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Mathematics and Creative Classroom Approaches

or curriculum used" (Pearce, 1998). To make these changes teachers must gain an...

High Textbook Costs Stifle Students' Learning Potential

apply. Basically meaning that minorities and white students with little or no visible means of support are directed, because of th...

Jean Piaget, John Dewey, and Constructivism

way will these children be able to discriminate, to make distinctions that penetrate below the surface" (Campbell, 1995, p. 216). ...

Three Discussion Questions from Week Two

therefore more attractive to those very human individuals filling its nursing positions. A mentoring program can help support tho...

The Importance of Instilling a Familiarity With Employment Law for Employment Agency Employees

the work of Steven Corey who under took "action research", it was this research that has formed the basis of the Learning Style In...

Pros and Cons of Learning a Second Language

among the most notable. Essentially, he believes that natural language and conversation is the best means of acquiring a second l...

Intelligence and Critical Thinking

its female counterpart; while this mentality has been somewhat reversed in certain global communities, it still takes precedent in...

Measuring Academic Standards in Arizona

Standard 3. Meets the Standard 4. Exceeds the Standard (Anonymous, 2003). Educators are able to gauge how well a student h...

Reflection Questions from Week 1

background in my goals and findings and encouraged them to play "devils advocate." If, as administrators, they could recognize fe...

Importance of Perceptual Motor Skills

in judging vision specifically, they look for: 1) localization, which refers to the eyes reaching out to find a target; 2) fixatio...

LD Testing

deal to work situations, it also affects special education. What it had done is to change, from a legal perspective, the notion o...

4th Grader and an Application of Lev Vygotsky's Theory

Vygotsky Lev Vygotsky, who was born in Russia in 1896, created his social development theory of learning during the early ...

Continuing Educaiton and the Application of Theory

they are working in the field now indicates that they understand the concepts and were successful in completing the ranges of stud...

Analyzing the Novel Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry

consider the color of that persons skin nor do they rationalize the behavior with a variety of preconceived notions which society ...

Brain Dominance and Various Learning Styles

dominant student (Freed and Parsons, 1997). However, this traditional way of teaching does not take into account -- at any point -...

4 Questions on Organizational Theory Answered

Theories Senges book, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization, largely restates many of the...

Childhood and Its Secret According to Dr. Maria Montessori

olds from low income families. The schools began opening up in the United States in 1910. In the 1920s however, because of their c...

Complex Thinking Skills and Cooperative Learning

thinking. Because the act or process of thinking is so complex in and of itself, it is helpful to create visions that make it simp...

Social Learning and Social Control

genders. "Testosterone exerts powerful effects on human bodies, helping make them stronger and bigger. It also increases sex dri...

College Classroom Analysis and the Concepts of Symbolic Interactionism and Structural Functionalism

a bit of wisdom that is attached to the structural-functionalist school of thought. In looking at the college classroom from the f...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Learning Differences Between Adolescents and Adults

behaviors of older students (i.e., adult students). Classroom activities that pair younger students with older students may "encou...

Terrorism and the Policy of the United States

diligent effort to address the problems in troubled areas such as Afghanistan and Columbia we increase our chances of gaining a de...

Adult Education Curriculum Defined

The contents will also need to be put together according to the needs of the class that is being taught. There has also been evide...

Education and Constructivism

which an individual learns and knows things, such as: * Knowing comes from the active and proactive nature of learners actions (Ho...

The Changing Nature of Health Care in the U.S.

expected only to continue for several years to come. Then, growth will begin to decline in response to fewer numbers of people re...