PROFESSIONAL TOOLS FOR TODAY’S EDUCATORS

In a world where educators play pivotal roles in sculpting the future of students it is imperative that they are empowered with tools and tactics that make their work simpler, exciting and more engaging.

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This session just talks of that how teachers can collaborate with many students at one time, asserting students with freely available resources and tools thus making their way easily through the complexities of learning through the net. Information on tools that help teachers maintain a free classroom website, engage students through fresh happenings while expanding their vocabulary and easy to mould into virtual classrooms. Exciting tips on carrying knowledge in your pocket without worrying about the baggage, inviting students to a dynamic free site that answers to any diction, get access to the best of secrets on conversions, confusing words, maps creators and lots more on games too. Join the informative and fun based session that will enrich you to be more organized and most comfortable with the internet advantage coupled with few interesting paraphernalia that you will learn nowhere else but only here.

Gupteswar Rao

An M.Sc in Physics (First Class 2nd in University -1970), Educator & Motivator, having more than 38 years of school experience and spent 1½ years in US. As an ardent user of web technologies, softwares and resources available, is keen on exploring the global ways of learning.

Seek,inquire : you are entitled for a second opinion!

“Pathologists at Johns Hopkins reviewed over 800 cases referred to the hospital for head and neck cancer surgery between 1990 and 2000. They found that second-opinion looks at tissue samples led to changed diagnoses in about 7% of the cases, including some from benign to malignant, and the other way around.”

Second opinions can also save money by steering treatment away from expensive tests, medications, or procedures, so insurers often encourage them and may, in fact, require them for some situations. Still, check with your health plan before getting a second opinion to see whether the visit and any additional costs will be covered.

There are several ways to gather more medical advice. A primary care doctor may refer a patient to someone who has more experience treating the disease. But if you want another expert opinion, asking the doctor, nurses, or family and friends for names is a good step. Many hospitals offer second-opinion services, and there are also private companies that provide second opinions by reviewing a patient's records, but do some homework to make sure it's a reputable business.

Five surprising things about second opinions

1. They're less common than you think. A 2010 poll showed that 70% of Americans don't feel compelled to get a second opinion or do additional research, despite the abundance of medical information at people's fingertips. Surprisingly, the confidence factor cuts across patients' educational levels.

2. Your doctor won't be mad. It can feel awkward to bring up, but doctors generally welcome having their patients seek second opinions. Cancer survivor Jessie Gruman says every doctor she interviewed for her book AfterShock recommended getting at least one additional opinion to verify a serious diagnosis and develop a course of action. Patients are free to go back to their original doctor for treatment, although many stick with the consulting expert.

3. Discuss what matters to you. Although your primary-care physician may know you well, a specialist 

may not — at least not at first — and may focus on different aspects of the treatment. In a study published in Health Expectations in 2010, investigators asked a group of patients and providers to rate facts and goals around treatment choices for early-stage breast cancer and found several areas of disagreement. For example, patients were more likely than providers to focus on possible side effects from chemotherapy and hormone therapy.

4. Conceal the first opinion? Researchers based at Ben-Gurion University ofthe Negev in Israel surveyed hundreds of orthopedic surgeons and neurologists to explore whether specialists giving second opinions are influenced by the first one (the results are not yet published). After distributing hypothetical patient scenarios, they found that orthopedic surgeons were more likely to recommend a more "interventionist" treatment if they knew the first physician had advised one, and they leaned toward a more conservative approach if the patient hadn't yet received an opinion. No such effect was found among the neurologists.

This study might suggest that you'd get more objective advice if you withheld information about the first opinion from a doctor offering a second one. But as a practical matter, that's going to be difficult to do — and perhaps isn't so advisable. Most physicians, ethicists, and patient advocates recommend erring on the side of open communication.

5. For the record. Even if the consulting doctor doesn't know the first opinion, he or she will want to see your pathology slides, imaging scans, lab results, and other parts of your medical record before offering an opinion. But according to ongoing research by a renowned doctor about 20% of patients are sent to see a specialist without any formal communication from the first doctor. So prior to your appointment, you should contact the office of the doctor providing the second opinion to see what you should bring or have sent. It's also a good idea to bring along a notebook so you, or someone who is with you, can jot down notes.

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Job Satisfaction ….an ongoing experience!

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”-Mark Twain

Variety: Is indeed the spice of life

coming close on the heels of job satisfaction is the fact that one alleviates boredom at work.The very first signs of creeping boredom have to be done away with,where work is in the picture.The bored mind lacks interest and enthusiasm and even a well-matched job becomes not satisfying. Some common methods to alleviate boredom at work include:

• Training across domains and functions and learn new skills
• Try taking up new assignments or move across departments that require the same skills.
• Experiment with different shifts,meeting new people and experiencing newer environments
• Don't hesitate to take up new responsibilities
• Take breaks or holidays to break the monotony at work

Positive Attitude is all that it takes.

Its your upfront view that will help you perceive your job and your life in general.Being depressed, angry or frustrated, you're much less likely to be satisfied with anything. Making a change to a positive attitude is a complex process that requires a lot of work and a strong commitment. However, over time, you can turn your internal dialogues around and start to see most events in your life as positive and worthwhile. Here are some tips:

• Stop negative thoughts from entering your brain.
• Reframe your thoughts to the positive.
• Put the events of the day in the correct context.
• Don't dwell on setbacks.
• Commit to viewing obstacles as challenges.
• Accept that mistakes are simply opportunities to learn.
• Become an optimist.

Know Your Options

When you feel trapped, you can start to get anxious. At first you wonder what else is out there for you. This progresses to the point where you become convinced that anything other than the job you're doing has got to be more satisfying. To combat this, continuously scan your environment for opportunities. When you feel you have options, you have more control. When you make a positive choice to stay with a job, that job has much more appeal than if you feel forced to stay because you feel you have no alternative.

• Keep a list of your accomplishments.
• Update your resume on a regular basis.
• Keep up to date on employment trends.
• Research other jobs that interest you.
• Adopt an 'I’m keeping my options open' approach.

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Whipping up a storm....with your brains

“An idea that's BOLD is worthless until SOLD!”― Don The Idea Guy Snyder

Brainstorming is a popular tool that helps you generate creative solutions to a problem.

It is particularly useful when you want to break out of stale, established patterns of thinking, so that you can develop new ways of looking at things. It also helps you overcome many of the issues that can make group problem-solving a sterile and unsatisfactory process.

Used with your team, it helps you bring the diverse experience of all team members into play during problem solving. This increases the richness of ideas explored, meaning that you can find better solutions to the problems you face.

It can also help you get buy in from team members for the solution chosen – after all, they were involved in developing it. What’s more, because brainstorming is fun, it helps team members bond with one-another as they solve problems in a positive, rewarding environment.

Why Use Brainstorming?

Conventional group problem-solving can be fraught with problems. Confident, "big-ego" participants can drown out and intimidate quieter group members. Less confident participants can be too scared of ridicule to share their ideas freely. Others may feel pressured to conform to the group view, or are held back by an excessive respect for authority. As such, group problem-solving is often ineffective and sterile.

By contrast, brainstorming provides a freewheeling environment in which everyone is encouraged to participate. Quirky ideas are welcomed, and many of the issues of group problem-solving are overcome. All participants are asked to contribute fully and fairly, liberating people to develop a rich array of creative solutions to the problems they're facing.

What is Brainstorming?

Brainstorming combines a relaxed, informal approach to problem-solving with lateral thinking. It asks that people come up with ideas and thoughts that can at first seem to be a bit crazy. The idea here is that some of these ideas can be crafted into original, creative solutions to the problem you're trying to solve, while others can spark still more ideas. This approach aims to get people unstuck, by "jolting" them out of their normal ways of thinking.

During brainstorming sessions there should therefore be no criticism of ideas: You are trying to open up possibilities and break down wrong assumptions about the limits of the problem. Judgments and analysis at this stage stunt idea generation.

Ideas should only be evaluated at the end of the brainstorming session – this is the time to explore solutions further using conventional approaches.

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Self Awareness

The very first requirement for a person to be at the job and to actively involve oneself is to introduce yourself to you. To be successful is one half of the glass the other half is being able to identify your strength and weaknesses. Because in true sense only the right evaluation of strengths will enable to build on the positives and a personal realization of weakness will help evaluate the wrongs and convert them into strengths.

It's always convenient to say that you dislike your job or are not satisfied with it but in reality can you say that you did the right thing by taking up that job in the first place? Take a long decisive look at the qualities you excel in and then try to find a position that uses some of those skills too. Yet one of the differentiating factors of self-awareness is to have a good understanding of your personality traits and your preferred style of working.

Improving self-awareness can assist you towards the perfect package of good compensation, rewards, power and a realistic goal. Knowing this will help one to stop being idealistic or fantasize achieving tall gains, instead setting appropriate goals and managing one’s expectations realistically.


More the similarities between your job and the requirements, greater are the chances for you being happy at your job and as for the rest of the constituents they would prod you to achieve the maximum from the said job.

Challenges

Everyone might hate or love a challenge depending on the earlier point of self awareness, if one chooses well you might end up loving your job, so also with the challenges associated with it. Does this mean your job has to be the head of engineering at ISRO? No, different things challenge different people at different times. One just needs to understand what is it that gets you going ? if a daily muted challenges enables you to go that extra mile then take it, prove it right and watch your confidence roar.

If the challenges are not a part of the job, then do set some goals for self improvement believe me they go a long way and always add credits to your character certificate

• Set some milestone with respect to performance, goals help visualising your achievements actively and also help setting challenges with colleagues to conquer
• Teach your skills to your colleagues, help them grow while you grow too
• Take on new responsibilities, these will give you opportunities to prove yourself.
• Start or take on a project that uses skills you would like to use, or want to improve.
• Commit to improve personally as well as professionally – take courses, read books or trade magazines and attend seminars. However you do it, keep your skills fresh and current.

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Failure and persistence:drawing inspiration from each other

Times when the results are announced the toppers and achievers are always lauded but we ignore to see the flip side of this....the failures.They never get spoken about what if they rise like the phoenix from ashes or bite the dust nobody cares. A great sense of humiliation and expression of self defeat can come from failing an important test or exam.

When helping someone through this crisis, it's important to deal with the situation without resorting to criticism, rebuke, or making the person feel inadequate or confirming their sense of being a failure. Success is crucial yet at times failure can be linked to many an external cause, a state of mind, and not necessarily to any internal cause of intelligence or aptitude. Encourage him or her to look to the positive side and to embrace practicing persistence. Remind them that the only real failure is to give up too soon. If it seems that the unsuccessful candidate lacks the motivation or the determination to continue trying, overcome this by focusing on their previous successes in exams, tests, and other challenges, and the strategies they used in those situations.

Take a moment to help them identify the benefits of continuing to stick with their goals over abandoning them - this makes an excellent writing exercise as creating a list can help them to see things more clearly.

If you have time, have a look online for stories about people who have taken exams or tests more than once. You might be surprised how many people have done so! But more to the point, these people eventually succeed because they don't give up.

Failure is the stepping stone towards being more resilient,and it gives the person more humility and also sharpens one’s objectivity.

It's a chance to take up the challenge more seriously than self

Failure teaches more than success and it helps one to stay on track more often than get strayed by success.

Negative criticism always act as brownie points to resurrect the faults and not take them personally.

Typically in fact, a recent research paper by Harvard Business School states that failed entrepreneurs have a better chance of succeeding in their second effort than first time ones. Moreover, second time entrepreneurs have a substantially higher chance of raising funding than first timers. If so, can failed startup experiences be useful for entrepreneurs who are starting out now?

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Face of Tomorrow, share the experience!!

All online educational platforms tell us more about any subject or answers a query, does so with the purpose of minimizing our doubts and widening our horizons,if so why are we unable to shed our inhibitions and adopt technology to answer so many of the questions for which we have fumbled and often pondered about.

A platform that enables us to come together and work together brings forth an idea of a big collaborative effort that can be lauded for years to come.

As somebody wise summed up that when we talk of technology the differences of age,gender and intellect all disappear,what remains is the willingness to experiment and explore.When we talk of sharing experiences human mind is so codified that the most intense of activities that engage a high degree of involvement can remain vividly in the memory as a lifelong experience  rather than a memory that is evolved through reading or remembering.

For that matter explicit knowledge that we record through documents, papers and other intellectual property is representational and can live and be manipulated within the digital domain. Converting data-to-information, and information-to-knowledge describes a value continuum of explicit knowledge.

Whereas Tacit knowledge on the other hand talks of wisdom, experiences that exists within minds, it cannot be reduced to the digital domain as a material asset or be manipulated directly. However, it expresses in the social realm as the response ability of individuals (productivity, innovation and initiative), and teamwork (communication, coordination and collaboration).We as humans should infact use this lifetime to innovate and share our thoughts and creations cause each one of us has a bit of a genius who has gathered dust but when polished will sparkle to the brightest.

In 1995, Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi, in their book The Knowledge Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation, presented the following model of how tacit and explicit knowledge interact in the knowledge creation process.

This figure explains the cycle of experiences can be shared only by the four factors namely socialization, externalization, internalization and combination that are more interchangeable, it is indeed a powerful mix that can effectively make our own experiences seem as a beautiful book, a leaf of which can be borrowed by others and probably add glory to their and our lives as well.

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