CORE Nonfiction Reading is a three-book series for high-beginner and intermediate learners of English. It features passages that have been carefully controlled to ensure vocabulary and grammar appropriate to students in this range of levels. The topics of these readings are interesting and cognitively appropriate to students of high school or university age. Comprehension questions are skill activities ensure and enhance students’ understanding of key concepts and ideas.
CORE Nonfiction Reading is a three-book series for high-beginner and intermediate learners of English. It features passages that have been carefully controlled to ensure vocabulary and grammar appropriate to students in this range of levels. The topics of these readings are interesting and cognitively appropriate to students of high school or university age. Comprehension questions are skill activities ensure and enhance students’ understanding of key concepts and ideas.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Welcome to TechSoup New Member Orientation and Q&A (May 2024).pdfTechSoup
In this webinar you will learn how your organization can access TechSoup's wide variety of product discount and donation programs. From hardware to software, we'll give you a tour of the tools available to help your nonprofit with productivity, collaboration, financial management, donor tracking, security, and more.
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
Instructions for Submissions thorugh G- Classroom.pptxJheel Barad
This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Biological screening of herbal drugs: Introduction and Need for
Phyto-Pharmacological Screening, New Strategies for evaluating
Natural Products, In vitro evaluation techniques for Antioxidants, Antimicrobial and Anticancer drugs. In vivo evaluation techniques
for Anti-inflammatory, Antiulcer, Anticancer, Wound healing, Antidiabetic, Hepatoprotective, Cardio protective, Diuretics and
Antifertility, Toxicity studies as per OECD guidelines
2. Printed Information
In today’s society many people are not using
printed materials they have moved to
technology. In distance education there are
two main types of print materials that have
made a huge impact which are the course
syllabus and the interactive guide.
Distance education began with using only
print based correspondence study.
3. Distance Education Syllabus
The distance education syllabus should
contain:
Course Logistics which is the course title,
course meeting dates, times and location. It
should also include the instructor information
office hours and textbook information.
Course Policies should include attendance
and homework information.
4. Information
Instructional Activities includes the class
schedule with topic list, the goals and course
and objectives, assignments and the
interactive study guide.
Assessment Information is the grading
scheme and project evaluation criteria.
It can also include information such as the
student information and project/assignment
examples.
5. Interactive Studyguides
The interactive study guides is an important
part of distance education.The purpose of it
is too help students within the course. It is a
version of note taking by the students but
helps with organization and include pictures,
graphs problems and exercises. It consists of
two parts which are known as the display and
the notes section.
6. Graphic Design Principles
There are five techniques of graphic design
principles and each one serves a purpose.
Size and it is closely related to legibility.
Font- it is very important that the same font
be used throughout the whole text.
Color and Contrast- colors should be bold and
simple
Alignment- when doing assignments left
justified text is perfect.
7. Information
Lastly capitalization plays a huge role because
one must know that everything should not be in
uppercase letters.
There are six elements of design which are line,
shape, space, texture, value, and color.The
elements of design and the principle of design
goes together.The six principles are balance,
center of interest, emphasis, unity, contrast and
rhythm.When combined together it can assist
the distance educator in the development and
facilitate understanding.
8. Important Definitions
Word picture is a graphic representation of
concepts, principles and information.
Semantic maps are two dimensional
diagrams that use arrangements of nodes
and links to communicate and show
relationships among ideas.
Mind maps uses key words organized in
design.
Cognitive maps provides a graphic expression
of the structure of a body of knowledge.
9. Definitions
Structured overviews use graphics showing
the relationship of key ideas, concepts and
other information.
Outlines are visual displays that is useful in
presenting concurrent ideas.
Patterned note taking is related with mind
mapping. It has keywords in it.
Webbing has its main idea at the center and
looks a lot like a semantic map.
10. Summary
In this chapter an analogy is a way to describe
something that is unfamiliar by making it
familiar to something.
The syllabus is the glue that holds the course
and the learning experience together.
Visuals to be meaningful and instructional to
be designed effectively. Documents provide
background information, amplify concepts
and give a sense of direction to any and all
instructional events.