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Today's post features some of the best educational websites to help your students develop strong reading skills. They (websites) provide access to a treasure trove of resources, lessons plans, activities, interactive games, web tools, and several other reading materials to enhance students reading comprehension.  You will be able to find reading materials for all levels from beginners to advanced readers. We have also included a collection of digital libraries you can use with young learners to help them search for, find and access books and digital stories designed specifically for kids. We invite you to check them out and share with us on our Facebook page if you have other suggestions to add to the list. There is an infographic version of this post which you can access and download from  this page . 1-  ReadWriteThink ‘ReadWriteThink is a great platform that provides a wide variety of educational materials covering different literacy areas including reading, writi...

If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.’ ― Margaret Mead ‘Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?’ ― L.M. Montgomery ‘New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.’ ― Lao Tzu ‘A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.’ ― Aberjhani,  Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry ‘It turned out that sometimes it’s enough to start doing things differently now.’ ― Laini Taylor,  Muse of Nightmares ‘I want every day to be a fresh start on expanding what is possible.’ ― Oprah Winfrey ‘You cannot change what you are, only what you do.’ ― Philip Pullman,  The Golden Compass (by  BurntBranch  on Etsy) ‘Nourish beginnings, le...

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There is a wealth of psychology research that can help teachers to improve how they work with students, but academic studies of this kind aren’t always easy to access or translate into the realities of classroom practice. This series seeks to redress that by taking a selection of studies and making sense of the important information for teachers, as we all seek to answer the question:   how can we help our students do better at school? This time, we consider growth mindset. Growth mindset   – the idea that intelligence can be developed rather than it being set in stone – is arguably the most popular psychological theory in education at the moment. It was launched into mainstream consciousness after a seminal growth mindset study almost 20 years ago and has since spawned many assemblies and   form tutor-time activities . But what were the findings of this influential study?   The problem with praise such as ​​'you're so clever​' is that it doesn't tell students w...

Modern life is full of distractions – and some of them can have a negative effect on our ability to concentrate when studying. The problem is that many people tend to underestimate how much they are distracted by what’s going on around them. Here’s how you can get the most from your studies by considering your environment. Reading is often accompanied by background speech, such as from the television or the conversations of friends or colleagues. When trying to concentrate on a task, people  often report  that the presence of nearby speech is annoying. But they are usually not very good at accurately  estimating  how distracted they will be by such sounds. However, when measured in the lab, people’s ability to carry out study-related tasks is usually made worse by irrelevant speech in the background. For example, a  recent study  recorded participants’ eye movements as they read texts and listened to irrelevant background speech. The results showed re...

In their day jobs, research psychologists don’t typically need safety goggles, much less pith helmets or Indiana Jones bullwhips. There’s no rappelling into caves to uncover buried scrolls, no prowling the ocean floor in spherical subs, no tuning of immense, underground magnets in the hunt for ghostly subatomic particles. Still, psychologists do occasionally excavate the habits of lost civilizations. In a paper published in the latest issue of Current Directions in Psychological Science, a team of researchers  reviewed studies of a once-widespread personal trait , one “characterized by an ability to accurately acknowledge one’s limitations and abilities, and an interpersonal stance that is other-oriented rather than self-focused.” Humility. “Research on humility has been growing, and fast,” said Daryl Van Tongeren, a psychologist at Hope College in Michigan and lead author of the new paper. “It was time to bring people up-to-date and lay out the open questions to guide furthe...

Jobs Students Voice Study Abroad Mock Test DU Cut-Off EDUCATION A math problem: How Delhi government is trying to get students to learn this subject better The 2019 board exam results were the start of a new experiment for the Delhi government. Having realised that mathematics was dragging the pass percentage down, schools and the education department have spent months trying to address the stumbling block. The Indian Express looks at how they’re going about it. Written by  Sukrita Baruah  | New Delhi | Updated: October 21, 2019 9:41:55 am     Special Mathematics class being given to the students of class 10, to improve the overall result in the Delhi Government school. (Express photo by Abhinav Saha) “I just couldn’t wrap my head around polynomials. There’s x and y and z… there’s x on both sides of the equation… there is division and multiplication. It didn’t make any sense to me,” said 17-year-old Hemant, half embarr...