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Zen5.me Zen5.meWell-nighZen5.me   RSS   How to get wonted to NCSUHigherEngineering 23 Jan Disclaimer: This is my personal opinion without research and wits with the college. I was a former counselor at the higher a long time ago. TheHigherof Engineering is very competitive. You have to be a top student to attend. Students who get wonted usually have unweighted GPA’s virtually 3.8 and Weighted GPA’s 4.8 and higher (these will retread lower with NC’s new quality point scale). So good grades is a must. Additionally, you must have a strong standardized test score. Many students with good grades will get deferred if their SAT or ACT scores are not strong enough. You want to see an ACT be at least 30 (a 29 might do it but I would suggest a 30 or higher) and it’s equivalent in SAT (1375 or so). Without a good score here, you severely limit your chances of acceptance, many deffered students are kids with SAT’s in the 1200’s or ACT’s like 26. Numbers are not the only things the school looks at though. If you have unconfined grades but only took the vital math track: Math 1,2,3, andHigherMath and has never taken any physics classes, they are not going to be as competitive with a kid who took Math 3,Pre Calc, Calc AB, Calc BC, and AP Physics C and AP Chem, plane with the same or slightly lower scores. The moral of the story is fill up on all the STEM classes in upper school. You should take: Calculus AB and BC or Calc 1 and 2 at a polity college, take Physics 1 and 2 (preferably, AP Physics C, if not offered, take Calculus based Physics 1 and 2 at your polity college), take AP Chem or CommunityHigherChemistry, Showing up with 2 years of Calculus, 2 years of Physics, 1 year of Chemistry shows the higher you are ready for engineering. It moreover gives you lots of credits to requite you a throne start in your undertow work. Remember the EC’s, be well rounded, join things that use engineering, like Robotics team and join things that showcase who you are, a unconfined musician, actor, artist, etc. Show personality in your essay, tell a story that shows who you are, make it fun and detailed but moreover link it to something that shows your passions. Remember your junior year is the most important year! Make your grades shine that year.   No Comments Posted in Education   What if… we did math right? 24 Oct What if we made developmentally sequencel goals that we want our children to reach. what if these goals includes procedures and concepts? what if we designed learning material to help students unzip these goals and had multiple approaches to teaching permitting the child to work with the easiest tideway for their learning style. What if the students got lots of practice and teacher feedback. what if students could pretest themselves to see if they need increasingly time or are ready for a test. what if we provide increasingly time and resources when a child isn’t yet ready instead of just having then goof a test. what if they take a test and we spend time afterwards, helping them correct and understand what they got wrong. what if we don’t move on to the next unit until we have a unrepealable level of mastery with the current unit. what if we protract to include previous material in new units so students don’t forget older topics and retain their mastery. why don’t we focus on quality over quantity and not worry well-nigh kids memorizing formulas but instead can they correctly use and wield them. teachers can be guides and facilitators  in the classroom, kids who are remoter withal can help requite lessons to their peers, online resources can be used to self-ruling up the traditional approach. Assessments can contain questions that require many variegated types of learning, procedural, conceptual, appplications, theorical, experimental, etc. why can’t we transpiration how we do math? It seems so simple.         No Comments Posted in Education   Oral Conscious sedation dentistry … what is it really like? 08 Oct I am not red-faced to shoehorn that I have a phobia involving my mouth, teeth, and throat area.  Because of this, I stave unrepealable things.  Vomiting scares the crap out of me and I run from vomiting children, yes, plane my own…., I panicked through a neck ultrasound that was done, and I stave the dentist. So, without escaping two years, I started feeling a pain I couldn’t ignore so I went in.  One of my front teeth need a root waterway and crown.  Another nearby needed two fillings.  On top of that two theeth were slanted poorly, causing supplies to collect often that would soon lead to future problems.  So, I decided to be proactive this time in hopes of saving me increasingly work later, I would just get four crowns on my four front teeth.and the bad one would moreover need a root canal.  The insurance will pick up a piece but I will be stuck with a lot considering they don’t do preventative measures in these cases. The thought of going through 4 crowns with 1 root waterway seems horrible to me, so I am doing conscious sedation.  I hope it works!  The plan is no supplies or drink without midnight tomorrow.  Tuesday morning, I wake at 7am and take 2mg of Lorazapam.  Hubby drives me in and doctor assess if I need increasingly meds.  Then we start…I will blog well-nigh how it goes and feels afterwards… plane if I am still upper on drugs and then make a,more,coherent version after… wish me luck… TO BE CONTINUED…     No Comments Posted in Medical, Personal   Quality over Quantity: A New idea for Math Education 08 Aug “I can’t do Math,” you hear this said over and over by children and adults alike.  It is plane “acceptable” to tout that “math isn’t your thing.  You don’t hear people saying, “I can’t read,” yet it is okay to scrutinizingly brag that you can’t do mathematics.  Why is math such a nonflexible subject for our country?  When and how does it fall apart?  As a math educator, I see so many solutions to our national math slipperiness that have just never been tried.  We unchangingly seem to just play virtually with the ideas of “the basics,” learning the concepts overdue the mathematics (conceptual learning, new math, mathematical modeling), and procedural learning (very similar to the “basics” in many ways.)  All those things are important and we have a problem of tending to lean to one side vs. the other rather than keeping a reasonable wastefulness between the two.  However, what I see as the biggest problem is looking at, “what is our ultimate goal?”  When I read an vendible that says a CaliforniaHigherhas washed-up yonder with the requirement that all students must show mastery in Intermediate Algebra for higher considering non-STEM students don’t need math, it gets me thinking.   If non-STEM majors don’t need math, then do STEM majors no longer need to take literature classes and humanities classes required in the unstipulated education classes, these are not “needed” for their majors?  Why do undergraduate degrees require students to take unstipulated education classes in wing to their major focus?  We know the answer. It is the same reason why upper schools require 4 English classes, 4 Math classes, 3-4 Science classes, 3-4 History classes, etc., in order to make a well rounded educated person.  Just like English, knowing math provides a level of competence for getting virtually in the world, it allows you to think critically, math is used in many places that kids don’t realize until they get to be an adult.  Adults who truly understand Intermediate Algebra, will be worldly-wise to make increasingly sound financial decisions in their own personal financial choices.   Additionally, Intermediate Algebra as a prerequisite for a higher level math course, shouldn’t be too nonflexible since Intermediate Algebra is a matriculation that should be mastered in upper school.  So, why is a upper school math giving higher students so much trouble that a higher has to waif a upper school remedial math matriculation requirement?  This is considering how we currently teach upper school math is a failure.  Let’s squatter it, some students will struggle increasingly with mathematical concepts and others will move on and take Calculus 3 surpassing graduating upper school.  There is nothing wrong with either student but we act like there is and we need to stop this.  We need to stop putting on kids on the same math trajectory and expecting it to work.     My feeling is that the goal for graduation of upper is to pass, with a B or better, Intermediate Algebra (which should replace tedious useless work with real world knowledge like understanding the Normal Distribution so you can talk intelligently well-nigh IQ scores and statistical research as well as linking concepts to real world like amortization tables for car loans and mortgages, these ideas are increasingly important that long semester of polynomials and subtracting rational fractions which is tedious.)  Students should be worldly-wise to take the “slow path” to math if they need it where they learn the main topics in Algebra 1, some lighter topics in Algebra 2, and some of the vital ideas of Geometry (no geometric proofs).  The goal would be mastery of these topics at a B level.  Anyone graduating should be ready to prove their understanding to a higher prerequisite test and be ready for a Pre-Calculus class, although, if they are not a STEM major, they may segregate Statistics or Financial Math.     Right now, in NC, we require students to take 4 years of math.  They start learning Algebra 1 concepts as early as middle school so that once in upper school, they are once learning topics in Algebra 1, Geometry, and some starter Statistical topics.  By Math 2, they are stuff introduced to Trigonometry, Algebra 2, Probability, increasingly Geometry, including proofs, and a small value of what used to be in Pre-Calculus.  By Math 3, the students are finishing Algebra 2, finishing Geometry, taking on increasingly topics from Pre-Calculus, and subtracting in increasingly Statistical topics.  After Math 3, students must take a fourth math course.  Most non Honors students take Intro toHighermath, which ends up stuff a review of Algebra topics or Discrete Math, which goes into Probability, Statistics, and Decision Making.  If students were mastering all these topics, this would be wonderful but students are barely grasping all of this.  We need to slow it lanugo and cut out the fourth class, cut stuff from Math 1-3, and although still require 4 full years (not semester blocks) of math for the non-Honors track but focus on QUALITY of instruction and MASTERY of learning, rather than QUANTITY of material we can “say” they were exposed to.  We will have students who learn more, are less stressed, and have a higher success rate in future math courses in college.   Students who are on the Honors track, can protract to be on their own schedule as they should not be slowed down.  They can meet that upper school requirement while in middle school, take the “test” showing mastery and once they get to upper school, they can be moving on to learning the missing pieces from Algebra 2, Geometry (with proofs), and move into modeling classes or Pre Calculus, Calculus, Statistics, and beyond.   Written by: Lynne Gregorio, Ph.D. Mathematics Education   No Comments Posted in Education   Freshman year for free… pay for only 3 years of higher 11 JulHigheris expensive.  It can be a lot of work too and for many, they get stuck taking classes that just don’t interest them to meet their unstipulated education requirements.  IS there a way that you could either  only need 3 years of those upper higher bills go four years but with 20% less work each semester so you have time for a job, higher theater, sports, or other interests. stave many of those gen ed classes you are not interested in The wordplay is yes!  Just follow this easy plan.  Depending on the type of student and opportunities available, you may need to pick and segregate which options work weightier for you. My first recommendation is that you, as a student, know what school you want and what major your looking to do.  This helps target the plan and makes it increasingly successful. Secondly, squint at the school or schools on your list and see what credit is given for: CLEP test, AP tests, and any other wide credit options Next, squint at what courses are required at your school and see if the classes you plan to work on will be worldly-wise to receive credit and at what score.  If you are considering dual enrollment, squint to see if the classes you are taking will transfer. Once you have all that information (mostly found on admissions page), you can squint at your program of study and see how you can replace required classes with test or dual enrollment. Lets do an example:  In  the Colleges of Engineering at NCSU, they  have a worldwide first year for all COE majors. R. Wants computer science which is in the higher of engineering.  He will need all those courses plus unstipulated education classes, some of which are specifically for his major, like Economics has to be taken as your social science. To get a throne start, he takes the Calculus CLEP test.  Passing this gives him 4 credits and allows him to sign up for dual enrollment and take Calc 2 at the polity college.  He could have taken Calc AB and BC and then took the exam but he felt dividing it up into 2 variegated test situations was better, rather remember 2 full classes for one test.  He moreover needed As to get into the computer science major.  Additionally, he took AP computer science (not offered at his school but found it online) the year surpassing and scored 4.  This will indulge him to skip the first CSC matriculation at NCSU. Next, he notices NCSU required Calc based Physics 1, 2, Chemistry 1, and flipside science undertow vastitude that.  So, although he chose to just take Honors Earth Science, he knew unbearable to take the AP Environmental Science test, scored a 4 and gets his “extra science ” matriculation out of the way.  The AP Physics matriculation offered in his school was not Calculus based, so he took it as an overview and then self-studied the Calc based Mechanics class, scoring a 4.  This gives him credit for Calc Physics  1 and its Lab.    He tried to do the AP Chem test but his score was not upper enough, he needs an A (5) in order to meet requirements of the computer science major. Now R. hates non – STEM classes, so it is in his weightier interest to get those washed-up quickly and painlessly.  Therefore, he chose to get some things of his social science washed-up with CLEP testing.  First he chose sociology.  This just requires you to memorize vocabulary and then be worldly-wise to relate those words to an example.  It was a quick study of two weeks and his test was passed. The other social science matriculation required by engineering is Microeconomics.  R. Has been self studying for that test, although it has s harder since it isn’t just memorizing, you have to have a sense of the relationships between variegated parts of the supply and demand concepts.  Hopefully, the plan for s that R. will CLEP out of microeconomics as well.  You don’t get a grade, it is just pass /fail.  And a C is passing.  He gets to stave all the homework and only has one test to focus on and if he doesn’t pass, he can moreover retake it then in two months or he will be well prepared for the very class. Finally, R. Has time in his upper school schedule to take some spare classes.  If they were 3 credit class, it would be easier to schedule and he might make two but with 4 credit classes, it doesn’t leave you much else, so he usually take one 4 credit matriculation plus two upper school classes and if time, self studies other things.  For the coming year R. Will take Calc 3 and Physics 2. Assuming he passes all, this is how it will squint when he applies to and attends NCSU. NCSU first year coursess  Calc 1. MET English 1 Enginnering / computers 1 Gen ed matriculation – Sociology- MET Chemistry 1 calc 2 – MET Physic 1 with lab – MET  Csc 116 – first computer matriculation –  MET Microeconomics –  METVitalSxience elective  – MET plus he will have Physics 2 and Calc 3 which are softmore classes met. Total Credits: Calc 1,2,3 — 12 credits Physics 1, 2 — 8 credits APES – vital science- 4 APCS – first csc class- 3 sociology – 3 Microeconomics – 3 ————————- Total: 33 credits This will indulge him either to graduate in three years or take 12 credits instead of 15-16 per semester. A second example, C. had AP credit for English Composition, he didn’t want to do all the uneaten work required to take an AP class, so he self studied and got a 4.  He moreover took AP Computer Science and got a 3. He took APES and got a 4.  But he only has 3 AP tests.  He did take a lot of dual enrollment classes, he was going for a stratum in simlation and game diamond and took two iintroductory classes in this but they did not transfer.  He did take both Calc 1 and Business Calculus.  He took Macroeconomics and two programming classes one in C ++ and the other in Java.  He had 29 credits to transfer.  He went in as a freshman but took 16 credits his first semester and tha numbers him to a second semester sophomore.  He was worldly-wise to graduate in 3 year and save his family an unshortened tear of tuition, room, and board.  If C. Had known well-nigh CLEP tests, he would have tried coming in with increasingly of his gen ed courses met. Stdents can manage plane increasingly than one year but I think one year is good, it gives them options, doesn’t put them too far superiority of their peers, is doable during the four years that f upper school without overloading the child to try and do a year of upper school and higher at the same time unless they are in an early higher program that has them all in higher classes full time by senior year. Remember, if you don’t get a merit scholarship, taking a semester or a year from payments can offer similar financial advantages.       No Comments Posted in Education, Financial   Your kids well-nigh to drive… how can you alimony them safe? Cars to consider 08 Jul My son got his permit at age 15, fast forward a year, he barely drives.  He doesn’t really want to momentum and isn’t very good at it.  Six mnths later, we realize we need to get him driving more.  We increase the frequency but still, no one feels good well-nigh it.  More time ticks yonder and now we are lanugo to a few months surpassing the start of school.  He HAS to momentum by the end of the month.  He has no transportation to his higher classes from his upper school.  We start driving daily.  He drives in our car.  It has a veiling spot warning, which I love and precollission warning and breaking.  But, the car is big, nonflexible to park, and doesn’t have other safety features I wanted.  So I started showing around.  I wanted to spend under $20k and it had to have:  Lane alimony assist, this will bleep if you leave your lane Steering Assist, this steers you when into your lane if you go out replacement camera pedestrian restriction assist, will restriction automatically if radar spots pedestrian upper speed and low speed unravel assis – if you are going to crash, car will notify you and wheels restriction (may just slow you lanugo so your crash isn’t as nonflexible or completely stop you, depending on speed) veiling spot detection mirrors can be installed ($650) adaptive trip control, car wheels brakes based on loftiness between cars and set speed The 2017 Toyota Corrola LE met these goals and came in just over $18k when all financing are widow in plus 8 years of oil transpiration package I bought. The car was sporty look, we got white with grey inside.  It gets decent gas mileage, it drives well for a lower end car.  And most importantly it was the only car I could find with all the safety options on a low end car.  Many other models were missing one of the things on my list, they might have all but no,adaptive trip tenancy or flipside might have a funky veiling spot camera for one mirror but not he other.  Or the cars didn’t have steer squire or they wouldn’t auotbreak in all settings. So, this we think is he safest affordable car out there and my son will be trying for his license this month in his new Toyota Carolla.   No Comments Posted in Personal   Tips for rehabbing a fear warlike dog- Solid K9 please help! 04 May We started with a severe specimen of fear overstepping in an 8 week old full bred verge collie pup.  He was fearful of everything, he was weary of playing, he was unsure of our other dog, he growled at half the people in the family such as the two young girls and one son. He would growl at every stranger he saw and he didn’t like to be held or touched.  At a dog park, he stayed with his big brother at first and did okay but as he got increasingly afraid, he started getting warlike and started attacking the other dogs.  We tried him with a muzzle and he muzzle slammed them.  We had people try to pet him with his muzzle on and he would try to zest them. Off troika he would stay with us but started venturing remoter out to scare yonder the bad guys, barking and showing teeth.  One man just laughed since he just a puppy and I came and got him but a child got scared and ran and that made him run without him and nip his leg.  Nothing too major but it made things well-spoken to us, he needed help! We hired 3 variegated trainers.  Fired the first one on the first day.  The second one was an e collar trainer and he went to a workbench and train but he took a very harsh stance and Whisky is very fearful, so harshness breaks trust so although we learned somethings, he regressed considering he was too heavy handed for his temperament.  The third trainer was a positive trainer, she didn’t do e collars but we encorperated what she taught us that heled his anxiety, that was working, withal with what was working with the ecollar to find a mix that seemed to work for him.  We used it lightly for small things and use it for big things that were serious at medium but not use it for every writ that he would follow anyway without the collar anyway.  Too much collar causes unconfined uneasiness for him, so overuse is a problem for him but used correctly for him, it is a unconfined tool. We work on densenitisizing him to many things that triggered him, one at a time and on obedience at the same time.  Easily crate trained when guests come over, he will want to go to door but will go to bed on command. sleeps by self in gated zone near unshut crate will wait for dinner politely if asked will take turns pulling meat off  a unorthodoxy with his brother while I hold it can take any supplies from him will play wittiness with strangers (wouldn’t when young, was too wrung of them) Ignores people on walks (barked and lunged when young) can ignore people in house IF I can trust they will ignore him(most people I don’t trust the people, they think they know better), so we crate or gate him 90% of time word-stock have people touch him, big no, will bite.  Not too nonflexible but enough… without he has bonded with someone unceasingly for a few months, he will tideway them and make it clear, they can touch, he might climb in their lap.  He loves touch from us. he will do touch games for treats with strangers dogs are a big trigger, on a walk, he will ignore 75% of time unless other dog initiatiates. dogs walking by his yard, set him off big time, he can be tabbed away, if alone, will usually listen on first call, if his brother is out there barking (brother never listens), he won’t listen until 4th call.  I reward every time.  If collar is on, he comes right away.  He will distract himself from the stress by bringing us a wittiness or frisbee to throw.  It is all anxiety. if a dog comes to whet of gate, He will try to zest him and goes crazy.  Harder to undeniability him off, collar I can on high, words, not until up to six tries or if I throw a ball. His brother is a huge instigater, he acts much largest when his brother is not out there but we don’t have tenancy over brother, old sick dog, didn’t do well with e collar. He can ventilator our cats, getting better.  Cats mostly stay upstairs and dogs stay down.  Sometimes cat decides to come down, dog rushes cat, 95% dog listens and I undeniability him and he listens and cat runs up stairs, once he unprotected cat.  We separated them, no forfeiture washed-up to either.  He moreover chases bunnies that he could reservation but chooses to,run slow,because he likes the ventilator and doesn’t really want the reservation part. Goals:  Trust him consisting with people (but that ways trusting people to follow his rules, no look, no talk, no eye contact, and NO Touch, and no fast movements)which may not be realistic? Goals:  Get him conditioned to,accept other dogs, he lives with one fine now and he likes,to play, he just needs trust and coping mechanisms, but how,do,we get there, saw videos but I don’t have wangle to wifely beta dogs to practice with… Goals:  be worldly-wise to take a vacation again!! please!  Everyone says skiver the dog, but we love him. would love to hear from Jeff Gellmen at http://solidk9training.com/about/   No Comments Posted inVergeCollies, Personal   EarlyHigherCredit through North CarolinaPolityColleges, CCP, Dual Enrollment 03 May Have you heard well-nigh dual enrollment?  Dual enrollment allows your upper school student to take higher classes at one of the polity colleges for self-ruling and get both upper school and higher credit for the class.  Many kids can enter higher with 1 semester well-constructed or a full year complete, a few can plane do increasingly than that. The program as it stands in Wake County is tabbed the Career and Collge Promise program.  It is mostly designed for juniors and seniors in upper school.  Students have to have a unrepealable GPA and permission from their school.  They can split heir time between upper school and college. I have had two children do the program.  My kids earned higher credits through a mix of AP exams, CLEP exams, and dual enrollment classes.  My first son took AP Environmental Science and AP computer science classes, he passed those tests earning credit.  He also,self studied for AP English and got credit for that.  Through dual enrollment, he took C++ programming, Java Programming, Economics, Calc 1, Business Calculus, and all these gave him 29 credit hours, permitting him to start as 1 credit short of a freshman and he was just considered a transfer.  He got largest housing, older registration, etc. My other son now is in the program although they reverted how they do it and limit the classes you can take.  He just started this semester.  He had taken AP Calc AB at school in the Fall but AP exams are not until spring, so to get higher credit for what he learned, he took the CLEP Calculus test, he had not plane finished the undertow yet but skimmed the remaining lessons and went for it as he needed a passing score to register for Calc 2 at the polity college.  Even though he took it a month surpassing his matriculation ended, he still scored a 68. 20 points whilom passing on their scale.  So he was unliable to take Calc 2 as a upper school junior with all the higher students at Wake Tech.  It was a unconfined wits for him.  He made friends with his classmates and teacher and he was wonted by everyone, they all were amazed at how well he did as a 16 year old!  He got an A and is ready to protract in the program. Navigating your upper school and higher classes and without school activities can be difficult.  Normally, you would take 2 upper school classes and 2 higher classes but since this was a 4 credit matriculation rather than a 3 credit class, it met increasingly often and caused conflicts with most other classes.  We decided to use the uneaten time to self study AP exams.  So my son sel studied Environmental Science and Physics C Mechanics.  He had taken AP physics 1 with Algebra but the leap to Calculus was a lot and he neede Calc based physics for his higher classes, not the Algebra ones.  So he self studied to take that AP test as well.  As of this writing, he took his APES exam and next week is his Physics test and then in July the scores come out. So, we are getting ready to register for his senior year.  We hope he gets a 4 or 5 on the AP Physic c  Mechanics, if so, we can have him take Physics 2, if he doesn’t, he will need to take Physics 1 but at least he will be prepared and should get an A.  Registration is this week and we need to find classes that will moreover work with his upper school schedule again.  The nonflexible part is that we don’t plane know his upper school schedule, so,we are just guessing at this point. Our top pick would be Calculus 3, so he can finish all his Calculus at the same college.  But, we don’t know if it will work with his upper school schedule and you have to consider teachers.  There may be a time that fits with a poorly rated teacher and it is not worth taking a matriculation with a poorly rated teacher.  Other options would include Physics or English and Chemistry or Linear Algebra. we are moreover planning on having him study sociology and Microeconomics this summer and hopefully get CLEP credits for those.  Three full weeks of study should be unbearable and then take it he test and one less matriculation in college. His goal is to enter as a sophomore and since it is a very taxing degree, only have to,do 4 classes instead of 5 each semester so he can do well on them. So, overall, I love the program.  I love that my kids enter higher with a year well-constructed and they can graduate in 3 years (first son did), segregate a,double major and still only forfeit me four years of tuition, do a masters for the same forfeit as an undergraduate degree, or take a lighter load to make sure they do well if they are in a competitive school and major. i prefer very higher classes to AP exams considering it largest prepares the for real college, some AP classes are unconfined and other are terrible (we had a terrible one or two), would rather my kids self study for AP,exams unless I know their teacher has students unceasingly getting 4’s and 5’s.  This is not the specimen at my son’s school, very few kids plane pass the AP tests, so I would rather he take the higher matriculation than the upper school AP matriculation with the exam.  Our first wits with AP was Chemistry, my son was doing well, understood stuff but teacher was out so,much, they never finished the course, never did practice exams, and self-ruling response practice, my son got a 2.  That is when I knew we needed to transpiration things! Instead of doing an art project like his fellow peers are doing in AP Calc BC (instead of studying for AP exam), my son was in a real higher Calc 2 class,with higher students, earned an A and doesn’t need to take a single test to determine his grade and his future higher will weight a 3 as a C 4 as a B and a 5 as a A, so he would need a 5.  He has that now, the traditional way without having to make comic strips and art projects.   No Comments Posted in Education   Getting your upper school student ahead, self-ruling higher credits 30 Apr is your child ready to throne off to upper school ?  Exciting isn’t it ?  Just three short years ago, my son was heading into his freshman year and now without what seems like a twinkle of an eye, he is going to be a senior in a couple weeks.  My daughter will be a he new inward Freshman now. These aren’t my first two kids to do upper school.  I once had two other upper school graduates.  Their years flew by too.  I have learned some things though.  First, is a question for you, how do you finger well-nigh college?   We pass a lot of how we finger onto our kids, sometimes that’s a good thing, other times it is not.  College has wilt a debated issue lately, it is expensive, s it necessary?  Well, that depends on a few things:  You finger strongly your child should go to college. your child feels strongly that he or she should go to higher your child’s career goals match one where a higher stratum is expected you or your higher want higher for maturity and growth and the higher wits Now, if your child wants to do a job that doesn’t really require a higher degree, like work a restaurant, be a fed ex driver, be in sales, etc. higher isn’t worth it except for the growth, maturity, and experience.  You can moreover get training from vocational programs that don’t require higher like hvac repair, eyeful school, ekg tech. Lets say that higher student son the plans, your child wants to be an engineer or computer programmer.  Most jobs want a four year degree.  So, what does that have to do with freshman year of upper school? Remember how fast I said these years would fly by, well, freshman year is not a huge deal but plane then it can be setting you up…. Sttin you up for what?  For future classes, the big plan… th enigma plan unquestionably starts to come together Freshman year when you select classes.  Students need to start thinking long term, start thinking well-nigh higher and goals. Here are some examples:  Case wants to be a computer programmer and wants to get in a competitive college.  He needs to be taking the right classes now,that lead him to the weightier classes latter: Freshman year, he takes Hon Eng, Hon World His, Hon Math 3, Hon Bio, PE, intro programming 1, Spanish 1, intro Engineering **These set him up for future classes Sophomore year:  Hon Eng 2, Hon US Hist, Hon Pre Calc, Hon Chem, AP Chem, Spanish 2, programming 2, Engineering 2 *** Notice he took his first AP matriculation and serried it to follow Honors Chem Junior Year:  AP Eng, Hon US Hist 2, AP Calc AB,HigherCalc 2, AP Physics c AP Computer Science, AP Environmental Science, ** notice now we have, AP English, APES, AP Calc AB, AP Physics C, AP CS tests…. that is up to 16 credit hours plus 4 higher transfer hours Right now, his transcripts show 2 full semesters of Calculus with higher credit, one aken at a college, 1 Calculus based Physics class, a Computer Science class, flipside regular science, a Chemistry credit, and Engineering she credit (if allowed).  This all looks unconfined to a prospective college. Additionally, over the summer between Junior and Senior year, I would suggest taking two gen ed CLEP courses and getting credit.  It is just memorizing and asking a test.  This will requite you flipside 6 credits. Finally, senior year, take increasingly AP and or higher classes.Specimenmight take:  Senior year:  Hon Eng 3, Hon Civics, Theater, AP Statistics, Calc 3’atnthe college, Physics 2 at the college, When he graduates, not only will he have met most of his freshman classes for college, he will over 30 hours and start higher as a sophomore, saving money or with the worthiness mtomtake a lighter load.         No Comments Posted in Education   Updated, post on our Prozac trazadone fear warlike dog 30 Apr Many of you have asked for an update on our pup.  First, I am waiting on an iPad so please excuse my mistakes, later I hope to come when and fix any error or typos with a real computer but thumb typing isn’t my thing. So, Whiskey is 4.5 years old already, time flies.  We still have his brother, Golden Retriever, Ares, who is scrutinizingly 11.  They venerate each other.  Ares is getting old though and we don’t know how much longer we will have him for.  Whiskey still takes Prozac each day, 30 mg, and 200 mg of trazadone in the morning and 200 mg at night.  If we miss a dose, you can tell. He sleeps in as we like to and is fully awake and bugging us without 11:00 am.  He usually wants to play or interact by each then.  We usually will either throw a frisbee, throw a soccer ball, play get the dog with tug included, or reservation the hose game.  After he will settle lanugo for a while.  Later, he asks for a second play time and we do one of the same or dog training.  Finally, virtually dinner, we take him for a walk.  On a weekend, we might go to a public park or our 4 acres where he can run for troika and run in the creek. On walks:  he ignores people, 99 percent of the time unless someone gets right in his squatter talk to him or f he felt his space was stuff invaded.  We alimony loftiness from people in general, he wears a vest that says requite me space.  When walking in tropical proximity, I have him heel to me and he is fine.  He never lunges or tries to go without people like he used to. He doesn’t seem triggered by them at all.  He trusts that we won’t let them touch him and this is the only thing that would set him off. My sister in law thought she was “different” and could touch him and it would be fine, so she did, he gave her a light zest to say, no, I am not okay with that.  I think it was good, he controlled the bite, didn’t over react and made a well-spoken statement, she handled it well too by reading his message, not overreacting and not freaking but just moving on calmly. When people come over, he can be overdue a wire only fence hat he could hands unravel through but it acts as a psychological windbreak to pinpoint his space.  He sees someone new, he will requite a little warning growl but that’s it. He can be loose,in the house with strangers if they follow he rules and are not fearful.  They must do no look, no touch, nomination all, no eye contact.  Then they must play some bonding games with him, that’s all it takes. Other dogs are the biggest problems.  His brother Ares, makes it worse.  He gets Whisk all,triggered by barking at them.  When Ares passes, we will have largest luck calming Whiskey well-nigh other dogs.  He sees dogs on walks and gets tense but I say, leave it, and he will probably ignore.  He never starts it with a dog but if a dog starts it with him, he will get increasingly physical and difficult to distract.  I would never put him squatter to squatter with a dog, maybe a puppy, slowly.  I think he has potential but it will require work. i tried to meet with the SiWaysSit trainer to discuss Whiskey’s progress and what we learned well-nigh him and how he responds.  I really finger like an expert with all I have read and worked through with my dog and I know I am an expert on MY dog since I have trained him it’s many approaches and have learned how he responds to variegated methods based on his needs.  I was hoping he and I could work as a team, that I could learn from him and he could retread things based on what I had learned works and doesn’t work,specifically for Whiskey.  He didn’t seem interested in that, he seemed to imply HE was the he expert on all dogs with uneasiness and you have to push them to get anywhere.  Pushing Whiskey shuts him down, makes him lose,trust, and no growth is achieved considering all he has is flight, flight, fear going on.  You have to teach these dogs at a place of safety, tropical unbearable to the water that they see it, maybe get their feet wet but don’t throw them n and hope they learn to swim.  It’s tabbed threshold and I strongly believe in it.  So, I was very disappointed not to protract  what I was hoping could be a partnership to protract to modernize Whiskey. We have been rented with other things but still work on his training and hope to get when to a situation where we can find someone to help us work and on his proximity to people and dogs.               No Comments Posted inVergeCollies   « Older Entries CategoriesVergeCollies Confessions from worldwide cadre math teachers Education Financial Medical Parenting Personal Uncategorized Recent Posts How to get wonted to NCSUHigherEngineering What if… we did math right? Oral Conscious sedation dentistry … what is it really like? Quality over Quantity: A New idea for Math Education Freshman year for free… pay for only 3 years of higher PagesWell-nighZen5.me Blogroll AllWell-nighSpelling Curriculum http://solidk9training.com/about/ Mathematics Curriculum solid k9 training solid k9 training Solid k9 training Twitter YouTube Meta Log in Entries RSS Comments RSS WordPress.org   ChocoTheme by .css{mayo} | powered by WordPress Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS) Press f for fullscreen.