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What are Critical Thinking Skills

of the time. Even critical thinkers get stuck in ruts and do not see their own blind spots in their thinking (Foundation for Criti...

Online Learning Issues

The purpose of Online learning, or, e-learning is to provide knowledge and enhance skills. There are many advantages to e-learning...

Six T's of Elementary Literacy Instruction by Richard Allington

This essay pertains to the six categories of elementary instruction that were discerned from an extensive study of some of the bes...

Listening Skills

This essay pertains to a student's listening skill strengths and weaknesses and offers strategies that can be used to improve list...

Content Area Reading

literacy and the difficulties for the teacher in a diverse classroom. There are many different ways to foster reading comprehensio...

Beginning SEI Approaches

The teacher might use pictures or finger-puppets to help facilitate student comprehension. The disadvantage to this approach is th...

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 ...

Gandhi

one can only counter these evils through passive resistance. Gandhi also got involved in humanitarian activities. For example, he ...

Teach Metacognition and reading with Newspapers

(Hopkins, 2005). Research also indicates that students enjoy reading the newspapers (Hopkins, 2005). If they develop this habit in...

Concept Map's Value

outcome of mathematics instruction in Massachusetts (Johnston, 2001). Johnston (2001) explained in great detail where the state w...

Rereading America by S.B. Heath and Gary Columbo

Trackton, that power has become constrained due to the atmosphere in which the residents find themselves. Their way of assimilatin...

Reading Instruction

In two and a half pages this paper assesses the benefits of both phonics and whole language teaching with regards to reading instr...

Using Literature to Teach Vocabulary

recognize it as an unknown word or does not want to be bothered with the disruptive glossary step" (Blachowicz et al, 1991, pp. 18...

Applying the Literary Lessons of E.M. Forster and Henry David Thoreau

This paper examines the importance of being able to apply the teachings found in great literary works such as those of Thoreau and...

Overview of Language Arts

predecessor to writing (Tierney & Readance, 2000 as cited in David, & Capraro, 2001) . Again, there are few who would argue that ...

Reading and Writing Fundamentals and the 'Hooked on Phonics' Program

say "no" and plenty who will say it is an essential component for assisting a child in learning to read. Origins of the Concept of...

Upper Elementary Grades, Reading Achievement, and the Impact of Technology

fact that much more focus needs to be placed upon going back to the basics in order to give students the needed edge. However, th...

Senior Citizens and Education

In ten pages senior citizens are discussed within the context of health education and the problems that can exist with a considera...

Third Grade Reading and Cooperative Learning

best instilled at a young age. Elementary and teachers have what amounts to an almost moral obligation to assure that the children...

Elementary Education and Reading Out Loud

In five pages this essay discusses the decline of grammar education in elementary schools and the problems associated with its lac...

Learning Reading and Phonics versus Whole Language Approaches

In nine pages this paper discusses how to teach children how to read in an assessment of the strenghts and weaknesses of phonic an...

Bilingual Reading Tools and ESL Instruction

In five pages this essay discusses teaching English as a second language in this consideration of issues and bilingual reading tec...

Physical Education Strategies, Concept Mapping, and Advance Organizer

This paper consists of six pages and discusses concept mapping and advance organizer concepts along with instructional strategies ...

Health Promotion Course Topics

benefit to help enhance the way a nursing job is performed. The duties of a nurse varies according to the patients they care for. ...

Why I Want to be a Mechanical Engineer

where tools may be seen in manufacture, but also in areas such as remote healthcare, allowing surgeons to operate remotely, and mi...

Concept Mapping Versus Care Plans/A Proposed Study

the fever? Was it related to an infection in the surgical wound? Was the patient developing atelectasis and pneumonia? Or, was the...

Occidental College Transfer Decision

are particularly important in my chosen occupation. Communication skills play a large role in business even from the time an appl...

Teaching English As A Foreign Language Using Neurolinguistic Programming

in teaching (Baker, 2005). Using NLP "will enable us to uncover the basis of our perceptions and so teach us how we think and lear...

Reading Instruction and Phonics

in fact, taught to read using phonics. They just misassociate the term with some new social movement or some other great mystery ...

Educational Instruction and Reading Accountability

that are more than apparent in his surrounding community, successfully overlooking a persons skin color or lack of education as a ...