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The Course Pack Is Designed To Be The Primary Source Of Course Materials

 Custom course packs give university instructors enormous freedom in course design. Unlike traditional textbooks, course packs can take any shape, and can be tailored to fit almost any subject matter, teaching method, or educational goal. These qualities , combined with their reasonable cost, make course packs very popular among university instructors. Cost aside, however, many university students see course packs in a very different light. To students, many course packs are an intimidating maze of texts that are highly confusing and difficult to navigate. If the course pack is a collection of undifferentiated articles or discrete book chapters without organizational signposts, clear reading guidelines or chapter headings, students must struggle to build the contexts necessary for comprehension. Carefully constructed, course packs can perform several different functions , depending on the instructor's goals. Here are three basic types of course packs, along with brief descriptions ...

How to Deal With Wayward Students?

 After working for two years in corporate world. Destiny took its own turn and I landed in an interview room being interviewed in front of selection committee. Finally, I joined that school as English Educator. On the very first day, I was made aware of the way ward students and also their nuisance. I was quite excited to face students. I pumped myself that I was no more a beginner as I had already entertained many retards for almost 14 months, working as Back-end Executive at an American KPO. In the next few days, I was able to make out the different categories of students. In the next couple of months, I spotted a certain group of students who were mediocre students but very naughty and ill-mannered. Their misbehaviour always resulted in tears of ladies teachers. They were too problematic to handle. In the beginning, I started giving them physical punishments, and too some extent, they remained under control. But, then I found that the problem was solved and in my absence they ...

Today The American Education Is Being Reinvented

 Today the American education is being reinvented. The assumptions that have governed its structures and power relationships for more than a century are being replaced. This reinvention is breeding all manner of novel approaches to schools, and hybrid arrangements that blur the line that has long separated public and private schools. For example, the best of what have come to be called charter schools possess elements of today's public and private systems. Moreover, this new model is not an unbridled, laissez-faire, free-market one. The public retains its interest in the delivery of educational services paid for by public funds. Public authorities continue to set standards for educational performance-especially student achievement standards-of all schools receiving public funds and monitor whether those standards are achieved. - Shift of power from producers to consumers. Public education has long been producer-oriented. The primary beneficiaries of this model are the school and i...