A Review Of The School Library At Sonoma State University
Sonoma State University (SSU), located in the friendly confines of Rohnert Park, California in the good old USA, has a terrific school library. Opened in 2000 with much fanfare, it has weathered well. Late local legend, cartoonist Charles M. Schulz and wife Jean are rightly honored and his Peanuts characters are prominently featured though-out the ...
Will The School Library Become Obsolete?
The traditional image of a school library is a place of solitude, lined with dusty bookshelves and reading material. The Dewey Decimal system reigns supreme and students need to be trained or have librarian assistance to locate the information they need. They are ideal as places of study and research for kids to work on ...
The School Library At The Santa Rosa, CA JC
The school library at the Santa Rosa, CA Junior College (SRJC) is really neat. It was finished in 2006. With its four floors, besides the humongous parking garage, it is the largest building on campus and the cat’s meow. With computers galore, it makes living in this beautiful city all the more worthwhile. The Internet ...
Teaching Literacy To Preschoolers
Teaching literacy to preschoolers may seem like an endeavor that requires hours of preparation and lesson that are boring both to you and your students, but in reality it is something that is partly natural. Literacy education can be easily incorporated in both your lesson plan and your daily routine. Children learn a lot from simply ...
Useful Vocabulary Learning Techniques
For many of us the toughest part of learning a foreign language is not the grammar, nor the phonetics, but the vocabulary. Making up long lists of words and memorizing them is far not the best method for learning vocabulary. If you don’t want to get bogged down with endless lists of words, I suggest ...
Successful And Rich: Showbiz Brains
Now let's speak about Hollywood “brains.” The first Hollywood star I am going to speak about is Natalie Portman -- the symbol of beauty, money, unbridled talent and intelligence. She is one of the bright stars of American film industry who highly valued the advantages of school. Even after graduating it, when she was already a teen ...
Successful And Rich: Showbiz Dropouts
Do you think that school education is necessary to become a successful and rich man? Starting from childhood we are taught about the advantages of school, we are told that no success can be achieved in life without school education. In this post I am going to give you examples of famous people who dropped out of ...
Sex Education In Public Schools
Children need to have accurate and age-appropriate information about sex and reproduction, so sex education and sexual literacy development are requirements in public schools. Puberty brings dramatic changes in the lives of children both physically and emotionally. So it is highly important to choose the right teaching strategies and inform children about all they should know. Kids ...
