Visit the following link for my google slide presentation about emotional intelligence.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1tilFQN4ZTv_w7UFmRtf40r012SvyhyQxYCUdjxsb-Bg/edit#slide=id.p

Visit the following link to see my activinspire project about imperatives.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1EX1B4PmP1mvjqWg-9LiI9yGM-JbxE97x

Bridge Action Plan

Bridge

webquest

this webquest is about helping out others for grade 6 students.

Philosophy and Education

     Education is an old word that is frequently and commonly used through ages.  Education has taken a great part in philosophers’ and researchers’ lives.  For its importance and need in our lives, we notice that education is a renewable and everlasting process.  However, whatever new educational theory or philosophy reached, it must be constructed and based on old basics.  As we know, philosophy means the love of wisdom which is something broad that includes knowledge, facts, information and truth. There is a number of differences between eastern and western philosophies, yet they all work for the individual’s own sake, in order to prepare humans as independent and critical thinker in the society.  Al Farabi, Avicenna and many other Arab philosophers included education as an integral part of their general philosophy.  Moreover, pragmatism and existentialism are two western philosophies that also involved aspects of education as an essential part of the philosophy itself.  

Teachers must be wise enough, humanistic and aware of all the philosophies.  The teacher has to know what to pick from each philosophy in order to build up a unique one that should be satisfying for both poles.  Old is gold, and without history we can never build up the future.  Even though a number of points seem not to be successful or useful for us but that would teach us, as teachers, the wrong aspects and the right ones.  The most important thing is that teachers, no matter how old they are or what subject they teach, should take the students’ needs and desires as a main objective and consider their background.  When we start treating students as our real infants, then we will be doing our job as it should be and achieving our noble role in life.

Be Thankful

Sometimes, watching a series or a movie inspires us of many aspects in our life.  When we pass through struggles and difficult times, we feel that we are the only on Earth to face such challenges.  Actually, if we look around, we can see that each person has been given a lot of God's blessings.  However, there will always be that specific thing we really love but, miss.  Wealthy people are in need for health, healthy people wish for money, people with disable children wish for normal kids, and sterile couples hope for just a kid.  The point is not for what people aim or wish for, but for being blind of what they already have.  It is a matter of looking for the "what if" and the "consequences" behind the problems we have.  When we put the bad side option while we think of things we really want, we can understand the situation we are put in.  Also if we look toward the deeds after the patience and the acceptance we show for the obstacles, we understand that everything is prepared for our own sake.  We have to be thankful for everything, good and bad, and try to overcome every challenge with all our strength, faith, and power.  We have to believe that when we depend on God, we will all be alright.   

PCELT

As a teacher, I have attended many workshops but they were all about theories.  When I was informed about PCELT workshop, I didn’t have a minimum idea about how much this course is useful, practical and applicable.  At the end of this course, I couldn't but admit that every single moment during this workshop was worth the hard work I did.

Considering my learning in this course, I have a plenty to mention. 

1. I learned how to write a SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time bounded) objective. 
2.  I learned a new way to teach speaking skill through ECRIF (encounter, clarify, remember, internalize and fluent use). 
3.  I was introduced to SARS (select, adapt, reject and supplement) in which I can adapt any lesson to the objective I find suitable.  
4. I learned that both receptive skills reading and listening must have the PDP (pre, during and post) stages.
5. I learned how to assess a piece of writing following a rubric.

Those are few of the many things i benefited from the workshop.  Hope you will have a chance to attend such workshop.