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Dyslexia and ELL

with the acquisition of print literacy (reading, writing, and spelling). Dyslexia is characterized by poor decoding and spelling ...

Teaching in an Information Age and Global Economy

the cost of a car wherein 60% of the cost is related to the materials used and the workforce to create the car (Riegle, 2007). In ...

National Standards/Social Studies Performance

the classroom with assigned materials" (Leckrone and Griffith, 2006, p. 53). Considering this background, when a parent asks "At ...

Promoting Positive Attitudes in Children Towards Cultural Diversity

to resentment and bigotry. However, these fears can often be countered through education" (Hurwitt). One of the ways in which we ...

Supervisory Practices in Teaching

teachers file a personal development plan. While suggested procedures differ from state-to-state, these programs seemed to share t...

Adoption of Technology in Classrooms

so frequently that it is simply accepted as a maxim. However, data from the third annual "Teachers Talk Tech" survey, which was ta...

Third Graders and Nutrition Diary

an actual third graders diary (Forstadt, 2008), a third-graders natural inclination is to write brief, one-to-three sentence entri...

Anxiety In Children In The Classroom

test a positive experience, suggesting to students ways they can study for the test and teaching students skills they need to take...

Literacy Case Study

he reads words quickly regardless of whether or not he is reading them correctly, never stopping to self-correct. Furthermore, his...

Assessment, Program Development and Program Evaluation for Students with Special Needs

(ODD). Conduct Disorder (CD) The behavior of children with conduct disorder typically violates the rights of others and it can b...

Educational Philosophy

their place of origin or starting language capabilities. Multiculturalism is a component of my educational philosophy because it ...

Disproportionality In Special Education

this category (EMSTAC, Intro, 2007). Either overrepresentation or underrepresentation is a problem because it suggests the diagn...

Chapter 22: Phrasal Verbs

the word considered to be the particle indicate that although the particle is considered part of the PV, it need not be the next w...

Needs Assessment & Findings

up and shut down a computer; use of the mouse, navigate within windows; open a program; move between windows; select and use a pri...

Developing a Workshop

computer applications to gather and organize information and to solve problems" (NJDOE, 2006). Students should master the basic co...

Classroom Management

biggest problem in classrooms today (Tauber, 1999). Indeed, Charles notes that keeping order in the classroom is one of the teache...

Achievement Gap Among Students

attachment, and school climate each has an impact on student achievement (Stewart, 2007). Research that investigates these types o...

Communication in Education

the purpose of forcing change but rather for the purpose of edification. Positive feedback is something that should not be forgot...

Argument: The Revisions to IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) 2004 are Good for Both Students and Teachers

revisions are necessary and helpful, we will examine them in more detail. First, the revisions bring IDEA more closely in line wi...

Social Infrastructure Issues and School Reform

that result in patterns of withdrawal 4. lack of honest communications (overuse of "happy talk") 5. poor internal communications...

The Inquiry Process

also admits that "Effective inquiry is more than just asking questions," as a "complex process is involved" (Exline, 2004). This p...

The Accuracy of American History Books

faced. Foner explains that by the time the Savannah Colloquy would come around, slavery was already an institution3. He explains t...

Overcoming Shyness in the Classroom

study designed to evaluate a childs propensity for developing specific language impairment (SLI), for example, researchers Wadman,...

Improving High School Oral Language Skills

situations" (377). Early intervention and prevention is the key to minimizing or hopefully even abolishing a number of severe pr...

Children And Literature: Learning About Themselves In A Book

are learning that every living being sometime, somehow, some way ultimately dies. Fairy tales have long utilized this concept as ...

ESL CAN WORK: REFUTING CUMMINS' POINTS

if their communities are similarly doomed, there is a good deal of evidence that ESL can be taught in even uncaring communities. T...

Helping The Shy Student

the next child but do not make any comment or use any other signal to indicate irritation or negativity (Malouff, 2007). In older ...

How Literacy and Writing is Enhanced by Science

slight changes to start the process over again (Martin, Martin and Carvalho, 2008). Also, another aspect of this problem, which ...

Sex Addiction: Not Scientifically Supported

is a concept that seems to serve no other purpose than to relegate sexual expression to the level of shameful acts, except within ...

In What Ways Can Animals Communicate With Humans?

to allow access outside for the dogs learned behavior of relieving himself. If, however, the owner is not home or is otherwise pr...