15 Sewing Projects to Make and Sell
Love to sew and need some creative, new ways to make money selling your sewing crafts? I was also wondering...
Education
Role of a Montessori Teacher and Critique of the Montessori Method
A Montessori teacher must establish a climate of emotional support, helpfulness, and consideration. The teacher must relinquish a pediatric role...
Learning Centres in Outdoor Learning Environment
The importance of learning centres in the promotion of all-around development of the preschool child cannot be overstressed. These centres,...
Principles of Learning and Instruction: The Montessori Method
The Montessori Method reflects the conviction that children’s learning could be enhanced by activity-based methods of teaching. We also highlighted...
Play: The Montessori Method in Teaching and Learning
In some of our previous articles, we noted that the facilitation of learning is an act that can be cultivated...
Planning the Outdoor Learning Environment
The outdoor environment allows a lot of freedom to explore and encourages a lot of social interactions among children. Here,...
Organizing the Outdoor Learning Environment
The rate of development of any individual is fastest during the preschool years. Development feats are rapid. This explains why...
Pitfalls to Avoid in Public Speaking and Presentation
The pitfalls to avoid in public speaking and presentation include the following; Wrong Notions of Anxiety in Public Speaking There...
Day-Care Learning Activities (Preschool Program)
The preschool program is expected to cover a wide range of experiences and activities, such as looking after physical needs...
The Art of Public Speaking and Presentation
Public speaking is a subject that touches you in one way or the other, now or later. The art of...
The Microsoft Word in Academic Communications
In academic communications, you engage in large volume creation, editing, and printing of documents. Microsoft Word is a contemporary powerful...
Referencing Style for Academic Communications
Academic communications are highly regulated according to certain international standards. One of the controls in academic writing is the citation...
Strategies for Gathering Reliable Information
Your research and writing begin with a successful choice of a topic. This is a hurdle for so many students....
Types of Communication for Academic Purposes
In the tertiary environment, there are different types of communication. In each type, you are required to apply the tenets...
The Play Environment and Infant Materials
Children love to play. They are so engrossed in play activities that it is not always easy to dissuade them...
Meaning and Methods of Communication for Academic Purposes
This article introduces you to communication for academic purposes which is otherwise referred to as scholarly communications. There are different...
Planning the Learning Environment
The role of the learning environment in fostering learning through children’s play cannot be overstressed. For the preschool environment to...
The Environment in Early Childhood Education
In some of our previous articles, we looked at the two words, ‘Growth’ and ‘Development’ in the light of their...
Play-Based Learning and Teaching Model
The play describes the natural, spontaneous and creative activity that children engage in, learning describes the relatively permanent change in...
Learning and Teaching Model for Children
For teaching and to learn something new, children must become aware and be able to explore, inquire and apply. This...
Definition of Growth and Development of Preschool Child
Before learning activities can be planned for preschool children their pattern of growth and development must be examined and this...
5 Categories of Listeners and Barriers to Effective Listening
Ravichandran (2019: 2) exhaustively discusses the different groups of listeners. He listed the different types of listeners as active listeners,...
Listening and the 5 Steps to Effective Listening
“Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we do not listen to...
Trends in Growth and Development of the Preschool Child
We have already noted that maturation and learning are very fundamental ingredients in growth and development. It is also important...
4 Major Strategies to Improve Reading Skill
The following are the different strategies that can help you improve your reading skills; 1. Identify the purpose of reading...
Reading and 5 Importance of Reading to the Student
Jahzeel (2018: np) defines reading as the cognitive process that involves decoding symbols to arrive at the meaning. Reading is...
Understanding Communication Skills
This article focuses on the primary communication skills, namely, reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Most failures or communication gaps exist...
