by Miniland Educational | Feb 7, 2017 | Uncategorized
“No man is an island”, said English poet John Donne. While these words were penned way back in 1624, the quote contains a universal, and timeless truth: our lives revolve around our relationships with other people. As such, the more emotionally intelligent an...
by Miniland Educational | Jan 31, 2017 | Uncategorized
School curriculums and learning resources have become more and more structured over the last couple of years, and there is indubitably more focus on academic success from even the youngest grades. One of the biggest concerns that many modern-day teachers face is the...
by Miniland Educational | Jan 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
Children are naturally curious little beings, and that makes science one of the most interesting subjects for them to learn, and for you to teach. As a teacher you have the ability to inspire, motivate, and mentor the little ones in your class and get them to fall in...
by Miniland Educational | Jan 12, 2017 | Uncategorized
Psychologist and author Daniel Goleman coined the term “emotional intelligence” in his landmark 1995 best-selling book title with the same name. Goleman says that emotional intelligence, “is the capacity for recognizing our own feelings and those of...
by Miniland Educational | Jan 5, 2017 | Uncategorized
We live in an increasingly disconnected world when it comes to human contact, mainly because we are overstimulated and far too connected to the digital technologies that surround us. Most of our time is now dominated by screens, from smartphones to laptops and TVs –...
by Miniland Educational | Jan 3, 2017 | Uncategorized
We live in a digital age, and this means that children are exposed to some sort of technology at almost every stage of their day. From television and smartphones to Ipads and moving billboards – it can be almost impossible to disengage and disconnect from the...