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Techniques to Improve Concentration, Retention and Time Management
In today’s academic and workplace world, developing effective study skills is essential to success. These skills not only help students improve their academic performance, but also provide them with valuable tools for their professional future. The ability to concentrate, retain information and manage time efficiently can make a big difference in the results obtained. In this blog, we will explore fundamental techniques to improve these skills: concentration, retention and time management. Improving Concentration Concentration is the ability to focus on a specific task without being distracted. This is the basis of an effective study; Without good focusing skills, it is difficult to make the most of the time spent studying.…
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Awakening Potential: School Motivation for Academic Success
School motivation is an essential component of students’ academic success. However, understanding and cultivating this motivation can be a challenge for both educators and parents. In this blog, we will explore the importance of school motivation, examine the factors that influence it, and provide strategies backed by scientific research to foster a motivating educational environment. Importance of School Motivation: Motivation is not simply a momentary impulse but an engine that drives long-term learning. Scientific studies, such as the one by Dweck (2006), have shown that intrinsic motivation, which comes from interest and curiosity, is linked to more robust academic performance and remarkable persistence in the task. Through his mindset theory,…
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Educating in School Age to Entrepreneurship in Adulthood
Education is one of the most essential pillars for any individual’s personal and professional development. During school age, we acquire academic knowledge, skills, and values that will serve us well into our adult lives. It has become increasingly important to educate children from an early age about the importance of entrepreneurship, as this can make a difference in their development and prepare them to face the world of work challenges. In this way, they are taught to be independent, innovative and to seek creative solutions to problems that arise in the future. In this blog, we present the importance of educating at school age to undertake in adulthood and several…
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Online educational resources for teachers
The teaching process in the classroom involves a lot of preparation and mastery of the educational scene. As teachers, we develop plans with measurable teaching objectives that are adjusted to the needs of our students. Although many of us have already mastered everything that this process entails, we can make use of resources that facilitate everything that teaching entails on many occasions. Today, thanks to ICTs, many educational resources enable our daily lives in the virtual or face-to-face classroom. Many of these resources are free and accessible. We can find them on the web and test them, in this way we can decide if they meet our expectations or are…
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Musical Intelligence: Definition, Characteristics, and Activities for its Development
Music is part of our lives from the moment we are born. As human beings, we celebrate the most important activities or occasions in our lives with music. Our day-to-day is full of situations that bring up mind memories to identify rhythms and melodies. That is why we do not have to be professional musicians to think about music; we all have musical intelligence. The development of musical intelligence dates back to ancient times, with musical instruments as archaeological evidence. Musical intelligence is one of the eight intelligences that make up Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences. It is important to remember that Gardner defines intelligence as “the ability to…
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Assessment Techniques to Facilitate the Teaching-Learning Process
The teaching and learning process consists of a series of elements that include the development of teaching objectives and the assessment of learning. Thanks to the evaluation process, we can know our students’ needs, what material they master or do not master, and how we can help them in their learning process. When talking about evaluation, we must remember that there are several types. These are mentioned and explained below. diagnostic evaluation– Its purpose is to identify the students’ level of knowledge with which a course or unit begins. It can happen at any time during the class. formative assessment– Its purpose is to make decisions regarding the teaching process…
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Educational Apps and Web Pages for Students and Teachers
Information and communication technologies came to stay in the educational world. Our students’ needs and learning styles have been changing generation after generation. In the same way, technology is changing at a faster rate. As teachers, we have the task of being updated with the technological world and pedagogical styles that adjust to the needs of our students. Luckily we have educational apps and resources we can use to improve our teaching and learning experience. The world of technology continues to grow, change, and provide us, more and more, with tools that allow us to teach our classes in different ways. Considering that our students have different intelligences, we must…
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Back to school from home: Tips for getting organized before school starts.
August has arrived and with it, brings the back to school. This year has been full of different experiences for all of us thanks to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, which continues affecting us to this day. This academic year will be very different from what we are used to. However, we must continue with our routines, our studies, and our jobs. During the past months, we have experienced what studying and working from home is. We have never been exposed to this situation before. However, it is our responsibility to take care of ourselves and our children. During this semester, the school continues in virtual mode and it…
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From school to home: How to help my child with schoolwork?
Given the reality we are living due to the COVID-19 pandemic, our life has changed in a matter of days. What we knew as our daily routines have gone to be part of the past. Now, for our safety and the safety of others we have to remain at home. However, this does not mean that everything stops. Both, we and our child, have to continue with our duties. Already at home with the children, while the school continues virtually, we ask ourselves, what do we do now? In this Blog we present some of the things to consider when working with your child at home. 1. Study environment The…
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Collaborative Learning: Use and Benefits in the Classroom
The teaching and learning process in the classroom is changing and is dependent on the students’ needs. During the last decades, thanks to technology, innovation, and global communication, the world has been changing rapidly. As part of this change, the field of education has not been an exception. Children from an early age have access to information through different means, and it is here where the teacher must be prepared for the type of students who reach the classrooms. There are various teaching models focused on different types of learning. However, the educational process is increasingly inclined to make students the protagonist of their teaching-learning process and the teacher their…
