Wednesday, February 16, 2011

11 Tips for Improvement Studying Result:


There are 11 tips for you how you will manage your time to improve your studying speed, memorization and result. This free tips will help you to improve you study habits, study skills, study tips, method, habits and preparation. By this you can learn all aids and techniques for your self- improvement.
  1. Take a brake frequently: In our study time we have to learn lot of lesson in one lengthy period. For this reason our brain feels exhaustion and boringness and we can’t take our learning properly in our mind. It is not a proper way to take our lesson from hours and hours. Take break in your learning time and take 10 minutes for every session. Take your time for refresh yourself and learn again. It will be more effective than learn from one long session.
  2. Take rest for feel good: You need some time to take rest for giving more attention on your study. Whenever you feel stress, take some rest and don’t think that you have to finish the whole lesson. Because your brain can’t take any new data if that feel so tired. Rest may give you full of energy of studying.
  3. Care of your Emotion: Don’t force yourself to sit down for studying when your mind on another things. It will be just waste of your time. If you are tired, depressed, angry, tensed and hungry don’t force yourself to study.
  4. Review your lesson: At the end of your studying whole lesson, take a review period in the same day. Don’t put this task for after time. It will be tougher to complete it. If you don’t do this in the same day, you have to give more efforts for this task.
  5. Compare with Nature: Just think the time of your nursery session when you thought everything by using the natural things like- your body parts, toys, fruits, birds etc. If you want to learn everything properly as like your nursery lesson, try to match your learning lesson with nature. Firstly imagine a mass picture naturally and then try to set up your lesson in this imagination. It will be help you understand yourself the whole lesson.
  6. Use correct Pronunciation: Pronunciation is an important part of your studying. It is better to remember any word and the complete lesson. Whenever you are studying any spelling try to read the proper pronunciation. As an example- you should spell out ‘neighborhood’ like this- ‘neigh bor hood’. You will get after the correct spelling obviously.
  7. Make a Study Environment: Try to keep silence your study environment. More noise, lights, music may occur interruption on your study. Try to keep separate your study environment from these activities. Some time you may need some goods. So prepare yourself every time by arranging all of those things which you need actually.
  8. ‘Brain Fade’ and ‘Stupid’ are not same: This is not possible to remember all things which you learn from your childhood time. It is natural to forget the older things because we have a number of layers in our brain. Whenever we learn some new, the lower level become less available and older. If you have not a photography memory, you should review your lesson whenever you complete two or three lesson. It will give you the trick to keep all lessons in your mind.
  9. Chain system in study: Study lesson is made in a chain system. All of our learning system is needed to us in our next class. As we also forget our old study we need recall the old lesson. There have no need to recall those lesson which are we learn in nursery. This question may come from you- “what we can do for it?” you have to study properly in the running class because every lesson is attached with every class study and it is impossible to recall our entire learning lesson from our childhood. So give full effort on your recent study.
  10. Maintain your Routine: Create your study routine and maintain it as the schedule. Try to not waste those time which are enlisted by you for studying time. If you do this, you will get a good result and you can complete your whole lesson. 
  11. Point out your Reasonable Goal: Set your Goal which you can maintain yourself. Don’t set your Goal so high if you can’t take it. Think simply and don’t change your dream day- to- day. You have to determine about your long- term dream. 
  12. Which is better: Faster/Slower: Somebody thinks that faster reader is better than the slower, but it is wrong. Faster reading may blocked your energy and you feel so tired. Don’t make so tensed yourself when you need end up a margin. Go slowly and take time to avoid all frustration from you. Whenever nervous system works faster, your will go through all frustration and you couldn’t complete your task.

Friday, January 21, 2011

Are High Schools Failing Their Students?

 The Need
Does earning a diploma guarantee that a high school graduate is ready for work and college? It should, for very practical reasons. Entrance requirements for colleges have increased. Employers expect more. Students must be able to communicate effectively, think critically, analyze and interpret data, and evaluate a variety of materials. Sixty-seven percent of new jobs in the market today require some postsecondary education (Achieve Inc., 2006).

Yet despite these demands, many high school graduates are inadequately prepared to continue their education or to enter the workforce. According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), at least 28 percent of students entering four-year public colleges in the fall of 2000 were required to take remedial courses when they started, especially in mathematics and language arts, as did 42 percent of those enrolled in two-year public colleges (NCES, 2004). Employers also have noted that many recent high school graduates do not possess the basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills they need to function on the job; and providing remedial training to address this problem costs employers millions of dollars each year (The American Diploma Project [ADP], 2004).

Growing concern about the academic proficiency of high school graduates has placed high school reform at the forefront of the education policy agenda. Critics have begun to question the degree of academic rigor in our nation’s high schools, and many states and school districts are looking for ways to address this issue. This month’s newsletter explores the issue of academic rigor and highlights current efforts to challenge and support high school students.


Rigorous Curriculum for All

It is no secret that a challenging curriculum has a positive effect on student performance after high school. A study released by the U.S. Department of Education (Adelman, 1999), for example, found that “the academic intensity and quality” of a student’s course of study was a far more powerful predictor of bachelor’s degree attainment than class rank, grade point average, or test scores. And this impact is “far more pronounced” for African-American and Latino students than for any other group. A rigorous curriculum also predicts greater skill in the workforce and greater wage-earning potential. An extensive study conducted by ETS found that 84 percent of highly paid professionals and 61 percent of “well-paid, white-collar” professionals had taken Algebra II or higher level mathematics courses while only 30 percent of low-to-moderately skilled and low-paid workers had done so (ADP, 2004). These findings make a strong case for high schools nationwide to provide all students—not just those enrolled in “college prep”—with a challenging academic program.

What Does a Rigorous Curriculum Look Like?

A collaborative effort of Achieve Inc., The Education Trust, and the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, the American Diploma Project (ADP) was created to investigate curricular reform in high schools. In 2004, it published Ready or Not: Creating a High School Diploma That Counts, which outlines in explicit terms “the English and mathematics [skills] that graduates must have mastered by the time they leave high school if they expect to succeed in postsecondary education or in high-performance, high-growth jobs” (p. 10). ADP concluded that a rigorous high school curriculum demands four years of mathematics courses—not only Algebra and Geometry, but also Data analysis and Statistics—and four years of English, including courses covering “language, communication, writing, research, logic, informational text, media, and literature” (p. 22). It recommends that school districts set high school graduation requirements aligned with both state standards and with the coursework required for incoming freshman at colleges and universities within their states.

Both Texas and Indiana have taken leadership roles in implementing this curriculum reform strategy. Texas has aligned its Recommended High School Program curriculum with the ADP-recommended benchmarks (Texas Education Agency, n.d.). Indiana’s Core 40 curriculum (Indiana Department of Education, 2006) is a product of Indiana’s Education Roundtable committee, whose members include leaders in K–16 education, business, the community, the government, and parent organizations. This core curriculum requires high school graduates to take four years of English courses, including literature, composition, and communication, and at least three years of mathematics courses, including Algebra I, Algebra II, and Geometry. In addition to articulating high standards, Indiana’s Education Roundtable (2003) emphasizes the equally important need to align standards, curriculum, instruction, and assessments throughout the state’s education system, from elementary through postsecondary education. Both Texas and Indiana require students who wish to opt out of these courses of study and be placed in a general education curriculum to obtain the approval of a guardian and/or a school counselor.


This article is taken from- http://www.education.com/reference/article/Ref_High_Schools_Failing/