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Standardized Tests Third Grade
886 wordsThe Effects of Using Poetry as a Tool to Increase Phonemic Awareness and Reading Achievement in a Third Grade Classroom Today many children are having difficulty learning to read. Some parents are complaining about public schools not doing their job. On standardized tests, the reading scores are low and many children are neither excited about learning how to read or about going to school. The public school districts have gone back and forth from phonics to whole language and now the emphasis has...
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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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Social Psychological Target Language
1,968 words... the subject is to expert Content = a gift to the learner or teacher or knower Objectives defined in advance Subject emphasis Assessment by achievement or by mastery Doing things to the learner Type B: How is to be learnt? Internal to the learner Inner directed or self-fulfilling Negotiated between learners and readers Learner and teacher as joint decision maker Content = what the subject is to the learner Content = what the learner brings and wants Objectives described afterwords Process emp...
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Ve Classroom Versus Non Interactive Class
357 wordsWill mott once said, education is the apprenticeship of life. True it may sound but education has its own constraints too. Importance of education lies in how it is imparted than what is imparted. Educationists worldwide suggest that there exist two types of teaching methods. One is where the teacher speaks i. e. authoritarian classroom and the other where there is interaction between the teacher and the student i. e. democratic classroom. In a undemocratic classroom situation, the teacher activ...
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Multiculturalism In Canadas Language Arts Classrooms
1,546 wordsRespect, equality, and diversity are three words that represent how multiculturalism describes Canada. When respect, equality and diversity exist together as a balanced trio, all Canadian students will benefit from the positive society that continues to emerge. Multiculturalism speaks of Canadas many cultural influences and different ways of living. Canada has always been multicultural, beginning with the cultural diversity of the First Nations, and then accepting peoples of English, French, Iri...
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Teacher Crisis Effects Of Classroom Management
1,002 wordsChildren are very good at reading attitudes, especially when it is an "I don't care" attitude. When they get a sense that an adult does not care about them learning, they think, "Well why should I care. " This is the reason for looking at the teacher crisis and its effects on classroom management. How does this crisis affect classroom management and what can be done to solve this issue? Management according to the dictionary is defined as the act of directing and controlling the affairs of busin...
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Role Playing Real Life
626 wordsArticle Review Discourse and Real-Life Roles in the ESL Classroom Suggestions have been made (Di Pietro, as cited in Di Pietro J. R. , 1981) as to how the ESL/EFL teacher can provide diverse learner personalities with strategically oriented material. Students get the chance to practice discourses in classroom settings but not always in the same way that the learners will use in real-life interactions. This article proposes a categorization for different roles of English learners in the classroom...
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Mentally Retarded Regular Classroom
1,636 wordsusually be agreed upon that inclusion is a movement to merge regular and special education so that all students can be educated together in a general education classroom. Because of the lack of consensus, inclusion is a hotly debated topic in education today. Mainstreaming and Inclusion are used interchangeably for many people. This is where the confusion may lie. For the purpose of this paper I will be using the term inclusion. I interpret this to mean: 'meeting the needs of the student with di...
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Reading Education From Grade School Through College
1,504 wordsReading Education: from grade school through college It has always been the sad refrain of educators around the world that the quality of education has plummeted over the generations. Of such note is the work of Allan Bloom in The Closing of the American Mind (Simon and Schuster, 1987). The work of Bloom can be gleaned at once to be the classic conservative lament; and his notion of education is more lamentably so, for he has not become cognizant of the ongoing discussions of various class and e...
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Hearing Aids Communication Skills
2,607 wordsAural Rehabilitation Aural rehabilitation when it concerns children has more habilitation character rather than rehabilitative. Rehabilitation presupposes the revival of certain skills. In case with children they do not have any skills to revive and they need assistance to adapt themselves in society with their aural impairments. The communication is the main activity of our social existence and the losses of hearing may cause various negative consequences of the child development. Apart from th...
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Dominant Culture Critical Theory
2,167 wordsCultural Democracy Through the process of examining more fully the link between culture and power, it becomes quite evident that in order to move toward a genuinely laboratory form of cultural democracy there must exist in theory and practice an emancipatory political construct on which to build a critical bi cultural pedagogy. This is particularly true given the asymmetrical power relations in American society. Significant to this discussion is the notion of student voice and empowerment and th...
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Face To Face E Learning
2,493 words... from online material about the principles of hiring, but need classroom instruction with role-playing to learn those skills. When personnel go to one of the companys training centers, they learn a lot from other people doing the same job at a different location. You cant package that in a class, says Diana Scott, the firms e-learning manager. (7) The company experimented with online forums to promote such exchanges but found that busy workers simply wouldnt use them. Experts say that the met...
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Public School System Van Der
3,137 wordsClinical Supervision in Todays Schools CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY Purpose of the Study The purpose of this study is to present the definition of clinical supervision and some basic concepts that are currently being used in the clinical supervision of public schools today. By having a clearer understanding of these definitions and concepts, prospective supervisors in public education will be better equipped to do their jobs. Problem Statement A situation has occurred due to the ever-in...
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Multicultural Education Bilingual Education
455 wordsIt might be looked at as being a culture shock to be plunged into a bilingual. Gary Fortune, the author of A Cultural Plunge, wrote about his experience about being exposed to second grade in a bilingual classroom at La Jolla Elementary School in San Diego, California. This article being about a bilingual classroom in the United States pertains to the subject of diversity in education. I plan to apply the concepts of functions that every school uses, educational differences, and the aspects of m...
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Bring Forth Private School
3,400 wordsHow about I believe in the unlucky ones? If I dont Id probably go crazy. (Laura Dern, October Sky) This could arguably be the most important line in the entire movie, in my opinion. This teacher recognizes the potential in every student, not only the ones with visible ability. This, I would hope, would be the goal of every teacher. Teachers have the greatest gift in the world the ability to help shape a students life. Recognized and appreciated he or she can use that to present a world of opport...
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Cultural Diversity Verbal Communication
2,263 wordsYoung Arzu Alp, a ten-year-old typical and hypothetical military brat, is starting mid-semester at her third school in four years. Nervously standing before the American flag, she anticipates trouble understanding the teacher, hopes for just one new friend, and speaks English as a second language. Arzu need not fear. Her family has been stationed where the school she will attend (which is a real school and shall remain anonymous along with the names of the interview participants, again, real peo...
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Land Of The Free Intrinsic Motivation
1,519 wordsFREEDOM The definition of freedom is the power to act, speak, or think without externally imposed restraints. Living in the land of the free gives opportunity to the people to exercise free choice. Items of education, it means allowing students to learn by intrinsic motivation. I believe that Herbert Kohl, the teacher in 36 Children, gave his students the opportunity to learn through this thing called freedom by allowing them to explore their curiosities, exploit their strengths and weaknesses, ...
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Reading And Writing Members Of The Community
1,607 wordsImproving The Literacy Of America Through Our Improving The Literacy Of America Through Our Classrooms Improving the Literacy of America Through Our Classrooms Reading and writing are two of the most important functions performed on a daily basis by individuals. One problem in America is that a significant amount of the population can not perform one or both of these tasks. These two tasks are commonly referred to as literacy. What encompasses a literate individual is a controversial topic. For ...
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Philosophical Views Today
1,277 wordsMy own philosophy of education is rather difficult for me to explain. There are many parts of our educational system that I disagree with. The problem is that I see far too many problems, yet offer few answers. Today? s educational systems seem so trendy and political. It almost seems like we should not get comfortable with any one way of doing things because policies and procedures change so often. My own philosophy is one that many people have heard of, ? If it? s not broken, then don? t fix i...
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Prayer In Public Schools Prayer In Schools
2,103 wordsPrayer and Public Schools: Not A Good Combination Imagine a little boy on the first day of classes sitting in second grade at a public school where more than half of the population of the school is Christian. This boy was brought up to believe in Allah and the principles of the Islamic faith. Over the intercom, the principle announces that it is time to recite the pledge and make a prayer in Jesus name. The boy, resistant to say the prayer with his classmates, does not remain standing after the ...
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