1000 Search Results for Multicultural Education
Emotions
Quantitative Research Design
In order to design a quantitative research project it is necessary to identify the necessary components of a quantitative design. Quantitative design requires proving hypotheses based on numerical and statisti Continue Reading...
ESL (English Second Language)
Context and significance
Relevant background literature
Limitations and anticipated problems
ESL (English Second Language)
In many nations, there are many high school students who have parents who speak no English. Continue Reading...
Thematic Ed
Thematic Teaching: Geography Through a Lens of Multiculturalism
All too often, students feel that they must leave their everyday lives, experiences and interests outside of the classroom. From the perspective of many students, the more Continue Reading...
TESOL: Materials and Course Design
A situation analysis, giving all details available before the course begins:
New comers of the TESOL school scheme will be assessed for their English language proficiency by the teachers assigned by TESOL (Teachin Continue Reading...
In this regard, Ouchi points out that, "If there are rival business associations or if the ethnic organizations are in conflict with each other, you must get them together for their common good and for the good of the children" (20).
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For example, principals have very less knowledge of the classroom because they are not oriented in the academic content. The effective process skills are crucial to success of the learning process. In this case the principals must learn to give up s Continue Reading...
American Sign Language and Gallaudet
Gallaudet University is a college designed for the education of the deaf and hard of hearing. All of the programs are designed for the advancement of the deaf community. The majority of students and faculty are t Continue Reading...
It is thought that the class could go to see the neighborhoods where Chinese, Russian and African people live and they could converse with the neighborhood people. The learners are probable to find dissimilarities and resemblances within their indiv Continue Reading...
visual cues come from students developing knowledge of letter/sound relationships and of how letters are formed what letters and words look like often identified as sounding out words
Example 2- Phoneme Awareness -- Recognizing Rhyme Assessment (Kl Continue Reading...
According to Stein, (as cited in Lauer & Yodanis, 2004), American students tend to be globally illiterate. A large amount of empirical research and anecdotal evidence from various perspectives documents, stresses the need to improve information Continue Reading...
"(1999) These principles are stated to be of the nature that are designed to "...be incorporated into our daily work and to shape how we think about our responsibilities, communicate our purposes, and interact with students. " (Blimling and Whitt, 19 Continue Reading...
Schools are legally allowed to mandate uniforms for sports as well as protective gear. The ACLU notes that school administrators can make students "wear special stuff like the gym uniforms or goggles if they are needed to protect" them. Although sch Continue Reading...
The inclusion of various societies as critical to the future of education and learning in the U.S. is an important argument in the presentation -- this means that learning is no longer centered on American knowledge and values, but would actually be Continue Reading...
According to Carr, "It is good for the development of young people to undergo some dress discipline, and only right for teachers to set pupils an appropriate example in this respect" (emphasis added) (p. 218).
There are some common sense rules that Continue Reading...
scu.edu).Andre goes on to say some critics see Hirsch's efforts to bring culture into the classroom are not so much "cultural literacy" but more like "cultural indoctrination." Not only is the Hirsch strategy and methodology seen as flawed, Andre and Continue Reading...
Unfortunately, in what concerns the educational system, black boys do not receive the support needed and they are constantly punished instead of being showed a better alternative of living and learning. Our educational system should focus on providi Continue Reading...
Teacher Assistance Required and Classroom Administration.
The teacher assistance to be provided would follow the guidance provided by Maria Montessori. According to Elliott, Gettinger and Kratochwill (1992), "Like Froebel, Montessori implemented a Continue Reading...
(Singer, 2003, p. 36) Education should be a constructive process. Palinscar states that the teacher must assume an active and directive role by establishing the pace, content, and goals of the lesson. (Palincsar, 1998) Byra also described such a pro Continue Reading...
(Novick, 1996) According to Novick practices that are developmentally appropriate and that contain culturally relevant teaching are: "...well grounded in human development and brain-based research..." (1996) The teacher must understand that today's Continue Reading...
Students are encouraged by the staff to find their own goals for leaning, and this keeps them intensely motivated until the time when they complete the courses that they have undertaken to study. (Stephanie De Pinto, Axia Instructor)
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Internet: Privacy for High School Students
An Analysis of Privacy Issues and High School Students in the United States Today
In the Age of Information, the issue of invasion of privacy continues to dominate the headlines. More and more people, it s Continue Reading...
While it is beneficial for foreign students studying in the U.S. To understand the domestic culture, it is as important that the domestic classroom setting incorporates sufficient cultural studies in lessons. This implementation provides a level of Continue Reading...
seeing shifts in the spirit of education. Such a positive upheaval has occurred before; but, never in a forum where so many minds could be molded in so myriad ways. I see myself as a pivot in the grand scheme of things. And I wish to make a contribu Continue Reading...
Paulo Freire and Bell Hooks are both well-known for their influential thinking in the area of teaching, specifically relating to the contexts of race, gender, and culture. In his writing and teaching, Freire emphasized that that learning is an act of Continue Reading...
Communication Plan for Building Relationships with FamiliesThe purpose of the communication plan for students and families is to create a bridge between home and school, facilitating a robust and open line of communication that directly impacts stude Continue Reading...
Literacy Assessment
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Needs Improvement
Reading and writing skills are taught explicitly, directly, and systematically using research-based strategies.
There are opportunities during each school day for vocabul Continue Reading...
Transfer of Learning
Transfer From Learning To Context
Transfer of learning has been defined in various different ways but the definition still revolves around a similar concepts. Some psychologists define it as: the broad, productive as well as su Continue Reading...
In addition, Boggs (1998) suggests that family relationships and background issues should be discussed. Even though Sophia's family is supportive and encouraging her to go to college, they are also focusing on their own unfulfilled dreams. Sophia sh Continue Reading...
Diffentiation in Learning
It does seem to be elementary in the eleventh year of the 21st century that differentiating curriculum and instruction for different students needs to be justified by neurological research. However, this is the case. For re Continue Reading...
There are good choices available that provide positive images of people from different backgrounds and cultures. Schools, as a whole, can provide family supports to strengthen ties between various cultures and the education experience.
Though many Continue Reading...
Learner Analysis
When presented with a teaching situation, one of the major challenges teachers must deal with is the various and often divergent sets of needs inherent in each student. Nevertheless, the University of Alberta (2001) emphasizes that Continue Reading...
Use the appropriate representations to model problems in the physical and social sciences (Ibid.)
Numeration Systems and Number Theory -- Number theory is a basis for all areas of mathematics. Number theory and sense are precludes to computation, t Continue Reading...
There are, for example, many ways for a student to present an understanding of the causes of the U.S. Civil War" (1999, p. 35).
Conclusion
The research showed high stakes standardized testing approaches are becoming increasingly commonplace in the Continue Reading...
A multicultural society such as the United States makes the issue even more complicated.
School counselors can address issues that teachers are not equipped to handle in the classroom setting. Indeed, the article suggests that counselors' and teach Continue Reading...
No partnership can ever exist for long without the mutual beneficence of both parties. I expect to get a lot out of Howard University, and in a very real way this will also be my biggest contribution to Howard's legacy. There are few if any things Continue Reading...
" (Information Society and Media, 2005) f. The eContent Programme and the eTen Programme
The 100 million dollar eContent Programme (2001-2005) focuses on encouraging growth and development of tie European digital content industry. This programme fun Continue Reading...
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But although this act specifies quantifiable results, and phonics may be more easily tested in quantifiable methods, there is no proof as to the superiority of this method. "Saxon Publishers salutes our federal government Continue Reading...
Achievement Testing
Howell and Rueda in their article Achievement Testing with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students question the veracity of the widely used Standardized Norm-Referenced Achievement Test (SNAT) in measuring systematic diffe Continue Reading...
1. Introduction and Group FormationMental health within an academic setting has become a contentious and complex subject for society. Here, students are faced with a much more perverse social environment that has severe implications for their overall Continue Reading...
Intelligence tests provide a means of assessing a person's intelligence. However, it may not be as useful to measure everyone's intelligence. For example, those that are economically disadvantages or part of a minority may score lower versus others l Continue Reading...