Close Reading of "Look at Your Fish" Samuel H. Scudder composed "Look at Your Fish" in 1874. The piece is a narrative and anecdote of Scudder's first encounter with Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz. Agassiz, at the time of their meeting, was an accompli Continue Reading...
Value: Problem Solving and Written Assessment by: Sharon R. Ross This paper provides an analysis of an article by Ross (2002), which describes the learning characteristics exhibited by young children in relation to a particular topic in mathematics Continue Reading...
The education of those students who do not meet the eligibility requirements remains the responsibility of general educator (bid., 66-56). Individualized Education Program and Individualized Family Service Plan Finally, it is time to develop the a Continue Reading...
Verification of Interpretation -- Trustworthiness Credibility Transferability Dependability and Confirmability Advanced Qualitative Research Methods The role of research methods knowledge and its benefits for social research is an area of debate Continue Reading...
The teachers were given professional development instruction solely to deal with students with special (remedial) needs. Teachers were told to identify the gifted and talented if they felt a student showed a unique aptitude but were not given specif Continue Reading...
The second step is to document and track the behavior through direct and indirect observation. This may mean creating a scatterplot (chart or grid) recording single events and their context to determine what situations are most likely to trigger th Continue Reading...
Though at first they dealt with formative assessment rather generally, the real-world use of such assessment must be adaptable of the diversity of situations any teacher will undoubtedly encounter in the classroom. A large part of this study's stren Continue Reading...
..may establish schools for the education and care of the disabled and schools for special education in a way that matches their abilities and aptitudes." This article takes us back to the idea of isolation not integration, by establishing special sc Continue Reading...
Truancy and Court Appearances The Relationship between School Truancy Rates and Court Cases Research, albeit it clinical, case study, empirical, descriptive, historical, or any combination thereof, must exhibit and command interest, enthusiasm, and Continue Reading...
High School Students and World Wide Web This is a research proposal about the problems of high school students The use of World Wide Web by high school students to complete school assignments is now becoming a common practice. This study aims to fi Continue Reading...
Literacy is more than knowing how to read and write in a given language. At the level of college education, literacy pertains to mastering the means of communication for different subjects. Literacy therefore may entail understanding specific jargon Continue Reading...
Counseling Immigrants and Refugees - Bring the World to your Backyard Immigrants add depth to the American cultural landscape, and enhance the character of our already colorful communities. This is true in microcosms, such as school campuses. It is Continue Reading...
HITECH Legislation The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act is something that gives the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) with the power to create programs that will improve health care quality, s Continue Reading...
Tuition Assistance Cutback Response Military Tuition Assistance Cut: A Personal Response An effort to kill the Tuition Assistance program in 2011 sparked off a furor in the lines, and the remunerations were swiftly restored. This time though, there Continue Reading...
Training One topic that might be a good one for Wegmans is how the Affordable Care Act will affect the employees of the company. This is an issue that is going to affect the company, and we need to be able to communicate to the employees what will h Continue Reading...
Violence in Schools: Qualitative Research Article Unlike the numerically-driven nature of quantitative research, qualitative research focuses on understanding a specific phenomenon in a deeper fashion through a case study approach, either through pa Continue Reading...
small company and brand from scratch. Owner is a woman from South America, with limited knowledge about business. She decides to go to college to learn economics while growing the company. Company produces organic products with raw material imported Continue Reading...
Education Law Education 520 Business Law Hiring policy To avoid an anti-discriminatory lawsuit regarding hiring practices, an employer should declare him or herself an 'equal opportunity employer.' To be compliant with the laws enforced by the EEO Continue Reading...
BIP A behavioral intervention plan for a seven-year-old autistic boy is outlined following a functional assessment of behavior. Three target behaviors are identified and recommendations for intervention are made using simple behavioral techniques, v Continue Reading...
Destructive Implications of Standardized Testing At every level education, our instincts are to prize creativity, ingenuity, individuality and competitive excellence. Never is this more so than at the University level, where a great many students ar Continue Reading...
public schools a dress code . Your audience a group local school board Argumentative Public schools should most certainly employ a dress code with which their students should adhere to. There are a number of reasons to support this point-of-view, Continue Reading...
In addition, a New Jersey Court decision (Jerkins v Anderson, 2007) found that schools have a duty to provide reasonable supervision and care not only at school and during school times but at school release times as well. They must adopt a reasonabl Continue Reading...
Both of these measures are expected to improve school performance (Pohlman 2010; Seyfarth 1995). Philosophy of Curriculum Development Though each individual classroom and instructor operates on a largely independent basis, the philosophy and pract Continue Reading...
Further, contrary to popular belief, academic freedom is not a legal concept. The U.S. Supreme Court does not convey academic freedom full constitutional status; professors are fully responsible for the maintenance of the professional standards and Continue Reading...
Lies My Teacher Told Me stresses how students can repeat the same social studies class three times and still be ignorant of American history. Today, U.S. young adults leave most history courses with the false belief that the subject is only a bunch o Continue Reading...
Ceasar and McGuinn (1998), "We are approaching the end of an era in educational philosophy." What was once a wholly Eurocentric framework for constructing an approach to the structures of the mind, psychology, and education, is shifting to include m Continue Reading...
No Child Left Behind your purchase.' No Child Left Behind The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act was officially passed in 2001 and was introduced into education shortly after. This act worked to introduce standards-based educational reform of elementa Continue Reading...
Montgomery Gentry's "Where I Come From" in regionalist context Montgomery Gentry's song "Where I Come From" provides listeners with an interesting view regarding local identity. The duo singing the song apparently want listeners to learn more about Continue Reading...
Capsule VIRTUAL TIME CAPSULE Hi twenty-second century humans! Let me explain what life in the twenty-first century is like. I am 22 years old and I study at university for my Bachelors degree. I also work part time to support myself financially be 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...
Such assistance allows him to focus more clearly on his school work and lessens his tendency to be distracted by others and by the classroom activity. The presence of the paraprofessional also seems to enable him to be more confident in his interact Continue Reading...
College a right or a privilege For a long time majority of colleges took themselves to exist in place of a parent, and evinced a worry with the development of characters of their students. A geared up acknowledgement had long been in place that col Continue Reading...
An important goal of a satellite course setting is to attract back into the academic environment and learning processes adults who are high school drop outs and who do not have a GED. Like other colleges around the country, the non-GED student woul Continue Reading...
Some feared the need for teachers to have multiple certifications to be considered highly qualified may prove nearly impossible for many school districts. As the demand for special education teachers increases, many specialists will be drawn to more Continue Reading...
Bringing up the aspects of personhood that help create identity can help start a dialogue and encourage critical and creative thinking in the class. Teachers can raise issues related to race, class, gender, religion, and power in a sensitive, cultur Continue Reading...
If this were to happen, legitimate students who use material honestly and properly cite all sources will be losing out on untold amounts of useful information. There are several ways which would prevent plagiarism from getting out of and any furthe Continue Reading...
Education is the creation of the whole person through a synthesis of ideas. My evolving definition of education includes a rigorous investigation of classical liberal arts paradigms from Aristotle to Freud and everything in between. Through a synopti Continue Reading...
History Syllabus Has Us Gasping': History in Canada Schools -- Past, Present, and Future" by Ken Osborne Canada's history as a nation goes as far back during the 10th-16th centuries, where prehistoric civilization and eventual colonization of its p Continue Reading...
Immigration Education in California Few issues create long-lasting controversy, the type of controversy that engages nearly every member of society regardless of their economic, ethnic, intellectual, political, religious, or social background. Examp Continue Reading...
Industrial Revolution rearranged the nature of business and society during the turn of the 20th century, the definition of success also changed. Today, the general conception of "success" has evolved to mean an income of millions of dollars as a res Continue Reading...
