Nursing Schools - A Nurse's Touch

Nursing is all about people. While nurses also need to know a little about medicine and diseases, it is more important for them to be involved with knowing how the disease affects the person, the person's life and the person's family.

Classroom Management and Discipline - Discover the Top 3 Myths

Everyone seems to know all about classroom management. Well at least they think they know. Discover the top 3 classroom management myths, and give yourself the edge in the classroom.

Pinellas County Schools - Maintaining High Standards

In Pinellas County Florida there are so many great schools to choose from parents often find themselves torn between multiple schools.

Simplifying Middle Schooling in Australia

Over the years many issues have been debated in regards to their impact on student learning and engagement in the middle years. It is now at the stage that it is becoming too complicated for the average teacher to sift through and work out what is important, and where to begin to make a start. Although a large body of research has been conducted, it has rarely been synthesized into a usable form that can be applied easily by teachers. This paper aims to sort through the various issues at play, and determine which are really important for the average classroom teacher to understand and to implement.

Audio Books are Great Teachers

The nuance of a words meaning depends in which context (or words around it) are used in combination with voice inflection in the expression of those words. That is how you can understand the meaning intended behind the spoken word. Body language plays a big part too in expressing words. It's pretty easy to see whether someone is fond of you or wants to fight you. Language is much more than the spoken word.

What Is Your Learning Style?

Most people have a dominant preferred learning style, although we often employ aspects of more than one style and this is actually a more effective way to learn. Identifying my preferred learning style will help me to find the ways in which I learn best and also to improve on the areas I am not so strong in.

Bullying - A Problem Far Too Common

Bullying involves the psychological, emotional, social or physical harassment of one or more person by another individual or group. It includes behaviours and actions that are verbal, physical and/or antisocial.

Nurse Salaries For Different Nursing Fields

Many new graduate nurses are readily offered jobs prior to graduation. The positions that they are offered are usually those with the title graduate nurse or GN. For the most part, new graduates are looking for employment near their home. Since the general nursing student is now in their early to late thirties, they have already established a secure family base. While jobs for graduate nurses are plentiful it helps to have some idea of how many jobs are actually offered throughout the United States. The wonderful fact of being a nurse is that they can work just about anywhere.

What Is Learning? Can We Learn Better Than Apes?-Part 2

We continue the conversation (Part 2 out of 2) on Learning with Dr. James Zull, Professor of Biology and Biochemistry at Case Western University and author of The Art of Changing the Brain: Enriching the Practice of Teaching by Exploring the Biology of Learning.

Book Party - For the Bookworm in Your Family

Whether it's you, your spouse or one of your kids, there is a bookworm in every family. Someone who loves to draw into a corner, curl up on a cushion, bed or couch and read for hours on end. There are so many delights one associates with books - cups of hot steaming cocoa or coffee, pretty book ends, book marks, coffee tables to display good books, and a myriad of other objects. A book themed party should focus on these joys of reading and create the cozy feeling related with books.

Boston Schools Battle Over MCAS Scores

Boston Schools are right in the middle of current concerns over stagnated student scores on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment Exam (MCAS). For the second year in a row, test score are flat, causing concern to both Boston Schools and the state of Massachusetts.

Chicago Schools See Positive NCLB Outcomes

The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) has been making progress in the Chicago Schools just as advocates of the initiative planned. Students who were transferred out of their failing schools have been replaced and settled into new Chicago Schools.

Cincinnati Schools Face Layoffs

Cincinnati Schools have recently endured an increased number of teacher and staff layoffs. The changes being made are noticeably affecting the function of schools; many parents have perceived the losses and been able to pinpoint the changes these departures have made in the Cincinnati Schools.