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 It involves a lot of things when it comes to higher level of education. Bear in mind that now you are not focusing much on remembering anymore but it involves course works, exams, writing term papers, attending seminars and colloquiums and etc. It involves you to have access to wonderful resources such as latest publications on your major, books, journals and academic discussions among your peers. Definitely, talk to your peer is one of the important strategies to improve your research skills.

Developing skills to have research autonomy is important. My post today will deal with it. You have got to believe me that lecture and tutorials are not enough. Among the anticipated steps that you might want to take are:

Read, Read and Read Your Books Extensively:

You don’t have to read from cover to cover unlike in your high school, it is because you have enormous list of books awaiting you that are given by your study lecturers. You have to be very selective because only few chapters inside those books are basically beneficial to you. Reading entire books will eat most of your valuable time. In order to do that you need to:

1. Know what are your looking for, you need to determine what are they and how much time do you have for this particular activity.

2. It can save your time if you look for the targeted information in content and index pages.

3. It is best if you can read the conclusion or the summaries of targeted chapters. Again, you can get the overview and it safes your time.

I advise you to take details of the book, perhaps in the future you might come across the same information and you want to read it again. (This is for your record). Don’t forget these details:

a) Author’s full name, date of publication, book title and subtitle, publisher and his town.

IT experts will be called nerds or geeks. They have very good skills in their technical skills and the application of whatever techno savvy. They like to live in they shut down cubicle and can stay there for hours without having any efforts to communicate to the people outside. They feel safe inside their own islands.

When IT experts join the market world, they have to interact. Enclosing themselves in their cozy cave don’t help them much in their careers. In order to avoid that, it is very important to them to have soft skills. They must require good communication skills, leadership skills and etc.

a) listen actively and be emphatic
It means they have to listen carefully, not hearing. Listen actively requires much more attention and focus. It is very tiring. However it is more tiring if they are only able to listen to literal statement because it will lead to impairment of others work( remember, they are needed much in their corporation especially when lots of computers and technical things are used nowadays in most of every company.) There are many ways to be actively involved in listening, firstly you can parapharase back the reportee/clients problems. Also , it will give a room for correction if mishap happens.

b) use visual cues rather than theories.
Of course you don’t want your subs having problem understanding of your commands when you use a lot of technical jargons such as PHP,Mysql, XML and etc. I believe giving them examples that can lead to mental visualization in brain will be very helpful. What I mean is please use common terms.

c) become a mentor.
It is very good if you can be a good mentor to your friend who has less understanding of technical issues. By doing this, it will be your opportunity to make people know you. Remember, only by knowing you, they will help you. Further more, you will involve developing, conveying and communicating your expertise with your friends.

This week, i am teaching my students the art of critical and creative thinking for my English classes. I chose an article which is written by Douglas Ogden on We Dont Need More Power. The article is quite difficult for them, I do realize about it because some of them keep asking me the meaning of words inside the article. As a solution, I sent them to the library, it has lots of dictionaries and I dont want them to treat me as if I am the walking dictionary.

From the article, I ask them to discuss in their Muet’s groups on an issue. The issue is “Who’s to Blame for Pollution”. I told them that they have to present the topic for their next classes. Basically this week I am focusing on two skills, reading and speaking, and the same time I am testing them their level of critical thinking. If they dont reach my target, it seems that I have to teach them the thinking skills.

From my observation, my students could not do the presentation, because their points were lack of supports and rationality. For example, most of them explaining how pollution occurs rather than focusing on answering who is being responsible for pollution. Some of them tried to show the relation between pollutions and the doer of the pollution i.e the culprit but the explanations are not well correlated.

For example, in their introductory statement of “Who is to blame for pollution?”, they mentioned of how acid rains is being produced and they blamed the acid rain rather than the factory owner. Some of them explain that the factory owner is greedy but they did not mention specifically how this can lead to pollution.

Well, it seems that I am going to teach them Critical Thinking soon..!!

My ex teacher in his gathering had been mentioned again for the third consecutives time of his gathering that it is very essential for our students to have this skills. His suggestion made me puzzled for a while because there are many definitions of soft skills and even in Wikipedia, there was a suggestion to put soft skills for a sub under “skills”.

Does the definiton matter? To me it is, due to the after direction that this definition will lead our comprehension to. Anyway, I dont want to discuss about it nor putting my soft skills under specific division or heading. I aim for the practicality of having the soft skills within ourselves and being able to practice it.

The first step towards surviving confidently at university is to have skills. You have to sacrifice a lot in order to gain a lot of skills. One of the way is by reading. By reading a lot of motivational books, you will acquire later on what I believe as a life skills. Life skills a.k.a soft skills are very important. Achieve success is only one of them. They are many more.

These skills for those who want to be survivors. Survivors can be defined as one that has determination to succeed and work on it. In a simpler word, you freak out to the dustbin all the anxieties and put yourself on actions.

What are the actions that should we focus more in other to succeed? There are many but in this post, I want to expose that it is important for us to understand and be bold in mind to state our minds for success.

This skill is important due to a believe?theory? that mind makes you move towards your goals.

It is not denied by many Nobelists and philosophers, they believe the improvements only are not impossible when a heavy transformation happens in your brain/your way of thinking.

In order to prepare our minds for success, we will be aware of good study strategies,(study skills), mastering our examination abilities, avoid any serious emotional problems, avoid low motivation and so on.

Work for it, start from today..

It MIGHT Happen To YOU

If you dont have knowledge related to this field, litigation field, and if you commit any offense, it will be a horror experience for you. Imagine, you dont get a permission or you forget to get a permission slips first from the parents for a field trip, you might be dismissed or suspended(if ONLY that field trip involves in a disaster for example a car accidents and etc).

What MUST I DO?

You need to acquire a very basic understanding of the legal system as well as keeping up to date with them. You might be thinking that it is a school leader/principal jobs’ to ensure his / her staffs to be well informed about it, but later on , when the badfalls happen they just can put the blame on you by not uptodating yourselves with the latest news from magazines at the library.

If you want to know further about reading court decision, I transfer the skill of reading the litigation document here:

Let’s say you have encountered this kind of weird phrases such as:

Johor Matriculation College v. Ridhuan, 93 F.2d 1936 (8th cir 1996)

JOHOR MATRICULATION COLLEGE V. RIDHUAN means the names for those who are involved in this case(-whatever the case, you will know it fully when you get the document). In this matter, JOHOR MATRICULATION COLLEGE is lost and the one that has brought to appeal.

93 means the edition.
F.2d means set of volumes.
1936 means page numbers.
(8th cir 1996) means the date for the case being brought upon hearing at court.

You can know more by reading this book, written by Cunningham and Cordeira entitled Educational Leadership : A Problem Based Approach.

In order to succeed you really need to be well managed. In order to be well managed, you need a skill on how you can manage your time effectively. In this post today, I will tell you how you will be able to manage your time effectively by understanding this simple and important philosophy of mine. I have been using this for years and it is very efficient and effective.

It is information before it becomes knowledge. Once it is often being practiced then it will be your skill. Skill is something that you have and use it daily and every time.

Not to forget, the most successful man in this earth is he who manages and controls his own time. He is in fact a master of his own destiny.

Start your day by metaphorically imagine that your day is an empty glass. You need to fill up the glass with two types of things. Stones and sand. Notice that stones are noun that you can count and sand is uncountable noun.

Stones are for important matter only. Fill the empty glass with stones first. The empty glass can only be made full by later putting in the sand.