Technical Writing DESCRIBING Dribbling a basketball is a multi-sensory experience. The orange dimples grow invisible as the ball drifts through the air. The up and down motion of the spherical object mesmerizes the onlooker, creating trails of ligh Continue Reading...
Swimming: Breaststroke SWIMMING INSTRUCTION: THE BREASTSTROKE The traditional breaststroke underwent radical transformation, leading to a bitter controversy, at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. Swimmers had gradually come to under Continue Reading...
SPIRITUAL DISCERNMENT AND VOCATIONAL COUNSELING PAPER INSTRUCTIONS Directions: The purpose Personal Position There are a number of decision-making factors that one should consider when attempting to determine where and what form of education or occ Continue Reading...
Managing Advertising, Sales Promotion, Public Relation and Direct Marketing Hundreds of theories exist that examine, outline, define and analyze the best methods for managing advertising, sales promotion, public relations and direct marketing campai Continue Reading...
Linos, Natalia. (2010). Reclaiming the social body through self-Directed violence: Seeking anthropological understanding of suicide attacks. Anthropology Today, 26 (5). According to Natalia Linos' 2010 article "Reclaiming the social body through se Continue Reading...
Parents think school is the best place for a child to learn and to grow. People often believe traditional schooling is an effective way for a child to learn and grow. However, in recent times people have discovered traditional schooling may not be as Continue Reading...
(Fisher & Frey, 2003, p. 396) There is little that demands that all the instruction be given by a single teacher. In fact the supplementation of writing instruction directly from a teacher by a timeline program that guided progress of a package Continue Reading...
Scaffolding English Language Learners (ELLs) for Writing SuccessInstruction in Academic VocabularyThe selection of vocabulary for teaching is predicated on its significance for comprehending the text and its frequent appearance within texts at the de Continue Reading...
Sleep deprivation is frequently a direct result of the need for intensive care, constant surveillance and monitoring that combine to limit the opportunities for uninterrupted sleep in the intensive care unit (ICU). The problem is multifactorial, with Continue Reading...
Teaching Strategy for Special Ed Special Education Standard Direct instruction is the most widely-used teaching strategy, although it has become controversial in recent years. Critics argue that it limits the creativity of good teachers and provide Continue Reading...
Balanced Literacy Program Phonemic awareness and phonics are two components of a balanced literacy program in K -- 3 classrooms. Phonemic awareness is the understanding that words are made of sounds. Phonics builds on this awareness by teaching the Continue Reading...
.., 2004). Direct Instruction (DI) is a model for teaching that emphasizes well-developed and carefully planned lessons designed around small learning increments and clearly defined and prescribed teaching tasks. It is based on the theory that clear Continue Reading...
Intervention Effectiveness Response to instruction and intervention RTI2 is reported as a general approach in education to closing the gap in achievement. RTI2 methods are constructed upon the Response to Intervention (RTI) model that was an option Continue Reading...
Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation: One of the major tasks that teachers must undertake during teaching is identifying students who demonstrate high or low motivation in some learning activities. Generally, motivated students are involved in learnin Continue Reading...
The method the teacher uses encourages students to discover the answers for themselves rather than accept the right answer as a matter of rote learning. finally, the class is frequently divided into groups, both small and large. The groups vary to e Continue Reading...
Literacy Coaching: Elementary Grades Learning to read and write begins early in children's development, long before they enter kindergarten. Moreover, literacy skill development in early childhood provides the foundation for children's long-term aca Continue Reading...
The author reiterates the basic elements of reading must be understood, and so they must be consistently repeated until they become automatic for students. The author also notes, "Teachers also should not use the time spent on tasks as a measure of Continue Reading...
Program Budget and Cost Analysis Line-Item Budget for an in-Service Dementia Care Training Program Florida now requires all direct-care staff working with dementia patients to receive specialized training. The curricula offered must be vetted by th Continue Reading...
Dr. Frank Pajares, writing in Reading and Writing Quarterly (Pajares 2003), points out that in his view of Bandura's social learning theory, individuals are believed to possess "self-beliefs that enable them to exercise a measure of control over th Continue Reading...
Direct Instruction stands for society's equality and it works best. Direct Instruciton should be used as a method for education because it has proven to be the most effective technique for actual learning and understanding. Since teachers are worki Continue Reading...
Wondering what to do the articles tells that the study of David Pearson entitled "What Research Has to Say to the Teaching of Reading published by the International Association 1992 was the "most compelling research available." Pearnson's research c Continue Reading...
Gustav Klimt Lesson Plan Central Focus "Describe the central focus and purpose for the content you will teach in the learning segment". Students will learn the art of Gustav Klimt, which will assist in creating the work of art that will resemble K Continue Reading...
Solutions to incorporating fluency instruction in the classroom include repeated reading, auditory modeling, direct instruction, text segmenting, supported reading, and use of easy reading materials. Young readers may not always know what fluent rea Continue Reading...
The primary focus is therefore on hearing and speaking, while reading forms a part of the advanced stages of this approach. While the direct approach might be somewhat daunting for the introductory language student, culture is an aspect that makes Continue Reading...
Teaching Methods for 7-12 There are many different competencies that must be acquired in order for a student to achieve mastery of the English language. Thus for a teacher to be successful in the classroom I suggest they implement a variety of metho Continue Reading...
curriculum of all the schools of a district. It uses 5 sources and is in APA format. The main aim of my curriculum that I have designed for five elementary schools, 4 middle schools and one high school of the district, is that I intend uniformity i Continue Reading...
Theoretically, CLIL draws on research that situates the integration of language and content as the relationship between form and meaning. An understanding of the theory and practice related to the content-based classroom is essential to the present Continue Reading...
His intention is to use an experimental approach by using statistical tools to quantify and assess program effectiveness by comparing school effectiveness ratings before implementation of the program with schools effectiveness ratings following the Continue Reading...
Fluent readers read aloud effortlessly and with expression. Their reading sounds natural, as if they are speaking." (National Institute for Literacy, 2003) The importance of fluency is that: "...it provides a bridge between word recognition and comp Continue Reading...
Instructional Strategies Question answer strategy (QAR) teaches students how and when to use their texts when answering comprehension questions. Collaboration, specifically co-teaching, has been shown to be effective with special education teachers Continue Reading...
, 2007). The use of the Cognitive Tutor not only enriches students' experience at the academic task-level but also impacts the teachers' instructional practices and relationship with her students (Level 3) A district-wide survey of high school teach Continue Reading...
Student Engagement and Mathematical Justification The following paper begins with the description of student engagement. It moves further to identify the effect of student engagement on student performance. In addition to that, the paper also focuse Continue Reading...
, & Sternberg, L. (1994). Communication and language development. In L. Sternberg (Ed.), Individuals with profound disabilities (pp. 192-229). Austin, TX: Pro-Ed. Bennett, K., Griffin, H., Powers, J., Williford, K., Young, C., Jensema, C., Kane Continue Reading...
Late-exit programs differ from early-exit programs in the amount and duration that English is used for instruction as well as the length of time students are to participate in each program (Hawkins, 2001). Students remain in late-exit programs thro Continue Reading...
SS.912.E.1.Su.p - Recognize a budget plan that includes wages and essential expenses, such as food and housing. SS.912.E.1.Pa.p - Recognize a plan (budget) to save and spend money. E. Big Ideas: Economics SS.912.E.1 - Understand the fundamental con Continue Reading...
structure of standardized testing in K-12 education. As Wisconsin and the federal government need some manner to gauge teacher performance and student progress it falls on educators to find effective means of testing special education students. The Continue Reading...
If we take the average cost of just one text, say a science text ($40), add 3-4 public domain novels (e.g. Huckleberry Finn at $5 ea.), and then a set of encyclopedias per classroom ($750), we find that even one small classroom of 25 students can sa 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...
DIBELS/Justin The Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) are a set of procedures and measures designed to assess the acquisition of early literacy skills from kindergarten through sixth grade. As emphasized by Kaminski, Cummings, Continue Reading...
The empirical design and its results, not age, should determine the validity and relevance of a given educational theory. Too often, educational policy makers and the professional support system skip from level one research (theory and conjecture ba Continue Reading...
