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Written by By: Dr. Jennifer B. Baxt
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Life can be enjoyable, but it can be a real annoyance as well. A person's life is lived and experienced by the choices that the individual makes each day. Many of these choices or decisions will be mistakes, but many of them will be the right ones too. Some choices in life seem sensible and easy to make, but others can seem impossible, especially when it has much to do with how a person has to change or alter their lives. Going to school, getting married, having children, moving across the country, or taking a risk on a business that can make a good living or leave one bankrupt are all choices that can be more difficult to make.
Everyone has asked the question; "Am I really sure about this?" Most would love to have the answer given to them or to at least be one hundred percent sure that the one choice is definitely the best idea for them. For most, however, the gut feeling can be torn between whether to go ahead with something or not. On the one hand, the one choice means less risk, but the other can mean the opportunity or possibility for the life one has always pictured. In many cases, it could come down to how much one is willing to risk. For those who tend to avoid risks, they may find that when they look back on their life they see many missed opportunities that could have meant a better and more enjoyed life. For those who tend to take every risk, however, they may look back on much of their life as a whole list of mistakes. When making choices, most want to be smart about it and only take a risk when they feel it is something that can lead to achieving their ultimate goal. It is extremely important, however, that one never try to completely avoid a decision that they will eventually have to make. Sometimes it is best to, as they say, "Rip off the band-aide" and make the choice that seems to have the most 'good' potential in it.
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Written by Tony Aitken
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Offering tips, tools and resources
to help you improve your tutoring.
How can you offer effective tutoring to help underachieving student develop confidence, improve their learning skills, build good work habits and thus begin to achieve their true potential?
"The answer is not working harder, but learning how to learn" says Helen Gibson, a teach with over 35 years experience teaching on four continents. Helen developed the key learning and tutoring strategies to ensure academic success that we will be discussing in this article. Here’s a sample of some of the accelerated learning techniques she recommends for use in the tutoring process.
1. Get the students you are tutoring to read and talk aloud.
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Written by BBC
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A record-breaking number of A-level entries for England, Wales and Northern Ireland have been awarded A grades.
More than one in four entries - 26.7% - got the top grade, up from 25.9% last year and the overall pass rate rose to 97.5%, up 0.3 percentage points.
The improvement in grades - for the 27th year in a row - will add to the pressure on university places.
There are 60,000 more applicants for university places in the UK than this time last year.
That is a 10% rise on last year. The increase is being put down to demographics - more people in that age group this year - and the effects of the recession.
Hundreds of thousands of teenagers have received the results of their A and AS-level exams.
Scottish students received the results of their Highers and Standard Grade exams earlier this month. They showed a slight rise in standards achieved.
The A-level results have been released by the Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ), the body which represents the exam boards.
They show that more than three quarters of entries (75.1%) were awarded at least a C grade.
In Northern Ireland, more than one in three entries (34.5%) was given an A grade - a fall on last year when 35.4% achieved the top grade - but still a higher proportion than in England and Wales.
In Wales, 25% of entries got the top grade. In England, the proportion was 26.5%.
The figures reveal that girls continue to outshine boys generally at A-level, but that the gap between them at the top grade is narrowing.
The percentage of entries from boys which were awarded an A is 25.6% this year, compared with 27.6% of entries from girls.
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