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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...

 "You don't need to know all the answers now; your career journey Will reveal them" In this blog, I will explain the meaning of career, what jobs are available for the future and we Will explore how subject choices caninfluence careerchoices and provide some guidance on how to choose the right subjects for your future career path. Career is a series of connected employment opportunities. It is a life long journey that includes your education, interest, jobs, occupations, recreational activities and volunteer work. When choosing a certain profession or making a career switch, it is important to carefully find out what your interests and ambitions are. You can do this by means of a career aptitude test. Such tests give you a clear insight in your talents and interests. The best jobs for the future  How subject choices influence career choices The choice of subject's in high school can have a significant impact on future career choices. Identify your interests : Think ab...

"Look outside andyou will see yourself. Look inside and you will find yourself"                        -Drew  Gerald  What is self-awareness?Self-awareness is having a clear perception of your personality including : Strength  Weaknesses  Beliefs  Thoughts  Motivation  Self-awareness is important because when we have a better understanding of ourselves we are able to experience ourselves as unique and separate individuals. We are then empowered to make changes and to build on our areas of strength as well as identity areas where we would like to make improvements.  Emotions There are two forms of self -awareness : Conceptual self-awareness  What we think about ourselves, which may include judgements, evaluations, logical conclusions and things that are easy to put word's to. Embodied self -awareness  Which includes registering various types of inner states.  An individ...

  Bullying  Is unwanted aggressive behavior among school aged children that invloves areal or perceived power imbalance.  The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated over time into adulthood. Both kid's who are bullied and who bully others may have serious lasting problems.  Types of bullying are: Why do people bully? There are different reasons why people bully, including : Wanting to dominate others and improve their social status  Having low self-esteem and wanting to feel better about themselves  Having lack of remorse or failing to recognise their behavior as a problem  Feeling angry, frustrated or jealous  Struggling socially  Being the victim of bullying themselves  What are the signs of bullying? How can bullying be stopped? Children need to know ways to safely stand up to bullying and how to get help. Encourage children to speak to a trusted adult if they are bullied or see others being bullied. The adult can g...

  Harassment  Covers a wide range of behaviors of offensive nature. It is commonly understood as behaviour that demeans, humiliates and intimidates a person and it is characteristically identified by it's likelihood in terms of social and moral reasonableness. In the legal sense these are behaviors that appear to be disturbing, upsetting or threatening. "When these behaviors become repetitive it is defined as bullying. The types of harassment are as follows: Physical harassment  Physical harassment refers to a type of harassment that is often related to violence like: physical attacks and threats , in extreme cases physical harassment is also classified as sexual assault. Physical harassment is one of the most common types of harassment at home,work and community.  Personal harassment  Personal harassment includes behavior is defined as an offensive comment or actions that create an abusive or intimidating work environment in the mind of a reasonable person. Di...

Community crime prevention focus on increasing the participation of individual citizens, small groups and voluntary community organization in activities designated to reduce crime and violence in order to improve the quality of neighbourhood life. Crime prevention focuses on the social and economic conditions that contribute to violent and criminal behaviour. What is violence? The intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or against oneself, another person or against a group of community that either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm and maldevelopment. What is crime? A crime is a deliberate act that causes physical or psychological harm, damage to loss or property and it is against the law.  Why violence matters to the public health? Violence has enormous health and social consequences. Violence results in many deaths everyday, particularly among young men and boys. Beyond these deaths many more men, women, boys and g...