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Keynote address (Feb, 2016) to the educators in the Fort Nelson school district. We all know that we cannot teach a child without a concection... without a relationship. In the hustle and bustle of our jobs as educators, we often forget our why, the reason we got into education, of trying to make a difference with kids. In this talk, 6 Keys to Connecting are shared and discussed with the challenge of creating a more positive climate and better connections with kids in our classrooms, schools, and organizations.
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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.
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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
2. Many people related to the field of education
keep talking about VALUE BASED
EDUCATION as a panacea to all the problems
in the world.
The idea of value based education is probably
well intended in case of some of the proponents,
but ….
1. The influence of value system of the
society (now global values) (which does
not come in the purview of any formal
education) influences ideas and behavior
of the students and every one connected
with education tremendously.
2. Common men follow the celebrities in
different fields, in the world. The celebrity
status is decided by the global value
system and the media hype in accordance
with it! Today, all of us in the world are
suffering with the disease of
3. “individualism, superficiality and
pettiness”. Interestingly, it is disguised in
glamour, glitter, hype and glorification!
We have become caricature of ourselves.
We are unable to think and behave
conducive to our happiness and that of
others.
3. The value system (enlightenment and
inclusiveness or otherwise) of the
constituent assemblies decide the contents
and drafting of the laws.
4. The laws (whether they represent the noble
aspirations of the millions or not) and the
legal system (whether it provides any kind
of assurance, support or solace against
being subjected to injustice and/or crimes)
influences common man’s (and hence of
every one related to the field of education)
beliefs and interactions.
5. Our listlessness and emaciation to rise
above individualism, pettiness and
4. superficiality and our sectarian and
fragmented perspective and thinking (the
cause of global problems) are because of
getting disconnected from our powerhouse
(our true self)! NAMASMARAN can
reconnect us with our powerhouse. In
other words, this is like watering our roots!
6. In absence of NAMASMARAN, arbitrary
teaching of some arbitrary values, become
pitiable and utterly ineffective in serving
the purpose viz. providing any kind of
solution to global or individual problems.
7. One need not believe in this, but think over
the issue and verify the empowering and
rejuvenating experience of cosmic
benevolence of NAMSMARAN and its
byproducts.
DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR
