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What is Special about Special Education? Print E-mail
By Angelina Puryear | Saudi Life
Saturday, 21 April 2012 20:08

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SPECIAL education is the educational structure put into place for children with special needs in which techniques are used to meet the child’s specific needs. Children with physical, mental, and emotional needs are all educated under this term.

 
O Teacher, Stop Teaching! Print E-mail
By Mirza Yawar Baig | Saudi Life
Thursday, 12 April 2012 00:00

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OUR present methods of teaching which are inflicted on by far the vast majority of children the world over are the single biggest cause for killing the imagination that every child is born with and making them into square blocks which fit our own frightened, constrained and slavish worldview. Those who comply we ‘pass’ and those who challenge it and refuse to succumb, we ‘fail’. The occasional among those we ‘fail’, go on to great fortune. The vast majority disappear, never to be heard from again. Destroyed by the education system they didn’t deserve or ask for.

 
Do We Need ABCs to Learn English? Print E-mail
By Umm Zakiyyah | Saudi Life
Wednesday, 04 April 2012 14:00

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IT’S one of the first things you’ll hear in most English-medium classrooms for children, the “ABC song.” Young children are instructed to sing the song over and over again... “A B C D E F G…” Some parents even stress compulsively if their children don’t get every letter (and tone) of the song right. But is rote memorization of the English alphabet really a necessary milestone in acquiring English reading and writing skills?

 
Finding the Right English Teacher in KSA Print E-mail
By Umm Zakiyyah | Saudi Life
Tuesday, 15 November 2011 00:00

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TODAY, even native English speakers and those already proficient in the English language are trying to find the right English teacher for their needs. Job requirements, professional development, college-entrance examinations, formal speaking engagements, and essay writing assignments are a few areas in which English speakers are finding the need to sharpen their already-proficient English skills. The urgency to improve one’s English appears even greater amongst non-native English speakers who are not already proficient in the language.

 
UMM ZAKIYYAH | American English Teacher in Riyadh: Professional, Experienced, and Dedicated Print E-mail
Wednesday, 26 October 2011 00:00

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goldenapple1"What makes my services unique are three things: my professional and educational background and experience; my genuine love for teaching and excellence; and the student/client-centered creativity I apply to my work…

"I love teaching, and this is an absolute  must in the field of education in my view…

"I don’t offer clients the empty 'I’m a native speaker' line. Yes, I’m a native English speaker. But what’s more important is that I’m a professional teacher…"