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Contract Proposal for a Nursing Program

expenses, the learning contract is a device used by those involved - the student, the school and any other interested parties - to...

Defining Characteristics of Learning Disabilities

disabilities and those who need special education or related services (U.S. Department of Education, 1997, p. 1; 2002). The defi...

Challenges of English as a Second Language for High School Students

students do when trying to learn English. These special needs students are not routinely given the individualized attention they ...

UPS' 1997 Labor Strike and Management Lessons Learned

general, as an organization grows bigger its organizational structure enlarges as well (Robbins, 1999). As the environment in whi...

Case Study Based on the Social Learning Theory of Albert Bandura

26 year old male rapist would indicate that his behavioral disorder which leads to the violent attack was somehow as a result of o...

Learning Theories of Vygotsky and Piaget

some concrete ideas in his mind as to how things work. When a new idea is introduced such as our example of learning how to open ...

Adult Education, College Instruction, and Electronic Learning

back before the first microcomputer was released during the late 1970s. It, in fact, goes all the way back to 1957, when Sputnick,...

Classroom Management and Cooperative Learning

time to teach students the necessary social and personal interaction skills will reap great benefits in the classroom in many ways...

Andrew Cherlin's Introduction to Public and Private Families

we spend most of our personal lives, it is within this context that we make decisions about personal concerns, like whether to mar...

Ralph Ellison's Battle Royal, Alice Walker's The Flowers and Lessons Learned

cotton, peanuts and squash ... that cause excited little tremors to run up her jaws" (Walker, 2002). Clearly, Myop was a h...

Machine Learning, Data Mining, and KM

new information becomes available. This requires a dynamic form of programmes that will facilitate machine learning. In this paper...

Organizational Learning and TSI

To outline this system we may argue that it is more suited to a wider range of environments and scenarios than the soft or hard sy...

Characteristics of Leadership Characteristics: Learned, Innate or Both?

as well. Leadership Theories [A brief history of leadership theories which have emerged since WWII should be discussed allowing t...

Styles of Learning and Outdoor Education

to guide ones objective to the most appropriate fruition: 1. Teach a commitment to human responsibility for stewardship or care o...

Philosophy of Learning According to Seymour Papert

that Piagets theory of child development is "so simple that only a genius could have thought of it." Piaget, very simply, proposed...

Distance Learning Programs' Evaluation

they dont know how to enroll, or they do not understand why it is important" (Bersin, 2002, p. 38). Needless to say, if the course...

Jerome Bruner's Life and Achievements

has veered off track from the cognitive revolution of his time. Humans, according to Bruner (1992), are storytellers and as such ...

Learning, Metacognition, and Perception

2002). Metacognition, which reflects a bit more mental tangibility in its definition, is comprised of three distinct components: ...

Failing Grades and LD Students

the legal system that the best place for special education students - psychologically and otherwise - is within the mainstream sys...

2 Articles on Distance Learning

model is essential: students must create their own understandings and meanings from the resources and information available. Human...

Offering a New University Course Risk and Benefit Assessment

and OPerability study and HAZard and IMplementation study. These can be used to identify and work around different factors, but ma...

Hypothetical Situation

Celia Jellin has been daing Cedric Brown for almost a year. Here, on the eve of graduation, Celia finds that she is pregnant. Havi...

Future Learning Improved by a Quality Preschool

for the district" (Childrens Action Alliance, 2003). The findings reported in the above outline demonstrate many and diverse bene...

Admissions Essay Example

am certain that something expanded your worldview because something always does. Children assume that everybody is like them, but,...

'One Voice' by Susan Madera

80). This teachers observation and encouragement gave Madera the confidence she needed to join the school newspaper staff. In her...

International Trade Lessons

they have the absolute advantage (Thompson, 1998). This means that they should produces the goods that they can produce in a more ...

A Transfer Student's Essay of Admissions

track and field teams. My choice to participate in sports at the college level came as a result of my high school experiences a...

High School Science Teaching

(Berube, 2000). This type of teaching follows what could be called the linear thinking model (Berube, 2000). But....science is not...

Commercial Environment and the Learning Organization

are still gained fro potential sightings but proof has not emerged, If we look at the idea that has become popular in the 1990s of...

What Can be Learned by Meeting a Figure Who Lived in the Past

future for herself and her son. If this writer were to engage in a conversation with Ann, this writers grandmother several times...