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Adult Learning Theories

the learner is involved in reflection. This essay will discuss several learning theories. The essay does not make any specific c...

Review of "African American Mothers' Views of Their Infants' Language Development and Language-Learning Environment"

of expecting there to be great differences between cultures within the US as well. The authors use sources from the 1970s and 198...

Language's Gendered Nature

taking care of her man and of nurturing the home and the family. It was apparent to me that her sense of femininity and womanhood...

Ecuador and Texaco

including a primary pipeline that extends 280 miles across the Andes. To build the roads, forests were cleared and Indian lands bu...

Creating Self-Directed Learners

inspiration, but students who chose to work with historians, research through speaking with participants in history (e.g. people p...

Analysis of textbook using discourse theory

we acquire knowledge not through a straightforward one-way transmission of information, but through a complicated interplay betwee...

Transtheoretical Behavior Change Model

near future, e.g., six months (Velicer et al., 1998). They moved along the path because they have received information or have bec...

MARSHA WARREN AND THE TROUBLED LEARNERS

consistently fight to get things done, and who goes through turmoil every day. She needs to remember that her class is not the adv...

Adult Learners

school. This paper briefly explores a few of them. Discussion We are interested here in adults who are already established in car...

Relationship between School Culture and Curriculum

with what they already understand on an academic subject (Brown, 2003). A constructivist approach to pedagogy emphasizes that the ...

Water Quality Lesson

river and classroom activities. The first activity has the teacher explaining to students what macro-invertebrates are. They can s...

P.E. Curriculum

learned the body of skills needed to perform a variety of physical activities? 3. Does the student demonstrate a willingness to m...

A Literature Review on Developing Respect for Diversity

Brown and Forde (2006), who maintained that there is a growing need for culturally responsive pedagogy in the educational setting....

A Literacy Initiative

to address early intervention services and literacy at the Pre-K level in order to improve performance outcomes. Standards ...

Managing Change: Transition to the Use of Portfolios as an Assessment

The objectives include the following: 1. To ensure that each educator has an understanding of the value of the change initiative ...

Adult Learner Curriculum Design

a theorist who suggests that adult learners call on different experiences they might have had in the learning process (Merriam & C...

Divergent Learners and Alternative Assessment Methods

and so are difficult to assess. Divergent learners are endowed with a unique variety of personality traits and this is something ...

Divergent Learners and Personality Traits

findings, while both groups were intelligent, the achievers succeeded because of their ability to adapt to a teachers teaching met...

Adult Learner Motivation

In ten pages this paper discusses adult learners and the benefits of creating and sustaining motivation. Eight sources are listed ...

Values of a Nurse Educator

This essay describes traits and values that are associated with being a nursing educator, learner responsibilities and the profess...

Adapting Lesson Plans for Use with Special Needs Learners

In a paper of six pages, the author reflects on modifications that have to be made for special education learners in general educa...

Literacy Learning Profile and Assessment

experiences were utilized and she showed a considerable interest both in the activities of the class and the use of the Internet f...

Literacy in Specific Areas of Study

programming, students are generally in a transitional period in terms of language learning and the vocabulary that is introduced i...

HIV Education Lesson Plan for African Americans

This research paper describes the targeted learner population, which is African American men and women between the ages of 18 and ...

The Rise of mLearning

e-Larning and mLearning are increasing in use in different venues, including industry and education. This paper discusses the tool...

Performance Task on Technology

In a paper of three pages, the author provides an overview of a lesson plan on technology that is modified for use in varied learn...

Considerations in Adult Learning

This 3 page paper compares commonalities between today's adult learner and those delineated by the character Jesse Hallman in the ...

O'Neill & Thomson (2013), An Article Review

This paper discusses an article by O'Neill and Thomson (2013). This study pertains to persistence in regards to low-skiled adult l...

Earlly Social Learning Theory

The zone of proximal development is defined as the gap between what a child knows and his potential for the next higher step. Vygo...

Glossary for Developmental Psychology

Each field has its own set of terms and phrases. While they all make sense to experienced practitioners, they do not necessarily m...