820 Search Results for Education and the Need for Teacher Autonomy
Classroom management theories including learning behavior theory are the foundations through which teachers can develop emotionally safe classroom where all students can learn. For instance, learning behavior theory helps in creating suitable instruc Continue Reading...
Charter Schools and Minorities
An Examination of the Effectiveness of the Charter School Concept to Date
The nation's public schools are struggling to meet the challenges presented by the No Child Left Behind mandates, and charter schools have been Continue Reading...
Students are encouraged by the staff to find their own goals for leaning, and this keeps them intensely motivated until the time when they complete the courses that they have undertaken to study. (Stephanie De Pinto, Axia Instructor)
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John Keatings and the prep school in Dead Poet's Society: Where do they fit in the philosophies of education?
John Keatings is, if not anything else, an original thinker and teacher in Dead Poet's Society. The film does not at all bother to hide thi Continue Reading...
Restraining the Elderly
Project Management
The Project Management path for this research proposal will follow the path of quantitative research in a 'quasi-experimental' environment. Adhering as closely as possible to quantitative experiments desig Continue Reading...
PSYCHOSOCIAL ISSUES AFFECTING African-American STUDENTS
PSYCHOSOCIAL ISSUES AFFECTING
African-American STUDENTS
"They never want to hear what I have to say…it doesn't matter who started a fight, or what a teacher said to you that made you ma Continue Reading...
" (Strom, 1996) From the view of adult education the purpose of the liberal thinker is development of intellectual powers of the mind. Within this framework the learner is a seeker of knowledge on the conceptual and theoretical base and the teacher i Continue Reading...
According to Flowers (2002), the first vector concerning "developing competence" can assume three individual forms: (a) intellectual, (b) physical, and - interpersonal. The second vector, "managing emotions," is the stage at which college students Continue Reading...
block included success OR achievement OR dropout*, with the second block included distance learn* OR distance education OR distance learning*, and the third block included distance learners* OR distance education*. The findings from this search acti Continue Reading...
The consolidated data are envisioned to provide a generally unbiased view of the various opinions and issues raised.
Internet surveys, as discussed by Cozby (2009, p. 132) will not be administered. The reason for this is that the scope of Internet Continue Reading...
This technique is called shaping, as the teacher starts with information students already know and then new information is broken into small pieces.
In teaching vocabulary, the teacher is more likely to suggest or work with the textbook, and the se 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...
Mandatory Class Attendance
Mandatory attendance policies are understandably necessary in elementary, middle, and secondary school, mainly because school attendance itself is mandatory, at least through the age of 16. Adolescents, in particular, are Continue Reading...
Androgogy & Self-Directed Learning
Historically, the term andragogy was a long-time reaching the common vernacular. The term was a wildcard, meaning different things to different individuals and groups according to whim, nacent theory, or flower Continue Reading...
The modern university is essentially an alien phenomenon in the Arab world where it lacks the societal support base enjoyed by the western university. Moreover, many of the new Arab universities, like Kuwait University, established in 1966, were ei Continue Reading...
Teachers want students to prove that they are ready to move to the next grade level in a quantifiable fashion, yet they are uncertain if they -- or test administrators -- really know how to measure student achievement, although most were confident t Continue Reading...
Summary
The Keller/PSI approach to academic and professional training has been documented to improve student performance as measured by course completion rates and subject matter retention among students. On the other hand, there are considerable Continue Reading...
192). This begs for an empirical objective analysis of performance.
Constructivism
In a constructivist approach, which was essentially that used by O'Meara (2004), the more open-ended and subject-driven the research is, the better (Creswell 2009, Continue Reading...
SUMMARY and CONCLUSION
The traditional classroom environment is no longer supportive of student learning and it is critically necessary that educators address the current classroom environment as well as their instructional practice in the classro Continue Reading...
Transformational Learning
More than twenty-five years ago, Jack Mezirow initiated a profound movement in the field of adult education, that of transformative learning theory. Since this time, the concept of transformative learning has been a topic o Continue Reading...
Adoption Process
ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION AND SUMMARY
The activity I completed was gaining a better understanding of how curriculum is provided for the students at my school. Doing so was an involved process in which I arranged a meeting with the assi Continue Reading...
Rise of Technology-Mediated Learning Systems to Increase Revenue in Higher Learning
THE RISE OF TECHNOLOGY-MEDIATED LEARNING SYSTEMS T.
Barriers to Increase Revenue in Higher Learning
The Capital Labor Issue with Increase Revenue in Higher Learnin Continue Reading...
It also breaks down the inevitable hierarchies that may exist in a class between students who believe they 'aren't as smart' as their peers.
Address how information is transformed into knowledge as it passes through the three stages of sensory, sho Continue Reading...
Neo-liberal and neo-conservative thinkers in Alberta were so focused in the end results of educational policies that they proposed two other programs that differed little from results-based curriculum: program continuity and continuous progress. Ma Continue Reading...
leadership experience involving an ambitious goal.
I have committed a great deal of time and energy increasing parent involvement in the Title 1 school where I currently work. Located in a low-income community, the majority of the school's students Continue Reading...
Elementary Classroom Delivery Model and its
Effect on Student Achievement
Departmentalized Classrooms
Organization
Typically, a school is organized with either a departmentalized or a self-contained structure. (Self-contained classrooms will be Continue Reading...
Thus, we assume that children gifted in the arts are every bit as intellectually endowed as those with academic gifts.
The relationships among giftedness, talent development, and creativity are challenging areas of research. Because researchers lac Continue Reading...
Students would undertake self-directed research projects, guided or led by teachers at their request. Agency would enable students to play a few hours of sports instead of read, or to read instead of play the piano. Teachers expressing their agency Continue Reading...
Their anticipated and desired results for their education, personal or practical, may vary widely in unpredictable ways. The attitudes towards educational processes may differ due to the greater and more diverse social and life experiences that colo Continue Reading...
Statement of the Problem
In the business world, when a small company manages to bring a superior product to market in a more cost-effective fashion than their larger counterparts, analysts sit up and take notice. Likewise, according to Wilensky (2 Continue Reading...
Charter Schools
Case Study Review and Development of Questionnaire
There is in existence a plethora of research that has been conducted on the long-term effectiveness of charter schools. Much of the research shines negatively on charter schools and Continue Reading...
Clearly, the democratic level is the level that teachers aspire for their students.
Concept Variation
Democracy
Develops self-discipline
Shows kindness to others
Does good because it is the right thing
Conformity
Listens
Practices
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Significant findings were that the survey revealed that "participants in any type of extracurricular activity were significantly more likely than non-participants to exercise and consume nutritious foods, to like school and do homework, and to expre Continue Reading...
Building Caring Relationships With Students
This paper is on building caring relationships between teachers and students.
Research and experience indicates that schools with small classrooms as in having a restricted number of students are a great Continue Reading...
Community college students are now able to use computer software, CD-ROMS, E-mail, and the Internet to enhance their foreign language skills. Over the past few years, it has become common for colleges and universities to update their technology to o Continue Reading...
Internet in Elementary ESL/EFL Classroom
Thanks to the technology, both teachers and students would find their learning sessions in class more enjoyable and more challenging than before. The Internet gives important experiences both for students an Continue Reading...
The Context of the Classroom SettingAs a reflective and scholarly practitioner in the field of high school biology education, my primary aim is to build an environment that supports the growth of curiosity and that can also help to improve student le Continue Reading...
Social Aspects and Impacts of the Arts
It is generally well-agreed that the arts are valuable to society, but their exact value is often debated upon. Having a better understanding of the exact social aspects of the arts, and the precise manner in w Continue Reading...
Adult learning self-assessments can prove influential for motivating students (Stipek, Recchia, & McClintic, 1992, cited in Ross, 2006, p. 7). The assessment developed for this assignment was designed to enable students to provide feedback both a Continue Reading...