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Front page: Giuseppe Arcimboldo. Rudolf II as Vertumnus.

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ГАЗЕТА ИЗДАТЕЛЬСКОГО ДОМА: Первое сентября – Е.Бирюкова

ЖУРНАЛЫ ИЗДАТЕЛЬСКОГО ДОМА: Английский язык – А.Громушкина, Библиотека в школе – О.Громова, Биология – Н.Иванова, География – О.Коротова,

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Teaching

Is Like Cooking

Browsing the net in search for materials on topic “Food” (a tasty part of our Topical Journey) we came across an article by an English teacher. We believe it will ring the bell with many of our readers.

The hardest part about teaching is the monotony. It is hard work coming up with new lessons day after day. But teaching is only monotonous while the teacher is uncreative, unadventurous, and inexperienced (I hope!). Really, teaching is just like cooking.

At first, I felt like there was but one ingredient: information. I was given a pile of information. The information looked all the same: black words on white paper. My instinct was to feed it to the children raw, in a lecture. I didn’t know any better. I didn’t know what else to do. My interaction with the information was embarrassingly rudimentary. I chewed the information on my own, then regurgitated the information before the class and said, “Isn’t this delicious?” The class was not impressed, but they were content because at least they did not have to think very hard.

Later on, I learned to be more objective. I would say, “Note the different textures. See the different shades of color. Sometimes, here, the information is bitter. This information is very sweet.” I would ask, “Which parts do you think are the most delicious?” Ambitiously I would add, “… and why?” The good students had opinions. These were my favorite students. I loved them. I blessed their parents. The cheeky students said, “The whole thing is disgusting.” I loved them, too. Some students bothered me. These students did not say anything at all. They were not even listening.

One day, in a horrifying moment of self-realization, I realized I was feeding my students vats of ketchup like it was soup. It was not the students’ fault that they were not paying attention. They were right to be disgusted. I was a horrible cook.

I tried to spice things up by putting the information in different packages, like smearing ketchup on toast. I disguised the information as a game. Even the students who never listened perked up at that novelty. I baked the ketchup into cupcakes and had the students work in small groups. Over several weeks, I designed an entire ketchup buffet, with students reciting and presenting and talking. Once or twice I cooked up a ketchup sensation, as harmonious as ketchup and french fries. But occasionally I would cook up a ketchup disaster. My disgusting novelty ketchup treats were making my students wary of ketchup. And now that my lessons were more demanding, my students couldn’t just zone out; they had to work and think. My students started getting restless.

The good news is that after trying all those experimental techniques, I now have a stack of them at my disposal. I just have to match them up with the proper ingredients. Then I have to learn how to serve them in the right order.

We hope that materials collected in this issue will supply you with good ingredients and save your time when you are cooking up lessons in the future.

We wish your students will come to class hungry and excited to eat, and every lesson will be delicious!

NEWS IN BRIEF

‘SLEEP – KEY TO TACKLING OBESITY’

The focus in the fight to tackle obesity tends to be diet and exercise. But what about sleep?

Dr. Neil Stanley argues getting a good night’s rest is just as important.

It is an undeniable fact that we have a problem with obesity in the UK. The government and the NHS rightly believe that for the health of the nation, levels of obesity need to be reduced.

So we have campaigns based on eating less and more healthily, such as “5-a-day” and exercise - “10,000 steps a day” and the “Change for Life” initiative.

However, given recent reports, these efforts, whilst very well-meaning, are seemingly having absolutely no effect on reducing levels of obesity or increasing rates of exercising.

The conventional line is that this is because we are all victims of the “aggressive advertising” and “easy availability” of sugary and fatty foods and/or that we are addicted to computer games/TV/Facebook etc.

It is possibly true that in the past we did move a bit more than modern children, but I seem to remember that sugary and fatty foods were just as “aggressively” advertised and easily available.

Perhaps there is some other reason why the “eat less, move more” advice is not working. What if we simply cannot help ourselves? And that, from a physiological point of view, we actually crave junk food and don’t want to exercise?

So what might be the answer?

Numerous studies have shown a significant association between short sleep duration and being overweight or obese in both children and adults.

And I believe that it is more than coincidence that, over the last 40 years, as there has been a reduction in our sleep duration, there has also been a rise in the number of people who are overweight or obese.

Using FMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging), poor sleep has been shown to affect the brain areas responsible for complex decision-making and response to rewards causing us to favour unhealthy foods. Poor sleep also causes changes in the levels of our hunger hormones.

There is a decrease in the level of leptin – which regulates food intake and signals when we have enough food, while the level of ghrelin – which stimulates appetite, fat production and body growth – rises.

Research suggests this causes 24% higher feelings of hunger, a 23% increase in overall appetite but a 33% increased desire for high-fat, high-carbohydrate foods making us feel that we have had insufficient food and thus encouraging us to increase food intake. Short sleep has also been shown to increase our urge to snack between meals and causes us to excessively season our food, eat fewer vegetables, buy more junk food and buy more food overall. So the availability and advertising of junk food is seen as the problem.

However, the simple fact is that because of poor sleep, you may actually physiologically want to eat these foods regardless of the efforts of the multi-national purveyors of junk food – though this is in no way trying to absolve them of their responsibilities. But be honest – when you are sleepy, which would you prefer: an apple or a cupcake?

The “eat less, move more” message, no matter how it is presented and how much money is spent on its promotion, is obviously not working – and I would contend that, in isolation, it cannot work. Up until now, there has been no serious government or NHS advice or guidance about sleep, no multi-million pound campaigns – they haven’t even appointed a scientist off the telly as a “Sleep Tsar”.

By Dr. Neil Stanley, Independent sleep expert

Source: BBC News

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