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...
MILITARY DEPLOYED PARENT PERCEPTIONS OF INVOLVEMENT IN THE EDUCATION OF THEIR CHILDREN: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDYbyJohn G. BennettLiberty UniversityA Dissertation Presented in Partial FulfillmentOf the Requirements for the DegreeDoctor of EducationLib 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...
This qualitative research uses a Delphi study to explore the perceptions of special education teachers regarding retention. This Delphi study includes twenty-five to thirty special education teachers of K-12 in two California districts of less than 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...
"It is, of course, impossible to catalogue all the circumstances in the outer world that shape children. Children are products of their moment in history, of prevailing conventions and wisdom, of social crusades." (Weissbourd 27) Lidoff, points out Continue Reading...
Redesigned World Religion Lesson Plan -- Understanding Islam 21st Century Skills & Standards The study of world religions is an enormous, seemingly unmanageable undertaking for some students. Indeed at some point the learner certainly needs to Continue Reading...
Homeschooling Quality of Education The Need for and the Purpose of the Project The Subproblems Definitions and Abbreviations of Terms Books Methodology for investigating problems identified as subproblems Note on the Anti-Homeschooling Debate Continue Reading...
Milgram Experiment Stanley Milgram conducted a series of experiments in the field of social psychology that tested how far random individuals were willing to be "obedient" if given orders by a person in "authority." The test was inspired by the sto Continue Reading...
Stand and Deliver Ramon Menendez's 1988 film Stand and Deliver portrays one teacher's impact on a class of underachieving high school students. Jaime A. Escalante quits a lucrative job in the tech sector to become an underpaid, underappreciated high 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...
Pre-School What Are the Benefits of Having Children Attend Pre-School Prior to Kindergarten? Books This report covers the benefit of sending children to pre-school before kindergarten. Literature review is used to explore the research existing in Continue Reading...
United Federation of Teachers (UFT) is the union that represents teachers in the New York City public schools, which is the largest public school system in the United States. The public school system in New York City serves 1.1 million students in mo Continue Reading...
While the religion's founders apparently attempted to devise a new and more effective ideology meant to connect people with the divine, some individuals interpret this as being proof that the Vietnamese culture lost significant ground as elements fr Continue Reading...
Lean on Me The protagonist of Lean on Me is Joe Clark, an African-American male in his early forties. The film, based on a true story, shows how Clark, played by actor Morgan Freeman, used unorthodox methods to bring about much-needed change at East Continue Reading...
" It did not matter that the Carters were uneducated. What mattered was that they were determined to get an education for the next generation of Carters. Curry uses this as the title for her book because the Carters, despite the despair of their circ Continue Reading...
The eMINTS learning environment led to measurable results such as improved student test scores in Missouri. Because of that, the program spread to other states and is being launched in Australia as well. As of 2005-2006, the eMINTS demographics inc Continue Reading...
JROTC Experience I have long been impressed by the United States armed forces and its many branches of service. I was only eight or nine years old when I met my aunt Carol for the first time, who was enlisted in the Navy. I remember seeing her in he Continue Reading...
Grade Reports from Teachers In the busy world of academia, there never seems to be enough hours in the day. This creates a significant challenge for instructors who often fail to update and post student grades in a timely fashion. This is problemat Continue Reading...
logo I created a fictional company named: Plus Square (+2). This company a producer biodegradable disposable dishware, innovating advance product create inside materials seeds plants (trees, vegetables, flowers, ) order reforest generate oxygen natur Continue Reading...
The key years during which experimentation occurs - between 13 and 16. Kobus discusses influences that launch an adolescent's smoking habit from several perspectives. First, the "social learning theory": relationships that are "more intimate" and t Continue Reading...
Virtue What is the main problem in the field of higher education today, according to Dr. Christina Hoff Sommers? Sommers is concerned about several things that take place on college campuses in America. She is aware that students cheat rather than Continue Reading...
I now wish to move into film and express my abilities through the camera even further. I am trilingual, thus can offer not only my visual expertise but also lend my lingual skills where needed connecting my eyes and thoughts with the world I experie Continue Reading...
Existentialism 'I should seek not the way, but my way." Rather than follow a strict set of rules about what school should or should not be like, the existentialist chooses his or her own vision of education. There is truly no one right way for stude Continue Reading...
Individualized Educational Programs "Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand" Chinese Proverbs, NDI The purpose of special education is to provide students with disabilities the opportunity to experience Continue Reading...
API What is the definition of API? Use the Information Guide pdf posted on the website for your answer. 2011/12 Academic Performance Index Reports - Information Guide, May 2012 The API is the method used within the California school system to measu Continue Reading...
The thread's broken. What you came to find isn't there. What was yours is gone. You have to go away for a long time... many years... before you can come back and find your people. The land where you were born. But now, no. It's not possible. Right n Continue Reading...
living in the Middle Ages. What new things are available for you to experience? The prelude to modernism The history that establishes origin and evolution of the modern society has its basis from the ancient time. Initially, the world and society Continue Reading...
Bible What does this small story tell us about Jesus? Try to discover the central message of this story, and then write it out. Read the stories before and after the text you chose, and write out their main messages. In Mark 9:19-13, Jesus is being Continue Reading...
S. What kinds of jobs? What countries? Starting around in the initial part of 2004, writings started getting published in the mass media opposing that "insourcing" - supposedly shifting jobs from the outside the U.S. into the U.S. is bigger than "ou Continue Reading...
Every time I walked by your classroom, I would see the students with their desks together, working on projects, and the room was always decorated with educational media and students' artistic creations." One of the parents of a special needs child Continue Reading...
Wanna Hear a Poem I agree with you that Steve Coleman's piece "I Wanna Hear A Poem" would be an excellent choice of a first poem to study in an introductory poetry class, given the way that it frames all of the many weighty and sometimes contradict Continue Reading...
Furthermore, many laypeople can have great stores of knowledge, and may have learned to train horses better than professionals -- and to be better teachers and philosophers, from personal experience. In fact, given that philosophy is the study of li Continue Reading...
In order to accomplish this task, the net cost per student will be calculated and compared to the desired outcomes of the program. In order to be beneficial and worthwhile, the benefits of the program must not dramatically outweigh the costs of the 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...
Cultural Diversity in the Classroom When I was growing up, there were always some classmates who were just a little bit different from everyone else. It's not that there was anything wrong with these other students, but they were "unique." They were 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...
