HOW TO MAKE YOUR 24 HOURS A DAY EFFECTIVE..................

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SENSIBLE USE OF 24 HOURS...............

Why does 24 hours in a day seem not enough? I must have asked myself this question a zillion times.

In my “younger” years, I would lament: Why can’t there be more than 24 hours in a day? As if having more hours in a day would have made that much of a difference. It wouldn’t. Why? Well, because I would have found ways to fill the additional time and would have felt that this new number of hours–whether it be 28 or 38–was still not enough.

Eventually, I had to surrender to the fact that 24 hours in a day is all I get, and that this number wasn’t going to change.

Despite my best efforts to deal with my tendency to fill my schedule with more tasks and activities than humanely achievable in 24 hours, I always found myself having more things to do than time would permit.

Finally, I realized that I had to learn how to manage my time more effectively, and use it for high-value activities (i.e. activities that move my life forward). The more such activities I was putting in my schedule, the better return I was getting on my time investment and the less I felt that 24 hours was not enough. It became clear that, to a great extent, time management was really about priority management.

You may have wished that there be more than 24 hours in a day. Perhaps, you’re still wishing… because you have so much to do and so little time to do it.

If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed by all you have to do, you most likely need to learn how to manage your time more effectively. The following steps can help you:

1. Monitor how you use your time and eliminate low-value activities. You’re already using your 24 hours for various activities. But, are these the right activities? Are these getting you the results you want in life? Monitoring how you use your time will help you identify low-value activities. These should be eliminated from your schedule (or at least kept at a minimum) and replaced by high-value activities.
2. Establish clear goals and plan for their achievement. Setting goals is a excellent way to make sure that your time is invested on important activities that move your life forward. Set goals, and plan for those goals: break larger goals into smaller ones, identify the resources you’ll need, establish timelines, etc.
3. Make a to-do list and rank all items. A to-do list will give you a clear idea of all the things that are competing for your attention, and help ensure you don’t forget any important tasks. Making a to-do list is simple and quick. Take a piece of paper or go on your computer and begin to write all your tasks. Update the list as needed (i.e. when you complete a task or when a new task falls on your lap).
4. Prepare your schedule, making sure you put first things first. Ideally, high-value activities should be scheduled first. Resist the urge to prioritize simple, easy tasks. Rather, give priority to high-value activities, and make sure you tackle them first. Always allocate time for high-value activities.
5. Get moving. Deciding and organizing what needs to be done is one thing, doing it is another. Your ability to take action at the set time is a determining factor in your success. Don’t procrastinate. Take consistent action, focusing on one task at a time and eliminating all sources of distraction.
6. Take breaks and time to rest. This should be obvious… But, when you feel that you have so much to do and not enough time to do it, you may be tempted to sacrifice breaks and sleep. Don’t.Take regular breaks and, after a full day of focused work, rest. This will ensure that your mind is alert and your body is fresh when you work. From time to time, you may get away with a few short nights, but don’t make it an habit.
7. Stick to it and reward yourself. It’s very common–if not inevitable–to make mistakes or to face challenges, setbacks, and delays as you attempt to complete a task. In such situation, you may be tempted to give up and retreat to low-value activities. Resist. It takes stamina and perseverance to make it on the top of the mountain, where you can enjoy a great reward. Every step of the way, it helps to celebrate your victories, big and small.

Fitting everything you have to do in the confines of 24 hours can be challenging, even stressful. But 24 hours is enough if you learn to use those hours wisely: for high-value activities. I’m not sure you’ll ever completely eliminate the feeling that 24 hours isn’t enough, but you can certainly get more for your buck… I mean more for your hour.

A STRAIGHT LINE IS ALWAYS THE SHORTEST WAY................

Learning is the journey, and like any journey, it can take twists and turns before we reach the destination. As teaching professionals, part of our job is to ensure our curriculum is delivered in a way that is meaningful for our students. We create, build and deliver our lessons in progression, with each building on the one before.

Knowledge is a step by step process, with each level building on what precedes it. This is a key element of the learning process - the cumulative effect of education. However, it is important to realize that the journey is as important as the destination. To be truly successful, students must engage in the learning process itself. When students take ownership of their own learning process, true knowledge is created.

We sometimes find ourselves moving in directions we didn’t anticipate. As educators we must continue to guide the ship in the direction that our curriculum has charted, but we should never be fearful of tacking a bit to get there.

While the shortest distance between two points isn’t always a straight path, it is educationally speaking, sometimes the most important path.

REGULAR STUDY WORKS.......................

Importance and Benefits of regular studies for students

Exam preparations

Whenever you prepare for the exam then your regular study plays an important role. You might read many articles of toppers, they just says that regular study helped them to get this position. Yes that is the key for success. You can do the best preparation with the help of regular studies. And you will need only a quick revision at the time of exam.

Understanding the concept

When any person teaches you any topic then your mind absorbs all the knowledge given by him. If you are not able to read that topic within a particular time period then you will just forget the main concept of that topic. Means if you are studying your class work on the daily basis then you can get into the depth of that topic. With this you can understand the topic timely.

Preparation of Notes

It is the best thing students do while doing regular studies. It helps them to make the notes on the regular basis for the exam. These notes help them a lot during the exam session. With the notes you can save much of your time. The student with the notes always considered as the best one. So regular study helps you in this ways too

Prime Outcome

Outcome is the combined result of smart work and the hard work but it’s more about smart work. Smart work is doing regular study and hard work doing all at single time. As we have discussed that if you want to go on the top then regularity matters a lot. If you well prepared for the exam then it is quite obvious that you will perform far better in the exam then other students. And if you perform well in the exam then you will give the prime results on the basis of your regular study. 

Boost confidence level

When you do regular study, then it boosts up your confidence level. Your repudiation in the class also increases. All the teachers start respecting your questions and seriously give answer to your questions.

So these are Importance and Benefits of regular studies for students.

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TEACHERS ARE PILLARS

TEACHERS ARE THE PILLARS OF SOCIETY

Teachers have always been considered as the pillars and makers of society. Whatever teaching they give
their students, they follow them. Teachers have always been considered as one of the first guide and friend of any individual. They have provided information and incited values among students no matter patriotic or cultural.
Teachers are nation builders as the future of the country or the children and their formation is in their hands.
The importance of the teacher in national life cannot be over-emphasized. It is the teacher who influences
the immature minds of the youth, treats and tries to mould them into various forms through the process of
education.
But it is also true that commercialization has seen the teachers lose their due respect with time. This downfall
is because these days many teachers are teachers not by choice but by chance/ circumstances.
However, the situation is not so depressing for the teacher. The importance of the role of the teachers as an
agent of change, promoting understanding and tolerance has become more obvious and is likely to become even more critical in the present century. This places enormous responsibilities on teachers.
If the quality of education totally depends on the teachers, their knowledge, their relations with the students
and their dedication to the profession, then it becomes completely mandatory to make required reforms in our education system with their feedback and suggestion.
What should be taught---on a larger scale needs curriculum changes – workshops and seminars are being
organized to improve the quality of education, but there should be a follow through to see whether the suggestions are being implemented. Present day educators from schools should take the front seat in the decision making process- not retired professionals (with all due respects) from every field but education—the classroom situations today is totally different from their times!.
The teachers are, however, the largest professionally trained group in the world and the pulse of a society.
The issues they face are fundamental to human development. They serve the communities and need someone to hear their voices too.

BY FLUENT ENGLISH SPEAKING YOU CAN EARN MORE- SAYS TIMES OF INDIA SURVEY

SEVEN STEPS FOR MAKING YOUR LIFE BETTER........

SEVEN STEPS FOR MAKING YOUR LIFE BETTER........

Step back and assess:  Start by imagining that you’re someone else observing your life. And imagine that this someone else cares about and wants you to be happy, but also sees you clearly and is wiling to be drop-dead honest.  What would he or she say is working in your life, and what would he or she say is not working – is a mess, a hassle, or is clearly making you unhappy?  Often, just doing this mental exercise – of observing and assessing your own life as a third party – allows you to see problems you’ve been trying to avoid, or shows you things you’ve been putting up with that you shouldn’t.  I did this exercise recently with a client, and when she looked at her life through this third-party lens, it made her realize that her marriage was in a much more fragile place than she’d been seeing. On the other hand, it also helped her see that her accomplishments at work were stellar, and that she hadn’t been acknowledging that, either.  She decided she wanted to focus on improving her marriage, while still having fun and doing a great job at work.

Pick the most FIT:  Some people have the opposite problem: rather than ignoring or not being aware of the aspects of their life they’d like to improve, they see way too many things to change.  If that’s the case for you, you might want to use an approach we call “FIT”: feasibility, impact, and timeliness. Here’s how: look at those things you’d like to change, and decide which is the most feasible (you actually can change it – it’s in your control, and you have the needed resources), most impactful (will have the greatest positive effect on your life with the least amount of energy expended) and most timely (you can do it now, and doing it will create a foundation for further change).  If you pick the one change that’s the most feasible, impactful and timely of all the possible changes you could make, it’s most likely to be successful.  Which will both move your life in a positive direction and reinforce your faith in your own ability to make other changes.

Be honest.  At this point, once you’ve decided a change you want to make, whether personal or professional, stop and ask yourself, “Knowing me, am I really going to do this?” If the answer is ‘yes,’ great – keep going.  If your honest answer back to yourself is ‘no,’ then ask yourself “Why – what will stop me?”  Let that rattle around in your head for awhile, and don’t bother beating yourself up for your ‘no’ – just get curious about where it’s coming from.  If, after reflection, you find it’s because you don’t think you’re capable of changing – you might want to make some effort to change your self-talk.  If, on the other hand, you find you don’t really want to make the change – at least not enough to make the effort required – you can look to see if there’s another FIT change that you’re more motivated to make.

Make a ‘first step’ plan.  Once you’ve decided to make a change, it’s good to have a plan – but when it comes to personal change (especially personal change that takes you out of your comfort zone in any way), the most important thing is to commit to a specific, doable first step – and then do it.  You’ve decided to work on your marriage? The first step could be to have a conversation about it with your spouse, or to get recommendations for two or three excellent couples therapists.  You’ve decided to find a new job? One first step: Update your resume.  If it’s already up-to-date: Post it on Linkedin.  If you’re at the executive level: Get in touch with a recruiter to tell him/her  that you’re looking.  Doing just one thing can break through inertia and send a signal to yourself that you’re serious about making the change.  Often, after taking the first step, it’s much easier to make a plan for what follows.

Get support. We’re tribal creatures: it’s more difficult for most of us to go through important shifts on our own.  Once you’ve decided to make a change, think about someone (or two someones) who will be a true positive force in this transition: who can help you through the tough spots; who believes in your ability to create a better reality for yourself; who you can count on to offer time and attention when you most need it.  Someone, in other words, who loves you and wants the best for you.  It’s a bonus if that person can go through the change with you (losing post-holiday weight with a friend or spouse is remarkably easier), or has already been through a similar change him or herself (your friend who left her job last year and has landed a new, better one will not only be supportive, but can offer practical guidance, as well).

Parallel process. Sometimes we talk ourselves out of making important positive changes in our lives by telling ourselves that we just don’t have the time to do it.  This seems to be especially true if the change is job-related.  I can’t tell you how many folks have said to me, “How can I put the needed energy into finding another job when I have to do this job?”  The answer: you parallel-process. Parallel processing originally meant creating computers that could do two sets of calculations – two work streams – simultaneously.  In our lives, we parallel process every day: there’s the job work stream, the family work stream, the personal time work stream, the hanging with friends work stream, etc.  In order to make a change you have to take some of your bandwidth from one of the existing work streams and put it into the making-a-change-work-stream. So for instance, if you’re serious about looking for a new job, you’re probably going to have to cadge some time from your non-job work streams (personal, friends, or family time) over the next few months in order to make that happen.  Think about it this way: it’s a short-term sacrifice for a long-term gain.

Celebrate every change.  Making real change in your life is tough: it takes time, energy, and commitment.  It’s easy to get frustrated along the way, to see all the things that aren’t moving in the right direction, rather than the things that are.  Get in the habit of acknowledging and rewarding yourself for every step in the right direction.  Lost 10 pounds? Get a great massage.  Resolved a tough issue with your spouse? Treat yourselves to a special dinner.  Your first job interview went really well? Play hooky for a bit afterwards and take a victory lap around the park.

You’re taking steps to ensure you’ll have the life you really want to lead – and that’s something most people don’t do.  Congratulations, and good luck.

ICT IN SCHOOL EDUCATION

What are some of the key challenges faced using ICT in school education with regard to ICT infrastructure?

• Uncontrolled access to the Internet for all students is very expensive
• Satisfactory Internet access for the students in a school is difficult to provide in most areas of the country outside the big cities
• The Internet in schools poses problems of misuse (like visiting educationally useless and undesirable sites)
• Attempts to use ICT in education are relatively ineffective unless the student gets content in his/her own language and content relevant to the curriculum. Suitable and adequate content should be planned for when the physical infrastructure is planned. 
• Educational TV offers the raw material for computer based video and multi-media instruction in Indian languages.

Local Area Networks (LANs) are very important for educational institutions, particularly because Internet

access is a problem. If content is available for hosting on the LAN, it would play a valuable role. Ideally a good part of the content should be in the video form. Interactive multi-media material would also be valuable.

We should make such resources available over every school LAN, instead of trying to make them accessible over the Internet. The bandwidth required for these is quite high, and the LAN is the cost-effective solution to provide this bandwidth. This will overcome many of the problems listed above. I have a few other suggestions in relation to infrastructure.

India has excellent satellite TV infrastructure and has invested significantly in educational TV. Due to technical advances, a school can now spend only Rs 2500 on DTH equipment once to get a 1.5 Mbps digital link (that is what satellite TV uses), which in turn

brings video content for free. Some Indian educational channels are planning to switch to DTH soon, and it is

very practical for them to do this.

Due to the rapid fall in the cost of servers and storage, it is entirely possible to record in digital form into

a server thousands of hours of TV programmes, and make it available on demand from every PC on the

LAN. It is easy to make a specified program available over the LAN according to a schedule to as many classrooms and PCs as are required. 

We can simultaneously provide for any set of Classrooms/PCs to access programmes that are required individually, without depending on a time schedule. A digital library on a server on the LAN would be a valuable asset, as it will store all types of digital content. ICT is perceived as expensive. It need not be so, if

a PC and a projector are used for a class as a whole. Such a facility should ideally be available in every

classroom. The classroom PC-cum-projector facility can be used even to administer quizzes and tests. Objective type questions can be displayed on the screen and students can be asked to write down the answers.

Alternatively, the teacher can call out students at random to answer a given question for the benefit of the

class. The teacher can correct wrong answers, explaining why that answer was not the correct one. Can you

offer advice on ways in which school ICT Infrastructure can be used as community learning centres after

the school hours?