998 Search Results for Critique of Teaching and Learning
Intersectionality and dissensus: A negotiation of the feminist classroom," Wanggren & Sellberg (2012) discuss how to introduce a more collaborative feminist perspective into the modern classroom. Rather than viewing debate and discussion in the Continue Reading...
Learning Journals in Higher and Continuing Education
The study by Langer (2002) exploring the use of learning journals in higher and continuing education presents new data that may challenge the existing paradigm in the area. This critique focuses Continue Reading...
Community Colleges in America
In 1983 and 1984, a dozen major reports on the United States' schools were published. All stressed the need for "excellence" in education. These reports are the subject of: Excellence in Education: Perspectives on Polic Continue Reading...
Article Review: Leadership and Change
According to Ankrum (2016) in his article “Utilizing Teacher Leadership as a Catalyst for Change in Schools,” teachers are an often-underused resource for schools to institute meaningful changes and t Continue Reading...
Technology-Based Teacher Training and Teacher-Led Classroom Implementation on Learning Reading Comprehension Strategies
Summary of Article and Meaning
This study was done to examine the efficiency of an expertly advanced comprehensive reading comp Continue Reading...
Her blooming full-pulsed youth stood there in a moral imprisonment which made itself one with the chill, colorless, narrowed landscape, with the shrunken furniture, the never-read books, and the ghostly stag in a pale fantastic world that seemed to Continue Reading...
Student Learning Styles
Writing to Learn -- Real World Issues
A university instructor that seeks to interest and motivate students through a lecture is sometimes on thin ice as far as keeping students' attention. Hence, it is incumbent on the alert Continue Reading...
Note the reading when the rhythmic sounds stop. This is the diastolic reading.
Step 10 -- Record results; if possible take with other arm and average.
(Andersen, 2009).
4. An easy and cost effective interactive solution would be done in steps, de Continue Reading...
Experimentation Critique
In viewing the field of education, the issue of students' lacking retention of material has long been associated with a teacher's inability to enforce learning materials in such a manner that every student within a class -- Continue Reading...
gov.on.ca). These are the goals for learning that students need to master, according to Ontario; Gap Closing focuses specifically on them. However, there's very little room for innovation.
Product and How Children Learn
The product reflects the way Continue Reading...
None of the instructors have been screened for their level of technology expertise, or for their previous use of presentation technologies. As a result of these wide variations in the sampling frame, no statistical extrapolation of results can be do Continue Reading...
experiential learning theory. This will be accomplished by focusing on how these ideas are incorporated into their thinking, the way it is influencing the individual and the application of key concepts. When this happens, specific insights are provi Continue Reading...
These sequences included: progressive, random, anti-progressive.
Results
The results of this study showed that the extent of sequencing in learning and progressive training advantages cannot be completely explained by direct associations between s Continue Reading...
Brevity is also necessary because reading for content and for linguistic problem solving is the focus" (Kruger). In contrast to the brevity of the intensive program the extensive program "consists of longer selections, that are assigned to be read o Continue Reading...
Passover Way to Teach' argues that the Jewish Haggadah offers an approach to learning that solves current learning problems. While the author does offer some valid arguments about ways to teach, his argument also includes several flaws that invalida Continue Reading...
Experimental Critique
You have just answered an advertisement to participate in an experiment from researchers at Yale University. You enter a professional looking building and are met by a professional looking man in a white lab coat. You have been Continue Reading...
But that is partly because what I have to suggest is not a method but a stance towards one's teaching. This stance requires a sort of doubleness: an awareness that one's course is part of an ideological structure that keeps people from thinking abou Continue Reading...
Roles can be rotated regularly to give all team members experience; and 5) Task or sequence interdependence
This occurs when one group member must first complete his/her task before the next task can be completed. For example, collecting water samp Continue Reading...
The main thesis of the book, which the writer succeeds to demonstrate in a very smart way is that the study process can be meaningful in itself (not just a tool we use in order to get a certain result) and the trick relies in making students want to Continue Reading...
Value of Assessments in the College Experience
The goal of college and university instructors is of course to provide the materials, the context, and ultimately the motivating and stimulating environment in which students may learn. But there is a Continue Reading...
Lesson Plan Critique -- Parts of Speech (3rd grade)
Lesson Plan -- Parts of Speech
Thank you for sharing your lesson plan with me. I enjoyed reviewing the plan and visualizing the lesson being taught in your enthusiastic classroom of third graders. Continue Reading...
Because they are not formal and have more of the quality of brainstorming, however it would be rare for a class to only require journals as a method of assessment.
While essays, portfolios, and journals are useful methods of assessment to grade the Continue Reading...
Forming Self-Regulated Learning Perceptions: The Influence of Internal and External Comparisons." One needs to discuss learning because a link has occurred between motivation as well as achievement in any given school setting. The studies question w Continue Reading...
In this way, researchers can control for the effects of socioeconomic status and better extricate the true relationship between parental involvement and academic achievement (Fan & Chen, 2001).
Though the Smith (2006) study seeks in increase pa Continue Reading...
In this narrative, the story teller tells of both his informal education in his tribe and the formal education he received through the Indian boarding school run by whites which attempts to assimilate him to the Anglo world, one that differs greatly Continue Reading...
Adult Learning: Andragogy
Adult learning as a concept was first introduced in Europe in the 50s (QOTFC, 2007). But it was in the 70s when American practitioner and theorist of adult education Malcolm Knowles formulated the theory and model he calle Continue Reading...
These authors purport:
Intentional living-learning (LL) communities that expand upon the Oxford and Cambridge models of residential living are higher education's attempt to respond to the student and societal need for a quality and seamless educati Continue Reading...
Boys and Girls Learn Differently! -- Michael Gurian and Patricia Henley
Michael Gurian's book has been a best seller and a much-discussed, respected handbook on the topic of boys vs. girls in a learning milieu since it was published in 2001. But mor Continue Reading...
In the field of education there are many distinguishing characteristics a learner can have. One of the attributes that every learner has is the style in which one learns ideas and concepts (Dunn & Griggs, 2000). The three main learning styles re Continue Reading...
Idealism
The teacher smiles, full of joy at the opportunity to teach. As an idealist, he or she embodies the optimal instructor, hearkening to the model of the ancients like Socrates. Classics of philosophy and literature form the basis of the teach 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...
Dispositional and Learning Theory
The objective of this study is to describe the role of personality in affecting situational behavior and examine the personality characteristics attributed to each of the theories. This work will additionally explai Continue Reading...
So, self-directed learning is not ideal for people who are high on anxiety. Similarly, people who are high on extroversion tend to be less successful in self-directed learning because their gregarious nature requires them to be in a group and intera Continue Reading...
Online Learning Study
Park, J., & Choi, H.J. (2009). Factors influencing adult learners' decision to drop out or persist in online learning. Journal of Educational Technology & Society, 12(4), 207-n/a. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.c Continue Reading...
Even though the American Revolution is seen as justified today, it was not seen as such during its time period, and a sophisticated historian never sees historical events as inevitable. Nor is the decision to go to war ever a purely good ethical dec Continue Reading...
The nature of the endeavor seems to 'blame the victim.' Additionally, it is unclear if Problem-Based Learning might be any more or less effective than, for example, assertiveness training, which would not treat the students as victims, and define th Continue Reading...
Because our programs have such great diversity, we could literally become aware of many new cultures. I think that the parents could also do more volunteer work with or for the school. Classroom aides or lunch aids could help children see other' at Continue Reading...
Technology in History Classes]
Since the beginning of education in the U.S., the classroom setting has remained the same: Students have sat quietly in their seats with just a pencil, textbook and lined paper to practice their "readin', riting and 'r Continue Reading...