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The Secrets of Learning a New language

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The Secrets of Learning a New language

Have you ever wondered, you want to learn a new language but feel daunted or unsure where to begin? Ten years ago, I was not fluent in English speaking or writing, made loads of mistakes and sometimes my sentences did not make any sense at all. However, I believe that you don’t need some special talent or a language gene to learn anything new in your life. You just need passion and will to accomplish anything in your life.  My old friends, who know me since my childhood, now ask me how you make that happened? How is your English now making sense? Although it still has loads of grammatical errors and needs two to three proof-read cycles. My answer to them always the same, I gave myself time. Continue reading “The Secrets of Learning a New language” →

100+ Websites Collection for Educators and Learners

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Websites Collection for Students and Teachers
By Ahmad Amirali

In today’s technological era, where every information is available on a ‘click’, it is important to know the authenticity of virtually-available information. Most of the time people ignored this fact and ended up navigating the wrong source of information. Students are most likely the victim of such, what I may say, ‘virtual heresy’. Keeping this in mind, I gathered more than 100 websites which are useful for both students and teachers who want authentic information.  I am sharing these website links on MyReadables. Below is the available link of the website collection page. Continue reading “100+ Websites Collection for Educators and Learners” →

Do Student Test Scores Gives a Complete Picture of Student Growth?

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Do Student Test Scores Gives a Complete Picture of Student Growth?
By Ahmad Amirali

As a teacher, we always expect outstanding performance from our students in the classrooms. To make sure, we devise our lesson plans with tons of interactive and performance as well as paper-based activities. In the end, our differentiated teaching approach ended up on different types of assessment where we measure students’ learning. However, the question is, do these written standardised assessments are giving us (teachers and parents) the clear picture of student learning and growth? Continue reading “Do Student Test Scores Gives a Complete Picture of Student Growth?” →

Teaching Tools: Using Anchor Charts as an effective Teaching Strategy in Classroom

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anchorchart_learnUsing Anchor Charts as an effective Teaching Strategy in Classroom
By Ahmad Amirali

Back in my school days, when teachers hardly use technology in their classrooms, charts and papers were the dominating part of any classroom activity. The demand for store-bought/readymade props and chart displayed materials were high, and mostly all educators use such ready and handy material in their classroom as per their lesson theme to save time. Nowadays, the emphasis has been made more on teacher-created classroom displayed materials. Therefore, being an educator, the term that frequently comes in my mind whenever I start planning to decorate my classroom for any lesson theme is: Anchor Charts. Continue reading “Teaching Tools: Using Anchor Charts as an effective Teaching Strategy in Classroom” →