I think about all the hours that students spend in class listening, for the most part, to one person talking. Or, if students are working on individual assignments, those mostly are designed to build recall of information from standards that are bulleted with more and more bits and pieces of...
Alam says that although he wasn’t called a student ambassador, he was heavily involved in organizing on-campus events such asorientation, family weekend, a flag-hoisting day and International Education Week. While roles can vary across schools, ambassadors typically do outreach and recruitment...
“They provide a support network that makes navigating the college experience easier as one can turn to all the chapter members for help,” says Woods. International students may also want to join just to experience something classically American. “Freshman year everybody on my flo...
Value orientation of PhD students determines the strategy to time tensions. Most PhD students have to weigh priorities and decide whether to prioritise achievement or self-care, and some of them choose the former one. These students focus on solving problems in a compressed time instead of mental...
ting from a career orientation program and career counseling, senior high school students reported increased levels of academic and career self-efficacy. This manifested in being motivated to put more effort into their courses, take more challenging courses that align with their future aspirations, ...
just run with yours.Most of my kids are working on homework assignments and projects that involve where they came from and how we as a family celebrate that. I think that the kids are as frustrated about the family void when it comes to this subject as I was, so they are finally emplo...
Labels: Andy Blumenthal, Buddhism, Connection, Creation, Dalai Lama, Elevation, Enlightenment, G-d, Interfaith, Judaism, Kabbalah, Meaning, Mindfulness, Oneness, Purpose, Self-improvement, Soul, Spirituality, Times of Israel May 16, 2025 Nakba - It's all Propaganda! Posted by Andy Blumenthal...
The scattering of our family around the globe and maintaining a close-knit unit when we’re separated by thousands of miles and several time zones. Losing friends has been hard too – many expats are here on 2/3 year assignments so friendships will be made only to end when the friend lea...
The semester began in July 2013 and kicked off with a week of Orientation. I had butterflies in my stomach as I looked around the room, to be greeted by people half my age! During the ‘meet & greet’ period, one of the guys pointed out that he’d just returned from Hawaii. To br...
Enrolment of students in schools depended on meeting two specific criteria: falling within the age range of 13 to 17 years old and presently attending the 8th grade. To assess individuals within the community and determine their suitability for participation in the study, eligibility criteria included...