However, homogeneous-grouped classes of high-achieving sophomores and seniors in advanced classes exhibited greater achievement in both mathematics and English. No significant differences were found beyond these results. Regarding the effects of abi Continue Reading...
Another important strategy is that of exploring spatial relations. In such activities, children gain a better visual and practical sense of the spatial relations within mathematics. Scholastic's article portrays two girls discussing the appropriate Continue Reading...
To do this, the teacher needs to adopt a diverse, personalized teaching style and curriculum. To accomplish this, a teacher's learning style must show respect for the students' individual and different learning styles, be responsive to students' di Continue Reading...
(p. 55-56) The educational system up to this point, very likely to continue in the future, has swung back and forth between these two philosophies (individualist and essentialist) in a pendulum effect, as educators seek to engender interest for kno Continue Reading...
McKinley (2005) calls for the use of these varying technologies to give students with language disorders a sense of empowerment so they can then overcome their problem and learn as they are capable of learning. Technology has offered a means of tre Continue Reading...
educationists and teachers in the classroom today is identifying and dealing with children who have a speech, language or communication impairment, which negatively impacts on learning.. Many children find it difficult to understand how conversation Continue Reading...
Ability Grouping Is ability grouping the way to go, or should it go away? Whether or not ability grouping is an effective strategy for the instruction of students of different academic abilities is a hotly debated issue, with divergent evidence. So Continue Reading...
Alternative Assessments What challenges do alternative assessments present to teachers at your school? Alternative assessments (AA) are a fine means to determining the education of a student. Standardized assessment is very rigorous but allows for Continue Reading...
People need look no further than their own homes to see the interdependence of world trade; no further than their neighborhoods to see the results of international migration and multiculturalism; no further than the news to see the causes and effec Continue Reading...
K-12 Curriculum and Instruction: Changing Paradigms in the 21st Century This is not your grandfathers' economy or his educational paradigm however; today's curriculum still appears as such and therein lays a very significant and challenging problem Continue Reading...
This has to be clearly told to them. The other problem that the parents have to inform the children is regarding the development from a child to an adult, and this does not happen overnight. At the same time, the child faces changes in the body com Continue Reading...
The same applies if I am watching an instructional video. For example, I could think of examples as I watch the video, with this making the process tactile. In my own time, I could convert my examples into a speech on the subject. Again, this would Continue Reading...
cal.org). One negative impact of ELL laws on curriculum development is presented in Education Week (Zehr, 2009). In schools with a small number of ELLs, "…first generation immigrant students do better academically if they aren't placed in an E Continue Reading...
IFSP/IEP Process The school nurse checks the hearing and vision of all the children in a Head Start classroom. - The teacher uses a checklist to observe a child's play skills. Based on family concerns, a kindergarten student is tested by the spee Continue Reading...
Here we see that the staff and the students had their own responsibilities and those responsibilities are quite different from the traditional ones we find in traditional schools. Horton thought that a significant aspect of the teacher's role was to Continue Reading...
Accounting The Impact of Distance Learning in Accounting Higher Education This paper is intended as an Introduction to a research study in to the impact of distance learning on the teaching of accounting in higher education. The context of the rese Continue Reading...
The primary aspect of Billy's scenario is that he has the propensity to be disruptive. I believe that this tendency of his is due to the fact that he is able to complete his work relatively quickly, the work is easy for him to accomplish, and then h Continue Reading...
They establish a respectful and safe atmosphere that is centered upon learning. During the first week of school, the rules will be reviewed daily. Role play between students and teacher modeling will be implemented to show the difference between ap Continue Reading...
However, far better than any kind of purely paper-based test, asking students to write an analytic paper, design a multimedia or PowerPoint presentation in work groups, or to debate issues of Colonial America as if they were Revolutionaries and Royal 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...
The story was filled with factual accuracy, while fictional, and vividly rich with images and characters that she and her father could picture with accurate detail. Romano tells us how Mariana finished the story with a young member of the family hol Continue Reading...
We must move from knowledge that lives in books to knowledge that lives in students. 3. Identify at least two areas of weakness in the Erickson text. Provide a rationale for selecting each area of weakness identified. It is difficult for me to ide Continue Reading...
Audience views can also be discussed at this time. The students have written their first draft. The teacher tells them that after the peer review, they will take the suggested comments and rewrite the paper. This step is another step in the writing Continue Reading...
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 15(1), 51-64. Beaudin, B.Q. (1995). Former teachers who return to public schools: Characteristics of those who return to the classroom. Educational Evaluation & Policy Analysis, 17(1): 462-475. Guar Continue Reading...
Miguel There are six stages to the pre-referral strategy to help students like Miguel attain not only better performance, but also better integration into the school environment. The first stage is initial concern regarding the student's progress. T Continue Reading...
As Hill (1996) sees it, the differnce between instructional leadership of the previous decade and instructional leadership of the present and the future is that leadership of the past focuses on teaching and learning, whereas leadership of the pres Continue Reading...
NCLB No Child Left Behind (NCLB) ensures "test-driven accountability" in public schools (Center on Education Policy, n.d.). As it has in other schools, NCLB has improved some areas of student outcomes, but not all. The school has dramatically shifte Continue Reading...
No Child Left Behind and Black Males No child left behind No Child Left Behind: Cause and Effect Essay The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) was passed in 2001 in order to improve overall students' performance and to decrease the performance gap bet Continue Reading...
Other techniques like brainstorming and mapping are recommended by Ellis (1997). The other principle which underlies the constructivist approach is a deep focus on main ideas as well as relationships within the key ideas that lie within a given sub Continue Reading...
It has already been noted that schools have had to trim down on the subjects that are being taught, and the depths to which certain subjects are taught, and this ha of course had a direct effect on teachers' ability to both direct their own teaching Continue Reading...
It is not they are any less able or proficient. Over the past decade, the schools have become even more driven in this respect. Children at younger and younger ages are expected to read. In the U.S., there are children who go to summer school betwe Continue Reading...
Community Colleges in America In 1983 and 1984, a dozen major reports on the United States' schools were published. All stressed the need for "excellence" in education. These reports are the subject of: Excellence in Education: Perspectives on Polic Continue Reading...
Language Impairments: Evidence-Based Interventions Language Impairment Interventions Evidence-Based Interventions for Pediatric Language Impairments Evidence-Based Interventions for Pediatric Language Impairments So strong is the genetic impulse Continue Reading...
Academic Library Quality Services Academic Libraries are held to a higher standard because they are used by so many people for research purposes. They are utilized by college students and business people researching ideas and theories and they are u Continue Reading...
learning environment requires a consistent and fair approrach to those learning. However, the exact relationship between learning and classroom leadership has not yet been defined. However, Drs. Brown (university of Saskatchewan) and Posner (Santa C Continue Reading...
(Farah and Ridge, 2009) The successful shift from textbook, memory-based curriculum to a standards-based curriculum is therefore dependent on three things: the development of national standards and goals for curriculum; the development of correspon Continue Reading...
Learning: Educational Influence and Technique Project-Based Learning With the advancement of new teaching and learning techniques such as Outcomes-Based Education, there has been a revolution in the education industry. Students and their needs hav Continue Reading...
Community Art Education The objective of this study is to answer the question of what are the conservative, liberal, and progressive philosophies undergirding the current (1990-present) debates in community arts education? Specifically, this study w Continue Reading...
Clinical Education The objective of this study is to conduct a critical analysis of issues in clinical education. Toward this end, this study will conduct a review of literature in this area of inquiry. The work of Strohschein, Hagler and May (200 Continue Reading...
In addressing the problem that it really takes a communal effort related to the ownership of the responsibility of a student's learning, one potential difficulty from utilizing testing data in supporting conversations with parents and administrativ Continue Reading...
