The article is extracted from "Learning Disability Quarterly," a magazine specialised in researches on various aspects of learning disabilities. In addition, it has a high level credibility and is also extremely useful for researchers interested in Continue Reading...
" Somewhat unsurprisingly, an instructional strategy that these teachers frequently used was modification. Our analysis identified the following modifications: reteaching the material, using instructional materials, prompting/cueing, modeling, chang Continue Reading...
..may establish schools for the education and care of the disabled and schools for special education in a way that matches their abilities and aptitudes." This article takes us back to the idea of isolation not integration, by establishing special sc Continue Reading...
The belief that the achievement of students in the United States schools was falling behind other countries led politicians in the 1970s to instigate a minimum competency testing movement to reform our schools. States began to rely on tests of basi Continue Reading...
How Are Dual Immersion Programs Implemented? Christian, Howard & Loeb (2000) describe how dual immersion programs are implemented and the effect that they have on students. The goal for these dual immersion programs is to develop a high level Continue Reading...
Instructional Practices for High Level Learners When it comes to the right curriculum (instructional practices) that teachers and administrators should be developing -- that are effective in helping students achieve a high level of learning -- this Continue Reading...
New Teachers SPECIAL EDUCATION GRADES 8 -- 12 The objective of this study is to interview a teacher and have them review their experiences in a graduate program and discuss components of the program that have been of particular value to them and w Continue Reading...
Here, the information processing theory applies to the manner in which the board induces a multilayered engagement of the subject matter. The correlation of conceptual and practical application with a visual presentation conforms to the information Continue Reading...
What is known, though, is that many school counselors continue to be underutilized by the very stakeholders who stand to gain the most benefit from their services, and in many cases the professional services rendered by school counselors is incongru 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...
It documented the preceding era's educational beliefs and styles in the field of mathematics and the results from implementing those beliefs on a wide scale. The study sought to organize three themes including; "broad sociopolitical forces, particu Continue Reading...
Flexibility is necessary because of the very basic fact that all children with autism seem to express different needs and learning styles. The teacher needs to be able to modify instruction to meet the diverse needs among the spectrum of students wi Continue Reading...
Dyslexia Definition of Dyslexia Dyslexia is one of the conditions of the broader spectrum of learning difficulties. There are specific learning difficulties that are different from what could be defined as "Dyslexia." Specific learning difficulties Continue Reading...
"A literature review discusses published information in a particular subject area, and sometimes information in a particular subject area within a certain time period" (University of North Carolina, 2007). For example, a person who is studying educa 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...
Early Child Learning What is the basic meaning of the term data-supported (or data driven) instruction? The basic meaning of the term data-supported instruction is that individuals should utilize practices that are supported by data as the foundati Continue Reading...
Kinshuk, Liu, T., & Graf, S. (2009). Coping with mismatched courses: Students' behaviour and performance in courses mismatched to their learning styles. Educational Technology Research and Development, 57(6), 739-752. Retrieved from ERIC databa Continue Reading...
There are many of these individuals, and it is time that this is changed. Parents often look away from these kinds of problems, or they spend their time in denial of the issue because they feel that their child will not be harmed by parental involv Continue Reading...
According to reports coming out of Japan, teasing is often associated with poor performance, and may be instigated by teachers in many cases. America, it should be noted, tens to have an anti-intellectualism streak in its politics and nature, while Continue Reading...
Educational Psychology: An Overview The topic of educational psychology, or psychology as it is practiced within a school system, has become increasingly important in recent years as the number of special education demands on school systems and espe Continue Reading...
Heward reference is a book review of Nancy Close's book Listening to Children: Talking With Children About Difficult Issues -- It is improper to reference a book review-unless of course you are also reviewing the book. I have included the proper ref Continue Reading...
Establishing an NP Led Wellness and Recovery Center for Deinstitutionalized Individuals Historically, nursing, and medicine professions have been loath to utilize tools commonly linked with mercenary aspects of business, such as market research and Continue Reading...
The transition from pre-conventional to conventional moral development is changing one's view from selfishness to responsibility for others. The transition from conventional to post conventional development is from goodness to truth that "they are p Continue Reading...
Adolescent Substance Use Screening Instruments: 10-Year Critical Review of the Research Literature Over ten million teenagers in the United States admit in a national survey that they drink alcohol, although it is illegal under the age of 21 in all Continue Reading...
This was a clear gap in the research that was examined. The proposed research study will attempt to fill this gap by examining the importance of the adult child and parent relationship and its affect on the physical body. Methodologies found A num Continue Reading...
Organizational Analysis: Defining Your General Organizational Realities for the Case Study The structure of the organization is hierarchical and pyramidal with a two-way flow that allows that communication from bottom-up and from top-down to be impl Continue Reading...
Rural special education quarterly, Vol. 23, Issue 4, 3-9. Retrieved November 26, 2010, from http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=3&hid=104&sid=5c0f11c9-17f3-4f60-8ce3-d4df66666494%40sessionmgr14 Lake, V.E. (2004, August). Continue Reading...
Case Study: An Adult with Developmental ChallengesName: Samuel ThompsonAge: 26Gender: MaleDiagnosis: Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Level 2 (requiring substantial support)BackgroundSamuel was diagnosed with ASD at the age of 4. His family has been s Continue Reading...
According to Bales, 1999, the concept behind SYMLOG is that "every act of behavior takes place in a larger context, that it is a part of an interactive field of influences." Further, "the approach assumes that one needs to understand the larger cont Continue Reading...
Managing Behaviors & Teaching Social Skills Antisocial behavior in schools in on the rise and has become a concern in school systems, from both a learning perspective and from a safety perspective, as well. Previously, schools have dealt with su Continue Reading...
Applied Behavior Analysis Research and Application When approaching the target behavior of teaching an autistic child to obey verbal commands, it is important to understand what previous research has presented about this target behavior, how it has Continue Reading...
Group counseling helps to advance self understanding and awareness which may combat repressive tendencies. Teaching coping skills in a group setting can help participants to develop needed tools and stimulate psychological growth (Lambie & Sias, Continue Reading...
(McGannon, Carey and Dimmitt, 2005) To address this need in the field of school counseling, the CSCOR has developed the National Panel for School Counseling Evidence-Based Practice, which is composed of school counseling educators and practitioners Continue Reading...
Peer tutoring was found to be an effective tool for teaching those with learning disabilities to read (Fuchs, Fuchs, and Saenz, 2005). This research supports the use of struggling readers in the first grade for the group that receives the tutoring. Continue Reading...
Handwriting Skills on Compositional Quality What is the background and context of your project? Is there a 'problem' you want to find out more about or a potential solution that you want to explore? Is there a gap in the literature or earlier resea Continue Reading...
Melanie's frequency of inappropriate behavior was not consistent; she experienced unpredictable increases and decreases in hair pulling, screaming, scratching, and tantrum behavior. The study occurred in a self-contained classroom for children and Continue Reading...
ELLs: Identification and Intervention Why the Overrepresentation of ELLs in the Classroom Artiles, Rueda, Salazar and Higareda (2005) state that ELLs are overrepresented in the classroom because of a "tendency to overestimate the homogeneity of pop Continue Reading...
