Lectora Most experts contend that kindergarteners respond best to play-based activities. Play-based, learning environments offers diverse opportunities to explore, discover and create. It fosters qualities such as curiosity, perseverance and risk ta Continue Reading...
reporting Progress Portfolio assessment is an increasingly popular tool in the field of education, both among programs in primary, tertiary, secondary and higher education. The tool is especially good for tracking progress, as it does not just show Continue Reading...
Williams Case Memo L. Jones Governor's Office Memo: California Quality Education Commission -- Adequacy With the recent settlement of the Williams case, there remain several questions that the Governor must address. In order to assist in this dec Continue Reading...
Western and Muslim Educational Philosophies The Foundations of Function: Educational Philosophy and Psychology Meet the Social Realities of ESL Instruction Education into English as a Second Language (ESL) has become very important in this countr Continue Reading...
Communicative Approach Applying the Communicative Approach to TESOL Classrooms The communicative approach is a style of teaching language that focuses on interaction as the ultimate goal of study and also the means with which it is carried out (Mit Continue Reading...
NCLB The federal government drafted the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) to promote equality amongst disabled children. The Act provides that all children with disabilities should receive equal opportunities, economic self sufficiency, inde Continue Reading...
She is having a problem with a student, Cary Kirby, who arrives each day without any of the required reading materials. Mrs. Cansler feels like she is in a Catch-22 situation. If she sends Cary back to his locker, she wastes class time; if she does Continue Reading...
morning hours seem to the best time for me to write. It is quiet in my house, no phones ringing, no one playing music or talking to distract me, so these are my best moments to write. Later in the day I do my editing by adding strength to my transit Continue Reading...
Academic Honesty Sociologist William Bowers interviewed students on nearly one hundred college campuses while doing his dissertation in the 1960s. He learned that half admitted to cheating (Hamilton, 2003). Davis (1993) found forty to seventy perce Continue Reading...
Certainly, pedagogy may be an issue. Whatever the case, human anxiety is a critical issue in the employment of Web 2.0 technology in nursing education. In an article in Nursing Education Perspectives, the issue is raised as to whether social media s Continue Reading...
Conflict Resolution: Scenario Analysis The purpose of this research paper is to find theories and ways on how people deal with conflict on a smaller scale. Conflict arises from differences. It occurs whenever people disagree over their values, moti Continue Reading...
It is a quantitative instrument, that has been statistically validated, and probably most appropriate as an instrument to ensure adherence to certain state and/or national standards. MCC -- Dialogue approach to rating a teacher's performance. Both Continue Reading...
Summative assessments are useful to determine a student's level of mastery and can be an indicator of potential for success in subsequent courses or units. If a student does poorly on a summative assessment, for example, remedial instruction may be Continue Reading...
The acculturation model developed by Schumann (1978) consists of a taxonomy of variables that were developed based on the concept that both social (group) and affective (individual) variables are the primary causative variables as shown in Table __ Continue Reading...
When e-learning relies not on the Internet but on proprietary hardware and software, standardization will become requisite. Naturally, the future of e-learning entails more powerful software and hardware. In every domain of the technology sector, h Continue Reading...
In order to come to the decision that this would be the best way to address a workforce education program at Edison College, though, there were many things that had to be considered. A panel of experts was formed to study the impact that this progr Continue Reading...
, & Pivec, M. (2003). A Multimedia Knowledge Module Virtual Tutor Fosters Interactive Learning. Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 14(2), 231. This work demonstrates an example of how software can and has been developed to be interactive Continue Reading...
students of all ages and backgrounds have enrolled in distance learning degrees through the Internet. The two forms of college education, the traditional on-campus degree and this new distributed learning approach, differ in a number of ways. Yet th Continue Reading...
Kiefer, K. (2007). Chapter 8: Do students lose more than they gain in online writing classes? In Joe Lockard and Mark Pegrum (Eds.), Brave New Classrooms: Democratic Education and the Internet (pp. 141-151). New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. Continue Reading...
[I also had my students write how they would say it out loud when naming it. Example: "Line AB or line segment AB is perpendicular to line segment CD."] Below is information on how students should label rays, lines, etc. 1. Ray - the endpoint lette Continue Reading...
As a result, the variables that can be extracted from this information, is that there needs to be a wide variety of solutions made available to educators. At the same time, there must be more support in helping them to reach out to these students. O Continue Reading...
older soul, I'm so much younger now. It's interesting that by participating in the local academia environment (even in the business realm) some of my fundamental beliefs are challenged, though still not overthrown. Learning to actively engage those Continue Reading...
Project Management Activities Project Planning We have to design a schoolhouse that can facilitate 120 people at a time. For this purpose Professional Military Education contact Mr. Thompson to do preliminary research to fulfill the requirements an Continue Reading...
Although further education teachers employed prior to this date are not required to attain this credentialing, they are being encouraged to do so in order to ensure their status as professional educators (Clancy 2007). There is a push to increase t Continue Reading...
This study investigates how ESL students' perception affects the teacher-student interaction in the writing conferences. The multiple-case study explores: ESL students' expectations of the writing conference and factors contributing to the expectati Continue Reading...
Ethnography and in-depth interviews are the methods that will be applied for the educators group, while ethnography, in-depth interviews, and experimental methods will be used for the students group. Meta-analysis would simply include an analysis of Continue Reading...
Even if he practiced on the sample tests, students may have had more extensive preparation on similar tests for much of their educational lives beforehand. Bruce cannot change his past exposure to the material, of course, but he can change his stud Continue Reading...
Slide 8: Implementation: Practical Assessment Given the assumed basis for the discipline's failure, which is a disconnect between students, instructors and material, it will be necessary to consult both students and teachers on their perception of Continue Reading...
It is now recognized that individuals learn in different ways -- they perceive and process information in various ways. The learning styles theory suggests that the way that children acquire information has more to do with whether the educational ex Continue Reading...
Human Development in Classroom We all started in school having no knowledge at all about the learning that we obtained throughout our years of attending educational institutions. However, after finishing our studies, all of us are able to acquire k Continue Reading...
As with most assessments, there are disadvantages in using criterion-referenced tests. The most obvious limit to this type of assessment is its susceptibility to inadequately reflect the curriculum. This is particularly true with state mandated cri Continue Reading...
Howard Gardner's contributions to the field of education are profound, extensive, and revolutionary. His theory of multiple intelligences states that students are able to absorb, manipulate, and produce information through a variety of media. In fact Continue Reading...
Schooling is Enough -- Twelve Months is Overkill Getting and obtaining a formal education are one of the most important achievements people perceive as a valid measure for success. Aside from the prestige that comes with being able to be educated f Continue Reading...
Raggedy Man Joggers attired brightly colored skin tight spandex and loose fitting grey cotton sweats pass the wooden bench at regular intervals. Some breeze by largely unaffected by the gravitational effects of the Earth, while others sucked air lik Continue Reading...
Policies and Procedures for Interactive Training for Pastors Policies and Procedures for Interactive Training a) What is the relationship between formal training and none formal training? Training in both cases is based on certain principals (reli Continue Reading...
Language Skills During communication, while highlighting receptive skills learners may require to make verbal or non-verbal responses. For assessment of these receptive skills, learners need to respond to a written or a spoken text. Formal and infor Continue Reading...
Differentiated Learning & Assessment -- PLC Presentation Differentiated instruction and assessment recognizes that the individual needs, strengths and weaknesses of students must drive learning (Wormeli, 2007). Changing the outcomes of tradition Continue Reading...
Such measures include providing positive examples of students and professionals who have garnered significant achievements in math, allowing students who may feel symptoms of stereotype threat to express their talent in other areas outside of math ( Continue Reading...
biggest decisions a professional educator decide area education concentrate order a successful career. This Rewarding Work Special education is one of the most challenging aspects of pedagogy for an instructor to pursue. Those who do so have the sa Continue Reading...
school in grades K-12, there was little understanding of differences in learning styles. The classroom experience was teacher-directed. The teacher presented the content and students listened. We read and completed assignments as we were asked to do Continue Reading...
