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What are learning styles? Learning style can also be described as a set of factors, behaviors, and attitudes that facilitate learning for an individual in a given situation. Styles influence how students learn, how teachers teach and how the two interact. The VASK  acronym refers to four types of learning styles:  visual, auditory, social and kinesthetic. How to identify your learning style? Looking back at learning experiences you found particularly positive or useful can often help you understand your learning style. Consider the type of learning experience you enjoyed or felt you benefitted from the most and identify their components. Visual learning style: Being a visual learner entails thinking in pictures rather than in word's. Visual learners best by utilizing graphs, tables, maps, colors and diagrams. They also tend to learn holistically, instead of sequentially or in parts. One of the benefits of being a visual learner is easily seeing the big picture. As a  resu...

What is drug abuse? Drug abuse is when the drug is used for different purpose than intended to or in excessive amount. Drug abuse can inlove illegal drugs as well as medicines. There are many problems associated with drug abuse such as drug tolerance, dependence and addiction. The impact of drug abuse can be far reaching:  Stroke  Cancer  HIV/ AIDS  Cardiovascular disease Mental disorders  Lung disease Different types of drugs : Heroin  Heroin is a highly addictive opioid. Using heroin can cause a person to experience seizures, psychosis and hallucinations. Heroin when it's injected can also spread disease such as human immunodeficiency virus ( HIV) and hepatitis. Cocaine  Cocaine, even when taken in small doses, is a very dangerous stimulan. It induces euphoria, increase blood pressure and accelerate the heart rate. Using cocaine can cause a person to experience  fatal heart  strokes or heart attacks. Crack  Crack is a potent from cocai...

  A dropout is someone who has left school or college before they have finished their studies.  School dropout means leaving high school, university or another group for practical reasons, necessities, or disillusionment with the system from which the individual in question leaves. The lack of parental involvement is the problem that often leads to higher dropout rates, especially with high school students. Parents play an important role when itcomes to high  school attendance.   The causes of high school dropouts are: Academic failure. Struggling in school on a daily basis is the biggest reason most students choose to drop out of high school.  Disengagement with life and parental decision-making. Pregnancy  Financial difficulties  Mental illness  Drug use/ Addiction  Disabilities  Bullying  How to keep students from dropping out  After recognizing the issues facing students at risk of dropping out, the inevitable question...

What is family? "Families don't have to match. You don't have to look like someone else to love them"  Family is defined as a specific group of people that may be made up of partners, children, parents, aunt's, uncle's, cousins and grandparents. An example of a family is a set of parents living with their children. Family is defined as a domestic  group of people with some degree of kinship- whether through blood, marriage or adoption. There are 6 types of families that consists of: Nuclear family: The nuclear family is the traditional type of family structure. The family consists of two parents and children, The nuclear family was long held in esteem by society as being the ideal in which to raise children.  Single parent family: The single parent family consists of one parent raising one or more children on his own. This family include a single mother with her children,  a single dad with his kids. The single parent  family is the biggest change society has ...

  Social skills for learning  A social skill is any is any competence facilitating interaction and communication with other's where social rules and relations are created, communicated and changed in verbal and non-verbal ways. Skills can help students gain confidence and communicate more effectively with other's, helping them in the long run. Student's who have social skills can communicate clearly, calmly and respectfully. They show consideration for the feelings and interests of their peers. Studies show that the most important skills to learn are social which include cooperation, self-control, confidence, curiosity, empathy and communication. Social skills learning improves student's communication with peers and adults, cooperative teamwork and helps them become effective, caring and concerned member's of their communities. Here are ways to develop social skills: Engage with others  Practice maintaining eye contact  Ask open-ended questions  Offer genuine co...