A major goal of learning is facilitation of basic literacy and language skills of difference students, the importance of which stems from a persistent school failure in the United States of students with Hispanic, African-American and American India Continue Reading...
classroom atmosphere which encourages all students to take on the desire to become lifelong learners is a challenging task. The task is even more daunting when the context of the assignment takes place within the walls of a 7th grade social studies Continue Reading...
Lesson Plan Design: Business/Corporate Ethics This lesson plan will be designed to teach students traditional and conventional moral philosophies, standards and ethical convention in a corporate/business environment. As protocol students will be req Continue Reading...
U.S. Education James W. Guthrie, Paul T. Hill, Lawrence C. Pierce. (1997) Reinventing Public Education: How Contracting Can Transform America's Schools Illinois: The University of Chicago Press. This book presents a creative approach to the current Continue Reading...
Amy attended the county's administrator forum, it became clear that the rumor mill about the "Good Ole' Boys" network was not exaggerated. Sitting across the table from fifteen district superintendents, not one in the bunch was a woman. There was on Continue Reading...
Academic Competence includes a number of components that are critical for effective English as a Second Language (ESL) instruction, including universal pragmatic knowledge, knowledge and skills in the target language, and background knowledge (Adamso Continue Reading...
Investigating Student Understanding: Year 3 Students’ Understanding of the Step-Over Skill in a Football (Soccer) Focused PE Lesson in an International School Introduction Background Within the PE curriculum, basic skills to practice in a varie Continue Reading...
Public Program Quality Evaluation Overview of the Program and the Program Rationale In 2011, approximately 23% of all children in the United States were children of immigrants. Many of these children have come from countries where the educational s Continue Reading...
Education Nursing Reforms The teaching classroom environment is devoid of many of the social norms and customs and courtesies that are seen in everyday life. The hierarchical structure and enforcement of discipline creates a unique environment in th Continue Reading...
Evidence-Based Instruction and Intervention Evidence-Based Instruction & Intervention The terms evidence-based instruction, research-based instruction, and scientifically based instruction are often used interchangeably. What is the basic meani Continue Reading...
Clinical Supervision and its Strengths and Weaknesses Annie Pettifer and colleague Lynn Clouder explain in the peer-reviewed journal Learning in Health and Social Care that clinical supervision is commonly used in professional contexts as a way to Continue Reading...
The public will also be presented with information from the experiential view of someone who in the past failed to have their child immunized. Evaluation will be conducted by distributing surveys/questionnaires about access to immunizations in the p Continue Reading...
Schools and Education Relate to Broader Social Structures This paper provides a critical evaluation of three texts, Education and Social Change by John Rury, Tearing Down the Gates by Peter Sacks and Learning the Hard Way by Edward W. Morris to ide Continue Reading...
Education today has become more interesting and challenging than it has ever been before. This is particularly the case with the teaching and learning of English as a second language. Immigrants to the United States and other English speaking countri 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...
By attaching visual elements to specific words and even to specific sounds within those words, many learners that might struggle with simple auditory approaches attached only to visuals of the letter might be better able to commit letter/phoneme ass Continue Reading...
CEC Professional Ethical Principles In the United States, education has become a highly involved and complicated process, not least because of the diverse nature and needs that teachers are faced with every day. Not only are there highly diverse stu Continue Reading...
The researcher maintains that the positives that were seen with text-based foreign language learning conducted in the aforementioned study would produce results that were similar with older students as well. Dlugosz argues that communication-based l Continue Reading...
Human Resources Management If what is learned in an important college or university course is not put to use in some pragmatic way -- or understood in the larger social context -- then that learning may be viewed as meaningless time spent. No doubt Continue Reading...
Wardhaugh indicates that there is a problematic need in the field to reverse expectations about the capacity of this approach to instruct in practicable and usable linguistic ability. The author takes exception with traditionalist ideas the argue "t Continue Reading...
relearn several mathematical concepts and learn how to instruct other about them. It also became necessary to learn the different components of educating students on math based upon their current knowledge and abilities and how the teacher will eval Continue Reading...
Corporate Culture In a contemporary business environment, organizational culture is one of the strategic methods that an organization employs to achieve competitive advantages. Culture is a technique that organizations employ to differentiate among Continue Reading...
Perception Using the Gestalt principle, "The whole is greater than the sum of the parts," describe a preconceived perception of a college class, three details that you now know are different from your initial perception, and your continuing percepti Continue Reading...
Picture connects to a few words Picture supports topic Clear, detailed picture enhances topic Beginning Writer's Rubric -- Organization 0 1 2 3 Page is blank or illegible No beginning or ending Two out of three: beginning, middle and end Continue Reading...
Ask students to use their notes and Venn diagrams to discuss in small groups why the primary differences exist. In particular, ask students to consider whether there is anything humans can do to improve the situation. Closing: Have students convene Continue Reading...
" According to Patton (1998) the overrepresentation of African-American children in special education programs that are intended for students that have serious emotional or behavioral disorders, learning disabilities, and mental disabilities has con Continue Reading...
Because of the lack of clarity and certainty regarding mental retardation or intellectual disability, the effect of having students with this issue in a classroom can be somewhat more chaotic than with other developmental disorders, where specific Continue Reading...
They computed a variety of measures to determine whether there was in fact a narrowing of a gap between teacher qualifications across wealthier and poorer schools and found that there was. This narrowing -- indicative of changes in hiring practices Continue Reading...
In this regard, the article emphasizes that, "Teachers should use student assessment data to improve classroom practices, plan curricula, develop self-directed learners, report student progress, and research teaching practices" (p. 2). From a person Continue Reading...
Collaboration and Communication among different personality types can also be optimized by knowledge. The three personality types identified include the Thinker, the Organizer, and the Giver. Thinkers tend to reflect independently upon new informat Continue Reading...
Moreover, I would have expected a review of the past ten years of Adult Education Quarterly to reveal a dramatic increase in submissions related directly to the impact of technology on distance adult learning. As Taylor brings up the importance of i Continue Reading...
If one has been "trained" in the ways of poverty, left no opportunity to do other than react to his or her environment, what is needed is a beginning, not repetition. The humanities teach us to think reflectively, to begin, to deal with the new as i Continue Reading...
Samuel T. Orton in 1925. This method involves placing a patch on the non-dominant eye of the individual, active training of the non-dominant hand and refraining from listening to non-verbal music. Like the above-mentioned "treatment," this method ha Continue Reading...
Certain states have very high risks for students and there even three quarters or more of the teachers report about this high pressure, whereas in states where the stakes are low, the report of pressure is for half the students or less. The pressure Continue Reading...
Existentialism 'I should seek not the way, but my way." Rather than follow a strict set of rules about what school should or should not be like, the existentialist chooses his or her own vision of education. There is truly no one right way for stude 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...
Resistance to Change Change is the single most widely discussed and written about issue, which affects every facet of our lives whether professional or personal. No where is this 'change' a bigger problem than in the corporate sector where implement Continue Reading...
English as a Second Language - Background Knowledge KNOWLEDGE Shirley Adams established in her research that "Along with vocabulary, a reader's background knowledge has been shown to be an important component of reading comprehension. The backgroun Continue Reading...
