Welcome to VickyWeck An Educational Consult: Why Being Late Is Bad For You And How To Overcome ...

Welcome to VickyWeck An Educational Consult: Why Being Late Is Bad For You And How To Overcome ...: Tardiness affects more than just an employee's paycheck. Late employees, especially those who come in late often, impact multiple are...

Why Being Late Is Bad For You And How To Overcome The Habit

Tardiness affects more than just an employee's paycheck. Late employees, especially those who come in late often, impact multiple areas of the business, including other employees and the company's bottom line. Employers must handle frequently late employees quickly and in accordance with a set lateness policy to prevent the situation from escalating. The use of a clear late policy in writing and available for all employees to view ensures everyone is treated the same.

Productivity Loss

An employee who isn't working when he's supposed to is an immediate loss of productivity. Routine interruption may throw other employees off, particularly those who rely on the late employee to do parts of their jobs. Frequently, late employees hinder productivity on a bigger level than an employer might initially realize. For example, an employee working on a project who is late 10 minutes each day for a week loses nearly an entire hour of work. If another employee needs the late person to do his project part, he may lose nearly as much work time despite being punctual.

Negative Morale

Frequently late employees may lower everyone's morale. The late person isn't following the rules and may lead other employees to feel angry about the unfairness of the situation. The morale of immediate co-workers may plummet because the employee's lateness puts stress on them, especially if they have to cover for the late employee or fall behind in their own jobs.

Customer Dissatisfaction

Late employee disruptions affect time-sensitive areas of the job, such as customer service. If an employee is late and doesn't make a delivery to a customer on time, for example, the customer may end the relationship with the employer. A late employee who is supposed to open a location at a specific time may lose customers if she's not there when she's supposed to be. Multiple incidents of poor customer service will affect the employer's reputation and may discourage potential customers.

Management Problems

Allowing one or more employees to come in late frequently can undermine the employer's management team. Other employees may begin to feel as if the rules don't apply to the late employee and come in late themselves. When management consistently lets someone slide, other employees may lose respect for the people in charge.

Overcoming Lateness

Transforming yourself from chronically late to perfectly punctual is a big task. It is important to make deadlines non-negotiable, “like a promise to yourself.” Start with something easily attainable, like vowing not to hit snooze tomorrow — not even once. If you can’t commit to a small inconvenience like that,you are not ready to tackle your chronic lateness. Before jumping in, try an experiment: Get somewhere on time. Just once. Just to see how it feels. Note your reaction. Are you relieved or anxious? Proud or bored as hell? Then work your way up from there.

Step 1: Relearn to tell time.

Every day for two weeks, write down each task you have to do and how long you think it will take. Time yourself as you go through your list — showering and dressing, eating breakfast, driving to work, picking up the dry cleaning, doing the dishes — and write the actual time next to your estimate. Many people have certain time frames cemented in their brains that aren’t realistic. Just because once, five years ago, you made it to work in 12 minutes flat doesn’t mean it takes 12 minutes to get to work.

Step 2: Never plan to be on time.

Late people always aim to arrive to the minute, leaving no room for contingency. Say you need to get to work at 9 a.m. You assume it takes exactly 12 minutes to get to work, so you leave at 8:48. If you miss one traffic light or have to run back inside to grab an umbrella, it becomes impossible to make it in on time. Don’t chance it. You should plan to be everywhere 15 minutes early.

Step 3: Welcome the wait.

If the thought of getting anywhere ahead of time freaks you out, plan an activity to do in the interim. Bring a magazine, call a friend you haven’t spoken to in a while, or go over your schedule for the week. Make the activity specific and compelling, so you’ll be motivated get there early and do it.

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Modern Ways to Communicate with Parents

According to research by Education world, Parental engagement is a critical component for student success. Everyone who works in a classroom setting can agree with this fact.

Many people are trying to get in on finding new ways to improve parental engagement, including everything from mobile apps to even legislation.

For example You probably would have heard of one Mississippi legislator’s attempt to force educators to “grade parents,” a controversial attempt at making parental engagement mandatory in the state’s schools.

For teachers who want to keep grading for their students, there are plenty of other modern ways teachers can look into better engaging with parents. Check out some of the ways below. 

ClassDojo: Parents,teachers, principals and school leaders can connect on ClassDojo, and create an incredible school community together. Teachers can instantly share photos, videos and updates with parents. I first learnt about it at the Regent School.

"FreshGrade: is the 'Facebook' (FB) for students, teachers and parents. Through real time photos, video and reports, your child’s daily activities, achievements and yes, pitfalls are sent to a personal updated data stream for you to see,” according to Fox Business.

Bloomz: is an app that lets teachers talk to parents at any time. The app is already used in 10,000 schools. It has found success in capitalizing on the need of teachers to better engage with parents including throughout the school day.

Parenthub: is another app that allows schools to create channels for classes, sport groups and after-school clubs.

Engagement happens in one step: as soon as parents subscribe to the channel, engagement immediately begins!

According to parenthub’s website, the channel provides teachers and administrators the opportunity to “add in web links and attachments to give parents access to handy learning resources to use with their children.” Not to mention event invites sync immediately into subscribers’ phone calendars, meaning they never miss an update on an important date.

Brightwheel is very good for early years’ teachers.  It offers teachers the option to provide parents with daily automated reports. Soon enough, the app will even allow parents to check-in from their own device to see how their young ones are doing in the new classroom setting.

The app touts itself as being an app that enables strong language development at home as parents can easily talk to their children about their day without having to worry about their kids being tight-lipped after a long, eventful day of learning.

All prison Imates in Nasarawa State must get good education.

Mrs. Ramatu Ajuji-Abubakar, the Commissioner for Education in Nasarawa State, on Thursday, said that the state government was contemplating education for prison inmates in the 2017 budget.

Ajuji-Abubakar made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lafia.

According to the commissioner, the move will ensure that inmates in all federal prisons in the state are properly reformed, in line with global best practice.

She said that even though the prison is a Federal Government establishment, the state government is a stakeholder, hence, the desire to provide for the education of inmates.

The commissioner said the modern prison yard is supposed to be a place where inmates are reformed morally, and learn one skill or the other, and be educated.

“The education would be at no cost to the inmates because the state government has made education free from primary to secondary school levels,” the commissioner said.

Education must top governments’ priority list, says Oshiomhole

According to the Guardian,Governor Adams Oshiomhole says education must top the priority list of governments at all levels, if the country must make any headway. Speaking at the 20th convocation of the school, where seven finished in First Class Division for the 2013/2014 and 2014/2015 sessions, Oshiomhole urged management of universities to, on their parts,  ensure that schools are not shut saying shutting down schools affect Nigerian students’ abilities to compete with their foreign counterparts that enjoy uninterrupted academic calendars.  
 
“There are many universities that are on strike, and ASUU has cleverly reversed the conventional adage, or even law, which says, ‘no work, no pay’. Now, ASUU members find themselves saying to now say, ‘no pay, no work’.

“As we speak, I am sure there are a number of universities that are not working because the states have not paid them, and also I am aware of reported cases of some state governments saying straight away to the universities that they are not going to be able to pay more than a fraction of the subvention that they have been paying on account of the current economic challenges. For me, I am clear that if the Nigerian state defaults in every aspect of its obligation to the people, the Nigerian state, federal and state governments, must never default in its obligation to ensuring that teaching and learning never stop

I Wish My Teacher Knew…

I saw this article and I love it... "I wish my teacher knew"

One day, third-grade teacher Kyle Schwartz asked her students to fill in the blank in this sentence: “I wish my teacher knew _______.”

The results astounded her. Some answers were humorous; others were heartbreaking. All were profoundly moving and enlightening. The results opened her eyes to the need for educators to understand the unique realities their students face in order to create an open, safe, and supportive classroom environment. When Kyle shared her experience online, teachers around the globe began sharing their own contributions to #IWishMyTeacherKnew.

Kyle’s book tells the story of the #IWishMyTeacherKnew, with dozens of students’ handwritten emotional and insightful responses throughout.

Below are a few of the many Tweets that made Kyle’s concept go viral….

How to start a community service learning project at your school.

Community service learning projects can teach lessons that last a lifetime. For students, these school projects build character strengths like leadership, gratitude and kindness. For community groups, they bring an infusion of energy and resources. Ready to start a community service learning project at your school?

Below are 5 tips for a successful community service learning project at your school recommend by Laura McClure on October 18, 2016 in TED-Ed Innovative Educators :

1. Schedule time in class each week for students to discuss, reflect, and work together on the project.
2. Encourage students to seek a deeper understanding of the issues involved via research and observation.
   
3. Plan a field trip for students to meet and talk with people helped by the community organization
4. Guide students to develop meaningful interview questions for their field trip.
5. Incorporate student input throughout the project cycle — from identifying small ways to help the community organization each week, to scheduling a field trip.

Bonfire Night Craft and Art Ideas

Bonfire Night is a name given to various annual celebrations characterised by bonfires and fireworks. The event celebrates different traditions on different dates, depending on the country. 

In the UK, Bonfire Night or Guy Fawkes is celebrated on November 5th and the night skies are filled with colour. It's a special day in honour of a historic event. On November 5th people remember the plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament by celebrating ‘Bonfire Night’. 

All over Britain there are firework displays and bonfires with models of Guy Fawkes, which are burned on the fire. 

With bonfire night fast approaching, here are some inspired tips on Twinkl  that you can use to make some sparkly art and bangers of crafts. Have a look at the details at the twinkl website.

Play dough

Firework painting

foil Sparklers

Hand print

Paper plate Cathering

If you would like to have a feel of it in Nigeria,there are few top British schools I can recommend.

1. Regent School,Abuja

2.BIS e.t.c