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Learn To Read First Grade
1,010 wordsIlliteracy is a crucial issue facing this nation. There are too many individuals who cannot read or write. According to the National Adult Literacy Survey, some 40 to 44 million of the 191 million adults in the United States demonstrate the lowest basic literacy skills and approximately 50 million adults have skills on the next higher level of proficiency. What is worse is that the next generation of illiterate adults is currently in classrooms across the nation. According to the latest reading ...
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British Columbia Progressive Education
1,887 words... inform students of faults in order for the children to correct themselves. Lastly, a review period was to follow testing, a technique to ensure students learned what they had been taught (pg. 27). Individual difference would not be ignored and additional help for those students with lower spelling skills than that of higher skilled students was to be provided. Progress charts suggested in the SSGV were used to keep track of student progress and to keep children motivated in the subject. A 10...
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Hands On Experiences Tend To Have Difficulty Learning
635 wordsPeople not only learn at different rates, but also in different ways. Some people want everything written down, others prefer to listen. Some prefer small group settings rather than large group discussions; others like to listen to a lecture and translate it into pictorial doodles in a notebook. Each person has to find his or her own style and use it to learn new things. Thinking about what you do when to have to learn something new, how do you learn? You probably approach the task in a similar ...
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Effective Questioning In Direct Instruction
1,409 wordsEffective Questioning Leads to Improved Student Effective Questioning Leads to Improved The purpose of this research was to provide a better understanding of how effective questioning can be used in the classroom and how it effects the students learning. I have separated my report on the research into four separate areas in an attempt to clearly identify the concepts more clearly. I will begin with the formation of the questions themselves, consider their implications in regards to Blooms Taxono...
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The Righteous Reign How King Asoka Institutionalized Buddhism
1,377 wordsHow King Asoka Institutionalized Buddhism Buddhism and Jainism in Ancient and Medieval India Dhamma sadhu, kim cu dhamme ti? Apasinave, back kane, daya, dane, same, scale. -- Dhamma is good, but what constitutes Dhamma? (It includes) little evil, much good, kindness, generosity, truthfulness and purity. In the third century BC there lived a king described by the historian H. G. Wells as a ruler who stood out amidst the tens of thousands of names of monarchs that crowd the columns of history... a...
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Bilingual Education Native Language
1,067 wordsFor decades, immigrant children have been taught in their native languages in schools across the country while slowly and simultaneously receiving English as a second language. But like anything, bilingual education is not without its flaws. In fact, it's plagued with them. After many years of bilingual education in the United States, one thing is certain: it does not work, and it is failing America's immigrant youth. The idea behind bilingual education is that students be taught "academic subje...
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Behaviour Modification Weight Loss
1,614 words... ically similar compounds has resulted in fatal poisoning, usually terminating in convulsions and coma. Management of acute Phentermine (resin) intoxication is largely symptomatic and includes lavage and sedation with a barbiturate. Experience with hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis is inadequate to permit recommendation in this regard. Intravenous phentramine (Regitine) has been suggested on pharmacologic grounds for possible acute, severe hypertension, if this complicates over dosage. DOSA...
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Disk Drive Hard Disk
1,481 wordsMMX or Multi-Media-Extention is the latest technology from Intel for their computer processor chips and is now becoming available in some high quality, mid-priced computer systems. In this essay, I will discuss the technology and what it offers to the user, as well as, compare three high quality system packages from three of industries leading manufacturers. The systems discussed here are the Gateway 2000 P 55 C- 200 FPC, the Packard Bell NEC Platinum 2240, and the Compaq Presario 4784; all of w...
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Standardized Tests Standardized Testing
791 wordsG. I Maeroff wrote the first article I read he feels that assessment of student's achievement is changing, largely because today's students face a world that will demand new knowledge and abilities. 'In the global economy of the 21 st century, students will not only need to understand the basics, but also to think critically, to analyze, and to make inferences' (Maeroff, 1991). The author clearly identifies that we often believe that what get assessed is what get taught and that the format of as...
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Von Neumann Vacuum Tubes
1,809 words... ly met with Atanasoff and Berry, he used the ABC as the basis for the next computer development. From this association ultimately would come a lawsuit, considering attempts to get patents for a commercial version of the machine that Mauchly built. The suit was finally decided in 1974, when it was decided that Atanasoff had been the true developer of the ideas required to make an electronic digital computer actually work, although some computer historians dispute this decision. But during the...
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Literary Works Young Children
480 wordsThis article is part of a series drawn from work in the Handbook of Reading Research: Volume III (Kamil, Mosenthal, Pearson, & Barr, 2000). My reasoning for choosing this article is simple; I like to read to children and to tell them stories. I think we can make reading much more interesting if we get away from the Basal Readers and introduce children to all forms of literary works. Literature-Based Instruction: A Rationale Definitions of literature-based instruction emphasize the use of hig...
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Students With Learning Disabilities
849 wordsSTUDENTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES More often than not, students without learning disabilities often think differently and have different interests from those of their age mates. They usually enter school having already developed may of the basic skills, sometimes to high levels. They have areas of interest that have developed into advanced areas of content. Almost from the day they start school many gifted students begin to sense wariness or rejection because others consider them different. If...
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Sustenance Of Teachers Induction Programs
2,214 wordsSustenance of Teachers: Induction Programs Introduction During the last few decades the schools have started implementation of induction programs for the new teachers in attempt to initiate and retain high quality professionals (Games-Hjornevik, 1985). There are many types of induction programs with the newest of them offering the induction techniques of nonteaching professionals. However, both new and old induction programs for new teachers have much in common, as they are organized in a simila...
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Using Technology In The Classroom To Improve Learning
2,095 wordsUsing Technology in the Classroom to Improve Learning TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter Introduction - 3 Area of Study - 3 Assumptions of Learning Theories - 5 Literature Review A vision to automate - 7 A vision to informal up - 11 A vision to informal down - 12 A vision to transform - 14 Research Proposal Future Research Challenges - 18 Conclusion - 23 References 24 CHAPTER 1 Introduction Area of Study The premise of this paper is that the effectiveness of information technology in contributing to lear...
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Arts Education Academic Achievement
2,036 wordsThe effect of the arts on academic and personal achievement The arts help to create good learning environment for students. It is evident that there are a lot of students who meet several difficulties. These difficulties can be psychological or physical. Some students have weak abilities to remember the material others show a lack of interest. But the arts in learning process increase the level of learning and, most of all; help to set up friendly relationships in a class. Arts classes influence...
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Large Scale Integration Long Term Effects
3,925 words# 1. The History As the computer revolution continues along at its furious pace one wonders where we are heading. Will we eventually live in an automated utopia where we lounge about, or might our creations destroy us as in the Terminator movies? Will the Internet make its vast knowledge available to all, or will it further the separation between the haves and have nots. While there are many good things that stem from computers there is a dreadful weakness. We as a nation and a world are addicte...
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Accounting Profession Certified Public
1,182 wordsAccounting Ethics This paper will discuss the public perception of CPAs in todays society, pitfalls that they may encounter, methods to prevent some of these negative behaviors and consequences they may face should they fall short. Most Who Do You Trust? surveys rank politicians, lawyers, and used car salesmen at the bottom and certified public accountants at the top. That is because the CPA profession has a squeaky clean image? stereotyped as harmless men who wear thick glasses, do not speak to...
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Cycles Per Second Charles Babbage
2,421 wordsDEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS OVER THE DECADES What is a computer? A Computer is an electronic device that can receive a set of instructions, or program, and then carry out this program by performing calculations on numerical data or by compiling and correlating other forms of information. Thesis Statement: - The modern world of high technology could not have come about except for the development of the computer. Different types and sizes of computers find uses throughout society in the storage and h...
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Book Of Job Bhagavad Gita
1,012 wordsThere is a distinct significance for humans forming a relationship with a higher being. To some, it may to be to establish a sense of self-gratification whereas to others it may be a form of help on their road to success. In either instance, forming the relationship helps in characterizing each person whether it is through personal dialogue or individual growth. The Book of Job and the Bhagavad-Gita are two texts that explore the characterization of two men under the instruction of a deity. By e...
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Relevant Information D 3
916 wordsThe courtroom provides an institutionalized setting where social justice is negotiated through the questioning of witnesses. Nearly every turn-to-talk of the counsel contains a question and every turn-to-talk of the witness may or may not supply the information requested. Therefore, in order to get the relevant information from the witness and aiming at getting the information that in flavor to their clients. The counsel uses a variety of questioning techniques which will help them to win the ca...
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