At some point in your life, you may find yourself feeling lost. Even people who knew what they were doing or had a sense of purpose and mission may find themselves in this position. Many people find themselves feeling this way throughout their lives; often they may experience this multiple times.
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From the youngest age, to your teenage years, young adult life, middle age, and beyond, most people will be doing things in order to find some sense of happiness. People are searching for meaning, joy, achievement, and satisfaction. They do that while playing, working, or in their personal life and relationships.
Happiness is hard for many people. It’s hard to find. It’s hard to feel. It’s just as likely many simply don’t even know what happiness is to even know if they are happy or not.
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Dyspraxia is not often talked about in the public sphere, and what people tend to know about it can often be mistaken for ADHD. Dyspraxia is a neurological condition that affects a child’s physical coordination and movement. It’s also known as Developmental Coordination Disorder.
These are things you can watch out for if your child is displaying a mix of these behaviours and signs:
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There are many stereotypes about dyslexic people being “slow-learners” but have you ever wondered how some dyslexic people managed to be so successful?
Albert Einstein, Tom Cruise and Leonardo Da Vinci are well-known in their respective field of work. One thing they share in common is that they are dyslexic.
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We may spend a lot of time paying attention to ourselves being self-conscious, but that doesn’t mean we know who we really are. Understanding what makes up our authentic self is harder and more elusive than it appears. We have to know what being authentic even means.
Being authentic simply means that we are genuine, and truthful to ourselves. That does sound simple, but also incredibly vague. The truth is that for many of us, we don’t know who we are. At least we don’t know ourselves well enough to know what it is to even be true to ourselves, and even if we do know, we don’t always act and behave that way.
How many times have you caught yourself doing something you didn’t want to do, like buying something you didn’t even have much interest in?
You end up spending your money and effort on things you don’t need or even like because someone else likes it, or because someone else has it, or because someone else said it was great, or because other people are buying it. It could even be that your life is spent chasing after things you have no interest in whatsoever. Your hobbies, job, career, lifestyle, aspirations, whatever they may be, could very well be someone else’s dream and aspiration.
This is how some people end up feeling like their life has no meaning or purpose. There is no meaning because they aren’t doing things that are meaningful to them. They are acting in accordance to other people’s wills, tastes, and desires.
Being authentic is knowing who you are well enough that you can live according to your own truth. When you do that, you align your actions to who you really are. You’ll make decisions that best reflect what you really feel and think, and you’ll start feeling like you are in control over your own life. You won’t go around chasing useless or pointless goals. Your goals will be something you’ve considered, look forward to, and devote your time to achieving. This is incredibly important to how you find love, how you build relationships, and how you develop your own career.
There will always be external and peer influences, but knowing who you really are and acting in accordance with that will give your life a whole new layer of meaning. It could be the difference between finding happiness and meaning, or feeling unhappy and dissatisfied with everything in life.
Knowing who you are and acting true to yourself can be the key to your happiness.
Join us at College of Allied Educators to learn more about yourself, what motivates you, and how you can find happiness, meaning, and success in work, love, and life.
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Jump-start your career in the special education industry with CAE’s WSQ Early Intervention Principles and Practices. This WSQ course is a short 2-day (15.5 hrs) course that will to help better equip you with skills to educate students and children under your care, whether you are a preschool teacher, special needs educator, or allied educator.
For those considering a mid-career change and want to do something meaningful while working with children, Early Intervention pathway might be exactly what you’re looking for!
The College brings a grounded, holistic experience with its focus on theory as well as real world, practical case studies and examples delivered by lecturers who actively practice in their respective fields. With our continued post course support, we wish to help instil knowledge and a sense of confidence in your teaching and managing children with special needs.
Accredited by Singapore Workforce Skills Qualifications (WSQ)
Parents and guardians can also benefit from the knowledge gained to better understand and assist their children with special needs during the early years.
This WSQ approved course will award you with a recognised certificate that opens a pathway for you to continue your education in this field and direction.
Enjoy up to 70% course fee funding for Singaporeans and PRs.
The WSQ Early Intervention Principles and Practices course fee is also payable using SkillsFuture Credit.
Contact us to find out more about the WSQ Early Intervention Principles and Practices course, funding, and your career and pathway opportunities.
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When you don’t have confidence in yourself, we say you have low self-esteem; but knowing that doesn’t really help you in any way. It’s like knowing you have a problem and that’s really it.
Self-confidence is not something most people sit down to define. They just assume they know it, assume they have it (or lack of it). It is a mindset and attitude you have about yourself regarding your abilities and traits. It is very much your attitude about yourself.
People who lack confidence may constantly overthink and second-guess themselves to the point of becoming paralysed with fear and anxiety. This can lead to an inability to make important life or career decisions, failure to perform properly at work or at home, and possibly even a failure of important personal relationships.
If you are self-confident, you trust yourself. You trust your ability to do things. You trust your decision making abilities. You trust yourself to succeed. You have faith in yourself.
Most people aren’t self-confident all the time. They may second-guess themselves, and sometimes overthink and stress over their actions, but confident people quickly overcome these obstacles. They have healthy ways of thinking about themselves, and the way they see the world supports that. They may have learned to develop healthy mental tools and habits that they apply to every day life.
Self-esteem is often used interchangeably with self-confidence but they are different. Self-esteem is how much you value yourself. It does overlap and influences your self-confidence; but you can have a healthy dose of self-esteem and still lack self-confidence depending on how many negative mental habits you have formed.
Your self-confidence is mental. It does require that you have some regard for yourself, but maintaining it requires a healthy mind, and a healthy process in dealing with the world.
You really need to understand yourself in order to access a more confidence self. You need to know and understand who you are as a person, what you have to offer, and the skills you are able to utilise and bring to the table. It’s tricky because at any point you can probably say and think yourself to be confident, but when it comes time to perform and make decisions, you end up freezing.
Maybe you’ve encountered such a situation. You feel you’ve earned a promotion at work, but when it comes time to ask for it, you sit on it and don’t act. Likely you’ve made excuses that maybe you haven’t really earned it. You could have missed opportunities in love and relationships because you ended up second guessing things when they were going well, and didn’t take the opportunity to secure the relationship.
When you understand yourself and what makes you tick, you’ll start to learn why you’re not as confident as you really need to be to take life by the horns and truly find success for yourself.
Join us at College of Allied Educators to learn more about yourself, what motivates you, and how you can find happiness, meaning, and success in work, love, and life.
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When you first find out that your child is diagnosed with special needs, a series of roller coaster emotions and worries can be expected. Panic might set in. How will I cope with this? Am I prepared to support my child’s development?
Similarly for educators who are unequipped with the tools and knowledge, they might be unprepared when tasked to manage special needs students.
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We tend to give focus to the bad things in our lives. Sometimes much more often than appreciating the good. It’s just our nature. So when bad things happen, there is no missing it. When these bad things happen, they also seem to happen all at once. It’s why we say it never rains, but it pours.
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This is a common issue with children and not something out of the ordinary. Children have a short attention span and don’t always listen; but it can be more acute when dealing with children with special needs.
Getting a child to listen is not always the easiest thing to do in the world, but learning how to get a child to listen becomes especially important for children with special needs.
Children have a variety of reasons for not listening to their parents, guardian, or teachers.
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