Parental Involvement

How can parents affect students' achievement? How parents' jobs and their educational level affect their children? Let us examine how these factors influence students for better achievement toward success. Children are influenced by two main factors in their lives, their parents and their teachers. Parents are the primary factor who influence students learning before they enter their schools and they influence children's learning throughout school and beyond. Parents' education is one of the most important factors that influences children achievement since, parental involvement helps in motivating students and helps in improving their educational performance. Parents who are illiterate or have reached low educational levels find it hard to be involved in educating their children and those parents will face difficulties as their children grow up and what guide their children will be reduced. Parents who motivate their students to learn allow their children to behave better in school and achieve success. Parents who have professional career carry different perspectives toward life other than parents who work with non professional jobs, the income will be different and thus economic status will be different too. This difference will affect the ability of parents to provide their children with the basic needs. 

Goals of Education

When children enters their schools they should have an ultimate truth which is learning concrete things and comprehending the materials that helps them in their daily life and in their future, and to be realistic in expectations. Education is a real life where students spent most of their time in, and it is a necessity to teach students for higher level of thinking, to be creative, and have the ability to care of their problem-solving to enjoy learning.

Education should move toward teaching students interesting topics by using interesting materials that helps them in using the resources around them. Educational goals are required for the development of continuing professional education. The goals are not only teaching students for getting good marks or just entering college, it is giving students chance to succeed in life where they can enhance learning through doing and application. The goals help students learn more, and increase their effort for reaching those goals.

Being a Teacher

I like to hear the word teacher from my students, and as teachers it is important to ask ourselves if we are real teachers. However, being a teacher is a challenging job where we can enjoy interpersonal interaction and benefit from the variety and diversity of students in the classroom. Teachers should search of what makes them good such as: 

• Building a positive classroom climate and strengthening the relationships of the teacher with the students that helps in engaging and in involving them in the class.
• Questioning have to be answered in a clear way.
• Having well planned lessons with the interesting materials.
• Being organized and providing feedback for students to encourage them for improvement.
• Dealing with students of different learning styles.

My hope for teachers to be considered as great professionals and not to consider teaching as semi-profession. It is really important to keep searching of ways for improvement and for assessing students' needs. Reflection for teachers is necessary to enhance knowledge and understanding the ways to promote knowledge. Teaching is like no other professions in my opinion.

Does Success Starts With Failure?

This may be true for some people and for others may not but what is the most important is that after we fail we should come back with a stronger, and smarter approach. Other people taste their success through fixing their mistakes instead of getting things right the first time. Despite thinking about  the causes of your failure, it is very important to use new things and expose yourself to lots of different ideas, and you have to know when you have failed and not succeeded. When people gave you feedback in order to help you do better and achieve success, you have to dig out the real advice. When you are able to recognize a failure, you will be able to do it in something more likely to succeed. Everybody experiences can be exposed to success or failure. Some individuals can be successful in their jobs, and they are not successful in their relationships. When you succeed or fail, it is important to judge yourself., through your mental strength and by using positive thinking to concentrate on yourself and on your goals and that will be easier to achieve them.  

Laughing is a Good Medicine

Many people are afraid of laughing, their lives full of sadness, depression, and stress. Humor is infectious and laughter makes person feel good. Keep smiling at each stranger you pass on your way. It's very important to practice how to laugh in a polite way. Laughing plays an important role in strengthening the immune system and boosting energy, it also enhances the relationships between people. That's why we can use it as a cure for many diseases as a medical cure and mental one. The cardiovascular system and the immune system could be affected through laughing, and that could protect the person against a heart attack, and the inner lining of blood vessels will expand in order to increase blood flow. Laughter help the body to relax and enhances the intake of oxygen. Enjoy laughing, we came to life once a time , we have to enjoy that in order to avoid depression, stress, and anger. 

It's a fun medicine, free, and easy to use.

The Harmony with the Universe

Life need happiness in order to survive, but how people can search for happiness and celebrate their ability to go forward. When you taste success or suffer from failure, you will still going forward. No one can stay at the same place. When you decided to move forward in life, and when you do that with happiness, you will become someone exceptional. When you move with happiness, that will help you to change the learning from your struggle to your strength, and your love from others into your treasure of life. Your happiness is what you think, what you say, and what you do, they are in harmony. Anger can create the darkest clouds that obscure the true nature of your mind so, try to take and deal with something that hurt or suffer you by being happy. Not all works can fulfills one's passionate interests. How many people in each second can taste happiness? How can you be happy in your life? We need to know how to live in order to live happily. 

Your Money, or Your Life

Which one is your choice? Money or Life? What do you prefer? Do you prefer to have money more or you prefer to live your life with happiness? 

We all agree that money is important in our lives, but most of people move toward the dream of getting rich, they spent their lives running toward something which may be impossible to reach and they sacrifice their true life for a dream that can never come true. Those people's mind are programmed to earn more and more money, but they actually forgot the meaning of their lives, their families, and their relationships with others. That is similar of adding more sugar or more salt to a certain dish, too much can drawn you we need to have balance and to be convinced with what we need. 

Think about the importance of life, you are never alone in the society. It is necessity to have family, to think about daughters and sons, their education, to taste happiness with them. Smiling can makes you feel happy. You have to believe in God, the creator of the world in order to believe in everything around you. 

Teacher Thinking About Objectives

There are many kinds of thinking about objectives that many of teachers use, such as coverage objective when the teacher think in terms of himself or herself, not in terms of the students. The teacher here present, describe, explain, or covered identified information and when she's through the agenda the lesson is done. however the activity objectives moves around the teacher thinking about the objectives itself, what they want their students to do, or the activities that students will get through which include solving problems, answering questions, doing an experiment and so on. Otherwise, objectives are met if the students engage in the activities where they would like the activities and stick on it. Many teachers thought that objectives would be met in terms of assignments, quizzes, and tests where students know, perceive or can do and that would be reflected through their highest grades and that meant objectives were met. Teachers should be accommodated with variety of those objectives and not be limited to one of them. 

The Purposes of Assessment

It is important that teachers be clear about the purpose of assessment and that students be clear too. Strange as it may sound, students often will not know the purpose of a particular assessment unless teachers tell them directly and that rarely happens. We could count on one hand the number of teachers we have observed in any year who differentiate summative tests and diagnostic tests for students.Telling students, "This test is just to see what you have learned so far," does not make distinction. It does not tell students what you are going to do with the results. There are many reasons for doing assessment with students. Teachers try to use tests for two or more purposes at the same time for example, getting grades to rank students for honor roll and diagnosing student weaknesses for reteaching. Teachers should teach students concepts that benefit them in their lives and not only just to take grades to evaluate their works, or assignments. Because many students just study for the exam the materials that are given to them, but after the exam these materials will be forgotten.

Integrating Technology in Education

Nowadays, instructional technology is very important in education, because technology in education is an evolution, it comes through many processes and not revolution.The use of computer in education helps students to apply the skills of technology towards learning and problem solving. This help students to obtain, analyze, and synthesize information.Technology should be used in an interesting way in classes to keep students motivated to participate, maintain the engagement of the students to be involved, and for the lesson to be effective and successful to prepare students for the future. That what make students develop deep understanding of the topic being studied. Students can compare the new information with the previous acquired knowledge because students nowadays have different preferences on the way the information is presented based on their experiences with the computer technology. It is very important for the teacher and her/his students to be communicated together through e-learning.