Enter Reality

Kung pagsasamahin lahat ng oras ng aking pag iisip sa iyo, marahil kulang pa iyon sa dami ng oras ng tulog ko sa isang buong linggo.

ang tanging naglalakad at nagmamadali

habang ang lahat ay pagal at pauwi

sumasalubong, nagkukumahog

wariy nagsasagwan ng salungat sa agos ng ilog.

"Pagod ang sa kin ay bumabati

sa tuwing akoy magsisimulang pumasok,

nakakatawa pero ang araw ko

nagsisimula lamang pagsapit ng gabi."

tulog, simpleng pangangailangan

sa kanya’y kaibigan ngunit kaaway kung minsan

sa pag idlip nadarama ang tunay nitong halaga

sa pagbukas ng mga mata’y napapaluha, mapuputla.

ngayon, ang pagsikat ng araw

pugad, puyat, gutom sa pahinga’y uhaw

inaabangan ng pagod mong katawan

humiga sa pinadilim mong kuwarto’t higaan.*

*ang lahat ay may kaniya kaniyang hamon at pagsubok

manatili kang matatag at matapang

matalino ka at may paniniwala, kaya mo yan, kaya MO!

Ang tanging naglalakad at nagmamadali
habang ang lahat ay pagal at pauwi
sumasalubong, nagkukumahog
wariy nagsasagwan ng salungat sa agos ng ilog.

“Pagod ang sa kin ay bumabati sa
tuwing akoy magsisimulang pumasok,
nakakatawa pero ang araw ko
ay nagsisimula lamang pagsapit ng gabi.”

Tulog, simpleng pangangailangan
sa kanya’y kaibigan ngunit kaaway kung minsan
sa pag idlip nadarama ang tunay nitong halaga
sa pagbukas ng mga mata’y napapaluha, mapuputla.

Ngayon, ang pagsikat ng araw
pugad, puyat, gutom sa pahinga’y uhaw
inaabangan ng pagod mong katawan
humiga sa pinadilim mong kuwarto’t higaan

You are Judgement

Happiness, Content, Joy.

Judgment is related to the Hebrew letter Shin, which is fiery and spiritual. A break from the past, going forward.

With Fire as its ruling element, Judgement is about rebirth or ressurection. The idea of Judgement day is that the dead rise, their sins are forgiven, and they move onto heaven. The Judgement card is similar, it asks the resurrection to summon the past, forgive it, and let it go. There are wounds from the past that we never let heal, sins we’ve committed that we refuse to forgive, bad habits we haven’t the courage to lose. Judgement advises us to finally face these, recognize that the past is past, and put them to rest, absolutely and irrevocably. This is also a card of healing, quite literally from an accident or illness, as well as a card signaling great transformation, renewal, change.

OMG!

Process of Cognitive Development. As a biologist, Piaget was interested in how an organism adapts to its environment (Piaget described as intelligence.) Behavior (adaptation to the environment) is controlled through mental organizations called schemes that the individual uses to represent the world and designate action. This adaptation is driven by a biological drive to obtain balance between schemes and the environment (equilibration).

Piaget hypothesized that infants are born with schemes operating at birth that he called "reflexes." In other animals, these reflexes control behavior throughout life. However, in human beings as the infant uses these reflexes to adapt to the environment, these reflexes are quickly replaced with constructed schemes.

Piaget described two processes used by the individual in its attempt to adapt: assimilation and accomodation. Both of these processes are used thoughout life as the person increasingly adapts to the environment in a more complex manner.

There are different developmental domains of children which all relate to each other:

• Physical development - Concerning the physical growth and the development of both gross(eg. walking) and fine motor(eg. finger movement) control of the body.
• Perception and sensory development - How a child functions using the senses and the ability to process the information gained.
• Communication and language development - Using visual and sound stimuli, especially in the acquisition of language, also in the exchange of thoughts and feelings.
• Cognitive development - Concerning how the individual thinks and react.
• Emotional Development - Concerning children’s increasing awareness and control of their feelings and how does he react to these feelings in a given situation.
• Social Development - Concerning the child’s identity, their relationship with others, and understanding their place within a social environment.

Recent studies on infant brain development show most of a person’s neurons are formed from ages 0-5. If a young child doesn’t receive sufficient nurturing, nutrition, parental/caregiver interaction, and stimulus during this crucial period, the child may be left with a developmental deficit that hampers his or her success in kindergarten and beyond. Worst case scenarios such as those found in the Romanian orphanges demonstrate how the lack of proper social interaction and development of attachement affect the developing child.Children must receive attention, affection,and respect from their caregivers to develop in a healthy manner.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_childhood_education

Early intervention applies to children of school age or younger who are discovered to have or be at risk of developing a handicapping condition or other special need that may affect their development. Early intervention consists in the provision of services such children and their families for the purpose of lessening the effects of the condition. Early intervention can be remedial or preventive in nature–remediating existing developmental problems or preventing their occurrence.

Early intervention may focus on the child alone or on the child and the family together. Early intervention programs may be center-based, home-based, hospital-based, or a combination. Services range from identification–that is, hospital or school screening and referral services–to diagnostic and direct intervention programs. Early intervention may begin at any time between birth and school age; however, there are many reasons for it to begin as early as possible.

http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content/early.intervention.html

The Early Childhood Education Division develops and provides materials and support for the Early Learning Standards and their use in early childhood programs, and for programs that focus on children from birth to eight years old, early intervention for at-risk students, pre-Kindergarten programs, early literacy, and partnerships among schools, communities and service providers.

http://www.isbe.state.il.us/earlychi/default.htm

Key findings:

• A substantial percentage of children are disadvantaged in terms of resources available for healthy physical and mental development. One-fifth of children under age 6 live in poverty, and nearly half of all children face one or more risk factors associated with gaps in school readiness.
• These disadvantages translate into shortfalls in academic achievement, prosocial behavior, educational attainment, and, eventually, greater rates of unemployment and criminality.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9144/index1.html

The term developmentally appropriate care is commonly used by child care professionals to describe care that takes into account the level of physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development of a child.

While there is no one right way to care for children, there are guidelines that focus on how a child develops and the care that is appropriate at various stages. These guidelines help both child care providers and parents understand ways to care for children while helping them develop positive self-esteem.

The following guidelines have been developed by early childhood and child care professionals. These guidelines focus on the idea of developmental appropriateness which is defined in two parts: age appropriateness or the universal, predictable sequences of growth and change that occur in children as they go through their early years of life; and individual appropriateness or the unique growth sequence of each child with their own pattern and timing, as well as individual personality, learning style, and family background experiences.

http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/familydevelopment/components/7268m.html

On Philippine Education

June 6th, 2006 at 7:14 pm (Philippine politics)

Same old problems
First posted 00:15am (Mla time) June 06, 2006
By Inquirer (www.inq7.net)
THAT the Philippine educational system is in a bad shape has been known for the past two or three decades, but nothing really radical has been done to correct the situation. Remedies have at best been palliatives or stop-gap measures.

One recent example of a palliative is the creative arithmetic applied by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo who, by decreeing the adoption of a double-shift schedule and a students to classroom ratio of 100 to 1, “miraculously” solved a very real shortage of 74,000 classrooms.

The classroom shortage is only a part of the whole picture of an educational system that is deteriorating, if not actually in a state of utter disrepair. Every year, the complaints are the same: a shortage of classrooms, desks and textbooks and a lack of trained teachers. What is worse is that some of the textbooks have been found to contain many errors.

Because of the shortage of classrooms, some familiar scenes are expected to be repeated at the opening of classes this year: classes being held under the trees and in corridors and some, probably, even out in the streets. Many students will have to bear the stifling heat in overcrowded classrooms that are made to accommodate 45 or more children.

During the rainy season, in some schools that have leaking roofs, raindrops will be falling on the heads of students. A teacher once complained that she had to use a part of her meager salary to buy a sealant to plug the big holes in the roof of her classroom. We wonder how many rooms are like this?

The physical setting, of course, is secondary in importance to the content of education. But is it the ideal setting for students to be packed into small rooms like sardines, or be made to rush through several subjects in four-hour sessions, so that the next batch can be accommodated for the afternoon session? And how can we expect students to learn a lot if five or six of them have to share one textbook?

The teachers are the key people in the educational system. But how can we expect the teachers to teach well if they themselves are ill-trained? There are many stories of teachers who are semi-literate or who teach their students the wrong things, or who are just one chapter ahead of their students in digesting the books they use in teaching. The best teachers are leaving for jobs abroad, and the mediocre ones are left to teach the nation’s youth in the public schools. How can we expect our children to do well in school if they have poorly educated teachers?

Education is supposed to get the biggest share of the national budget, but it is not: Debt service gets the biggest outlay. (In the current national budget, the outlay for debt service is P301.7 billion, or almost three times the P102-billion appropriation for the Department of Education.) It is education that will lift the nation from the morass of poverty and ignorance, but the government is not appropriating enough money for it.

In a stroke of serendipity, however, the recent incident where the President publicly rebuked acting Education Secretary Fe Hidalgo for not remembering her “creative” solution to the problem of classroom shortage has yielded a good result. Members of the bicameral conference committee on the proposed 2006 national budget agreed to increase the Department of Education’s P108-billion outlay by about P4 billion.

Any increase is welcome, but still it looks like a drop in the bucket when viewed against the vast desert of problems in which the educational system is slowly dying. The Department of Education has to be given a bigger outlay every year. New funds have to be allocated to build more classrooms and provide textbooks for the millions of students who report for enrollment in June. A bigger outlay has to be allocated for teachers, to raise their salaries as well as to give them further education and training in their subjects.

The government has to put an end to the era of palliatives. A commission composed of representatives of the executive and legislative branches, the academe and the private sector should perhaps reexamine the educational system and propose reforms, not just in the infrastructure of the system but, more importantly, in the content of the teaching.

MY RESPONSE:

Quality Education remains the rariest element to be found in our society today. There has been numerous searchings for a Goldmine of solutions that could fund and fit  the needs for better education. Unfortunately, the Pirates of the  Phillippines never seem to realized that the only ship towards richer and productive nation is through a cruise of revolutionary reform. A revolutionary reform that encompasses the achievement of needs for all the sectors of the society and unites our divided citizen. We must create our maps and plan and replan, and implement tried and tested measures to resolve constant cankers in Philippine schools. Bringing more golds and resources to the education department must be settled first, (it is in our Constitution to prioritize the budget for this sector!) Sounds easy but lets admit that it really requires money to create infrastructures, learning tools, and trained and efficient teachers. We could say that its a quick fix solution or short lived but we know that it could immediately  impact the way students learn nowadays. If there could be more rooms, there would be a better chance a teacher would focus on  students that are fewer than to handle a hundred or so? Right? If there could be more books then students could study well? Then after giving the needed budget for this sectors, teachers and administrators along with the parents could organize a team that should discuss and evaluate the needs of their community and their children. We should not copy nor mirror the system being implemented in other country because each nation has its own unique ways of learning and cultural and educational diversity. We should retrace our roots and rebuild from those roots. We should understand how Filipino students learn and what types of learnings should be taught. A Grade Six Pupil from Tondo may feel indifferent in his own country if you’ll try to teach him how to play ice hockey and cook fetuccini right? A Fourth year high school may feel like a stranger if you will tell him that its happier to be in Finland than in the Philippines? What am i telling here is that our Pirates should take off their eye parchment and figure out the blindspots in our Philippine Setting. We must not let the captain sink together with his ship, we are all passengers of the ship and are responsible in our journey to improve each others life. Bon voyage!

P.S.

We are against TOFI!

wala lang, nkaapat lng kase aqng sales ngaun, badtrip wala n nga aqng commission kc male ang agent id na gngmet q( mental lapse!) apat tpos mbba p bnta q ngayng araw, d q nhabol c jam ung topseller ng team, d nmn kc maxado kc nlllmngang q xa mnsan kaya aun ^^,  sana mkbenta aq ng mas marame kysa dun sa babaeng un, oops bgla pa ng txt

in God’s time, you’ll fall in love for the right reasons, with the right person. when that time comes, the love will be worth the long wait, and all the longings will be ended, then you’ll forget you ever waited

txt ng txt un ng kung anuanu ah! tsk!

no sales today! no way! i will have a commision on september 20! 1 800 whatever!!!!! pls focus you damn asshole, scam if you want! nope, never! cant u  stare on those eyes even 4 just a second, its been a year man! look at you, ur losing focus again  f**k off!! forget this! keep this inside…

" all the waters in the world cannot sink a ship unless it has holes,

all the pressures in the world cannot break you apart unless u let IN!"

BREATHE!