Gone were the days when teenagers were still playing street games like patintero and luksong-tinik and when they were running after one another playing hide and seek. Teenagers seem to be more engrossed with a lot of other things – technology and internet, malling and night-outs, shopping and make-up and love and romance. These days, …
Category Archives: Beyond the Classroom
Depression Among Teenagers
Depression is among the topmost emotional and mental struggles most young people go through nowadays. Depression has been very rampant. As a result, these young people resort to many activities to like drug addiction, suicides, vandalism and many other juvenile acts. Police reports usually have a share of a few teenage suicide attempts and those …
Childhood Immunization
The country is facing now with the controversial issues about commonly used vaccine among children and it has a big impact on health workers on how to gain back the trust of the community when it comes to childhood immunization. Immunization is a lifesaving intervention used to control and potentially eliminate vaccine preventable diseases. Immunization …
What a Man’s Body Needs
Why should we teach Physical Education in schools? A lot of people are finally acknowledging the need to be physically fit, as it undeniably adds to their aesthetic qualities as a man or a woman. Indeed, gym rats have finally taken over Instagram and some of Facebook, flooding their friends’ timelines with buff biceps and …
Five Points Never Say To Your Boss
Everybody has a boss. Even if we “work for yourself,” we’re still an employee to our client. A big part of maintaining the boss-employee relationship is to never allow a boss to think you dislike your work, are incapable of doing it, or worse consider it beneath you. These sound like no-brainers, but many statements …
Parent Involvement In Children’s Education (In Relation to Academic Achievement)
Bringing Back the Values of the Good Old Days
We are experiencing today a state of moral corruption. This is evident in the kind of governance our state leadership is tucked in – a leadership that has caused and continues to cause a rift among the members of the populace. If we are to make an assessment, each person goes his own way, being …
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Modern-Day Educators Should Teach by Example
Thousands of behavioral psychologists all over the world confirmed that children who were born in this modern era were mold differently and are greatly influence by modern gadgets and equipments. Most parents and even teachers were unaware of the good and bad influence of these new technologies and how it affects our values, beliefs and …
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Toys as an Effective Tool in Teaching
Children love to play a lot. By means of playing, they learn and develop bodily, intellectually and socially. When they play, they work. Those little angels make use of their toys to perform their work well. When they look and talk to their toys, they widen their imagination and explore with more games. Simple toys …
You’ll be amazed at the difference you can make
Based on a true story and released by the Ministry of Education, Singapore.