820 Search Results for Education and the Need for Teacher Autonomy
Carrington's (2001) study focuses on a diversity of learning strategy potentials that is constructed not by way of race or ethnicity, but by individualized media preferences and sensory strategies for learning. Carrington presents the conclusion th Continue Reading...
Here, we can observe several of the greatest benefits of assistive technology in special education. Such is to say that many linguistic, mathematic or otherwise basic educational programs may be designed to help facilitate the special needs learner Continue Reading...
EBP Project: Will Every Two Hour Turning and Positioning Decrease Pressure Ulcers in the Eldery Bed Bound Population in Nursing Homes?
Practicum: Clinical rotations with preceptor; serving patients with acute, chronic and new medical issues.
One of Continue Reading...
Feminine Pedagogy and Critical Theory
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"We are living in a period of profound challenges to traditional Western epistemology and political theory" that are in evidence in every aspect of modern life, and that are especially Continue Reading...
These benefits arise because of implementing both assistive technologies and Information Communication technology (ICT). The implementation of technology in classrooms usually has benefits to both the disabled students as well as the teachers (Kirk, Continue Reading...
Aboriginal School System in Canada
Aboriginal peoples in Canada comprise of hundreds of communities with a wide range of cultures, languages, as well as nation-based governance. In year 2006, over one million people in Canada identified themselves a Continue Reading...
The presenter will maintain a checklist during the course of the presentation and will identify each topic as it has been completed. This will allow the presenter to make sure that all the necessary topics are covered in time and there is room to pe Continue Reading...
Montessori Schools
The Child as an Active Learner
Theoretical Underpinnings
Foundations of the Montessori Learning Approach
Maria Montessori was a native of Chiaravalle Italy, born in 1870 during the time when Italy was declaring its independence Continue Reading...
Still, Mason indicates that the opposite is often true in public education settings, where educators, parents and institutions collectively overlook the implications of research and demands imposed by law. Indeed, "despite the IDEA requirements, res Continue Reading...
Private schools are just as vulnerable to the issues that public schools are facing today.
Each one of us carries a responsibility for trying to improve the situation. Parents and familial groups have a huge responsibility to augment educational st Continue Reading...
This is a method of indirect instruction, an important component of art education, as noted in Mary E. Thompson's chapter on "Art for Students with Special Needs." Having a rebus charts with pictures illustrating the steps of the project also helps Continue Reading...
Lifelong Learning
Baxter and Tight (1994) noted in their research that in many countries, people are being encouraged to be "lifelong learners," people who return to school again and again throughout their lives, rather than looking at education as Continue Reading...
It is inevitable that behaviors of students inside a college classroom in a way depend on their race or ethnicity, which does not make it very neutral place of learning and social interaction. Studies have shown non-native speaking students struggle Continue Reading...
Extrinsic rewards should only be used when other efforts to actively engage students in learning has failed; (3) In the event extrinsic rewards must be utilized, they should be "just powerful enough to control behavior" and should be eliminated in Continue Reading...
In fact, one of the principle facets of Moominpappa's character is to introduce didactic messages to his family, particularly to his children. Doing so is part of his job as a father and as the head of a household. Unfortunately, not all of his met Continue Reading...
Learner-centered curriculum' in TESOL
The most important learning processes in any school anywhere in the world involve the use of several different means of communication. The communication methods may be verbal or non-verbal. Verbal communication Continue Reading...
In conjunction with these perspectives on how to create a highly effective online learning platform that aligns to the specific needs of students, there is a corresponding area of research that concentrates on teaching resiliency in the teaching pr Continue Reading...
0 tool has little to do with its overall effectiveness in getting attaining learning goals and objectives for example. Controlling for the informality or formality of Web 2.0 tools use is required, as many instructors are relying on the conversationa Continue Reading...
Here we see that the staff and the students had their own responsibilities and those responsibilities are quite different from the traditional ones we find in traditional schools. Horton thought that a significant aspect of the teacher's role was to Continue Reading...
(Committee on Public Education and Professional Practice, 1993) the conclusion of the Council states that "...it is essential that the profession act concertedly to bring about the changes that they know to be necessary for effective education in th Continue Reading...
The intent of this real-time grade scorecard is to give students a chance to see how their efforts in the short-run impact their academic performance over the long-run. The scorecard will therefore be used as a motivation strategy in addition to a c Continue Reading...
Conversely there are the instructors who see in-class sessions as essential for the teaching of the most abstract, complex concepts. Bridging these two polarizing perspectives on how to successfully teach the most challenging material in a course is Continue Reading...
Stress
Wiley, Carolyn. 2000. "A Synthesis of Research on the Causes, Effects, and Reduction Strategies of Teacher Stress." Journal of Instructional Psychology, June.
Carolyn Wiley wrote an extensive review of the research on occupational stress as Continue Reading...
For countries such as the U.S. And France, these needs can be reasonably expected to relate to the respective national cultures involved. For instance, in their book, Education in France, Corbett and Moon (1996) report, "An education system needs to Continue Reading...
Bringing up the aspects of personhood that help create identity can help start a dialogue and encourage critical and creative thinking in the class. Teachers can raise issues related to race, class, gender, religion, and power in a sensitive, cultur Continue Reading...
Analysis
Certainly, differences have arisen between instruction in the traditional classroom and instruction in the online virtual classroom. but, does that really mean that the role of the facilitator in distance learning is really going to be de Continue Reading...
Adult Learning
Personal Learning Style:
Strengths, Weaknesses, Improvement
Every student has a personal learning style. Although this is true for students of all ages, this notion is particularly pronounced in adult learners. Perhaps this is the c Continue Reading...
(Stasz, and Bodilly, 2004)
In the press release by Mike Bowler and David Thomas (2005), High School Students Using Dual Enrollment Programs to Earn College Credits, New Reports Say. According to this report, the federal budget proposes to increase Continue Reading...
Guidance Counselor
Even the most lackadaisical student is familiar with the role of the high school guidance counselor. Even an individual whom never attended an American high school would be familiar with the common image of the high school guidanc Continue Reading...
Ali Gunay Balim's journal article, "The effects of discovery learning on students' success and inquiry learning skills" provides empirical evidence that attest to the virtue of guided discovery learning. The research performed in this article divid Continue Reading...
P., Phillips, J.J., 2008, ROI fundamentals: why and when to measure ROI, John Wiley and Sons
6. Reliability and validity
The concepts of reliability and validity are often used as synonymous, yet there are some notable differences between the two t Continue Reading...
Curriculum
Curricula associated with LSS are important and must be carefully considered in Maths and electronics teaching. The purpose of this discussion is to carry out further research connected with the topic of curricula and evaluate the extent Continue Reading...
" (Downey, 2000, p.307) This aspect of the university, or that of the community is characterized by having less structure that the corporation or collegium of the university and is such that includes everyone as a member as everyone "belongs to and h Continue Reading...
This wide array of data strands could then be manipulated to measure the veracity of the philosophical claims informing our qualitative argument.
Envisioned Analysis:
The analysis which is envisioned as a way to address the available datasets is p Continue Reading...
theoretical approaches to learning and explores possibilities of learning applications to special education. A matrix is presented and the information in the matrix is explained within a professional setting that deals with special education. The th Continue Reading...
Learning Experiences: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Online vs. In-Class Instruction
After having had several courses that were entirely delivered online and the majority being delivered in traditional in-class environments, the relative strengths Continue Reading...
Motivate Private Kindergarten Teachers
The objective of this work in writing is to conduct a review of literature in the area of motivation and specific to motivation of teachers in private kindergartens. Towards this end, this study will examine m Continue Reading...
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Null Hypothesis
The null hypothesis of the research endeavor is that online professors will report no perceptible connection between post-tenure review and job performance.
Alternate Hypothesis
The alternate hypothesis of th Continue Reading...
For instance, online students are generally older and their life experiences make them autonomous, self-directed, and goal- and relevancy-oriented (Dortch, 2003; Diaz, 2002; Dubois, 1996). Thus, these are the types of continuing education students t Continue Reading...