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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...

Ideas For Teaching 0-6 Year-Olds

Theorists point out that even infants learn. In fact, infants learn math and science before they can talk. Young children are natu...

Operant Conditiioning in Learning

Skinner believed that we are what we do and he also believed that we can change what we do for the better. The key to his theory a...

Practicing Interviewing Techniques

As the general population continues to age, we have many more people living into their late 80s and 90s. We can all learn a lot fr...

Curriculum and Teaching, Integrating Knowledge

This essay draws upon research to discuss adult learning theory and student-centered learning and then discusses how this informat...

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 ...

Self-Directed Andragogy

In a paper of seven pages, the writer looks at self-directed learning theories. Behaviorism and humanism are used to build a self-...

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...

English Language Learners (ELL): Families And School

country is not only complex and troublesome, but it is also quite an involved process. Even more exasperating is the quest to con...

Comparing The Larger Learning Group And The Peer Learning Group

A group may be defined as "An assemblage of persons or objects gathered or located together" (Dictionary.com, 2008)....

Learning Theories and Adult Learning

job" (Flint, 2001, p. 3). Employees who are categorized as being in the "professions" have, for quite some time, acknowledged the ...

High School Language, Direct Learning, and Cooperative Learning Approaches

occurs in practically all human relations. It occurs between married couples, between college students, even between children. I...

Self Regulated Learning Efficacy, Affective and Cognitive Learning

and supportive educational environments and the development of love, respect and security (Self Esteem, 2001). Fostering self-eff...

Learning Theories - Emphasis On Adult Learning Theories

transformative experience when the conditions are such that the learner is involved in reflection. This essay discusses the lear...

Learning's Theoretical Components

from personal experience, including elements of culture; 3. the development of learning through the function of the brain is relat...

Disadvantaged or Low Income Learners and Computer Literacy

A proposal outline consisting of eleven pages describes computer literacy program funding designed to assist students who are eith...

Student Writing on Being a Learner

a very poor way of teaching and learning. As a child I remember how flashcards were quite prominent in the classroom. From math...

The Identity of Adult Learners

In this paper that consists of five pages the identity acquired by adults through the learning process is examined within the cont...

Adult Learners, Motivation, and Curriculum Development

David Kolb (1984) developed what has been deemed a linear processing approach to learning. Kolb (1984) asserted that experiential...

English Language Learners Reading In Content Areas

studies demonstrate the differences between different types of language proficiency: conversational fluency, discrete language ski...

English Language Learners and Direct Instruction

students with concepts and ideas that are presented in a disorganized fashion (Stein, Carmine and Dixon, 1998). When this occurs, ...

Preferences of Adult Learners

school (Belzer, 2004). This conflict is clearly shown in Belzers article and her case studies of five students. All the subjects...

Elluminate's Adult Learner Characteristics and Qualities Summaries

material for themselves. To be effective in any group setting, both styles need to be included, of course. The criteria evaluati...

Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners

that Drucker (2003) suggests is that the teacher can provide context for these ELLs by previewing reading assignments before the s...

Diabetes Education w/Adult Hispanic Learners

well as aid those Latinos/Hispanics who have been diagnosed with diabetes, nurses have to confront the problems involved with poor...

Exceptional Learners Class (First Person Experience)

for a few minutes as if I were a freak. I asked the woman if she could help me reach a box of cereal on the top shelf. She smiled...

Teaching LD Learners

receive from being constant advocates for the needs of their children. As a result, No Child Left Behind has created a call for c...

Teaching Vocabulary To English Language Learners

snack bar, salad bar, and diner (Pettigrew, 2008). * Labeling pictures can also help students learn names of different things (Har...

Teaching English Language Learners

true believer (Rodgers, 2001). The roles of the teacher and learner change with each method. Methods always expect the actors to ...