EXAM STRESS!!!

Exam stress - and how to beat itDownload the ChildLine leaflet Exam Stress (And How to Beat It!) (PDF version)

DOs :
~ Try to work to a revision timetable - start planning well before exams begin - your teacher should be able to help you with this.

~ Make your books, notes and essays more user-friendly with summary notes, headings, sub-headings, highlighting and revision cards. Try using key words or spider charts. Get tips on other revision techniques from teachers and friends - do what works for you.

~ Everyone revises differently - find out what routine suits you best - alone or with a friend; morning or late at night; short, sharp bursts or longer revision sessions.

~ Take notes of important points when revising as an aid for future revision or if you need to clarify something with a teacher. Try explaining the answers to tricky questions to someone else, or look at past exam papers and try answering some of the questions.

~ Ask for help if there are things you don't understand. If you're feeling stressed out, talk to someone.

DON'Ts :
# Don't leave revision to the last minute.

# Don't avoid revising subjects you don't like or find difficult.

# Don't forget that there is a life beyond revision and exams.

# Don't cram ALL night before an exam.

FRIENDS

Friends..
Helping your friends
What should you do if your friend has a problem or is in trouble? Suppose your friend doesn't want to talk about it? Or maybe they've confided in you but sworn you to secrecy? These situations are not easy. Sometimes just being there and listening is enough but sometimes they might need more help than you can give them.

When friends fall out
Sometimes you and your friends may fall out. Everyone has rows with their friends, and usually you make it up again soon. But sometimes the rows are more serious; maybe your friend has been nasty, or gossiped about you. Maybe you've let them down or something you said came out wrong. Whatever the reason, sometimes friends have serious arguments. These can feel terrible. People who were part of your life, whom you relied on, are suddenly not there.

RACISM

What is racism?

• Racism is treating someone differently or unfairly simply because they belong to a different race or culture.People can also experience prejudice because of their religion or nationality.Racism takes many different forms. These can include:
• Personal attacks of any kind, including violence
• Written or verbal threats or insults
• Damage to property, including graffiti

Why are people racist?

• Unfortunately racism can exist in all races and cultures. Racists feel threatened by anyone who is from a different race or culture.
• We are not born racist. Our views and beliefs develop as we grow up. If a child or young person grows up within a racist family, or has friends who are racist, they may believe that racism is normal and acceptable.
• Prejudice of any kind is often based on ignorance and fear of anything unfamiliar.

The effects of racism

• If a young person is experiencing racism of any kind, they may become lonely and sad. They may also try and avoid situations where racist behaviour could occur, and pretend to be ill, play truant from school, or be scared to leave their house.

teacher roles

A traditional view of the teacher is of someone who dispenses knowledge: someone who Lectures, tells, feeds, disseminates, covers material, teaches the subject matter more than the students. The students sit passively while the teacher is on show. Desks in rows and a blackboard and podium up front are an arrangement designed for this role of a teacher. However, lectures are effective for giving short sets of instructions, background information, guidelines, or other information that is needed in a short time frame (e.g., before doing a class project, lab, or group activity).

Demonstrations, on the other hand, allow students to experience more fully the information and concepts the teacher wants to impart during the lesson. Although the teacher is still the center of the action and the dispenser of knowledge, students can more easily see what they need to know and more efficiently link it to prior knowledge in their own ways. Students remember much better what they have both heard and seen (or even touched, smelled, or tasted)!

Listening is a very important teacher role, something that we don't usually think of in connection with the lecturer role, however. Listening is crucial for assessment of learning (checking comprehension and appropriate challenge level), for collaboration between teachers and students (coaching instead of just judging), and for giving students a real sense of ownership of classroom activities as well as for allowing students to articulate and internalize the learning processes. Teachers who listen can turn around and provide very effective support structures to guide students on to the next level of challenge.

Empowering is really what teaching is all about. Ironically, though, many teachers act as if empowering students means weakening themselves--their authority as both a classroom disciplinarian and a subject-matter authority. But maybe power is like love: the more you give, the more you get.

p/s .. Obviously, teachers wear many hats: friend, counselor, judge, mentor--hundreds of roles and different roles for different classes, students, and extra curricular duties

friend forever..

~friend is someone that we need when we sad, happy. success and so forth.. ~

(^-^) A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

( >_<) Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

(-.-) If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

(*;*) The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

( '_") However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

chicken soup for the soul..

Proverbs
A collection of famous proverbs from everywhere.

If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.
Chinese Proverb

Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.
Chinese Proverb

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.
Chinese Proverb

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
Chinese Proverb

Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Chinese Proverb

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.
Proverb

A mother's heart is always with her children.
Proverb

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.
Proverb

In teaching others we teach ourselves.
Proverb

Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.
Chinese Proverb

hye guys.. (^-^)

it seems like our final exam just around the corner.. well, i hope all of you are ready enough to "fight" soon. today i would love to share some proverbs that might be useful to all of you.. read and enjoyed it.. bye...

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
Unknown Source

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.
Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) Danish philosopher and writer.

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) Politician. President of the United States.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.
Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) Danish philosopher and writer.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.
Unknown Source

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
Martin Luther (1483-1546) German priest and scholar.

Men never remember, but women never forget.
Unknown Source

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
William James (1842-1910) American philosopher and psychologist.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832) German poet, novelist and dramatist.