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Daily article and vocabulary

Link to article:

医療費の負担増 “受け入れられない68％” NHK世論調査 | NHKニュース | 医療・健康

Vocabulary:

❁財政　（ざいせい）：financial affairs

❁破綻　（はたん）：failure, collapse

❁右肩上がり　（みぎかたあがり）：rising, expanding

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Daily news article and vocabulary

Link to article: 130億年前の原始的な銀河を観測 金沢大など国際研究チーム | NHKニュース | 宇宙、サイエンス

Vocabulary:

❁原始的　（げんしてき）：primitive

❁天文台　（てんもんだい）：astronomical observatory

❁天体観測　（てんたいかんそく）：astronomical observation, stargazing

❁増幅する　（ぞうふくする）：amplification

❁史上　（しじょう）：in history, ever

❁蓄積する　（ちくせきする）：to accumulate

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Daily (news) article and vocabulary ・今日の記事

Link to article: 韓国 ソウル“月の町” タルトンネで生きる カンナム 最後のスラムの再開発計画の記録 | NHKニュース | NHKスペシャル、韓国、深掘りコンテンツ

Vocabulary:

❁一等地　（いっとうち）：prime location

❁立ち退き　（たちのき）：eviction

❁併設　（へいせつ）：joint establishment

❁バラック：shanty

❁呼称　（こしょう）：named, designated

❁郷愁　（きょうしゅう）：homesickness, nostalgia

❁痕跡　（こんせき）：mark, vestige, trace

❁恥部　（ちぶ）：shame, embarrassment

❁納屋　（なや）：outbuilding

❁蓄え　（たくわえ）：reserve, savings

❁眼差し　（まなざし）：gaze

❁断固　（だんこ）：firm, resolute

❁比喩　（ひゆ）：metaphor

❁呟く　（つぶやく）：to murmur

❁均衡　（きんこう）：equilibrium, balance

❁ひしめく：to crowd

❁恒久的　（こうきゅうてき）：permanent

❁猶予　（ゆうよ）：postponement

❁もみ合う　（もみあう）：to struggle with each other

❁粉じん　（ふんじん）：mineral dust

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Daily article and vocabulary ・今日の記事

Link to article:

濱口竜介監督に聞く 「急に具合が悪くなる」 カンヌ映画祭で 岡本多緒さんらが最優秀女優賞 | NHKニュース | 映画、文化・芸術・エンタメ、フランス

Vocabulary:

❁こぼす：to let (one's feelings) show

❁出品　（しゅっぴん）：exhibiting, showing

❁～の域　（いき）：the level of

❁往復書簡　（おうふくしょかん）：(written) correspondence

❁書籍化　（しょせきか）：adapting to a book

❁駆られる　（かられる）：to be driven by (feeling)

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Role of Social Media in Higher Education

Social media is part of our daily lives. It has taken over the world as a platform for sharing information, opinions, and ideas. Higher education professionals are beginning to take advantage of it as well. Using social media in higher education has been shown to be an effective means of increasing student enrollment and alumni donations. In this blog post, you will learn how to leverage social media to enhance your school’s visibility and reach.

·      Social media is a great way to advertise your school’s offering:

Use social media to spread awareness of your school’s programs and courses, as well as their benefits. You can also use it to promote campus events such as open houses, information sessions, and commencements/graduations. Additionally, using social media in higher education allows you to share news about your school and highlight the accomplishments of your alumni in front of a wider audience. What’s more, it can be used to promote your institution and its students on a more personal level, all for the sake of making your school more appealing. 

·      Social media can help you connect with potential students:

Using social media in higher education can make a brilliant touchpoint with prospective students. They can learn about your school from organic posts, but you can precisely reach the groups you want to with targeting options worthy of a king. A school can target high school students who have expressed an interest in a certain major or program, for example: With social media profiles, you can get to know your potential students, ask and answer their questions, as well as encourage them to interact with your school. All of this can be achieved through effective communication, a well-thought-out marketing strategy, but also through your team’s involvement. In the remote world, where students are no longer required to physically visit campuses to get a sense of them, running high-quality communication on social media in higher education is especially essential. While focusing on students is important, schools should also remember to communicate with parents. A college can share blog posts discussing how to pay for college or tips for choosing the right school (as well as run targeted paid campaigns aimed at parents).

·         Social media can increase enrolment rates for your school:

Using social media in higher education to reach potential students is one thing, but can it actually help drive their enrollment? It sure can.Through social media, you can spread information about your alumni’s success in the workplace and how it relates to the degree that they received from your school. And there are some posts that speak louder than others: For some, it could have been a sign saying “Hey, if you want to be successful, Columbia University is the way to go”. Colleges and universities that have embraced social media have seen success, with some reporting increases in campus visits by prospective students or new alumni donations. The correct use of social media can be beneficial to your school as well.

·      Profiles on social media in higher education can serve as an announcement board for schools: You can use social media to post updates, share information about your school’s programs and services, plus remind people about upcoming events. And what a relief that can be. In the past, you had to use leaflets, posters, or public address systems to communicate announcements around the campus. Now, you can save time and ensure reach with just a single click. ·      Social media can help you build an engaged Community around your school:

This is one of the greatest things not only about social media in higher education but social networks in general: you can communicate with people in both directions. This way, your school can build a community in which people can connect with one another, share ideas, and collaborate on projects. Using social media in higher education can help you organize groups of students (or alumni) around specific interests or causes. Create a STEM community, for instance, so that students can share materials that are relevant to their field of study. In addition, you can use social media to obtain feedback from current students about your school’s services and programs to find out how to better provide for them.

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Important ways of Effective Teacher Training

Most teachers get their first education training at college by taking courses that meet state or local certification teaching requirements. These teacher preparation courses are designed to provide those interested in education with the background information they will need in the classroom. All teacher preparation programs will include coursework that reviews educational initiatives such as the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA), Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), No Child Left Behind (NCLB). There will be coursework that familiarizes new teachers with educational terms such as Individualized Education Program (IEP), response to intervention (RTI), and English Learner (EL).

Academic subject-specific training is generally organized by grade level. There is a focus on literacy and numeracy in early childhood and elementary school coursework. Those teachers interested in middle or secondary school will receive intensive training in an academic discipline. All teacher preparation programs offer classroom management strategies and information on student cognitive development and learning styles. Coursework may not end after four years. Many states require advanced degrees for teachers in education or a specific subject once they have been in the classroom for several years.

Student Teaching

Teacher training includes a student teaching internship as part of college coursework. The number of weeks for this training depends on school and state requirements. Student teaching follows the gradual release of responsibility (“You do, we do, I do”) model with a trained mentor teacher supervisor. This internship allows the student teacher to experience all the responsibilities of being a teacher. Student teachers develop lesson plans and a variety of assessments that measure student learning. Student teachers correct homework, tests, and performance-based assessments. There may be different opportunities for communicating with families to strengthen the school-home connection. Placing the student teacher in the classroom allows for important hands-on training in classroom dynamics and classroom management.

Another benefit of participating in a student teaching program is the network of professionals that a teacher will meet during the internship. Student teaching offers an opportunity to gather recommendations from these professionals for use in job applications. Many schools hire their student teachers, While student teachers are not paid during the internship, the benefits of this hands-on training are incalculable. The success of this kind of training lies in the program’s systematic procedures. These must be a way to evaluate the readiness of teacher candidates to progress in the program and to enter the teaching profession.

Alternative Certification

Some states face teacher shortages, particularly in the areas of science and math. One way that some districts have dealt with these shortages is by providing a fast track towards teacher certification for experienced individuals who come directly from the workforce bringing their skill sets with them. A shortage of teachers is particularly true for courses in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math). While these alternative certification teacher candidates already have academic degrees in specific subject areas, they receive training in educational law and classroom management.

Professional Development

Once teachers are employed by a school system, they receive more training in the form of professional development (PD). Ideally, PD is designed to be ongoing, relevant and collaborative with an opportunity for feedback or reflection. There are many different forms of this kind of training, from state-mandated safety training to subject-specific training by grade level. Many districts offer PD several times during the year. Districts may use PD in order to meet educational initiatives. For example, a middle school 1:1 laptop initiative would require PD to train staff to be familiar with digital platforms and programs.

Other districts may target PD based on a review of data. For example, if the data from elementary student shows a weakness in numeracy skills, PD can be organized to train teachers on strategies that address these weaknesses. There are other districts that require teachers to organize their own PD program by reading and reflecting on a book or connecting with other educators through social media. This form of individual PD can address the needs of secondary teachers who teach a “singleton” (ex: Italian I, AP Physics) and who could benefit from connecting with teachers outside the district for support. Peer to peer PD is increasing as districts tap into the pool of talent in their teaching staff. For example, a teacher who is an expert in data analysis of students scores using Excel spreadsheets can share his or her expertise with other teachers.

Microteaching

Educational researcher John Hattie in his book “Visible Learning for Teachers," ​puts microteaching in his top five effects on student learning and achievement. Microteaching is a reflective process during which a lesson is viewed, by peers or by recording, to review a teacher’s performance in the classroom.​

One approach has a teacher review video footage (post lesson) for self-evaluation. This technique allows a teacher to see what worked, which strategies worked or fell short to identify weaknesses. Other methods may be in the form of regular peer feedback without the concern of evaluation. A critical quality of the participants of microteaching sessions is their ability to give and to receive constructive feedback. All participants in this form of intensive training, teacher and viewers alike, must have an open mind to meet teaching-learning goals. There is a benefit to including this form of training during the student teaching experience, where student-teachers could deliver mini-lessons to a small group of students, and then engaging in a post-discussion about the lessons. Hattie refers to microteaching as one approach with "observable truths." The benefits can increase teacher confidence and work to develop a collegial atmosphere of support with empathy and equanimity.

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As the middleclass lives out the tale spun by Stephen King’s Thinner, we might find ourselves picking up a dystopian novel to relive our despondent youths. In other words, if you feel angry about the current political milieu, then you just might be a dystopian author.

Hello Tumblr! It’s been a while ^_^ I’ve been battling a virus for a while, but now I’m beginning to overcome it and I feel much better. So, writing a dystopian? Here’s an article with some pointers!