Norway is a peaceful, safe, democratic and free country in which to live, and it will continue to be so ( Read more... )

In this, the final installment of the 'About Herding Cats' series, I go into certain qualities that the teacher must possess in order to be a good and successful teacher. Again, some of the things mentioned here might seem self-explanatory, but yet again, I have seen too many teachers fail to adhere to these to leave them unmentioned. Over the next ( Read more... )

Continuing my adaptation of the letter I once wrote to the parents of my former class I will now present my take on conflict resolution. The methodology I'm describing here, I must admit in the name of honesty, was not originally my idea, but was taught to me by one of my first year mentors, a wonderful woman and an excellent teacher to whom I owe ( Read more... )

As I begin my journey into the world of neuropsychology it might be appropriate to establish the starting line, or to put it another way, where I am now. And in order to do just that I am now posting a letter I wrote to the parents of a class I taught a few years ago, explaining and establishing both my methodology and my motivation for some of the ( Read more... )

Emily Howell took the time and the effort to carefully analyse the musical patterns of the works of every classical composer in history. When that was done, she started composing her own music based on the patterns she had found, creating her own music and her own art. Her first album called 'From Darkness, Light' was released in 2010 ( Read more... )

As some of you know I have some ideas on how we can improve education, and seeing as I’m not planning on doing any ‘proper’ studying next year this gives me time to get started on a book I’ve decided to write on the topic. Come next fall I will be taking over a fifth grade class at the school I’m working at, which gives me ample opportunity to test ( Read more... )

Imagine a town with a well in the middle of the town square. Like any other functional well it has a bucket attached to a rope allowing you to pull water out of it. From time to time people will come to the well, throw the bucket down and attempt to pull up a bucket full of water. But doing so is hard work. The bucket, for some reason, isn’t always ( Read more... )

As some of you might have noticed there hasn't been much in the way of consistent elaborate posts here lately, and the reason for that is that I've been busy with the final assignments for my studies in Multiculturalism ( Read more... )

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In science the expression Null Hypothesis refers to what is considered the default position, that is to say, the position taken in the absence of confirmed hypotheses and evidence. For instance, in medicinal science the Null Hypothesis is that new medicines and treatments do -not- work, which means that trials are held to establish correlation, if ( Read more... )