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18
Jun 10

Education is Important

posted by: burn category: Blog, Education 8 Comments

Yes! Education is important. Education change lives. Education makes a person powerful. Education is never ending process.

Education can be acquired in formal and non-formal. Now, it can be acquired traditional setting and online setting. There are lots of opportunities in online education. These opportunities can be essential to make your life easier. However, you must do some gmat prep. “GMAT means Graduate Management Admission Test, is a standardized test that graduate business schools use to help assess the qualifications of applicants”. The test is purely about Mathematics and English skills. These are two essential subjects which are needed in business school. There are lots of school that offers gmat, but only in Knewton offers best deals  of online gmat prep courses.

If you want to know more about the gmat prep courses offered by Knewton, you must visit their website.

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3
Jun 10

UbD: Understanding by Design

posted by: burn category: Education, Personal, Revealed Sentiments 32 Comments

We are currently formulating our UbD (Understanding by Design). This UbD is a new curriculum mandated by the DepEd (Department of Education) to be implemented to all first year level of this year. Last summer, teachers attended the UbD seminars. I wasn’t able to attend the said seminars for some reasons. One, I attended the Cebu Blog Camp and second I woke up late and I decided not to attend for I have to judge a Super Show Mom Contest. ( an irresponsible teacher huh!)

Now, I have to catch up what i had missed during my absence. As I google the word Ubd, I was amazed that foreign countries adapted this curriculum since 2003 or earlier. Some had already has its reversion. But here in our country Philippines, it sounds Greek to us. Every now and then, the education system as its ever changing the curriculum. It is just the same with eating other set of foods without chewing the previous one. Last year, we applied the PBL or problem- based learning. Still it is Greek to us. This PBL was implemented in all levels in our school. But in other school, they used this PBL starting in first year level , followed by the 2nd year level, 3rd and 4th year. So this means that the school adapted the PBL gradually. The situation in our school was, we implemented the PBL to all levels in the same year. What an agony?!

Then, here comes UbD. Well, I just hope that teachers will still have time to teach the students not spending much time in formulating the UbD.

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11
Feb 10

Mapeh Org is born

posted by: burn category: Blog, Education, Lifestyle, Rat Race 6 Comments

MAPEH stands for Music, Art, Physical Education and Health. Is one of the subjects here in the Philippines. This is also the subject that I am teaching in University of Cebu. Ever since I am in love in blogging. I made to realize to make a website for my students. This is an outlet/ extension of the topics that we had discussed. The summarized topics, challenging activities and outlet of expressing student’s point of view of certain concepts are the main purpose of creating this website.

I am so happy with the positive response of my students. I appreciate that the time that they were spending in playing online game was now divided. Doing their assignment and project online and playing/ chatting/ facebooking online at the same time.

I made some daily deals to them. Every time they will participate in the class, they will receive corresponding points. Moreover, other way to have points is to visit our website and they have to leave comments. This is the reason that www.mapeh.org was born.


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13
Dec 09

Education is the Key to Success

posted by: burn category: Blog, Education 10 Comments

Education is the key of success. It builds your dream come true but if it is being thwarted then, you will never achieve the things that you want like stable job, confidence, glory and fame.

Destitution is the hindrance of having quality education. Thus, people opt to find a job to sustain their basic need however, people will never achieve or receives high paying job if there is no proper education. One of the solutions to this problem is through finding such reputable  online university which you can rely on without impeding your valuable time as you work for your needs.

The Western Governor University is one of the leading online institutions that offer wide variety of online business degree that will surely useful tool for you in this competitive world. This is fully designed for all working individuals who want to earn a degree without sacrificing their field of work.  Business is everywhere and anywhere. No one will become rich by just merely an employer. If you aim to become rich person, then you should invest for your future by studying. Studying in an accredited and awarded online university is one of the key factors that you will have a brighter future.

You are still undecided to enroll?  One of the best aspects of achieving online business degree at Western Governor University is that the tuition fee is very affordable for as low as $2,890 per six-month term. It is affordable isn’t?

So, what are you waiting for, Enroll now!



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23
Jul 09

Sample Questions using Blooms Taxonomy

posted by: burn category: Education No Comments

From Bloom, et al., 1956

As teachers we tend to ask questions in the “knowledge” category 80% to 90% of the time. These questions are not bad, but using them all the time is. Try to utilize higher order level of questions. These questions require much more “brain power” and a more extensive and elaborate answer. Below are the six question categories as defined by Bloom.

  • KNOWLEDGE
    • remembering;
    • memorizing;
    • recognizing;
    • recalling identification and
    • recall of information
      • Who, what, when, where, how …?
      • Describe
  • COMPREHENSION
    • interpreting;
    • translating from one medium to another;
    • describing in one’s own words;
    • organization and selection of facts and ideas
      • Retell…
  • APPLICATION
    • problem solving;
    • applying information to produce some result;
    • use of facts, rules and principles
      • How is…an example of…?
      • How is…related to…?
      • Why is…significant?
  • ANALYSIS
    • subdividing something to show how it is put together;
    • finding the underlying structure of a communication;
    • identifying motives;
    • separation of a whole into component parts
      • What are the parts or features of…?
      • Classify…according to…
      • Outline/diagram…
      • How does…compare/contrast with…?
      • What evidence can you list for…?
  • SYNTHESIS
    • creating a unique, original product that may be in verbal form or may be a physical object;
    • combination of ideas to form a new whole
      • What would you predict/infer from…?
      • What ideas can you add to…?
      • How would you create/design a new…?
      • What might happen if you combined…?
      • What solutions would you suggest for…?
  • EVALUATION
    • making value decisions about issues;
    • resolving controversies or differences of opinion;
    • development of opinions, judgments or decisions
      • Do you agree…?
      • What do you think about…?
      • What is the most important…?
      • Place the following in order of priority…
      • How would you decide about…?
      • What criteria would you use to assess….

LEVELS OF COGNITIVE DOMAINS and its examples of behavioral objectives:

  • Knowledge: arrange, define, duplicate, label, list, memorize, name, order, recognize, relate, recall, repeat, reproduce, state.
  • Comprehension: classify, describe, discuss, explain, express, identify, indicate, locate, recognize, report, restate, review, select, translate,
  • Application: apply, choose, demonstrate, dramatize, employ, illustrate, interpret, operate, practice, schedule, sketch, solve, use, write.
  • Analysis: analyze, appraise, calculate, categorize, compare, contrast, criticize, differentiate, discriminate, distinguish, examine, experiment, question, and test.
  • Synthesis: arrange, assemble, collect, compose, construct, create, design, develop, formulate, manage, organize, plan, prepare, propose, set up, and write.
  • Evaluation: appraise, argue, assess, attach, choose compare, defend estimate, judge, predict, rate, core, select, support, value, evaluate.
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