Category: Educational Tips and Advice

Are you a student looking for educational tips and advice on how to study and pass or you are a teacher starting your career and looking for some advice for teachers. In this section we will give you educational tips for students and teachers, from teachers.

Turn Schools Into Sustainable Industries – New Education Minister

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Turn Schools Into Sustainable Industries – New Education Minister Turn schools into sustainable industries says the new Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Evelyn Ndlovu. The new Minister has endorsed education with production model which she believes is in line with the government’s new thrust of commercialisation of the education sector. She said this at…

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Teachers Told To Fight For Better Salaries “Or Perish As Fools”

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Teachers Told To Fight For Better Salaries “Or Perish As Fools” The Progressive Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) has said teachers must be aggressive in pushing the government to restore their 2018 salaries. According to Pindula News, PTUZ president, Dr Takavafira Zhou issued a statement this Tuesday saying: Which Way Forward? Teachers are their own…

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Zimsec Continuous Assessment Learning Activities (CALA)

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Zimsec Continuous Assessment Learning Activities (CALA) Continuous Assessment Learning Activities CALA) is a student continuous assessment method that was set to be implemented for the November 2021 session Zimsec examinations. CALA includes learning activities, projects or assessment that require learners to perform, demonstrate their knowledge, understanding and proficiency. It contributes to 30 percent to the…

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Is Lecturing An Effective Teaching Method?

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The lecture method is generally a convenient and cost effective method for public institutions with larger classroom sizes. Lecturing is the standard approach for most college courses, where there is usually several hundred students in the classroom at once. The professor address the most people at once, conveying the information according to the lesson plan and the students absorb it through passive learning.

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Passive Learning

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Passive Learning In order to study the advantages and disadvantages of passive learning we first need to look at what passive learning is. What is Passive Learning Passive learning is a learning method where the learners receive information from the instructor without providing feedback. This method of learning is teacher-centered, in…

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Enthusiasm As A Critical Teaching Skill

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Enthusiasm As A Critical Teaching Skill Everyone, at some point in life, met an enthusiastic teacher who brightened up a dull curriculum. However way we might have cherished the experience, we are all left with no way to describe exactly what made the class exciting, and how that contributed to our learning process. The magic…

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Spaced Repetition As A Better Studying Method Than Cramming

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Spaced Repetition As A Better Studying Method Than Cramming How many nights have you stayed up late cramming information into your head only to forget it all in the first few minutes of the exam? Sometimes it works, but you discover that what you crammed is not the part of the syllabus that is being…

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Tips on how to tackle examination questions

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Tips on how to tackle examination questions Tips on how to tackle examination questions: Read carefully and understand the question before you write anything. Always make sure you know exactly what the question is asking. I have seen a lot of students giving "advantages of doing something" when yet the question is asking about the…

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The importance of writing notes

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The importance of writing notes When asked why they are not writing notes during a lecture, many students usually reply, "I have it all right here in my textbook." Many students find note-taking tedious and pointless because they do not fully understand its merits. However creating proper study notes is an integral part of exams…

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How to answer physics O level paper 2

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How to answer physics O level paper 2 I wrote this guide specifically for Zimsec O level Physics students but the information here can also be useful for other subjects like combined science, chemistry and biology. In fact, with little or no modification, all that is written here can apply to almost all exams that…

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