997 Search Results for Diversity and Teaching
EBD Students
Time-Outs in the Classroom
Time-Outs for Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
Time-Outs for Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders
On the second page of a 2010 report published by the National Disabilities Righ Continue Reading...
Management Theories
Behavior Management Theories and Applications
The Theory of Planned Behavior & Theory of Reasoned Action
The theory of planned behavior (TPB) is one of the most commonly mentioned and used behavior management theories. It i Continue Reading...
Staff Development Plan
Staff development is central to the quality performance of activities in any organization. In order for an institution to achieve its goals and objectives, a clear staff development plan is necessary in order to set priorities 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...
standardized tests and there is math association with the results. On the other hand informal reading assessments do not have the same formal data requirements and is based more on performance. These two kinds of assessments will be critiqued in thi 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...
Technology Grant / Literacy
iPads for Literacy Instruction in Grade 2
Young children live and participate in a world that is filled with a wide range of technologies. Development of technology moves at a rapid pace and now, more than ever, technolo Continue Reading...
Studies here included in this set are evaluations of large multisite and single site after school programs; evaluations of school- and community-based models; evaluations assessing a narrow to a broad range of outcomes; key developmental research st Continue Reading...
Urban Middle School Focus
Identify Unique opportunities for growth and improvement. What new emerging initiatives are likely to increase growth and deepen improvement levels within an urban middle school?
Among the more prominent opportunities for Continue Reading...
S. were "proficient in reading and math," Pytel explains. These statistics "loudly states that students entering high school" are simply not prepared, Pytel goes on. Moreover, U.S. students do not fare well on the international educational stage. At Continue Reading...
Elementary Classroom Delivery Model and its
Effect on Student Achievement
Departmentalized Classrooms
Organization
Typically, a school is organized with either a departmentalized or a self-contained structure. (Self-contained classrooms will be Continue Reading...
Bilingual Education
The first federal Bilingual Education Act (BEA) was signed into law in 1968. This study sought to determine what effects the BEA had on local and state school districts in California, some who had previously initiated programs to Continue Reading...
How can the use of differentiated instruction decrease the achievement gap for culturally, linguistically, ethnically, and economically diverse groups?
b. What are the benefits of using differentiated instruction?
c. What researches have been cond Continue Reading...
It would not only be time consuming and expensive for each classroom teacher to develop an effective basic reading skills curriculum but such a curriculum is also fraught with a high degree of error. There is compelling evidence that supports the us Continue Reading...
Persistence (also called retention) is defined as remaining enrolled in the institution, presumably until degree attainment or completion. Online courses can help students achieve this, because they provide options for learning that were previously Continue Reading...
Students will not be able to understand the need to learn a subject and they will not have an opportunity to research or think about a particular subject when they are merely forced to memorize the details. Teachers are badly affected since they hav Continue Reading...
"Co-enrolled classrooms," they advise, "represent a promising additional possibility for increasing student social access to peers, as well as increasing achievement. A co-enrolled classroom typically consists of an approximately 2:1 ratio of hearin Continue Reading...
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In addition to the highly qualified mandates of NCLB there are also requirements to use research-based education practices over effective-based education practices.
The different levels of ability combined with the various qualifiers of special e Continue Reading...
Being aware of these different types of learners in the classroom will help the teacher plan ways to motivate students and promote a positive attitude.
Motivation and attitude in the classroom is frequently linked to other factors in the students' Continue Reading...
Impact on Equity
One major point regarding equity as applied to performance-based assessment is made by Yale Professor Emeritus Edmund Gordon (Dietel, Herman and Knuth, 1991). "We begin with the conviction that it is desirable that attention be gi Continue Reading...
students spend the other half of our time in our class doing hands-on laboratory and project work that is interesting and relevant to our lives (essentially pragmatic ideals). Reasoning and deduction are good, but we as a learners forget a concept w Continue Reading...
al, 1996).
The teacher's surveyed at the elementary level acknowledged that their usage of computers in the classroom was quite limited, and suggested that this was due largely to their unfamiliarity with the potential benefits the computer had to Continue Reading...
Education
As the educational system continues to come under increasing amounts of scrutiny, the teacher is ultimately at the fulcrum of pressure. They are required to digest new educational theory and sort out the wheat from the chaff. They are aske Continue Reading...
Stand and Deliver
Ramon Menendez's 1988 film Stand and Deliver portrays one teacher's impact on a class of underachieving high school students. Jaime A. Escalante quits a lucrative job in the tech sector to become an underpaid, underappreciated high Continue Reading...
Inclusion Effective in the Middle School Setting?
Defining Inclusion
Inclusion can be intensely troubling because it confronts our uninspected ideas of what "ordinary" and "normal" in reality signify (Pear point and Forest, 1997). To comprehend in Continue Reading...
Constructivism/Classroom
History of Constructivism
As long as there were people asking each other questions, we have had constructivist classrooms. Constructivism, the study of learning, is about how we all make sense of our world, and that really Continue Reading...
Education as Cultural Transmission
School culture
Education and societal inequality
Synthesis and Analysis
Drawing Conclusions
Education as cultural transmission
Although the precise purpose of education remains in debate, what is clear is that Continue Reading...
education system in USA
The education system in the U.S. has over the years raised a lot of criticism and concerns among critics from all sectors despite having undergone continued changes and improvement since its inception by the founders of educ Continue Reading...
Public Education
The foundation of the business called "Connect Education" is the purpose of this formal proposal. It will be written in response to questions and conflicts that have arisen in regards to public education. This proposal outlines sol Continue Reading...
Marzano's nine instructional strategies provide a useful springboard for structuring student activities in a clear and unambiguous fashion. Students can be easily intimidated by a difficult concept or a difficult piece of writing. Identifying similar Continue Reading...
software being reviewed, subject of the software, date of publication.
"Reader Rabbit 1st Grade: Capers on Cloud Nine!" (CD).
List the authors and state the author's sex, if possible.
Although The Learning Company releases information concerning Continue Reading...
Montessori and Exercises in Practical Life
Learning is a life-long adventure in the philosophy of discovery. To maximize learning, one cannot underestimate two things: learning opportunities and the environment surrounding the learning activity. Lea Continue Reading...
LibQUAL survey conducted in the year 2007 showed University Libraries students prefer face-to-face interactions with the library staff, and the students would opt for a video chat on information references to instant messaging (IM). Popularity of a Continue Reading...
Learning style preferences are the method in which, and the circumstances under which, learners most competently and successfully recognize, process, store, and recall what they are trying to learn. Knowing the students' learning style preferences c Continue Reading...
Appeals Review Committee,
Riverside, Office of Undergraduate Admissions,
3106 Student Services Building,
Dear Appeals Committee
Re: Transfer admission to UC campus for Fall 2012- (Write your Full Name here)
I learned on [insert date] that I was Continue Reading...
promotion of more inclusive education. Up until recently, the practice of separating students with special education needs from general education students was commonplace. However, this practice often resulted in special education students not havin 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...