When Andrea Peterson landed her first teaching job, she faced the difficult task of creating a music program with almost no money for equipment or materials in a climate where standards-based learning was the focus and music just provided a break for students and teachers.
For her drive and creativity in overcoming those challenges, she's been named national teacher of the year.
Principal Waynes Kettler said he's worked with many outstanding teachers in his 22 years as an educator, but Peterson is "just that one step above anybody I've ever worked with before. "
Kettler and others at Monte Cristo Elementary School talk about the ways she has introduced the learning from other classrooms into her music program and her creativity in working around things such as the lack of money for new music.
When students were reading S. E. Hinton's novel The Outsiders in their regular classroom, Peterson helped them write a 30-minute play with scenes from the book. Then they chose three Broadway tunes that focused on race, equality and social fairness, the themes of the book. Peterson created two other songs herself after classroom discussions about the play and the book.
The honor means a lot to people of Granite Foils. It's inspiring and exciting to know that people from small towns even win national honors.
As national teacher of the year, Peterson will spend the more year outside the classroom, as a national and international spokeswoman for education.
Not surprisingly she is a big believer in the value of acts education. She said it's necessary for schools to offer classes such as act or music and physical education because for some kids one of those subjects is the only thing that drives them to come back to school day after day.
"Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?" An old tale tells a seemingly unbelievable story of a magic mirror, but now the magic is no longer unachievable.
In August 2018, news went widely-spread that the police had caught criminal suspects (嫌疑人) who attended Chinese singer Jacky Cheung's concerts. How did the police pick out the suspects among thousands of screaming fans? The helping hand is AI facial recognition technology. The low-key (低调的) but powerful tool is no longer far-fetched, but entering the world of China's top investors and companies.
Facial recognition is a technology able to recognize a person from a digital image or a figure from a video source. Tang Wenbin, CTO of Face, an AI computer vision technology company in China, vividly explained the workflow (流程). According to him, facial recognition is the identification (身份证明)of our appearance, including knowing the sex, age and identity of a person. You may think it is like a brain or a neural network. You use data to train it, and then, it learns the pattern.
Facial recognition technology has been traditionally related to the security work but today it is widely used in other industries including mobile phones, marketing and finance. Chinese start-ups have seen the power of AI facial recognition for simplifying and speeding up tasks in many industries. And the market is now crowded and competitive.
China is starting the AI revolution and has made breakthrough in facial recognition. "If the use of AI in different industries is a marathon, the companies there probably have just got off the blocks, " said Tian Feng, director of Alibaba Cloud Research Center. He also thinks that in the future, everybody will be able to use AI as it will soon become a basic tool for work and life.
"For you, a thousand times over. " The words echoed (回响) in my heart long after I had finished the heartbreaking story. Each word impressed me with the power of firmness, the power of determination, and the power of love, whether it is from Hassan or Amir.
It's hard to use a few words to describe what the story is about because too many things are clear, friendship, familial affection, love, inferiority (自卑), shyness, regret, etc. It's even harder to imagine how the writer managed to expose so many points of human nature in just one story, with the truth of cruelty. Unlike many other stories in which the main characters are always perfect men or heroes. Kite Runner shows us a real man who is thirsty for others' support, who may also become feared in the face of challenge, who will also make big mistakes, just like most of us. In the story, we see Amir's growth from an immature, unconfident boy to a brave man, willing to shoulder responsibilities. But he grows up with pain and regret, and almost at the cost of his life.
The story impresses me with the cruel reality that some mistakes take a lifetime to make up for. Some hurt which has already been caused can never be undone. Some people, once left, may never return. So always keep a sense of responsibilities for what you are doing, so that unnecessary hurt can be avoided. If mistakes are made, try to make up for it at once, for you may never have a second chance. Also, cherish people you love when they are still by your side, for they may be away for good.
At last, I believe that the person, who is ever promised by others with the word "For you, a thousand times over", is the luckiest guy in the world. I wish I could have this honor too.
However difficult you find it to plan your time, it will be good for you in the long run if you set aside a certain part of the day for studying -and stick to it. . But don't forget to make sure that you have enough left for entertainment or simply to be "with" yourself: reading a novel or watching a television programme.
As part of your weekly schedule, it is also advisable to consider exactly what you have to do in that week, and make sure that you handle the most important tasks first. . On a physical level, make sure you have an area or space for studying. Don't do it just anywhere. If you always study in the same place, preferably a room of your own, you will find it easier to adjust mentally to the activity when you enter that area. .
Make sure that all the physical equipment that you use, such as a desk, chair etc. is at good height for you. If you use a personal computer, there are plenty of guidelines available from the movement on angles, lighting and the like. .
If you are working on topic your teacher has set, but finding it hard to concentrate, it may be that you actually need to take your mind right off it for a period of time. . After a period away from the test, having not thought about it at all, you may return to it full of ideas.
A. It is best to make a weekly schedule.
B. Make use of equipment that is available to you.
C. "Airing the mind" can work wonders sometimes.
D. You should have everything that you might need at hand.
E. Pay attention to these and avoid the typical student aches and pains.
F. It's all too easy to read something and then forget where it came from.
G. It's wise to leave the easier or less important areas of your work until later.
I remember I was just eighteen when Grandma Julie died. Until the lawyer read her1, I would never fully 2 the depth of Grandma's love. It was a moment I will never forget - a day that made me the3 kid in town.
After4the distribution of Grandma's possessions (财产分配), the lawyer said, "There are three more things. " He 5 his bag and brought out a small 6 box, which contained my Grandma's wedding ring. "These letters and notes are also for you, " he7.
Grandma's letter began, "Dear Jeffrey, I'm 8 you one of my most precious treasures - my memories. These memories are the letters your9 wrote me. They are both 10 and valuable – a(n)11 that will teach you how to love and understand people, and how to respect and maintain your honesty. When you read them you will 12 the love and enthusiasm of a good man for a good woman, and you'll learn how love can become the 13of your life.
"I have been 14, since I loved a wonderful man who also loved me. Love is like a beautiful15 you store in an album. You can enjoy its beauty each time you stare at it 16 . I've just shown you how priceless his love notes are. Please learn from them. Then find the right girl to love and love her17. This love will18 both your lives and make you both happier. "
"As for being valuable, save the envelopes. It's said the old19 are worth far more than the rest of my wealth. And, the personal hand-written note from General Pershing is even more valuable than the stamps. Have a20, meaningful life. God bless you."
The Qingming (Pure Brightness) Festival is one of the 24 solar terms in China, (fall) on April 4-6 each year. After the festival, people begin spring plowing and sowing. The reason for this traditional practice is the temperature will rise up and rainfall increase a lot. In the past, the Qingming Festival was called "Arbor Day", but since 1979, "Arbor Day" (settle) on March 12 according to the Gregorian calendar.
But the Qingming Festival is not only a solar term to guide farm work, it is more a festival of commemoration(祭祀). It sees a (combine) of sadness and happiness. This is the most important day of honoring. Both the Han and minority ethnic groups at this time offer sacrifices(祭品) to their ancestors and sweep the tombs of dead. On each Qingming Festival, all graveyards are crowded with people come to sweep tombs and offer sacrifices, but the (custom) have been greatly simplified today. After (slight) sweeping the tombs, people offer food the shape of skulls, flowers, then burn incense and ghost money. In short, it is a time to cherish the memory of our ancestors and (show) our respect to them. Most importantly, it is a time for family gathering.
One snowy day, the winds grew stronger and the snow turned into a blinding snowstorm. A farmer sat down to relax before the fire for the evening. Then he heard a loud knock, something hitting against the window. He looked outside but could not see anything. So he went outside for a better view. In the field near his house he saw, of all the strangest things, a group of swans.
They were apparently flying to look for a warmer area down south, but they had been caught in the snowstorm. The storm had become too blinding and violent for the swans to fly or see their way. They were trapped on his farm, with no food or shelter, unable to do more than wave their wings and fly in aimless circles. He had sympathy for them and wanted to help them.
He thought to himself, the barn (谷仓) would be a great place for them to stay. It was warm and safe; surely they could spend the night and wait out the storm. So he opened the barn doors for them. He waited, watching them, hoping they would notice the open barn and go inside.
However, they did not notice the barn or realize what it could mean for them. He moved closer toward them to get their attention, but they just moved away from him out of fear. He went into the house and came back with some bread, broke it up, and made a bread trail to the barn. They still did not catch on.
Starting to get frustrated, he went over and tried to drive them toward the barn. They panicked and scattered into every direction except toward the barn. Nothing he did could get them to go into the barn where there was warmth, safety, and shelter. Feeling totally puzzled, he exclaimed, "Why don't they follow me? Can't they see this is the only place where they can survive the storm? How can I possibly get them into the one place to save them?"
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