*Baby Steps: Yes we grasp altogether heard this prior to, and it’s as a whole an acceptable act for quite of us. It is that the smaller the steps and the smaller the units, the boost. Further, define sure you contribute a continuing time on each step to help Tim and Lisa in course of study the literature.

*Reading and Math Bill: Educate only these two subjects if you are running out of time. Construct sure your son or daughter can read and knows their numbers. Additional subjects can be educated within the context of these two skills. Don’t skimp on reading or mathematics.

*Reading Trumps Altogether: Another challenge of reading, if your children can’t read, minimal cost else matters. Sometimes you will apprehend to do minimal cost even so reading until your children catches on. Think of going through the earth without reading? Exactly, this is why I mention this deduction.

Remember, you can do this, in any event not unique. I considerable recommend finding a inspire house and employing your bodies to help you along the growth of homeschooling your kids. It’s always a good idea to become an expert on your child’s disabilities. You should always be up on the new techniques for teaching your child with disabilities. Make sure you have all of the information you can find on your child’s disabilities as you are only helping yourself and your child.

In traditional African setting, the girl child was taught how to rise up a family. The mother would teach her how to prepare meals for the husband and children. The aunties were charged with the role of teaching her on sexual matters when she became of age. They would teach her on the body changes she might be experiencing, how to avoid pregnancy and subsequent shame to her and the family and how to behave in marriage. When formal education was introduced in Kenya, most families did not see the need of educating the girl child.

They saw this as an exercise in futile for a woman’s role was predestined even before birth. Traditionally, a woman could not fit anywhere else but in the kitchen. Therefore, they would argue that a girl did not need to go to a formal learning centre to learn how to bring up a family. The government has had to really sensitize the masses on the importance of taking even the girl child to school. The saying, ‘when you educate a woman you have educated a whole nation’ is very popular in Kenya.

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As a strong tool for education and learning process, the educational toys and games prove to be very effective. If you give your child the proper educational games and toys, you are bringing in better intelligence and emotional stability for your child.

There can be basically two types of education, one is formal, the other informal education. Now, formal education will include entry to a school or any other educational institution. Informal education occurs outside school guided by people and resources outside the classroom.

Introduce educational toys and game to your child and voila, an informal learning ambience is created. Children are natural learners, so your task as a parent will be to provide them with toys that have the fun as well as the educational quotient. The ideal toys and games will help the all round development of your children. However, there are differences in the emotional and reasoning development of different children.

Remember that the educational toy and game should be compatible with the child’s individual personality. As the children grow older, they require educational games and toys that are appropriate for their age. For instance, a child in the adolescent stage may be going through emotional turmoil, as a parent, you can engage your child into chess or sports. Informal education is a way to strengthen formal education.

Educational games for children at various stages of their development

A baby learns to experience taste, touch, smell, hearing and seeing right from infancy. Make use of this. Use the language games and for this you need to talk to your baby repetitively. The baby recognizes a particular word and learns to utter it.

As your baby gets older, you can gift them educational toys and games like crayons, blocks, hand puppets, mobiles, stacking toys, easy puzzles and more. All these toys help to develop spatial awareness, motor skills, recognition of different sounds and language skills, if you keep talking to the baby. No matter, what toys or games your baby is playing, make it a point to talk to your baby always. Just talk, talk and talk, it will be fun for your baby and simultaneously help in learning the language.

Maintain the fun element when teaching your baby. Be sure to clap and applaud when your baby points out to an object and calls it by its name; this further encourages your baby to learn and makes the entire learning process an enjoyable one. Therefore, never think that the child’s playtime is merely a pass time, but make use of the opportunity for the better of your child.

Some of the best educational toys for your child

· Fisher Price’s Laugh and Learn Home: This is an essential educative toy for children above 6 months. The product teaches your child a number of things that will really keep your child interested till the age of one year.

· LeapFrog’s LeapStart Learning Table: This educational toy provides your child lots of fun and has different games in only one fajita. The child comes to know music, colors and alphabets.

· LeapFrog’s Fridge Phonics Magnetic Letter Set: Your toddler will love this educational toy that features interactive alphabet figures coupled with a magnetic reader. This is attachable to any surface that can hold magnets like the refrigerator. It can also play a song to entertain your baby.

If you are confused regarding which educational toy to opt for, just ask the toy store attendant for his/her advice. Also get a demonstration of the toy and then decide finally whether you think your child will love it.

About the Author

Len Jacob is a successful writer and publisher of Educational Toy related issues, for more informative articles go to http://www.educationaltoyreview.com

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ENVIRONMENT EDUCATION

“ Community Participation In Environment Awareness and Conservation”

Introduction

                        Environment is defined as surrounding or conditions influencing development or growth. It can be understood as a system which includes all living and non-living things, i.e. air, water, soil, vegetation, flora and fauna. Environmental education is a process of providing learning experience to obtain knowledge about natural and man made surroundings. Environment is a global concept today and first in environmental education is environmental awareness. Environmental awareness is an approach to learning. This paper explains the awareness creation among the learners through environment education. Also environmental conservation concern every individual needs to save and protect the environment. Conservation is the science and arts of managing the system and resources on which they depend.

Environmental awareness creation                                 

            Environmental education must be encouraged where at first student become aware of environment. Then, they recognize or review the relationship between humans and nature. The students get knowledge and skills from the teachers to solve the environmental problems. The teachers motivate to develop the students attitudes to participated various environmental protection programs in favor of environment. The teacher and parents try to inculcate the knowledge about environment and develop positive and healthy attitude towards environment from the beginning of life. There is essential need to organize and conduct educational programmes focus on environmental issues, problems, attitude, towards preservation and conservation of environment.

Environmental Conservation

            Conservation has been misunderstood by many as a moratorium on progress. This is in fact not true. Only sustainable development is permanent remedy to droughts, famines and the dwindling bio – diversity on this earth. Conservation implies an attitude and understanding that involve active management of the things(s) to be conserved. Four decades back, the words such as conservation and environment were little know. But to day one can find conservation messages in every newspapers, out side cutboard and books.

Sustainable Development

            Environment belongs to each one of us and all of we have a responsibility to contribute towards its conservation and protection. When we take development, we should keep in mind two basic characteristic of development: (i) It should be sustained the benefits that were getting now from it should be assured to future generation.(ii) It should ethical. What ever the benefit a person or species should not harm other individuals or species.

            The objective of development should not only be to raise the economic standard but also raise the social, economic, ethical and spiritual level of the people. Today, sustainable development has become a buzzword two key aspects for sustainable development are inter – generation equity and emphasizes that we hand over a life healthy and resources fil environment to our future generations.

Measures for Development

v     Emphasis on “Decentralized Industries”

v     Encouragement for “Tree forming”

v     Declaration of water as the main product of forests

v     Preservation and management of forests

v     Conservation of ‘mono-culture stands into mixed forests”

v     “Designing with nature” by using appropriate technology

v     By using “3R’s approach viz, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle”

v     Prompting “Environment Education and awareness”    

v     Resource utilization as per “carrying capacity”

v     Making environmental Education value based

v     Developing a life style in “Harmony with nature”

Community participation

            The education institutes conduct the various programmes to making awareness of environment protection among all people in the society. They can arrange social service camps and community service camps for environment preservation that will  be led by the  teachers and students for the benefit of society. For example. Clean village, Clean city, Dustless city, Awareness camps and Healthcare camps etc., Especially the students are coming from NSS,JRC,NCC, to take responsibility for creating awareness and conservation of the environment among the public.

Goals of Environment Education

• To improve the quality of environment
• To create an environment among people on environmental protection
• To develop the capability of decision making

Contributions of communities towards environmental issues

            In India, the population level is increasing rapidly, among these 70% of the people are living in the village areas. Each village has certain community of people. They can contribute their participation towards the environmental protection and preservation programmes. Here the educated people can lead the awareness camps, preservation programmes. For examples, Rainwater savings, Recycling the usage water, Mass environment programmes etc.,  On the other hand the wealth community people like Rotary club, Lions club, Cosmopolitan club, Junior champers ,etc., They are conducting various awareness programmes frequently, conservation programme. They will create interest among public to preserve to conserve the environment. Above this awareness programme are possible when the people have adequate education. Hence we inculcate the child’s environment education. We will initiate the environment awareness from primary to higher education to the public.

Role of media creating environmental awareness

            We have seen that mass media , specially Radio in its different formats can prove to be almost the panacea for spreading awareness about environment to the concerns to the optimum level. A very significant recent development, in the Indian Radio has been the shift towards utilizing the huge scope of Community Radio (CR). This concept is about doing something for its own benefit by the community. The aim and objective of the CR Channels include –preservation of their culture and languages, launch publicity or awareness creating campaign for the benefit of the community about the environment. These services are also done by the AIR, MIB, PSB, Prasarbharathy and Regional F.M.Radios.

Knowledge and Educational needs in rural community

            The main aim of the environmental education is to make people in the society to be aware , knowledgeable and in inculcate positive attitudes towards protection of environment and make them skilled to  solve environmental problems so as to enable them to participate in the activities undertaken for the protection of environment the rural people have to learn about the environmental concern so that they are enable to protect the environment because we not been gifted the environment  our ancestors and also we have not borrowed it from our off spring . Instead we have to handover the environment to the posterity both in terms quality and quantity.

Role of NGO’s in environmental activities

            The environmental NGO’s have played a major role in environmental protection and development by linking the local with the global. The collaborative work of these NGO’s lead to fulfillment of local needs. Some of the NGO’s are working for environmental awareness while some are working in research field . The complementary work of the NGO’s deals more specifically with how the NGO community impacts issues of the environment

Conclusion

            “If you plan for one year, plan rice, if you plan for ten years plant trees , and if you plan for hundred years educate people”. So if we want to save our mother earth we have to make our man king flourish, there is a strong need to conserve our natural recourses and make judicious use of them. We must think earth as a habitat, not of today but of distant tomorrow where there will be place and means for every being alive. The preservation and conservation of environmental heritage is our sacred duty. All of us living on this planet, whether rich or poor, industrialist or workman, farmers or labourers, office goers or house wife, VIP or common men, as individuals or groups, are responsible for the present dismal state of our environment and each one of us has to contribute towards its rehabilitation, preservation and conservation.

Reference

University News Volume: 42 No.29 July 19-25 2004

University News Special issue Volume: 42 No.46 November 15-21 2004

University News Volume: 41 No.42 October 20-26 2003

University News Volume: 44 No.12 March 20-26 2006

Environmental education by Bharati Kumar published by, Dominant publisher, Chennai. 

Educating Disabled Children

India has some forty to eighty million people living with disability; among them thirty percent of them are children below the age of fourteen years. In Indian ninety per cent of disabled children do not get any form of schooling. There are number of families which are living below the poverty and many families have to make choices about which of their kids they can afford to send to school. Parents of disabled children have more difficult choices, as they also have the burden of medical treatment, and others.

No population-based study has been conducted at the national level to supply genuine data on the prevalence and incidence of disability in India. Therefore we must rely on the projections made by trial surveys. According to an estimation population with disability in India is about over 90 million, of these twelve million are blind, twenty nine million are with low vision, twelve million are with speech and hearing defects, six million orthopedically handicapped, twenty four million mentally retarded, eight million mentally ill.

In a separate survey of children (age 0-14 years) with delayed mental growth, it was found that twenty nine out of a thousand children in the rural areas had developmental delays, which are usually linked with mental retardation. The government has no record of the number of disabled students in schools but according to activists the number of children of school-going age who suffer from disabilities may be more than twenty million. Educating Disabled Children

To make the education system more effective, government has promised to include disabled children in all its educational programs, including the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS). Today there are more than three thousand special schools in India; nine hundred are schools for the hearing impaired, four hundred for children with visual impairment, seven hundred for those with locomotors disabilities, and one thousand for the mentally disabled. Very few schools have resource rooms and employ special education teachers to help keep children with special needs in their system. Sadly, these amenities are found in very few cities.

Although India has a growing disability rights movement and one of the more progressive policy frameworks in the developing world, a lot more needs to be done in accomplishment and getting the basics right. We should teach disabled childrens’ parents how to become an effective supporter for their child. A primary goal such backing skill of parents is to empower them to be more successful and knowledgeable about legal provisions and schemes. Informed, supportive families are better able to make good decisions for their child. Educating Disabled Children