The natural environment provides students with a calm and quiet place to unwind from the noises of the classroom. It nurtures and supports animal-life all year round. This is critical for areas where commercial and residential development is reducin Continue Reading...
Similar to Physical Science and Life Science, Earth Science will contain multiple choice and constructed response questions. A sample constructed response question from the Earth Science test is: Based on the chart, explain various agricultural pra Continue Reading...
Extracurricular Activities and Student Success: a Connection Extracurricular activities are very popular with students from elementary school through college. These activities can run the gamut of things from sports to drama, from chess to yoga, and Continue Reading...
Algebra Lesson Plans and Curriculum for the 7th Grade Classroom The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) provides a comprehensive set of principles and standards for developing curriculum for grades K. through 12th. Chapter two of the Continue Reading...
Antecedents of High School Student Success or Failure on Math and English Tests Research proposition Anticipated results Discussion of likely results Practical applications Future directions High school students in the United States are faced w Continue Reading...
Lesson Plan Study: Act it Out The teaching and study of mathematics can present special challenges and complications to many instructors and learners, and a variety of methodologies exist for mathematics education that are meant to simplify and eas Continue Reading...
OCR recognizes that colleges and universities are under a lot of legal and political pressure to stop using racial and ethnic factors in admission," Clegg commented. "[In response,] the agency wants to intimidate colleges and universities to contin Continue Reading...
Charter Schools 2000: Fourth Year Report This study makes the powerful assumption that the student/teacher ratio in a school correlates to the quality of education enjoyed by the students. Specifically, the lower the student/teacher ratio, the stro Continue Reading...
There is also the question of what approach should be used in a given setting. For instance, Lewis-Moreno points out that, "A great deal of energy is expended selecting and defending the model used: Should it be late- or early-exit bilingual, dual l Continue Reading...
Bonuses could also be earned by taking advanced courses in improving classroom techniques and by improving the scores their students achieved on state tests. These salary additions can add up to as much as $9,800 per year. In addition, teachers' pa Continue Reading...
EDSE 600: History and Philosophy of Education / / 3.0 credits The class entitled, History and Philosophy of Education, focused on the origin of education and the "philosophical influences of modern educational theory and practice. Study of: philos Continue Reading...
While in high school, she worked as a waitress at a local diner. Most of the population was black, therefore there was little contact with white customers or employees. Margaret feels that she was socially isolated until the 1950s. She was not expos Continue Reading...
Language and Literacy Jeanne S. Chall was born in Poland on January 1, 1921. She moved to New York at a tender age of seven with her family. Jeanne S. Chall was one of the chief educators and researchers in the field of literacy during the past cent 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...
Kindergarten Classroom Management The most effective classroom environment is one in which there is a sense of trust, advocacy for the student, engaging learning activities, and a sense of regular adventure. Students should be encouraged to actualiz Continue Reading...
A behavior resulting from injury or disease behavior resulting from experience behavior resulting from disease or drugs biologically determined behavior Evidence that learning has occurred is seen in published research studies changes in thinking Continue Reading...
Most important, the teachers need the backing of the principal in order to have the time and resources to implement such a program and to further enhance the concept of a school that cares about its students and their educational and personal needs Continue Reading...
The study used student projects as the main vehicle for integrating active learning methods into the lecture. The study took place during a 10-week class, with four projects being assigned to groups of size four to six. Projects centered on (1) stat Continue Reading...
Standardized Testing Investigation Academic success has been measured for decades by scores on Standardized tests including the HSPA, CAT, MAT, and SATs. Recent studies have held that too much weight is assigned to these tests and that certain highe Continue Reading...
Since 2005, hundreds of California state teachers have participated in this initiative and provided thousands of hours of English instruction to migrant students (Lomeli et al., 2006). Given the wide array of resources that are available for after- Continue Reading...
It is a quantitative instrument, that has been statistically validated, and probably most appropriate as an instrument to ensure adherence to certain state and/or national standards. MCC -- Dialogue approach to rating a teacher's performance. Both Continue Reading...
This engaged the whole class, regardless of their previous comfort level with mathematics. Graphing was also helpful for students to visualize what things really 'meant' in terms of the numbers they were studying. Communication Solving word proble Continue Reading...
Those benchmarks include making sure teachers are able to "employ multiple measures of measuring student growth and understanding" (NBPTS). Moreover, a teacher needs to be able to "clearly explain student performance to parents" (NBPTS). What this m Continue Reading...
"Schools will not be able to attract high-quality teachers to a system that stifles richness and creativity and emphasizes a narrow band of knowledge and a very restricted set of tests to measure it." Consequently, struggling schools will get worse Continue Reading...
Child Psychology Music and Brain Development The link is recognized by Georgia Head Start program Recently, the Georgia Head start organization began distributing CD's with classical music on them to every newborn child's mother as part of a progr Continue Reading...
integrating ethical use of technology into the K-12 curriculum Integrating Technology in the Classroom The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 aims to close the achievement gap between disadvantaged and struggling students and their peers. The messag Continue Reading...
real world opportunity for improvement within the education profession. For this examination, Boyne City Middle School is being approached for their problems in mathematics achievement. The data suggests that through competency tests, there is a ser Continue Reading...
Teacher Tenure Should Be Abolished Making the case against teacher tenure Virtually all employees within the job market today are employed 'at will' -- in other words, they can be fired at any time. This principle of the capitalist economy is supp Continue Reading...
Other Medical Issues While neurological issues delays are primarily responsible for the functional developmental delays in children other complications can also affect the development of a preterm child. These problems include: cardiovascular comp Continue Reading...
Following these rules, the formation of the numbers is intuitive: the number would be split into hundreds, tens and units and the letters combined to give the graphical representation. This was a derived version of the addition numerical system that Continue Reading...
achievement of African-American students in civilian public schools vs. African-American students in the Depart of Defense (DOD) school system The methods section of this dissertation provides the rationale for the proposed study based on my hypothe Continue Reading...
Administrative Strategies for Effective Communication Education contains multiple responsibilities. One starts the learning process in the world from within the family nurture, before continuing to pursue formal education in schools and academy. How Continue Reading...
Mathematics Teaching Learners Studying Basic Mathematics To Enable Helping Their Children With Their Education The work of Jackson and Ginsburg (2008) reports on a series of algebra classes involving a group of African-American mother and elementar Continue Reading...
Paiget and Vygotsky Compare and Contrast Piagets and Vygotsky Understanding is assumed to be the process which is involved when it comes to mental activity and thinking, for instance memory, problem solving and attention. In this paper which is ba Continue Reading...
Diamond Marian Diamond addressed the nature vs. nurture issue so long debated by researchers and scientists by actually observing the effects of living in different environments on young rats. The beginnings of her research with Donald Head occurred Continue Reading...
This is particularly true for students with learning disabilities. Secondary students' reading performance reaches a plateau during their high school years, and it is clear that the performance gap between their abilities and what they are expected Continue Reading...
Congruence of Mother and Teacher Educational Expectations and Low-Income Youth's Academic Competence By: Aprile D. Benner and Rashmita S. Mistry The authors of this article want to examine the independent effects of teacher and mother expectation Continue Reading...
visual cues come from students developing knowledge of letter/sound relationships and of how letters are formed what letters and words look like often identified as sounding out words Example 2- Phoneme Awareness -- Recognizing Rhyme Assessment (Kl 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...
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...
