As a parent, you want your children to do well in school, and make plenty of friends, but above all you want them to be safe. The first step is to stay informed on the issues that can potentially create an unsafe environment for your kids. Learn about some of these issues and what you can do about them

http://www.education.com/topic/current-education-issues/

                  Dropout Prevention

Children dropout of school for verious reasons such as economical, social, political, emotional, financial etc. But the good news is that educators have the abilities to help reverse this tendency and impart the value of education to at-risk students.

 http://teach.com/dropout-prevention

                              


                                         
                                                           How beneficial is education?

Parents and educators have the responsibility to inform children that the primary aim of education is not for economic purposes only, but also to provide "social benefits" for individuals and society at large, including a better way of taking care of themselves, and consequently creating a better society to live in.
http://www.press.umich.edu/15129/social_benefits_of_education

                                                               All hope is not lost and it is never too late!

Please watch this exciting vidoe and see for yourselves why we need to love and encourage children as parents and educators no matter the challenges.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zeb-k-XzaI&feature=player_detailpage

‘Girls Engineering the Future’

Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) South Africa

How exciting it is to realize that the government has special concern for the education of girl children? Many girls end up not meeting their dreams of becoming useful in society because they might have been told they cannot make it because they are girls, WHAT A MYTH! or because there was no one to give them a push. On the other hand, they might have been given the impression that certain subject are meant for boys and so they lost interest of even attempting them such as Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.

October 2013 opened a new door for two-year educational project called ‘Girls Engineering the Future’. The government intends to fund this program for two years while using cross-curricular teaching and learning to engage Grade 10 learners. The motive is to promote Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) subjects to steer the desire of leaners into engineering apprenticeships. The government is planning to have an intake of 800 girls from 16 schools across the country taking part in an introductory STEM Day within their schools for the first year and to double the number in the second year.

The scarcity of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths personnel and the limited number of girls in these fields have been a concern to the government in recent years. I personally love this initiative. AWESOME!

 

• How are these learners going to deal with their myth?

·         Is the government going to meet its goals?

·         Will the female learners fine this project interesting?

·         If Yes. Are they willing to cooperate with the government so that they can engineer the future?

http://www.education-today.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/4570/New_Government_Funded_Schools_Project_Launches_To_Encourage_Girls_Into_Engineering.html

 

When we see that children everywhere are required by law to go to school, that almost all schools are structured in the same way, and that our society goes to a great deal of trouble and expense to provide such schools, we tend naturally to assume that there must be some good, logical reason for all this. Perhaps if we didn't force children to go to school, or if schools operated much differently, children would not grow up to be competent adults. Perhaps some really smart people have figured all this out and have proven it in some way, or perhaps alternative ways of thinking about child development and education have been tested and have failed.  

What then is our role as the 21st Century educators?

SOURCE:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/200808/brief-history-education “Freedom to Learn” – Peter Gray

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• The is a need to educates youths because education is the key that opens doors to development and to the enhancement of the lives of young people worldwide. 

• Action for Youth. Education is important in eradicating poverty and hunger and in promoting 

          sustained, inclusive and equitable economic growth and sustainable development.

• Increased efforts towards education accessibility, quality and affordability are central to global 

         development efforts.
http://social.un.org/youthyear/docs/Youth_Education_Fact_Sheet_FINAL.pdf


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