The KHAN ACADEMY with instruction/guide on how to use it

(Individual Activity - ProfEd5)

https://www.khanacademy.org/ 

For every Students, every classroom. Real Result

"Khan Academy website is a non-profit site with the mission to provide a "FREE", World class education for anyone, anywhere.

 it is also allows you to engage and interact with your target audience in real-time. 

"there is a polling tool wherein you can set the questions and your target audience and can give their answer using a mobile phone or any other device connected to the internet"

Instruction/Guide on how to use Khan Academy.

the website consist of 3 category. the learners, teachers and parents. it all consist of personalized help with what you're studying or to learn something completely new.

Signing Up for a Khan Academy account

To sign up for a Khan Academy account, follow these few easy Steps.

Visit Khan Academy's website

On the home page, fill up your category and your birthday.

Once your done. log in your google, facebook or email account to proceed.

Input your grade in school or university

then choose the subjects and criteria you want to learn, enhance and progress.

this website is like menti.com a teacher can also make a work and every students can enter in the provided link or instruction by the teacher.

This website can also give real-time feedback to allow students and teacher see the answers of the students but anonymously.

Khan academy also give all the academic subjects in school for you to enhance or improve your knowledge.

                         

Once your done, you can now start the free educational class. that's it!

all the questions about the chosen subject will be publish on the website. the correct answer and your scores will also be published!

the strategy of this website is for them to expand the knowledge that they need. it will give world class learning experience to any person or any individual in the social media world.

this website also provides an active learning experience that engages all students in rigorous coursework to prepare them for college and work.

it's like making student a student centered, they will be learn and progress in curriculum that was created in the website. 

As a future teacher I also want my student to be the centered of the class. I want them to share the focus in the subject instead of listening to me exclusively, I want me and my student to interact equally. Group work is encouraged, and students learn to collaborate and cooperate with one another. I also want to create an environment that should make learning joyful, challenging and engaging by using technology and other advance teaching strategies.

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Trivia 

Did you know that Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization and 90% of US Teachers who have used khan academy have found the website effective? Did you also know that Khan Academy was created in 2008 by Salman Khan with the goal of creating a set of online tools that help educate students in social media world for FREE.

Fundings - Khan Academy mostly funded by donation coming from different organization. In 2010 Google Donated $2 Million for creating new courses and translating context into other language. In 2013 Carlos Slim from Carlos Slim Foundation in Mexico, Made a donation for creating Spanish version of videos and website programs. In 2015, AT&T Contributed $2.25 million for mobile versions of the context accessible through apps. 

Recognition 

• In April 2012, The founder and executive director of Khan Academy, Salman Khan, was listed among the TIME'S 100 Most Influential People for 2012.
• In 2013 Khan Academy was one of the five winners of Heinz Award. "Winner in the area of Human Condition."
• In 2016, Khan Academy won a Shorty Award for Best in Education.

           Be Part of Give the gift of life - "Changing education"             Start Donating Now! Visit Khan Academy for details.

References:

https://www.khanacademy.org/ 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_Academy

Please Note that My blog claims no credit for some images posted in this article and I made no money for the use of the photos.  
- Credit should be given to Khan Academy

Name - John Mark Bartolome
BSED-4 / CPTE
St. Mary's college of meycauayan
Subject - ProfEd 5
Professor - Mr. Botis

The Roles of an Instructor

Instructor play vital roles in the lives of the students in their classrooms. Instructor / Teachers are best known for the role of educating the students that are placed in their care. Beyond that, Istructor serve many other roles in the classroom. Instructor set the tone of their classrooms, build a warm environment, mentor and nurture students, become role models, and listen and look for signs of trouble.

Teaching Knowledge

The most common role a  instructor plays in the classroom is to teach knowledge to children. instructors are given a curriculum they must follow that meets state guidelines. This curriculum is followed by the instructors so that throughout the year, all pertinent knowledge is dispensed to the students. Instructors teach in many ways including lectures, small group activities and hands-on learning activities.

Creating Classroom Environment

Instructors also play an important role in the classroom when it comes to the environment. Students often mimic a instructor’s actions. If the Instructor prepares a warm, happy environment, students are more likely to be happy. An environment set by the instructor can be either positive or negative. If students sense the instructor is angry, students may react negatively to that and therefore learning can be impaired. Instructor are responsible for the social behavior in their classrooms. This behavior is primarily a reflection of the Instructor’s actions and the environment she sets.

Role Modeling

Instructors typically do not think of themselves as role models, however, inadvertently they are. Students spend a great deal of time with their Instructors and therefore, the instructor becomes a role model to them. This can be a positive or negative effect depending on the instructor. instructor are there not only to teach the children, but also to love and care for them. instructor are typically highly respected by people in the community and therefore become a role model to students and parents.

Mentoring

Mentoring is a natural role taken on by Instructor, whether it is intentional or not. This again can have positive or negative effects on children. Mentoring is a way a instructor encourages students to strive to be the best they can. This also includes encouraging students to enjoy learning. Part of mentoring consists of listening to students. By taking time to listen to what students say, Instructors impart to students a sense of ownership in the classroom. This helps build their confidence and helps them want to be successful.

Signs of Trouble

Another role played by Instructor is a protector role. Intructor are taught to look for signs of trouble in the students. When students’ behaviors change or physical signs of abuse are noticed, instructor are required to look into the problem. Instructor must follow faculty procedures when it comes to following up on all signs of trouble.

The Shwedagon Pagoda

You'll know the reason why Myanmar is called as a land of golden! The Shwedagon Pagoda is the most impressive and sacred Buddhist site in Myanmar. This buddhist place has worship soaring 200 meters into the sky. It was painted from top to bottom in real gold and at the very top it had a crown of jewels and diamonds crafted on to symbol it's importance. The pagoda has a long history to tell and it was built 2600 years ago. This place is a masterpiece!

Note that it is mainly a tourist attraction and rather one of the quite popular place of worship for locals.

This is one of the must see pagoda in the world!

Visiting Info for the Shwedagon Pagoda

·         Open Hours: The Shwedagon Pagoda is open seven days a week from 4 a.m. to 10 p.m. Last admission is 9:45 p.m.

·         Visitor Center: The visitor center is open daily from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.

·         Entrance fee: US $8 (around 11,000 Burmese kyat)

·         Accessibility: Elevators and wheelchairs are available at the southern entrance of the pagoda.

·         Water: Communal water coolers are available around the pagoda, but you may want to bring your own water. Bring a hat and sunscreen; afternoon temperatures in Yangon are hot throughout the year

·         Food: Although food carts are available around the monument, you'll find better food in local restaurants elsewhere.

How to Get There

The Shwedagon Pagoda is located on Sanguttara Hill in the Dagon Township of Yangon in Burma. Any taxi driver in Yangon will gladly take you. There’s no need to have the driver wait; plenty of taxis will be waiting around the pagoda when you exit.

Although taxis are very reasonably priced in Yangon, prices are slightly inflated for tourists who are visiting the pagoda. Don’t be afraid to negotiate a little with your driver.

Best Times to Visit

Aside from Buddhist holidays based on the lunisolar calendar, weekdays are often more quiet at the Shwedagon Pagoda. The site is busier during Buddhist Lent (usually in June). Many Buddhist holidays start the day before a full moon.

You’ll get much better light for stunning travel photographs if you visit early in the morning. Temperatures can climb to almost 100 degrees Fahrenheit by noon, making the white marble flooring hot on bare feet!

Visiting the Shwedagon Pagoda after dark is an entirely different experience. An ideal scenario would be to visit in the morning when light is good for photos and before the heat of the day, go explore some other interesting sights in Yangon, then return to the pagoda in the evening when everything is lit up.

Dry season in Yangon is from November to April. The months of June, July, and August are usually the rainiest.

Principles for effective Teaching (Presented By Mr.Botis of SMCM)

tasks and goals simultaneously and flexibly. The following small but powerful set of principles can make teaching both more effective and more efficient, by helping us create the conditions that support student learning and minimize the need for revising materials, content, and policies. While implementing these principles requires a commitment in time and effort, it often saves time and energy later on.


A Principles for effective teaching
* Vary instructional Methods
* Activity involved Students
* Empower students
* Work toward achievable learning outcomes.
* Provide adequate resources and motivation
* Focus on student learning rather than content.
* Self assess & assess student progress frequently.
* Evaluate student based on learning outcomes
* Maintain flexibility


Effective Instructor Traits
* Demonstrates concerns for learners
* Demonstrates knowledge of subject and teaching skills
* Demonstrates positive approachable personality
* Show professional Attitude
* Remains a role model for students core values / commitment to student learning.
* word toward meeting industry special skills standards
* uses feedback as a method to improve the teaching & learning process


Instructor Conduct
* is responsive & helpful to students
* avoids bluffing, sarcasm or ridicule
* Demonstrates patience
* Avoid Profanity
* Gestures, standing, sitting, circulating around room.
* Smiling, speaking louder and softer
* actively seeks out student input and questions
* consistently assess student learning.

Role of the instructor
* Orient & Instruct new students
* Assess effectiveness of instruction for students.
* Modify and adapt learning approaches to accommodate student learning
* Evaluate student learning and administer tests.
* Diagnose academic difficulties
* Review materials and select optimal resources
* Prepare for technical excellence.
* Demonstrate dedication and support for all students.
* Role model for workplace expectation
* co-learner with students.

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"Being an effective teacher is much more than simply having the right materials. Effective teaching means maximizing communication and developing great presentation skills. While teaching involves innumerable skills and traits, a few basic principles can be distilled for the teacher in-training."

The Characteristics of Motivating Instructors

Role Model

Students look to Instructors as examples of professional adults. They often have more contact with their intructors than their own parents, so it's important for instructor to always reflect a positive image and teach children things like respect, trust, and responsibility. A insturctor can do this through his actions and words in the classroom, leading by example.

Provider of Information

This is the traditional role of the Instructor. The Instructor lectures the students on a particular subject, through lessons that build on students' prior knowledge and moves them toward a deeper understanding of the subject at hand.

Surrogate Parent

Many students suffer from lack of parental contact at home. In fact, there are students whose parents leave for work before they wake up for school, and who return from work after they've gone to bed. Parents may be either working many hours and unable to be with their children or they're absent from their children's lives.

As a Instructor, you may find certain students who lean on you for support and come to you for advice or to share their good news. Positive adult contact is crucial to raising well-balanced children, and Instructor are often given the charge of being surrogate parents for their students.

The ability to develop relationships with their students

The most frequent response is that a great Instructor develops relationships with students. The research literature agrees with them: Intructor need to be able to build trusting relationships with students in order to create a safe, positive, and productive learning environment. For example, a student in Boston told us that great Instructor are “Willing to listen to students when there is a problem.”

Patient, caring, and kind personality

Personality characteristics related to being a compassionate person and having a sensitivity to student differences, particularly with learners, was the second most frequently reported quality. Again, there is research to support that Instructor dispositions are strongly related to student learning and development.

Knowledge of learners

This is a broad category that incorporates knowledge of the cognitive, social and emotional development of learners. It includes an understanding of how students learn at a given developmental level; how learning in a specific subject area typically progresses like learning progressions or trajectories; awareness that learners have individual needs and abilities; and an understanding that instruction should be tailored to meet each learner’s needs. One student eloquently described it as: “The Instructor understands the pace and capacity of the student.”

Dedication to teaching

Dedication refers to a love of teaching or passion for the work, which includes commitment to students’ success. Responses often referred to loving the subject matter or simply being dedicated to the work. To a student, this means a Instructor should be “always willing to help and give time.”

Engaging students in learning

Students also said that instructor should be able to engage and motivate students to learn. Researchers talk about three types of engagement that are required for students to learn: cognitive, emotional, and behavioral. Survey respondents mostly focused on making content interesting and the ability to motivate students to learn. A student in Pennsylvania said great instructor  are, “motivating students to succeed in and out of school.”

Knows both trade and teaching job

Requires careful planning before attempt to present. Failure results in poor teaching.

Uses understandable language and have command:-

Should explain in as near the trade terms, avoid difficult words,      should have quality to correct the language by hearing and verbal statement. 

Should be prompt:-

Should maintain punctuality in all respect

Avoids too much talking:-

Discussion will be restricted within the prescribed time. Explain to the parts only.    

Controls temper and tactful in avoiding arguments:-

Retains dignity as an instructor at all times. If unavoidable arguments occur teacher should tactfully side in open argument to find out actual facts, avoid criticism.

Usually stands while teaching:-

 Having some different opinion about this, teacher can more effectively teach the subject by standing, may be able to more freely, can use all equipment with more expression.

Encourage students:-

 Students may do wrong or mistake as they come for learning, teacher      

 should praise his best effort and then point out remedial suggestion.

Avoids playing Favourites:-

 Avoids giving the work only to intelligent students, treating equally with all   students. Do not make anybody as a favourite.

Avoids embarrassing the students:-

It is advisable to refrain from watching a student too closely or  staring at him while he is answering a question.

Check himself as well as his students before condemn the class or

individual:-  

Teacher should check himself at the level of student, then make them perfect  through different projects or jobs.

Gets along with superiors:-

Respect others, disclose your weakness in front of elders and lay of, get it  corrected.

Give prompt attention to order and request from superiors:-

Management can be effective only when there is team work. Rules and regulation instructor has to set for his own work, then student may follow. 

Co-operative with others:-

Do not encourage non-co-operative with others by himself or student.

Use suitable teaching aids and equipment:-

Failure to use necessary equipment and material to teach a lesson indicate a lack of knowledge of the function of efficient teaching.

Use objects instead of illustration:-

Visualisations of objects are more effective than illustration and can   save the instruction time.

Use right methods in teaching:-

Most practical method should be adopted for effective teaching, lesson should be arranged in point-wise and consider students capability.

Get and hold attention of class:-

Without sorting attention of the class Student will be confused,   attention to be on   new ideas.  Attention to be maintained throughout the period by means of telling important points.

Explain new lesson before application:-

Without proper explanation student may not be able to do.

Give clear out and adequate direction:-

Do not leave the student before they thoroughly understand.

Answers all learns question:-

Failure creates dissatisfaction, do not give bluff.  It requires better say “I don’t know, but look it up in the next class or after some time.” Depends upon impotency.

Put question clearly:-

Question should be clearly worded and carries only one answer.

Question first, ask for answer later:-

Allow the students to think over for some time and ask for the answer.