Being a Successful Teacher

The teacher is the person who relates and communicate in a positive way with her students and you should follow some strategies to be more successful in your teaching process.

• Holding High Expectations of your students: As a teacher, you should believe in them , expect that they are able to succeed  , motivate their abilities and appreciate their work even if it is invisible.
• Having sense of humor: When the teacher accept her student's joke and she makes her classroom a source of happiness then learning will become more easier and students will concentrate more with their teachers .
• Knowledgeable in their field:  The teachers are masters in their subject area. She should know "What is  her subject about , what is the objectives of her lesson , Is she able to let her students understand , what methods used to let her subject understood by her students......"
• Communicate with parents and students: The teacher should establish a relationship with her students and their parents. She should care for her students , be a good listener, respect them and the relation with parents will the teacher to know her students more.
• Being up-to-date: The teacher should be up -to-date for new methods that she can use in her teaching process because students are up-to date for every single information , if something is changed in a domain of her subject , she should know .
• Being emphasized with students: The teacher must be patient with students and understand their problems facing with her subject in order to keep them on the track.

 

Building Student's Self-Confidence

Many students are facing problems with their parents, with their surrounding and even with themselves.  They may face problems with their parents and their surroundings because of different points of view.They can face problems with themselves when they doubt their abilities and dreams.

To deal with these problems , we need to increase their self-confidences .

Steps for building student's self-confidence :

• Provide positive feedback to your students when appropriate: Praise them when they do good jobs and tell them that you are proud of them and you are proud that they are your students.
• Give only genuine praise: Your students can recognize the genuine praise from false praise. Make sure that you don't praise a student for doing nothing.
• Set realistic goals for each student: Each student is different from the other so the teacher should set goals for each student alone based on their abilities and these goals are achievable by the student himself or herself.
• Use teaching strategies that provide an opportunity for equal participation: Make sure that all the students are sharing . For example , arrange them in circles in order to make eye contact with each other.
• Create an open, positive environment for learning: Create a safe environment for you students, Don't make them afraid from you , let them express what they want .
• Show enthusiasm for the subject you are teaching and for your students' success: Your students will feel bored when you feel bored . Let them feel that you are excited about what you are doing in order to increase their sense in achieving goals.

Cooperative Learning

 What is the Cooperative Learning?

  Cooperative learning is a new teaching strategy used to improve students' understanding , using different students' levels of abilities.

Why we use it ?   

• Improve academic achievement.

• Increase self-confidence and motivation.

How does it work? 

We have 3 strategies and cooperative learning can benefit any subject because it can be used with any subject in the curriculum.

• Group Investigation : is an approach used in classes that allow students work collaboratively in small groups , and the students take active roles in determining their goals.
• Student Team - Achievement Divisions :It is known by STAD ,  it is a strategy used for small groups and the students are with different levels of abilities in order to accomplish  a shared learning goal.

• Jigsaw:is a grouping strategy in which the members of the class are organized into groups then rearranged in new groups to share their learning. This is an excellent method for improving students' teamwork and communication skills.

Advantages of these Strategies:

1-They have potential to produce a level of engagement . 

2-Students may explain things better to another student than a teacher in a class.

3-Questions  are more likely to be asked and answered  in  a group setting.

 

Importance of Education

Education is the development for the abilities of human's minds, it is the process for facilitating learning skills, values , beliefs and knowledge.

Importance of education in human life:

1. Ability to read and to write: one of the simplest abilities that education can affect the human life which is the ability to read and to write . When you are able to read , you will be able to recognize letters, numbers , words and you will be able to write your own topics. So , you will be able to read newspapers,  signboards in streets , in restaurants , public places.  Also, reading and writing will help you to know what's happening around , if you are searching for a job , you will be able to read the signboards in restaurants or in places which offer jobs so you will not be able to lose the job because you weren't knowing about it.
2.  Communicating with others will be easier: We are all familiar with the social applications such Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and others. Moreover, we are learning new techniques in computers using the applications found in google apparatus. We are able now to communicate with our friends this blog that I am using now. What's amazing is that you can communicate with others even if you were in another country.
3. Expressing your opinion and point of views: When you are using certain techniques and applications , you will be able to express your opinion using these applications. Nowadays, we are not leaving our phones because we are able to communicate and express our opinion without seeing that person we talking to him.
4. Ability to serve the society:  Education helps the society to be more effective and practical. It enrich the society with different majors such as teachers, engineers , medical services. So nowadays, when you feel sick , you will go to a doctor and even if you are tired psychologically you will go to a psychological doctor. 

So as a conclusion , we are nothing without education .  

Why Sky is Blue using Physics

It is easy to see the sky blue.
Have you ever ask yourself why?

The sunlight looks white to human being but actually it is a mixture of the colors of the rainbow.

What are the colors of the rainbow?

• Red
• Orange
• Yellow
• Green
• Blue 
• Violet

These colors are called visible spectrum which mean that they are seen by the eye of the human being.

We can see these colors when  the white light  passes through the prism ( triangle in the figure) , the light is separated to all of its colors. As we all see that the colors are different and in physics is explained because of the wavelength. Each color has it's own wavelength.

As the white light of the sun travels through the Earth's atmosphere , this white light collides with the particles of earth.Because of these collisions we have these different colors or different wavelengths.

How the sky becomes blue?

These colors are scattering in all directions. Since the blue component of the spectrum has shorter wavelength than the red component of the spectrum , the sky looks blue.

So, when the sun is high in the sky , blue light is scattered in all directions as sunlight passes through the atmosphere and we see the sky blue.

Special Theory of Relativity

 Definition:

The Special Theory of Relativity is a theory where various physical phenomena depend on the relative motion of the observer and the observed objects. In other words , it explains how space and time are linked together for objects moving in a constant speed. It is developed by Albert Einstein.

Postulates:

1. There are two postulates for this theory:The laws of physics are same in all inertial frames. This is the principle pf relativity.
2. The speed of light in vacuum is constant and same as observed from all inertial frames. This is known as the principle of constant of speed of light.

The first postulate of the Special Theory of Relativity relates to the reference frames. A frame of reference  is a set of coordinates used to determine positions and velocities of objects in that frame; different frames of reference move relative to one another.

 There are two types of frames:

Inertial Frame of Reference

An inertial frame of reference is a frame where a body moves with constant speed or remains at rest with respect to other frame of reference. An inertial frame of reference has a constant velocity so the acceleration is zero.

Non-inertial Frame of Reference

A non-inertial frame of reference is a frame where the body is accelerated without the act of the external force.

As a conclusion, the laws of physics are same in all inertial frames of reference.

The second postulate is related to the speed of light which equals to 3x10^8 meter/second and this speed is the same in  all inertial frames.

ADHD

Many students used to forget  and finish their duties , stay all the day dreaming and even making actions without thinking about the consequences. Such students are called Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
We will introduce the symptoms , causes and effects for ADHD.

Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Symptoms:

• Hyperactivity
• Impulsive
• In-attention

It is not necessary to have all of these symptoms in students with this disorder. Many studies prove that the ADHD appears at young ages .

Causes:

1. Genetic : This is the main cause of this disorder. If the Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity disorder is running in the family , then it is possible to have a child with this disorder.
2. Physical: When children born with low weight or when the mother smokes during pregnancy increases the risk of having an ADHD child .

Effects: 

1. Social isolation: The children will be unable to make bonds with others and with his or her peers.
2. Feeling with stress and depression. 

How can you deal with them:

1.  Hands on activities:  Let them use their hands as possible so you solve their hyperactivity problem .
2.  Few amount of duties: Give them a few amounts of homework and when they forget it ask them to do it again.