It is 8:30AM on Day Three of our do-it-yourself Mumbai travel, and my son and I are having breakfast at the hotel restaurant. Our flight back to Chennai leaves at 2:45PM. Allowing time for...
Having completed an improvised walking tour of the Maximum City on the first day of our marvelous Mumbai trip, we headed out on four wheels on Day Two. I’d turned to the tripadvisor community...
Arriving at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport’s (CSIA) domestic terminal on a bright April morning, my son and I headed straight for the prepaid taxi counter, one among several transport providers that greet travelers...
· by admin · 9 Jun, 2015
With schools recently opened, pupils can count on one perennial topic for their first English composition of the new academic year: “What did you do last summer?” I always took this question to mean,...
· by admin · 17 Mar, 2015
The results of the Manila Science Admission Test (MSAT) 2015 are out! I had accompanied a former office colleague to the Manila Science High School in Taft Avenue, Manila, to see if her niece...
· by admin · 7 Mar, 2015
Don’t believe everything you read, not even when it comes from a student textbook. A friend recently forwarded to me a Facebook post calling out the Department of Education (DepEd) for an apparent Creationist...
Reading aloud helped tremendously when I was teaching my boy how to read. I would sit him on my lap and read to him, while I moved my index finger under each spoken word....
My son saw his first dragon dance and lion dance in 2009 during Chinese New Year festivities hosted by a supermarket in Makati City. It was only my second time to see these dances...
· by admin · 13 Feb, 2015
With so many teaching and learning resources available online, it’s easy to overlook the materials that are right within our own “cyber backyard.” Take, for instance, The Department of Education (DepED) Learning Resources Management...
The Department of Education (DepED) will conduct an early registration for the 2015-2015 school year in all public elementary and high schools nationwide from January 24 to February 27, 2015. The early registration is...
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