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Education and Issues in the Classroom

Teachers in America face critical issues in making everyday classroom decisions. This paper examines a fictitious first-grade clas...

Lesson Plans for Fourth Grade Earth Sciences

In eight pages four lesson plans for fourth grade earth sciences are presented in an overview and includ environmental science and...

Article Review on Repeating a Grade School Year

In five pages this paper reviews 2 articles about repeating a grade school year in an assessment of its uses, pros and cons. Two ...

An Analysis of a Third Grade Lesson Plan

This paper analyzes a third grade lesson plan for what is known as an Inclusion Class, for students with learning or mental disord...

Research Proposal on Standardized Testing of Third and Fourth Graders

In eight pages this research proposal studies the impact of standardized testing upon students in third and fourth grades with pro...

6th Grade Student, Mathematics, and Methodology

school students being displayed for comparison. GENERAL MATH FOR LIBERAL EDUCATION For most students the question arises at some...

GPAs, Greek Fraternities and Sororities

to have higher GPAs than their non-Greek counterparts. Most of the national Pan-Hellenic organizations, in fact, place a high stan...

Technology and Learning Styles Among High School Freshman

about the impacts of specific instructional methodologies and motivational elements. As a result, Cohen called for the expansion ...

Grade Inflation Causes and Evidence

to determine what can be - and should be - done about it. The basic definition of grade inflation is when a student receives a gra...

High Stakes Tests and Their Effects

with new and higher levels of standards for each grade level, standards that in many cases cause profound anxiety in students and ...

Classrooms That Are Graded versus Nongraded

ideas concerning education. Rousseaus thoughts were very different. Rather then seeing the mind of the child as a blank slate, Ro...

Journal Writing for Elementary Grades

70 percent Hispanic and 24 percent limited English speaking (Calderon, 1991). The author does not state if the reader is to under...

Reading Achievement and Personal Development Effects

a large number of low-income students (Picker, 2002). Because of the very low achievement scores, more than 70 elementary schools ...

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 ...

Small Business Rewards and Compensation Program Proposal

people work is to make a living and everything else is secondary. II. Case Study In order to draft a compensation and rewar...

Rain Forest Interdisciplinary Unit for Second Grade

Objectives Related to Pennsylvania Standards * Know at least ten animals that live in rain forests and some that have become extin...

Interdisciplinary Unit on Earth Day

day. Briefly, some facts the teacher would include in this introduction would include the following. The idea for Earth Day evol...

Classroom Observation/2 California State Standards

access to a computer. While some students searched the Internet for pertinent facts on their animal, others looked through the lib...

Sixth Grade Lesson On Water

top if it; students are asked to place a house wherever they want - the house is a small eraser. Students were asked to guess the ...

History of American Education, 1950-1980

that is largely what the period was about. The episode first discusses Brown v. Board of Education and then moves on to talk about...

Teaching Elementary Science/Epistemological Framework

text addressing geology encompasses chapters explaining minerals, rocks, plate tectonics, geologic processes and geologic time. Ea...

Curriculum Standards Overview

link to the API reports for the state. The State Department of Education designs, develops and publishes (after approval from the...

Teaching Rounding Off Decimals

we are rounding fractions to a more convenient size." This explanation would take place within the framework of a class discussion...

Fallacious, Informal Proof Argument Defending A Grade

a B by virtue of having the same answers as the student who actually did his own work on the final (Cohen, 2004)....

Reading Assessment - Nonreader

gets frustrated easily and wants to give up. At the same time, John wants to read books. Also available were the Stanford 9 Achie...

Confirming Understanding of Probability

come up on 1 die for the sum of two dice to be 3. As the sides of the dice are numbered from 1 to 6, the die would have...

Standards Based Assessment

which the general attainment is either falling or rising, in which case it is possible the overall marks will skew, if a whole cla...

Classroom Observation Analysis

Slattery and Steinberg, 1999). Dewey promoted social experiences and having students solve problems in group settings (Kincheloe...

Special Education Reading Instruction Action Plan

and/or accelerating literacy skills (Feldman, 2003). When accommodations are the focus, the message is that the adults around have...

SIM Test Strategies: Literature Review

students. There are four conditions that must be maintained within this group: 1. "Both group and individual needs are valued and...