214 Search Results for Practices That Best Serve Learners from Diverse Backgrounds
Research: Educational Theories That Provide A Rationale for Multicultural Teaching and Pedagogical Strategies and Practices That Best Serve Learners from Diverse Backgrounds.
There are many factors within a school capable of affecting the culturally Continue Reading...
This view is reflected in increasing calls for financial equity among schools, desegregation, mainstreaming, and standardized testing for teachers and students alike; it has been maintained that by providing the same education to all students, schoo 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...
Even when they are given a large number of students, teachers know that they must make at least some attempt to individualize their lessons, or at least allow for different learning styles. For teachers of English as a second language, this is often Continue Reading...
It would not only be time consuming and expensive for each classroom teacher to develop an effective basic reading skills curriculum but such a curriculum is also fraught with a high degree of error. There is compelling evidence that supports the us Continue Reading...
Communicative Language Teaching the Best Methodology to Prepare Students for the Cambridge First Certificate Exam?
Based on its emphasis on authenticity and relevancy to students' lives, it has been argued that the communicative language teaching a Continue Reading...
2. How does this particular author support his/her claims?
The author uses several means to argue and support her claims. First of all, she bases most of her assertions of learning theories as the starting base of her descriptions and assumptions. Continue Reading...
Against Student Tracking
Student tracking involves categorizing students according to their learning ability and placing them in classes based on this. Advanced students are placed together and students of lower ability are placed together. While t Continue Reading...
Nursing Education
Does nursing have a unique body of knowledge or is it the application of various other fields of knowledge in a practice setting?
Nursing does have a unique body of knowledge as Moyer and Whittmann-Price (2008) state "it is nursin Continue Reading...
When a classroom is mainstreamed the Iraqi students may need special assistance in the areas of communication such as reading, writing, listening, and speaking (Hurley, 2003). A mainstreamed classroom that incorporates multiple languages can overcom Continue Reading...
Multicultural Class
Intercultural Communication Plan for a Multicultural Class
The education field provides many unique challenges to educators and learners. Teachers have to deal with student absenteeism, tardiness, classroom management, creation 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...
Learning that is imparted through an educational institution or training company within the workplace setting in known as Work-based learning (WBL). WBL is administered by an external teacher in professional capacity and supervised by an employee of Continue Reading...
Thus, the idea of inclusion was born, an idea that suggests students with special needs be paired alongside students who are gifted, students with different cultural and ethnic backgrounds, and students who have different modes of learning (Tomlinso Continue Reading...
(Brown, nd)
Brown lists 'labor intensive' strategies for differentiation to include those as follows:
Assessment, data analysis, and diagnosis;
Flexible grouping;
Tiered tasks;
Anchor activities;
Differentiated learning encounters;
Learning c Continue Reading...
As such students at similar levels in both categories were grouped together to ensure optimal benefits for all participants.
When evaluated on a practical level, it was found that communicating the benefits of the program to refugee communities was Continue Reading...
Good researchers tend to pull methods out of a tool kit as they are needed" (2006, p. 54). Notwithstanding these criticisms and constraints, though, most social researchers seem to agree that classification by some type of research paradigm is a use Continue Reading...
Dental Assistance (dental Surgery)
I started out as a dental assistant at 19, then became an instructor, and was promoted to a program director before opening my own teaching program in 2000. I work part time at a community college and teach my dent Continue Reading...
Several approaches will be helpful in creating this environment:
1. Developing useful study guides useful for ELLs. This will focus their ideas and attention on major ideas and gives a place of focus.
2. Assign reading partners or groups. Pairing Continue Reading...
personal reflection giving past experiences used in selecting an assessment method to evaluate learning. It further outlines how assessment can be used for both individual learner mastery and continuous quality improvement of the instruction. Moreov Continue Reading...
Furthermore, the University's core values place an emphasis on development and learining. While the APA ethics statement is certainly not devoid of this requirement, as it asks for psychologists to continue their education and keep up-to-date on the Continue Reading...
Myles Horton's autobiography The Long Haul is a source of inspiration for teachers and students alike as it provides a thought provoking perspective on the role of education as one where individual minds are molded into working towards social change. 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...
fathers are taking an increasing part in the role of caring for children and bringing them up, particularly so since women have entered the workforce en flux, social research has increasingly focused on the part that father's play in raising their y 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...
PRE-REFERRAL SCREENING School Psychologist Special Education Assessment Pre-Referral Screening/RTI ProcessAbstractChildren with special needs require specialized interventions that help them attain the desired educational and behavioral goals the sam Continue Reading...
The program primarily supports the local Chinese communities to maintain younger generation's heritage background, and spreading Chinese culture in the U.S. The classes are normally held two to three hours on weekends with Chinese language lessons a Continue Reading...
Approximately one in six students enrolled in a college or university, or over 3 million individuals, participated in one or more online course in 2004. This was despite the fact that a leveling off was expected.
Another report for 2005 by Sloan sh Continue Reading...
In their study, "Thinking of Inclusion for All Special Needs Students: Better Think Again," Rasch and his colleagues (1994) report that, "The political argument in favor of inclusion is based on the assumption that the civil rights of students, as Continue Reading...
Pedagogic Model for Teaching of Technology to Special Education Students
Almost thirty years ago, the American federal government passed an act mandating the availability of a free and appropriate public education for all handicapped children. In 19 Continue Reading...
Cross Cultural Education
Cultural History
The information gathered was mostly from my grandparents and my parents. From the interviews conducted, I found out that my ancestors came to the United States in 1850. The main reason why they came to the Continue Reading...
IMPROVING STUDENTS AND FAMILYS ENGAGEMENT Recommendations for Improving Parental Collaboration at Marion P Thomas Charter School District Performing Art & Culinary AcademyABSTRACTThis study offers recommendations to the leadership at the Performing A Continue Reading...
Journal for Lems Book (Chapter 1)
I would like to choose the "language-based learning theory," "English and new language: four domains and fifth domain," and the factor of "motivation" for second language acquisition (SLA). Second language acquisit Continue Reading...
growing recognition of the changing educational needs of college students, particularly those attending community colleges. In response to this awareness, reform efforts have been implemented in order to meet the needs of students. As reform efforts Continue Reading...
Part A
What would you consider your main role in the training of skilled professionals in the nursing realm – specifically in formal academic settings?
Well, my main role in this case is to equip nursing students with the relevant nursing skill Continue Reading...