In this week’s teacher introduction, in our series of people that Gilson College supports, we introduce Sah Ghee Lar who has a B.A. and has been serving at Pwaytawru Adventist School for five years.
She writes to us saying:
I would firstly pray that may the blessings of God be bestowed upon you and all those who help us in this endeavour. Because of your assistance I and the children, villagers, students’ parents – we all are blessed.
It is quite difficult to introduce the Creator God to the villagers. But it has been a privilege to spread these seeds into the hearts of these young children. As we teach general education to these children, we have the privilege of introducing our living God to these people. I would like to thank you heartily for your help and assistance as I can serve Him with peaceful heart.
May all donors be blessed and continue to live with happiness
The aim of this step is to teach you how to think properly, and, in doing so, develop your phenomenal capacity to build effective, long-term memory into your dendrites. The Golden Rule of the Learning Process is to think to understand the information you are trying to remember. Thinking to understand involves three steps: asking, answering, and discussing.
For the Focussed Thinking step:
1. Read a chunk of information- between one to three sentences- out loud, with your guide (pencil, pointer or finger).
2. Stop and ask yourself what you have read.
3. Now, answer yourself by looking at what you have just read. Then answer yourself by rereading the chunk of information out loud and circling the concepts. Don’t underline or highlight words. Those are passive actions, because they don’t require you to think, analyse, or understand what you have underlined or highlighted. Circling is active.
4. Discuss this chunk of information with yourself, still looking at the sentence(s) you have just read. Discussion means you explain it to yourself over and over in your own words until you understand. If you can’t work it out what iit means, ask someone or make a note to find out later.
5. Check how much you have circled. If more than 40%, it is too much and you don’t understand yet. Go back and reread and rediscuss until you can reduce what you have circled down to 15-35% of the content. If you focus on too many words, you will make your memory worse, not better. It is between 15-35% of sentences that contain the most important concepts; the rest of the sentences are filler words and don’t need to be written down. Once you feel you have fully understood the concepts of the chunck you have just read, you are ready to write them down.
On a cellular level, the dendrites become involved in the process of learning. Great memories are beginning to form as neurons are responding by growing dendrites to store the information. Integration across the left and right sides of the brain occurs.
Think, Learn, Succeed
by Dr Caroline Leaf, pages 188 – 190
To help get you through this stressful time, Avondale is giving away two ‘Sunny Days’ Gift Packs (worth over $700) to make your summer holiday awesome! The pack includes an oversized floatie, Spikeball set, gift vouchers to spend on whatever you want and some other goodies (there is even something for the parents/guardians).
Entries are open only until 5pm 26 October 2020.
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The 30th Oct is the day we celebrate World Teacher’s Day in Australia. Our Teachers continue to go above and beyond their roles, showing care and support for our children. Parents and Friends, together with our parent community would like to acknowledge our teachers and their hard work. If you would like to send in a word of thanks or encouragement to show your appreciation to your child/ren’s teachers, please email the Wellbeing Coordinator- jodi.batten@
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Dear Parents and Guardians,
Earlier this week we shared how many have enjoyed seeing other families and students during Stage 4 restrictions by being invited to the Friday Family/Staff worship. Now that students are back at school this time slot will no longer be possible or convenient. However, given the challenges that 2020 has thrown at all of us, but especially our children, the benefits of a caring community are needed more than ever. As a College we have always recognised that it takes a village to raise a child and the need for community is especially important at this time.
We recognise that special moments with our students and families build our capacity to adapt to acutely stressful situations such as this long-term challenge of the COVID pandemic. Putting in place strategies that maintain our personal wellbeing is now a priority and so as a College we are looking at ways to enhance those connections. A number of families had indicated that they have enjoyed the inspiring and uplifting stories on Friday mornings, and so now we invite our families to join our chaplaincy team for a short (15 minutes) time of positive story telling on Friday evenings at 7:30pm. We understand that at this time of extended lockdown this may be a welcomed wellbeing moment where uplifting stories will encourage the human spirit.
Look forward to seeing our students for this weekly finale.
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