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Consolidate Your Vision to Navigate through Challenging Educational Landscape

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The medias, both social and mainstream, is both frenzy and abuzz with the news of a teacher being implicated by court for using corporal punishment as a method to punish underachievement in academic outcome and as possible means to boost future performance. Although corporal punishment has been legally banned in education/ school, the practice still find its spot for numerous reasons. In my analysis, teachers personal belief system on half truths of educational theories and system induced stress on teacher performance tops the reasons for the existence of corporal punishment in schools. AI generated image 1. The educational Trap of Omnipotence, cultural beliefs on adverse conditioning, and misinterpreted theories As our teachers long ago believed that corporal punishment can induce learning behaviors boosting academic achievement, do today's teachers believe the same? I have seen many do hold on to those believe. It is either because of ignorance or cultural tendency to disbelieve ...
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Why Slash Classes on Saturdays: A Perspective

When most of the Civil Servants were exempted from going to office on Saturdays, hands were raised in agreement. Now, with talks of doing away with classes on Saturdays around eyebrows were raised by most people on social medias except by those in schools. To keep the skepticism at bay here are some logical explanations on why Saturdays should be Sunday for schools. 1. Relaxation from Academic Fatigue Academic fatigue for both teachers and students as a result of engaging in teaching-learning from Monday till Saturday seriously injure the achievement and enthuasim. Considerable weight of job-hatred is also induced by academic fatigue. It will be sound policy to have enough leisure time. 2. Learning is not only schooling business Our intuitions are wrongly framed to associate all learning to schooling. This association should be wiped off by the fact that learning is also a business beyond schooling. Learning is Jigsaw puzzle and there are missing links because we compel student...
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