The students will test you during these first few days. Without steadfast rules and well outlined disciplinary procedures, the students will not respect you. In order to create a positive atmosphere of expectations, procedures and routines, it is a Continue Reading...
There are over 4.4 million ELs enrolled in U.S. public schools, a number that has doubled during the last decade, making ELs roughly 10% of the total enrollment nationwide (Conrad 2005). The demographic increases demonstrate to government agencies t Continue Reading...
Many states don't want to lower their standards, including Minnesota, New Hampshire and Hawaii, and legislators have seriously debated withdrawing from NCLB, even though it would mean they would lose federal money that is tied to it. However, as the Continue Reading...
Curriculum Change Plan Chart Subject Area Targeted: We are targeting Social Studies as a curriculum change. This change is designed to follow through the elementary levels through high school, to be integrated not just in a factual approach, but to Continue Reading...
, 1999). In many areas of the country this may be very accurate. Another problem that comes into the picture where obesity in children is concerned is that many parents must work very long hours today to pay bills and have money for what their famil Continue Reading...
According to Malfaro, just a single year of English is not essentially sufficient to effectively make the initiative to reading and writing. (Tozzi, 1998) Supporters give an instance of a study undertaken in the year 1991 approved by the National A Continue Reading...
Interventions and Grant WritingKnowledge Is Power Programme for improved student achievement in Mathematics.Under the federal school reform legislation, educators are required to select and implement evidence-based interventions. The What Works Clear Continue Reading...
Public Program Quality Evaluation Overview of the Program and the Program Rationale In 2011, approximately 23% of all children in the United States were children of immigrants. Many of these children have come from countries where the educational s Continue Reading...
Educational Leadership "When Leadership Spells Danger" (Heifetz, et al.) The article by Heifetz and Linsky takes the position that part of the job of leadership in education is not just teaching, but also "…mobilizing schools, families, and c Continue Reading...
Matching students' interests with learning objectives will increase the chances of students' learning. They tend to use it and remember it long after. Using literature relevant to adolescents, for example, will raise their literacy and capacity to a Continue Reading...
To ensure that the constructivist approach functions optimally, teachers must therefore ensure that the interactional and social situation within each group is managed effectively as well. Young (2003) notes that another challenge facing teachers a Continue Reading...
Chorzempa believes that two courses in literacy, the minimum for many teacher education programs, is insufficient preparation to teach the six modes of language arts. She encourages teachers to build a strong literacy base by enrolling in supplemen Continue Reading...
This helps them deal with administrative tasks such as applying for grants, reporting their progress, appeasing parents, etc. In addition, teacher-based methods of assessment have at least one positive implication for students. According to Flood et Continue Reading...
2. What are the strengths and weaknesses of an individual or social perspective on adult learning? Is one more relevant than another in certain contexts? In many respects, the strengths and weaknesses of both individual and social perspectives are Continue Reading...
" (2003) Furthermore, it is related that the study of Valencia, Valenquela, Sloan and Foley (2001) suggest that "inferior schools are the cause of historically minority student failure, and in promoting accountability, proponents are treating the sy Continue Reading...
These authors note that the obstacles for ELL students are particularly challenging, given that they include both educational and technical issues. These challenges include the following: Historically low ELL performance and very slow improvement. Continue Reading...
" (Basson, 1999); and systematic way of designing, carrying out, and evaluating the total process of learning and teaching in terms of specific objectives, based on research in human learning and communications, and employing a combination of human a Continue Reading...
Recognition of quality and lack there of should be a basic goal of the education system, as it strives to direct resources and change situations that are not meeting the demands of accountability, yet it is clear that High Stakes testing does a poo Continue Reading...
" (Ibid) the schools in Chicago are "being held up as a model for other parts of the nation for reducing detention among juvenile delinquents, without seeing recidivism rates or crime rates increase." (Wheeler, 2002) Summary Each of these articles Continue Reading...
" The status of the union is not uncalled-for. Making the remuneration impasse worse, strategies fostered by unions have attempted to keep going the idea that "a teacher is a teacher." (Koppich, 2005) Remuneration packets have been futile to apprecia Continue Reading...
However a poll take in 1994 by the Wall Street Journal found that 28% of Americans would prefer to have their own children homeschooled (Houston & Toma 2003). The authors further explain that the increased number of children being home schooled 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...
Teaching Journal Today being a productive teacher is more challenging than ever. Children are much more used to varied classroom approaches, with the Internet, computers and other electronic equipment becoming the norm. Gone are the days when studen Continue Reading...
Ability Grouping Is ability grouping the way to go, or should it go away? Whether or not ability grouping is an effective strategy for the instruction of students of different academic abilities is a hotly debated issue, with divergent evidence. So Continue Reading...
educate our children. As increasing numbers of affluent parents enroll their children in pre-school programs that offer more than just the traditional "play and supervision," but also provide early instruction in basics like reading and math, the qu Continue Reading...
American nation today is that of its failing school systems. It is a favorite rhetorical trope of politicians that education is an investment in our nation's future. However, few politicians are truly interested in remedying the situation in real, c Continue Reading...
Jim Henson -- Career and Influence Jim Henson is one of the most famous originators of children's entertainment in history; at the same time, he remains one of the most underrated and under-appreciated artists (Collins, 1998; Eide & Abrams, 2005 Continue Reading...
As activists in women's liberation, discussing and analyzing the oppression and inequalities they experienced as women, they felt it imperative to find out about the lives of their foremothers -- and found very little scholarship in print" (Women's Continue Reading...
No Child Left Behind Letter of Transmittal Impact of NCLB on Maryland School Systems Request for specified action Federal and State Restructuring Options Maryland State School Improvement Grant Budget Application, Allowable and Non-Allowable Ex Continue Reading...
Some of those are as follows: 1) Affect the environment; 2) Either save or expend energy; 3) Economically feasible or expensive to maintain, heat and cool. 4) Affect student learning; 5) Affect the health of students and teachers alike and 6) A Continue Reading...
No Child Left Behind Law On January 8, 2002 President George W. Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act of2001 (NCLB Act). This historic piece of education legislation reauthorized and considerably expanded the Elementary and Secondary Education Ac Continue Reading...
Climate of Creativity: Teaching English to Young Learners Through the Art of Drama Several learning and involving learning experiences emerge for the early childhood students when both drama and movement are incorporated in the daily syllabus (Chau 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...
Computing: Why We Need This Program and How We Can Implement it Effectively and Efficiently I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the Continue Reading...
Impact on Equity One major point regarding equity as applied to performance-based assessment is made by Yale Professor Emeritus Edmund Gordon (Dietel, Herman and Knuth, 1991). "We begin with the conviction that it is desirable that attention be gi Continue Reading...
School Choice Program This study aimed to determine the impact of school choice through a comparative study of two private schools, which serve primarily, or exclusively African-American students, and a public school. Data in student achievement in Continue Reading...
Mathematics for Special Needs Children Solving Math Word Problems (For Ex: Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities Using Schema- Based Instruction) One of the most challenging things to learn for children with LD (Learning Disabilities) is bas Continue Reading...
A reader would presume that these students find the materials appropriate for use in some way in the classroom, either as background information for themselves or in designing an actual curriculum, but the information provided does not reflect any Continue Reading...
School Culture on School Safety Many studies have been done on safety in schools. Likewise, many studies have been done on the culture of various schools. Unfortunately, there has not been significant research on a link between the two. This is not Continue Reading...
