1999). The purpose of the school was to allow these students to earn their high school diploma (Kennedy et al. 1999). The board of directors for the school included administrators who were teachers at the time or retired teachers (Kennedy et al. 199 Continue Reading...
" One recent debate around the subject of instructional design is based in learning theories. Experts and laymen alike wonder if there is a specific learning theory that is more suited to using instructional design. Research indicates there is not a Continue Reading...
Mainstreaming the Non-Traditional Learner in Your Choir Mainstreaming special children in learning provides them with opportunities to gain knowledge and skills in a method that suits them. It is also a process of allowing them to accept their disab Continue Reading...
In all classrooms, teachers deal with at least three curricular elements: (1) content - input, what students learn; (2) process - how students go about making sense of ideas and information, and (3) product - output, how students demonstrate what t 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...
Designing a Group A Group for Individuals Concerned about School Bullying Incidents What population is the group designed to serve? The group is ultimately designed to serve students of a school where bullying has occurred, and the entire school s Continue Reading...
Fairness When data collection is reliant on teacher reporting and therefore the "...perception and rating of the Kindergarten teacher" (Guhn, Guderman, & Zumbo, 2007, p. 456), how would you suggest best controlling for or adjusting for perceptio Continue Reading...
Students Lose More than They Gain in Online Writing Classes? Kate Kiefer Kate Kiefer gives a proposition that undertaking the writing classes online is an exercise in futility that has faults and cannot give the same good and appreciable results a Continue Reading...
Differentiated Instruction is an approach to education that is increasingly taking hold in the earlier stages of primary education. This proceeds from the understanding that all individuals learn, integrate and apply knowledge differently. This is tr Continue Reading...
Solve Scenario School Improvement Strategies In order to facilitate academic achievement for all students in the school three things need to happen; the school's culture must reflect the best practices in education through the development of a prof Continue Reading...
Student Satisfaction and Diversity The study is devised to grasp the relationship between student satisfaction in the diverse cultural and faculty patterns. The ultimate goal of all the contemporary societies of the world is to maintain and promote Continue Reading...
Instructional Leadership What did the author say? Halverson, Grigg, Prichett & Thomas (2005) propose in their article, presented before the National Council of Professors Educational Administration, a new analytic framework for understanding in Continue Reading...
Time to develop and use assessments effectively must be built into the teachers' work week. They are time-consuming, but worthwhile, and should not be administered as an afterthought. The results tell us a great deal about students and ourselves. It Continue Reading...
p.). For the classroom teacher, an instrument with validity will satisfy these parameters. Content-Based Assessments 1) What evidence should be provided that learners have mastered content? When teachers give content-based assessments, they are me Continue Reading...
Formative assessment gives teachers the opportunity to provide students with feedback in time to improve learning. Fluckiger, Vigil, Pasco & Danielson (2010) describe several techniques to provide formative feedback to students more frequently a Continue Reading...
Differentiated instruction offers the possibility for all students to meet their own personal and optimal potential in the learning environment of the classroom. BIBLIOGRAPHY Bellai, Mariann (2008) Professional Development Plan. Schenectady City S Continue Reading...
For such crucial areas as writing instruction, the simple use of email can prove to render this effect. To the point, one article indicates to us that "writing in itself is often considered a process that involves four main stages i.e., planning, dr Continue Reading...
African-American Academics African-American Students and Success and Failure in the School Setting Do African-American students use different strategies to achieve academic success than other groups? The strategies suggested by African-American st Continue Reading...
Hospital Evaluation Project The world of healthcare is continually evolving. For professionals, this means that they must possess certain skill sets. In the case of graduate nurses, these issues are becoming more pronounced with the increasing deman Continue Reading...
I would say that my greatest strengths as a teacher are my commitment to improving the lives, learning, and attitude of my students and my determination to engage in intense self-scrutiny about my teaching methods. I am determined to make school a Continue Reading...
As these two issues will tell you what specific factors could affect the performance of the student. This information is useful, because it can be corroborated with the other sources, to highlight what specific factors could be contributing to highe Continue Reading...
Experience with Failure Retrospective Analysis I discovered that there were many more elements of academic performance than could possibly be accounted for in such a broad conceptual approach. Likewise, the many variables that influence and determ Continue Reading...
The principal informally assessed the value of this project by looking at lesson plans and teacher collaboration and performing unscheduled walk-throughs as well as monitoring theme test scores. Because of the positive results and teacher enthusias Continue Reading...
INTASC Standard IV Artifact: "Educational Software" INTASC Standard IV: Multiple Instructional Strategies -- The teacher understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies to encourage student's development of critical thinking, problem sol Continue Reading...
One teaching model that seems to be very effective within the portfolio framework is the "Process Model." The process model is, at its most simple, a method of writing in which the "process" of writing and revision is emphasized. Perhaps one of the Continue Reading...
Change management theory, especially Kotter’s 8-step model, acknowledges the essence of formulating a vision for change (Duignan, 2007). A vision for change lays down the state the organisation desires to achieve in the future. An effective vis Continue Reading...
Social Networks on Society Social networks are changing the fabric of society by changing the patterns, depth and intensity of communication and collaboration happening globally today. The torrent of information, ideas, opinions and thoughts that s Continue Reading...
When viewing student progress in a holistic fashion, the district can also see if students of a certain demographic categories (such as ESL students or students with learning disabilities) tend to have more struggles than students with different dem Continue Reading...
The items / links that are relevant to council / affiliate leaders; have a number of different resources to include: programs, management, awards, projects and publications / communications. The different items that were mentioned above are signific Continue Reading...
Indeed, one can frame motivation in terms of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, which provides that basic needs must be met before higher order needs can be attended to. In short, motivation is a higher need, and basic needs must be met (i.e. physical ne Continue Reading...
There are a variety of resources for organizations to leverage for training. These include vendor and supplier specialists, government-supported job training and education assistance programs where the employee seeks training outside their organizat Continue Reading...
autobiographic summary. What value, philosophy and attributes describe you? What qualities define your character? Describe what significant events you believe influenced your character. Note any special activity or organization in which you have bee Continue Reading...
Theory into Practice: The Case Studies Project" by J. Crawford covers the 1980 California model for "theoretically sound" bilingual education, which they called the "Case Studies Project." The main beliefs of the Case Studies Project were intended to Continue Reading...
Effects of Screen Time on ChildrenIntroductionWhat do we know about the effects of screen time use of smartphones, tablets and game consoles, among children ages 10 to 15 and academic achievement? This literature review intends to answer that questio Continue Reading...
Curriculum Materials Selection process The process of selecting instructional materials is one important aspect of the end result that schools seek to achieve with their students. The curriculum materials selection process needs to be thorough and we Continue Reading...
TEKS Identify your content area and grade level My content area is English with an emphasis on grades 7 through 12. Create a tiered assignment (at least 7) for that content level. Example within module The classroom is now becoming very heterogen Continue Reading...
VI: YOUR PERSONAL DEBREIFING: (After lesson is implemented) + Praise - Polish ? Change Your Name ____ Grade 3-6 Topic: Prefix and Suffix Spelling Dice Game NG FLSSS CCSS Time (optional) Activity Strategy/Need/Rationale (Prep Work for Instru Continue Reading...
Teaching Methods - Differentiation An earnest observer of human beings eventually realizes that there are many types of intelligence and that different people have different skills, needs and knowledge. Differentiation is based on that realization a Continue Reading...
Teaching Philosophy Teaching is a conversation. It is a dialogue, not a monologue. When a teacher strives to convey knowledge, he or she must do so with an awareness of the student body's needs and background. Teaching involves give-and-take: even w Continue Reading...
