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Virginia Henderson

the nursing theorists that have come after her (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003). The interactive model focuses on the significant of ...

Technology Effects on Education

curricula and, he asserts that computers are frequently a "waste money; theyre sitting in the back of the classroom" (Learner, 200...

Educational Importance of 'the Hidden Curriculum'

to learn, a process that requires various sacrifices so that they can obtain knowledge. Teacher...

Poverty : Causes And Effects

the five states with the highest rates of poverty were New Mexico, Arkansas, West Virginia, Louisiana and Texas (Rodgers, Payne an...

Learning Theories and Teacher Practice Within the UK

as: programmed instruction, mastery learning instructional objectives, applied behavior analysis and contracts (Ormrod, 1999). Tea...

Critical Educator and What It Means to Become One

status quo insofar as the effects of policies and practices on the quality of student learning and as creating conditions under wh...

The Librarian As An Educator

be approached. When they are approached, however, they will do whatever they can to teach the inquirer what they need to know. If ...

School System Cultural Wealth Increases

that spans generations. This observation also implies that there is no easy fix. In some way, Martins views on cultural wealth ar...

Benefits of Teen Jobs

currently are extracting the toll built over decades. We have taught teachers that young children would somehow learn to read on ...

Being a Teacher

only be exposed to ideas that are congruent with societal ideals. He argues, "Then shall we simply allow our children to listen to...

Benefits Associated with the Role of Teacher

are the same" (p. 28). She discovered that being a teacher was more than simply teaching students how to think; it also involved ...

Educators Views on the 2001 NCLB Act

and emerging trend towards standardization in curriculum, instruction and assessment. Background Contemporary soci...

Critical Response to Educational Technology

needs of a constantly changing and always challenging new student population and maintaining a method for flexibility inherent in ...

NJ and Turnover Rates of Teachers

educator performance (NJBE, 2005). The plan called for educators to implement strategies supporting exemplary educational practic...

Academics and Groupthink

which is supposed to teach students how to think and be creative on their own? Johnson and Weaver (1992) point out that...

School Administration and Leadership

on "horizontal collective action" (Buchen 44). In some cases, the responsibility of running the school is completely in the hand...

Nurse Educator Shortages and Alternatives

the very act of following the "law" (i.e., supply and demand) of economics now has exacerbated the shortage of nurses who also are...

Evaluating the Use of Classroom Technology Through Teacher Workshops

in middle and high schools are provided with state-funded computers to promote technology-based learning. In one school in the so...

Issues Pertaining to School Policy Formation

to commit themselves to achieving academic excellence within the boundaries of their abilities and teaching and support staff are ...

Michael Gurian's The Wonder of Boys

wrong. For the most part it appears as though Gurians work is focusing on how bad single mothering is for sons, and how mothers ...

Adult Learning Environment and Code of Ethics Establishment

discern professional behavior from non-professional behavior, others simply operate on a loosely defined set of rules. Dougherty ...

Computer Technology and Effective Educator Communications

use in todays business environment, all of which are appropriate to specific sets of circumstances. The business environment is t...

Public School versus Private School for Preschool Teachers

settings (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2004). Preschool teachers most often begin as an assistant teacher and progress to the leve...

Celebrating Cultural Diversity in the Classroom

that honors cultural diversity, the teacher begins the same unit by reading a Native American folktale that describes the first fo...

Bell Hooks and Feminist Thinking

black women, from their perspective, was racism, not sexism. Hooks relates that her students often asked her such questions as "Ha...

Chapters One through Three of Introduction, Study of the Problem and Outcomes and Evaluation Education Action Research Proposal

deliberately bumping into others when moving from one area to another; making remarks; laughing or giggling when there is nothing ...

Teaching's Learning Model Dimensions

with what we already know to create new knowledge" (Marzano, 1992, p. 5). In other words, to truly learn, a student must interac...

Education of University Level Chinese Students

semblance of the reason for the problem, which is a culture conflict. In order to understand and help Chinese students learn, one ...

Voices of the Self A Study of Language Competence by Keith Gilyard

dialect and Black English depending on the social situation. Because the authors mother patterned this, by the time Gilyard was ol...

Instruction and Educational Planning

Classroom management procedures should be explained to students and clear rules for discourse should be outlined. Students should...