a new Corvette. People who get noticed in college are those who are intellectual and can provide great contributions. So if you plan to get the latest shoes from Prada, think again. You might as well invest on books and all those educational stuffs.

They don’t carry huge bags for notebooks. College students usually don’t bring huge bags. They have small notebooks and a pen. And because of the emergence of new technology, a lot of students bring Ipad. Yes, professors are not strict when it comes to note taking. What they care about is the knowledge you impart on our brains. They won’t check if you have copied the lectures. They will assess you on the day of the exam or in a surprise recitation.

They recite like a real professional. You would also get shocked on how college students speak. It’s as if they are very confident. Well, they are trained to be like that. As for you, you have to train yourself. It will do you good if you read a lot of materials, that way (continue reading…)

What do you do when you have to edit a Tweet down to just 140 characters? Removing all your punctuation is one tactic. Or take out a verb here and there. You must do whatever’s necessary to get your message across in 140 characters or less, grammar be damned.

For English teachers, students’ heavy reliance on communication via Facebook, Twitter, and text messages can make for a nightmare in the classroom. Across the country, English test scores and proficiencies have dropped. Students just aren’t learning and practicing their grammar like they used to. How can teachers get a handle on the problem and reinforce basic grammar rules to this generation of social networkers and tech junkies? It’s simple: start speaking their language.

A Grammar App for the Classroom

No, teachers don’t have to start revising their grammar rules to accommodate Tweet speak. They just need to take a new approach to teaching basic English skills. The perfect way to do that is by integrating students’ love for gadgets with grammar training. While there may already be a lot of online grammar quizzes and lessons, there’s nothing on the market like the new app designed by Chicago-area (continue reading…)

As you are aware, the movement for educational development of females encountered multidimensional problem which come in the way of their advancement and progress. Most of these problems are due to differential treatment given to females both in the educational as well as social settings.

Nature of Gender Issues

Society perceives a female child as different from a mail child and assigns stereotyped roles to the female child. Some teacher in the school while teaching gives examples and use teaching strategies which are biased against girl students. Such teachers think that girls should have a different type of education which may be helpful for them to develop as a good housewife and a mother. This not only negates individual differences both in terms of personality traits and specific abilities in which girl are different from boys, but it also comes in the way of certain competencies to be developed among all the students studying at a particular level. As has been said earlier, girl and boys may differ in terms of certain abilities and both these sets of individuals excel each other in terms of certain abilities, so specific teaching-learning strategies have to be evolved to develop their inherent abilities to the maximum and also to prove extra opportunity for development of other competencies in which they are weak. As a teacher, you are supposed to make some bold efforts for replacing the professional value system by a belief in the equality of sexes. Besides this, an attempt should also be made to recognize the individual differences between girl and boy and make use of these during the teaching-learning process.

The second issue relates to the social attitude towards girl which is reflected not only in the treatment received by girl but also in the instructional materials meant for them. This becomes more serious in case of girl coming from weaker section of society i. e. scheduled castes, scheduled tribes, nomads and other disadvantaged classes. They carry the stigma of belonging to the disadvantaged group and that also coming from a weaker section. Both these educational and social perceptions come in the way of the development of a girl child in our society. Economically also, most (continue reading…)

It is essential to study the child’s social competence by parents and teachers for two reasons: First, patterns of behaviour and attitudes formed early are rather persistent. Second, the kind of social competence children have contributes to the evolution of their self-concept. The degree with which a student adjusts to other people and the group with which he identifies, gives an idea of his social competence. Well-adjusted students are supposed to have learned social skills such as the ability to effectively deal with friends and strangers, etc. Socially well- competed students generally develop favourable social attitudes towards other members of the society.

Criteria of social competence

There are various criteria to judge whether a student is socially well- competed or not. The following are the four main criteria:

Overt performance: When children’s social behaviour conforms to the standards and expectations of the group they are identified with, they are socially competed/accepted member of the group.

Competence to different group: Children who can adjust reasonably well different groups of people as well as peer groups are considered socially well- competed.

Social competed: Socially well- competed students exhibit favourable attitudes towards people, social participation, and social group interaction.

Personal satisfaction: To be socially well-competed, students should be reasonably satisfied with their social relationships and the roles they play in the social system.

Difficulties in social competed

Making good social competed is difficult. An unhappy childhood results in an unhappy and maladjusted adulthood. You and your school can help children adjust. Children should be taught about factors that contribute to poor adjustment in society. (continue reading…)

My college experience is one of unexpected discoveries and rewards. You see, I grew up in a family of engineers, so my college career seemed predestined from the moment I was born. Both my mother and father were chemical engineers, and by the time I was ready to enter college my brother had already completed his undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering in our home state. So I, too, set out to seek a degree in chemical engineering. No one in my family pressured me to study engineering—I made the choice on my own—I just thought it was the best course of action for me. I’d always performed well in math courses and never paid much attention to other potential career paths.

Of course you never know what you’re getting into when you enter your first year in college. During that first year, I took ten courses—a full load, for sure—the majority of which were dedicated to core classes that had nothing to do with chemical engineering. I took a few basic science classes and many more classes in the humanities: I took an introduction to modern American poetry, several world history classes, and a U.S. government course. At first I had a hard time in these courses, as they required copious amount of reading and writing that I thought was pointless because I knew I wanted to be an engineer. What would an engineer need with mind full of modern American poetry?

I initially took these classes without paying much attention. But before too long, I started taking a vested interest in these humanities classes (the modern American poetry one in particular). Poems started to have more meaning to me, and I appreciated hearing my professor’s analyses of the works of celebrated poets. I had grown up thinking poetry was just something that Shakespeare and Dr. Seuss wrote (not that these two aren’t great); nothing worthy of a serious person’s time. But the works of poets like Robert Frost, Charles Bukowski, and especially John Ashbery started to entice me with their (continue reading…)