Using tools like SHELL, the predictive nature of emergent literacy skills can help teacher's better understand new techniques and performance standards at the elementary level (Snow). Finally, all the articles under review seem to stress that format Continue Reading...
Higher education [...] Harvard University in the year 1770, as it relates to two potential students, Noah and Rachael. Harvard University, established in 1636, is America's oldest college and America's oldest corporation. Noah and Rachael would like Continue Reading...
In the disjunctive approach one if gifted if one has a high level in any of the abilities attributed to giftedness. "One is gifted if one has a high level of this ability or if one has a high level of that ability, and so forth" (Borland, 1997, p. 1 Continue Reading...
Mathematics Instruction in English on ELL Second Grade Students J. Elizabeth Estevez Educ2205I-Content Research Seminar Mathematics is a powerful tool for interpreting the world. Research has shown that for children to learn how to use mathematic Continue Reading...
Nutrition and Cognitive Learning Among Elementary School Students -- a Proposal Many elementary school children are at-risk for poor nutrition. While many children do have good nutritional habits because their families lack money to buy sufficient Continue Reading...
No high-achieving nation tests every child, every year, in the way we're currently doing. They have much more intellectually ambitious assessments [or measuring not just memory but what students can do with knowledge]. -- Ed Finkel, 2010 As the Continue Reading...
Consequently, aggression and/or hostility may arise. Golden presents practical technique, along with his anger management model, to help group leaders, parents, and others interested in helping teens learn to manage their anger in positive ways. He Continue Reading...
teacher has in helping students develop their writing. Traditional methods of grading and scoring children's writing are being replaced in the modern educational system with feedback and constructive criticism of the work, rather than a trophy grade Continue Reading...
attitudes and values of high school students. Reforms to the high school system in the United States are also explained. Additionally, the reason why students need not be involved in the planning of reforms is elucidated. High School Students: thei Continue Reading...
Types of Parental Involvement and Support that Boost Young Children’s Academic Performance Introduction That there is a link between parental support and involvement and students performance is almost incontrovertible. Many studies agree to thi Continue Reading...
Figure 1. Pre-Test Reading Scores A second independent samples t-test was run to determine whether there were significant differences between the two groups on the post-test FCAT 2.0 reading scores. The results indicate that there was a significan Continue Reading...
Teaching English to Young Learners Whether it teaching young children who are born and whose parents are native to the United States or another English-speaking country or whether it be a situation where either the parents and/or the child are not b Continue Reading...
Nelson and Stage (2007) was to assess the effects of contextually-based multiple meaning (i.e., words with multiple meanings) vocabulary instruction on student vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension. To this end, groups of 3rd and 5th grade Continue Reading...
Perceptions of Success by Non-Traditional Students Non-Traditional Students' Perceptions of Academic Support Needs Perceptions of the Adequacy of College Services by Non-Traditional Students This purpose of this paper is to review two studies rele 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...
Individual Literature Review Transformational Theory Change theories have long been used to address leadership styles in education and other positions of power and respect. One of the theories to which educational leaders widely subscribe is transf Continue Reading...
Figure 2: "Information System for Geography" (GIS) 2. The Map View: A GIS consists of a set of intelligent maps and other views depicting features and feature relationships on the earth's surface. Students can use GIS to support their queries, mak Continue Reading...
Computer Assisted Language Learning or CALL, relates to the creation, use, and study of software that is specifically designed to allow for the use of a computer in the teaching and learning of a new language (Jarvis, 2013). Most commonly this is don Continue Reading...
Kiefer, K. (2007). Chapter 8: Do students lose more than they gain in online writing classes? In Joe Lockard and Mark Pegrum (Eds.), Brave New Classrooms: Democratic Education and the Internet (pp. 141-151). New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. Continue Reading...
These generally viewed race in terms of superior or inferior throughout history. The time frame family studies explored involved biological and pathology theories dating from the 1899 through the twentieth century. Interestingly, these researchers Continue Reading...
Humans Innately Aggressive? Aggression is "an action…intended to harm someone in a verbal sense (sarcasm, insults, threats or playing out "nasty motives" -- and it can be a physical act, pushing, hitting, shooting at another person or otherwi Continue Reading...
Most of the literature deals with healthcare issues experienced in the United States or Europe. What small amount of literature there is available on healthcare in Malaysia seldom has anything to do with the clinic(s) in specific. This study could Continue Reading...
By making students familiar and comfortable with authorities outside of their home environments, students are more prepared to meet the educational challenges of the classroom, to receive a greater exposure to the language of classroom instruction, Continue Reading...
Women in Film Noir Teaching is in many ways a solitary profession: A teacher in his or her own classroom spends hours in contact with students but often relatively little time talking to other teachers and educators. Administrators are also in many Continue Reading...
" Secondly, an "established custom within academe" would make it possible, together with the "expectations" would then facilitate the relationship between the faculty and its employees. The most surprising insight about tenure is that it is a relati Continue Reading...
The role of strategy training in reading skills developmentStrategy has a very profound role in reading skills development. Strategy is becoming much more important given the changing dynamics of the education industry currently underway. Strategy tr Continue Reading...
The Teacher and Principal Relationship with the Principal as Leader Research indicate that the primary role of the principal is that of the school "leader." The decision a principal makes concerning the issue of instructional leadership and the exte Continue Reading...
Middle Eastern Students: What Is the Effect of Advisory Participation in the Adolescent Years- Grades 8-9 Benefits of student advisory Adolescence and its effects on learning Functions and Expectations of Advisory Program Middle Eastern Student a Continue Reading...
children in the United States suffer from learning disabilities and disabilities that impair their ability to socialize properly with others. Social skill interventions are designed to help students with specific disabilities like autism understand Continue Reading...
Internet: Privacy for High School Students An Analysis of Privacy Issues and High School Students in the United States Today In the Age of Information, the issue of invasion of privacy continues to dominate the headlines. More and more people, it s Continue Reading...
Calcium Promotion to Elementary Students Calcium consumption is critical for proper nourishment and bone development in elementary school age children. Promotion of calcium consumption in early elementary years is critical; school nutrition programs Continue Reading...
Albert Einstein, a famously mediocre student, once commented that "It is little short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not completely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry." Many educational theorists and gifted teachers have ta Continue Reading...
