Deby Adair's Blog - Posts Tagged "schools"
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What a year so far! What fantastic schools! Starting with the invitation from ALIA (Australian Library and Information Association,) Deby Adair joined the Australian National Simultaneous Story time. From there, Deby's journey of spreading the word about the joys of reading and the love of books, (as a Friend of the 2012 National Year of Reading,) went on to several schools, with some events still to go by the end of 2012.
UnicornKisses has provided beautiful FREE UnicornKisses Stickers and WISH trilogy bookmarks to each and every child who attends... that's about 700 stickers and bookmarks... and they are a raging success... the kids love them! What could be better than a bookmark for all those young readers!
UnicornKisses and Deby Adair also held a fantastic 'schools-only' competition this winter, with beautiful and quality prizes to be won. Lucky winners in each school won prizes ranging from the Benny Posters to the amazing giveaway First Prize of the WISH TRILOGY in paperback!
During her school talks Deby Adair not only talks about the love of, and importance, of reading and literacy, but she also asks the schools to become involved in awareness of animal welfare. Some schools participate in fund raisers for Accredited Animal Welfare organisations. This year, the organisation that was chosen was the Australian Koala Foundation, (in order to raise awareness for the endangerment of the koala's environment due to loss of habitat.)
Deby Adair has enjoyed her 'school' days immensely, and says that she met wonderful children who were bright, intelligent and very well informed about all sorts of subjects and that their level of enthusiasm for books and reading was a real credit to the amazing and dedicated teachers that she feels awe-inspired to have met!
So, a great day for kids to receive wonderful insights into the fun and benefit of reading and literacy and also in understanding how valuable the animal kingdom (our friends on Earth,) are! These exciting events have all been mentioned on Facebook 'Books you Love' and Facebook 'UnicornKisses' & posted as Events on the 2012 National Year of Reading.
Good on you kids. Good on the hard working authors who spread the message of reading and books!
Best Wishes,
Deby Adair and UnicornKisses.
UnicornKisses has provided beautiful FREE UnicornKisses Stickers and WISH trilogy bookmarks to each and every child who attends... that's about 700 stickers and bookmarks... and they are a raging success... the kids love them! What could be better than a bookmark for all those young readers!
UnicornKisses and Deby Adair also held a fantastic 'schools-only' competition this winter, with beautiful and quality prizes to be won. Lucky winners in each school won prizes ranging from the Benny Posters to the amazing giveaway First Prize of the WISH TRILOGY in paperback!
During her school talks Deby Adair not only talks about the love of, and importance, of reading and literacy, but she also asks the schools to become involved in awareness of animal welfare. Some schools participate in fund raisers for Accredited Animal Welfare organisations. This year, the organisation that was chosen was the Australian Koala Foundation, (in order to raise awareness for the endangerment of the koala's environment due to loss of habitat.)
Deby Adair has enjoyed her 'school' days immensely, and says that she met wonderful children who were bright, intelligent and very well informed about all sorts of subjects and that their level of enthusiasm for books and reading was a real credit to the amazing and dedicated teachers that she feels awe-inspired to have met!
So, a great day for kids to receive wonderful insights into the fun and benefit of reading and literacy and also in understanding how valuable the animal kingdom (our friends on Earth,) are! These exciting events have all been mentioned on Facebook 'Books you Love' and Facebook 'UnicornKisses' & posted as Events on the 2012 National Year of Reading.
Good on you kids. Good on the hard working authors who spread the message of reading and books!
Best Wishes,
Deby Adair and UnicornKisses.
Our children and their educations.
'Do you believe that children, in general, receive a more well-rounded education if they go to private schools, or public schools?'
This question arose in a Goodreads forum and I feel that it's important in terms of perspective and what we think of as education for children worldwide.
There were many interesting responses and I felt a need to add one as well.
'An education begins at home: socially, emotionally, ethically and academically. However, within our schooling systems we are largely crafting 'education' to meet the requirements of becoming workers, not well-rounded human beings who will accomplish a life filled with promise and upliftment for all.
It is seen as normal to ram information down children's and young people's throats that requires testing that seems to fill no real need. Academic information has its place, absolutely; however, children on the whole despise their school years - not much has changed generationally - unless they are very fortunate.
I have seen the result of illiteracy come from private schools as much as public schools and this issue is a massive concern in my opinion. The ability to read and write with excellence, at least in your own language if not in any other is paramount to a sense of security in life. I have also seen the need for extra tutoring in subjects such as maths and science in both school systems.
My personal take on education has no preference for public, private or home-schooling... my problem with how we educate children is that we expect them, in the end, to fit like neat little square pegs into a round world that accommodates only a small portion of the population.
We don't cater to educate on a large scale unless it fits with corporate needs. This leaves a mass of children having to scramble to work 'to earn money' and that's about it. Quality of life or rather lack of it revolves around this matter for most. Education doesn't seem to really want to address the holistic approach to children being human beings with a wide range of needs.
I would prefer that we change many of the systems used in education, both private and public on a global scale. Children are not automatons.'
This question arose in a Goodreads forum and I feel that it's important in terms of perspective and what we think of as education for children worldwide.
There were many interesting responses and I felt a need to add one as well.
'An education begins at home: socially, emotionally, ethically and academically. However, within our schooling systems we are largely crafting 'education' to meet the requirements of becoming workers, not well-rounded human beings who will accomplish a life filled with promise and upliftment for all.
It is seen as normal to ram information down children's and young people's throats that requires testing that seems to fill no real need. Academic information has its place, absolutely; however, children on the whole despise their school years - not much has changed generationally - unless they are very fortunate.
I have seen the result of illiteracy come from private schools as much as public schools and this issue is a massive concern in my opinion. The ability to read and write with excellence, at least in your own language if not in any other is paramount to a sense of security in life. I have also seen the need for extra tutoring in subjects such as maths and science in both school systems.
My personal take on education has no preference for public, private or home-schooling... my problem with how we educate children is that we expect them, in the end, to fit like neat little square pegs into a round world that accommodates only a small portion of the population.
We don't cater to educate on a large scale unless it fits with corporate needs. This leaves a mass of children having to scramble to work 'to earn money' and that's about it. Quality of life or rather lack of it revolves around this matter for most. Education doesn't seem to really want to address the holistic approach to children being human beings with a wide range of needs.
I would prefer that we change many of the systems used in education, both private and public on a global scale. Children are not automatons.'
