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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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Embrace Blended-Learning or Face the Failure

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The choice is yours. You hold the tiller. You can steer the course you choose in  the direction of where you want to be-  today, tomorrow, or in a distant time to come.  - W. Clement Stone                          In what can be praised as bold and decisive move, schools re-opened and students are back into books. It is a national achievement to rejoice. We have experience over-load from keeping schools closed. Should experience be the best agent of positive change in education system, COVID-19 was the best, but, wait; it is underwhelming to witness schools driving back to same-old-themselves. A recent viral ‘ban and shame’ photo of someone carrying a smart phone to school is one revelation of schools heading back to old-selves. Numerous school re-opening Office Orders and Notifications shared on social media (by schools) showcased how reckless and indifferent schools are to students owning cellular...
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