Noelle Brianne|Education Blog

There is a growing trend that more and more parents are embarking on home schooling for their kids.

With that trend, there is a constant need to have a structured method to proceed with. Although, most parents would love to home schooled their kids, they have to be more aware that bring up a child is going to be tough and of course meaningful.

As more and more parents started to think that teaching and educating their child at home next to going to school, there are more and more free online home schooling resource.

It proves to be a great help for those who choose this manner of educating their child at home.

Before knowing where to get free online home schooling tips, I think it is best to define is what is actually home schooling.

It is an alternative to institutional schooling; it is in compliance with state laws and regulations. This way of schooling is a substitute to institutional schooling.

Over here, the parents take over their children’s education and classes are held at home instead of the traditional mainstream schools.

Who are involved in home schooling?

There are many people from different walks of life. They are turning to home schooling for very different reasons; even though research was done on this subject it could not be generalized as to why people seek home schooling.

There are nearly 10% around the world that most kids are home schooled.

What are the benefits of home schooling?

1) It is to create a stronger bond between parent and child.

2) Direct supervision of the child and his/her studies at all times and also provide convenient to the parents.

3) Safety concerns are not to be dealt with as what they face in mainstream schools.

4) There are certain flexibility for both the parents and children such as waking up the child as early as 7AM to be on time at school.

What about the benefits of free online home schooling?

1) These resource are ready to help both the parents and children to cope with the disadvantages that come with home schooling, if they are doing it for the first time.

2) It is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

3) It allows your kids to interact and create a social life for himself/herself, something that is lost when not going to an actual school.

4) It is crucial for the child to know that there are others like them that are taking the home schooling route; thus parents may give encouragement, tips and feedbacks from other parents of their similar situation.

In conclusion, free online home schooling is a great plus point for both the parent and their kids so as to improve one’s knowledge and experience. Having home schooled your kids at the comfort of your own homes is going to be the trend of modern education. I believe it is going to stay for good as most government is facing shortages of teachers.

Therefore, Eddy has started a information guide on how to help parents home schooled their kids and also recommend some tips and techniques to home schooling for the kid in developing him to be a genius.

Distance learning in education services prepares students for various careers in the field of education. Some of the educational services are elementary and secondary school teacher, college and university faculty, instructional coordinator, vocational education teacher, remedial education teacher, students counselor, library technician, self enrichment teacher and training specialist. Apart from these careers other educational services include education product design and development services, education course and curricula development, international education consulting services, international credential evaluation, etc.

Distance learning in education services enhances your expertise in specialized teaching techniques such as how to create a successful classroom literacy program, how to better examine and expand student’s varying learning styles and intelligence levels, and how to utilize technology to enhance and facilitate the learning process. A degree in education accompanied by a strong academic background gives you confidence and professional expertise in the field of teaching.

New Opportunities

Distance learning in education services, also offer advanced degree courses in education administration, education supervision etc. Education administration degree courses are available in school finance and budgeting, school law, community relations, etc. Education supervision degree courses are available in human relations, curriculum development, supervision of instruction and curriculum, etc.

Online education courses and distance learning facilities have raised more challenges for education professionals than ever before. It has given an international dimension to education. Countries around the world are trying to promote their educational services through online technology. New careers are offered by distance learning in education services targeted for international exposure. An education product design and development professional stays abreast of new education research and technology and continually designs new education strategies and approaches to retain a competitive edge in an international arena. An international education consultant evaluates a number of education programs and materials and provides accurate and up to date information on international higher education. International credential evaluators evaluate educational credentials from any country in the world into their US equivalents.

Resources for Distance Learning in Education Services

There are plenty of online degree programs available for education services. Many of them are accredited by the National Council for accreditation of teacher Education; and by the Educational Leadership Constituent Council. The web site ELearners is a search engine for accredited online degrees, while the site CollegeandUniversity is a convenient, comprehensive and personalized source of degree programs and related information. Educational Pathways is a paid subscription newsletter covering distance learning and teaching in higher education. GetEducated is an online degree clearinghouse for accredited colleges and universities while ClassesUSA is also a very good higher education portal.

Demand for education professionals is expected to grow substantially by 2012. Education will continue to hold a special place in people’s lives. Private institutions, local and state governments and corporations will continue to offer various education programs.

enVigil will take care of following issues for any School or college.
Does the 24 x 7 manned security service at the school location ?
Do you still worry about your institute assets and possible damage to school property for various reasons?
Does your institute have multiple Campuses and administrative offices, book stores etc to manage?
Do you feel worried about the instances of violence in you campus and around campus?
Does the vandalism a strong concern for your administration at the school locations?
Do you need to live monitor areas like laboratories, libraries, study rooms and hostels to ensure every thing is going on the way the administration wants?
Do you have any parking or outside areas that you need to monitor?
Do you a storage area that need to be monitored for loss of school property?
Do you feel need to monitor the playground, gymnasium and your labs regularly?
Do you need to monitor the areas where the school fees and charges are collected?

Then enVigil CCTV is the right security solution for your educational institute.

enVigil takes care of institutions security needs & goes beyond security to improve quality of education.
Protect you intellectual property and labs by unforced circumstances and theft.
enVigil provides many features that can help not just in security but improve your day to day processes.
enVigil will allow you to monitor the staff’s performance,
Improved image to your institute – The presence of a security system shows your parents and students that you care about their customer safety and security and can improve their shopping experience.
Monitor parking areas to avoid liability from the attending students, parents and other vendors
Remotely monitor your staff and total processes shall increase your ROI by reduced theft and better employee performance.
enVigil allows you to define the Private and shard cameras, which are only available to administrator making the systems more suitable to your practical needs!
You can monitor various departments of the school – administrative department, Science lab, Literary,
Play groun area and more from the internal network and also by remote access over the internet.

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What does wealth mean to you? Salary? Lifestyle? Money?

Most people are too busy with bill bills life, bills, life and some more bills. Our everyday existance has become a long slog at work to return home at night in order to pay our bills to keep us going.

Wealth is truely more than money- Money is the vehicle to allow us to do the things we like! Money in itself can make you rich. But here is a poser- when you earn more money, you tend to be able to spend it on more expensive things- but as these things cost you more you end up with the same thing- less money as your spending it. Therefore your path to true wealth should not rely purely on a job or salary- where you trade your time for money.

When you work for a company as an employee remember one key thing- They are paying you the bare minimum to keep you- they wont say oh that John Self he is a good guy lets pay him £50k more.

As I see it there are 3 main levels of financial evolution-

1) Pay Check Existence

This is where the majority of brits and the rest of the western world live. Main source of income= You bet, thier J.O.B.’s. Here you get paid for working the 9-5 (longer if your lucky )You hope your money lasts the month/2 weeks/ week that your paid for untill you get that golden paycheck- Here, another one of my NLHWH GEMS- Buy relying on this you get so dependent on it it makes you believe that work is the only way to create income, if you lost your job how would you cope????? What happens when that golden paycheck doesnt arrive??

Trouble is these people are usually scared as they have spent all of their money and Mr Mastercard/Visa comes into play-we can put it on the good ole credit card. We wont have to pay later. This adds to the building snowball of debt- but dont worry that paycheck should arrive……. soon

2) Passive Income

The Next tier is one that over 90% of the world miss out on- so if this is you congratulations your in the top 10% of the global population! You have heard that 10% of the world control 90% of the wealth??

Here money is earned passively- so that you earn money whether you want to or not! So go to bed, earn some money. Mainstream sources of this are shares, property, businesses, royalties etc.

What is important here is to get out of the mindset that the only way to bring in money is through a job! Imagine going to bed and waking up richer, not having to do the commute to work but stay in bed, spend time with the family, doing things you want.

3) Wealth

So  very few people get to this level and this is for many reasons- too many for this post, but into that basket go mindset, fear, unclear goals, poor education (financial) .

This stage is where you have enough passive income you can lead the lifestyle you want. There is no magical number here, it can be as extravagant or as frugal as you like. Warren Buffet lived in the same house in the central Dundee neighborhood of Omaha that he bought in 1958 for $31,500!! He is possibly one of the biggest wealth creators of the modern age yet lives a fairly frugal lifestyle.

This does not have to be you- at this level you will have invested carefully, created multiple streams of income and therefore you can do as you please! People like Bill Gates, Michael Yardney all have massive passive incomes but also spend their money on what they want- Michael Yardney travels the globe, Jamie McIntyre has an amazing waterfront property in one of the most sought after areas in Australia along with a huge country retreat in country New South Wales.

My questions for you

* What level of financial evolution are you in?
* Do you live beyond your means?
* How many investments do you have?
* Where does your income from?
* How financially educated are you?

Happy wealth creation

John Self

www.buildingnlhwh.com

Are you kind of person who likes to work with children? Are you loves to giving training and teaching to young people? Are you a good communicator especially with children? If you answered yes to the questions above, then online education degree will help you to gain the skills and enhanced you knowledge in education field. Hence, help you to advance your career working in education fields.

The booming education and health sector offers many jobs that involve working with children and youths. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor, the education and health sector is going to grow by 30.6 percent between now and 2014-faster than any other industries. Seeing the encouraging growth in education section, earn an online education degree will bring you to a brighter future.

In order start or advance your career in education related fields, you need to look for a related online degrees; there are many prestigious online colleges and universities offer degree in education and teaching. Among the featured online universities which offer various online education degree programs include:

Capella University

Master of Science in Education focus on area in elementary classroom teaching, secondary classroom teaching, advanced instruction in mathematics, advanced instruction in science, teacher leadership, and virtual school teaching.

Master of Science in Education with concentration in Curriculum and Instruction is a specialized master degree offers to those licensed K12 teachers who looking to gain key competencies through theoretical study and collaboration with seasoned practitioners. You will acquire tools and techniques to help your district design instructional models and assessments that focus on increasing student achievement.

Master of Science in Education with concentration in Leadership in Educational Administration, offer to those K12 teachers who are looking for education career advancement in school administration.

Walden University

Online master education degrees offered by Walden University include area in education leadership, Grades K-6 Elementary Reading & Mathematics, Grades 6-8 and K-5 mathematics which provide you with the key skills and knowledge to success in educational field.

University of Phoenix

University of Phoenix’s education master degrees are mainly focus on education leadership and administration, education technology specialized in computer education.

If you are interested in early childhood education, then you should look for online education programs offer by Lehigh Valley College, Sullivan University, Rasmussen College, Hesser College. Since the introduction of concept “Education Start from Age 0″; the childhood education and child care management related careers are in a booming trend. Students who graduate with a childhood education degree usually go to work immediately after graduation due to high demand in this field.

If you are gaga for education, opportunities for meaningful and well-paid work abound. Some other career possibilities include: Child Psychiatrist, Children Youth and Family Counselor, Doula, Pediatric Rehabilitation Counselor, and Play Therapist.

In short, the statistics show that the education section is in the booming trend and educational experts are always in demand. Online education degrees will prepare you with the necessary skills and get you success in this highly demand job marketplace.

Take a visit to http://www.studykiosk.com for more information on all online degrees available. Earning your education is one of the biggest and most important investments in your life. Our goal is to help you quickly find online degrees and online degree programs. We feature over 1,000 online degrees and accredited online degree programs.

Home schooling vs. public schooling, this is what the parents must decide. When we consign our children to public schools, we feel satisfied that they are receiving ‘quality education’. But, are we really getting our money’s worth? More importantly, are the children gaining anything from this kind of a learning procedure?
As the failure of public education becomes more obvious, more parents are chaffing at the restriction of freethinking afforded our children in public schools.
I refer to free thinkers as those who embrace individual responsibilities and ideas; those who practice time-tested rules and morals without restrictions imposed by the public school system. Hence, there is a movement afoot for parents to take more responsibility for their children’s education.
The home school movement has brought about many superior, efficient, and exciting teaching approaches. Most of you reading this were taught in a public school using the traditional textbook method.
The home school movement has brought about many superior, efficient, and exciting teaching approaches. Blot out all your preconceived ideas of how you think school should be and your previous experience of education.

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enVigil will take care of following issues for any School or college.
Does the 24 x 7 manned security service at the school location ?
Do you still worry about your institute assets and possible damage to school property for various reasons?
Does your institute have multiple Campuses and administrative offices, book stores etc to manage?
Do you feel worried about the instances of violence in you campus and around campus?
Does the vandalism a strong concern for your administration at the school locations?
Do you need to live monitor areas like laboratories, libraries, study rooms and hostels to ensure every thing is going on the way the administration wants?
Do you have any parking or outside areas that you need to monitor?
Do you a storage area that need to be monitored for loss of school property?
Do you feel need to monitor the playground, gymnasium and your labs regularly?
Do you need to monitor the areas where the school fees and charges are collected?

Then enVigil CCTV is the right security solution for your educational institute.

enVigil takes care of institutions security needs & goes beyond security to improve quality of education.
Protect you intellectual property and labs by unforced circumstances and theft.
enVigil provides many features that can help not just in security but improve your day to day processes.
enVigil will allow you to monitor the staff’s performance,
Improved image to your institute – The presence of a security system shows your parents and students that you care about their customer safety and security and can improve their shopping experience.
Monitor parking areas to avoid liability from the attending students, parents and other vendors
Remotely monitor your staff and total processes shall increase your ROI by reduced theft and better employee performance.
enVigil allows you to define the Private and shard cameras, which are only available to administrator making the systems more suitable to your practical needs!
You can monitor various departments of the school – administrative department, Science lab, Literary,
Play groun area and more from the internal network and also by remote access over the internet.

If you are considering a degree in massage Therapy Schools, one of the first things you will probably know, the cost and the means to finance their education. The fees vary depending on the school and the state where you live, but most can expect to make between $ 6 and $ 17 to pay for each hour of training, on average, somewhere between these two and you can get more Occupational Therapy Salaries. Some states have licensing requirements, how many hours it will require training, and is likely to spend about $ 5,000 to $ 9,000 to get his diploma. In other states, maybe you can complete a short massage for less than $ 1,000. The cost of a massage table and accessories are not included.

You are probably surprised to be paid, as for the massage therapy school at this point, and there are many ways to find resources if you have decided on this path of education. If you attend an accredited massage school, you can qualify for loans and grants from the federal budget. Multiple awards may by private institutions or the school itself so far. The Federal Government funding for students, payment plans without interest, private loans, grants and private institutional support veterans some of the options might be available.

Isn’t it amazing that neither Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac provided subprime loans, but yet they are in financial trouble that requires a 200 billion dollar bailout. The truth of the matter Americans have been in a financial funk a long time while our political leaders have attempted to tell us we are in a mental recession.

Many of us built a solid retirement portfolio in the high flying 90′s by guessing on the performance of a stock or mutual fund. Everything seemed to expand profitably through the roof. The Dow Jones Industrial Average crossed the 10,000 mark. We doubled, tripled or even quadrupled our portfolio only to lost two-thirds of our retirement portfolio in 2001 due to the Enron malaise and the World Trade Center bombing.

After 5 years of toiling to get control of our lives, the bottom falls out again. We thought we could recoup our investment loss with rising home equity. We were lured by low mortgage payments into buying palatial mansions, only to be stuck with a big house and earth shattering mortgage payments? We are not alone. Many well-educated financial astute individuals with good credit are in the same position.

The subprime mortgage crisis and its foreclosure cousin has affected more than the less than perfect credit borrowers the media has presented. Subprime lenders expanded their market base by offering products exclusively for borrowers with good to perfect credit. These mortgages – option arm, no money down, and 125% home equity were offered to improve families home ownership opportunities. They did. Homeownership peaked at an all time high of 69.2% in 2004 from 64%.

The subprime crisis has become national as it affecting 60% of the American population. People are losing their dream homes and their sanity. They are stressed, attempting to cover mortgage payments that are increasing wildly, they cannot afford. Property values nationally are dropping sharply trapping people into a negative situation. Their American dream of owning a home, a major investment in America, is being crushed. People are stressed, depressed, and frustrated. People are in a financial funk.

Property values increased double and triple fold. Americans were baited into the false sense this boom would continue forever. People secured adjustable rate option arm, no money down and 125% home equity mortgages, not realizing greedy mortgage companies would increase their rates astronomically even when interest rates remained low.

Affluent well-educated people have been bamboozled by the trusted financial industry. Affluent well-educated people were baited into low mortgage payments with option arm mortgages. Option arm mortgages is the street term for the negative amortization loan which promised start interest rates as low as 1.25% to 4% compared to 5.25% to 8%. See the difference in the table below.

$500,000 Loan Amount

Rate Payment Rate Payment
1.25% $1666.26 5.25% $2761.02
2.25% $1911.23 6.25% $3078.59
3.25% $2176.03 7.25% $3410.88
4.00% $2387.08 8.00% $3668.82

People trusted mortgage companies when they should not have been trusted. Adjustable rate mortgages once adjusted annually. Along the way, mortgage companies slipped in semiannual interest rate adjustment. Instead of a maximum rate increase of 2% annually, people are realizing a 4% rate increase annually. If your rate began at 3.25% and every year the interest rate is increased 4% a year, in three years, a person will reach the maximum legally allowable interest rate of 13.99 %. For a $500,000 mortgage, the payment in three years would jump to $5920.40 almost triple the original payment of $2176.03. Most people cannot handle an adjustment of that magnitude especially not over 3 years. The interest rate cap was once 9% but the mortgage companies lobbied Congress to increase it to make more money.

Option arm mortgages were designed for the super wealthy, who understood there would be a balance of interest left over from paying only 5 percent of the interest due. The super wealthy gambled that their property value would increase faster than this interest balance increase and they would generate a sizable profit from this real estate transaction. The common individual would not be so lucky. Property values nationally have rapidly declined. People can not even refinance themselves out of this situation as their mortgage balance is higher than the worth of their house. Hence, they are stuck with a big house, a declining investment, earth shattering payment and an increasing mortgage balance.

Even when the foreclosures began to mount, mortgage companies could have renegotiated mortgages to readjust the rate annually rather than semiannually, yet they were not going to cut into their profits to save Americans.

We are suffering in silence too embarrassed to discuss our plight. We now seek remedies such as filing bankruptcy protection, credit counseling, debt consolidation loans, but we have been afraid these remedies will make our personal economic depression get even worse as you really need to make more income. Many of us are racking our brains and health working 60 hours a week or more just to stay afloat?

Our affluent lifestyles are no longer fun. They have become downright disastrous. This new panic in the economy is a good time to examine the priorities in our lives and possibly make some serious changes.

Ida Byrd-Hill, a fifteen year financial advisor/ mortgage loan officer, said a year ago this Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bailout was inevitable, She knew the mortgage mess had more to due with the Banks’ greed rather than subprime – bad credit – loans.

Anticipating the financial funk we would eventually fall prey to, she wrote Breakin’ Out of Your Financial Funk! to help us ease our minds and create new ideas to generate money even in a tough economy. She states “Tough economies wipe out competition across most industries and create opportunities for new entrants.” If you are feeling a sense of panic and stress with this latest news, join Ida Byrd- Hill as she releases her newest book Breakin’ Out of Your Financial Funk! You can purchase books www.upliftinc.org, Amazon, Borders, Barnes & Noble and Target.

The Master of Education Online is among the best possible educational paths for those aspiring to be education administrators like Principals, Assistant Principals, School Administrators, College Provosts, Vice Presidents of Student Affairs, Directors of Admissions, Registrars, etc.

For individuals being considered for the post of an education administrator, both professional experience as an educator or school administrative assistant, and graduate level qualification in education are equally important.

Distance learning provides the perfect simultaneous solution for both, without affecting the other. No wonder that Master of Education Online courses are offered by more and more American Universities and Colleges, and are in high demand across the nation.

What It Involves:

Master of Education Online involves distance learning or online courses that culminate in graduate degrees like M.Ed., M.A.E., or Ed.M. Though these are just naming conventions followed by different Universities, other significant differences exist between different Master of Education programs.

Mainly, these differences are about program specializations. Common branches for Master of Education are Educational Administration, Guidance Counseling, Academic Enrichment, Preparation for Ed.D or Ph.D, and Higher Education / Student Affairs. These specializations correspond to the specific field in which an aspiring education administrator is planning to enter.

Apart from these, several subject-wise courses are available, like, Master of Science (M.S.) in Education, M.A. English Language Learning, M.A. Mathematics Education, etc, as well as specialized Master of Education courses in subjects like Learning and Technology, Measurement and Evaluation, Educational Leadership, Curriculum and Instruction, e-Learning etc.

Why Education Administration?

Considering the immense responsibilities expected of a present-day education administrator, the field is clearly not for everyone. The demands from students, parents, governments, and the community, are indeed high.

Still, the competition to be a recognized education administrator is great even today. The reason is simple – education administrators get to work in such socially fulfilling and influential positions like Principals, School Administrators, Directors of Admissions, Registrars, etc.

Why Master of Education?

A Master of Education degree is an absolute prerequisite to enter the career of an Education Administrator. This is especially so in the public schools of most states. Today, whether a school is public or private, education administrators with only a bachelor’s degree, are generally only found in preschools.

On the other end of the spectrum, in Universities and Colleges, even a Master of Education degree is not considered enough, except for posts like College Provosts, Vice Presidents of Student Affairs, Directors of Admissions etc. More academically responsible posts in colleges, like Dean, Director, and Chairperson, definitely call for a doctoral degree in education, after a Master of Education program.

Lastly, Master of Education graduates also earn at least $10,000 per year more than their counterparts with only a bachelor’s degree.

Why Master of Education Online?

Today, almost everyone who succeeds at getting a start in education administration, are already employed in schools or colleges. They are predominantly teachers, but also include those working as school counselors, curriculum specialists, subject matter advisors, recruiters, librarians, residence hall directors, financial aid specialists, admissions counselors, etc.

The reason is rational enough – a good education administrator should first be a good educator. For example, only a proven teacher can hope to be an accepted Assistant Principal or Principal. In fact, this proven track-record is as much a prerequisite as a Master of Education degree.

On the other hand, most accredited Master of Education programs are tougher to complete than other graduate degrees, and it takes a longer time frame too. Clearly, this presents a problem for aspirants who can’t dream of losing their current position for further education’s sake. Master of Education Online becomes popular, as it addresses this problem elegantly.

What to Expect From Master of Education Online, in the Future?

New education administrators are expected to be in great demand for the next ten years, as a significant percentage of older professionals will retire within this period. This will result in greater demand for Master of Education Online courses, and more and more Universities and Colleges providing it.

While demand for primary and secondary school administrators will remain steady, demand for preschool and post-secondary administrators are expected to gather momentum, reflecting the greater student enrollments in these segments.

Conclusion

Motivated by the social fulfillment and better pay prospects possible for an education administrator, more and more teachers and other education professionals are opting to be an education administrator. Since this role calls for continuing professional experience and a Master of Education degree, there is great demand for Master of Education Online courses.

The growth prospects for roles in education administration, like, Principals, Assistant Principals etc, are excellent.