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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...

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...

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 -...

Cochlear Implants in Children and Learning Processes

the stove at her grandmothers house can do the same thing. In other words, she is able to generalize that the stove is used for co...

Living, Loving, and Learning by Leo F. Buscaglia

the US educational system. For example, take the problem of deciding on a curriculum that fits the needs of all school children....

SOCIAL NETWORKS AND THE LEARNING ORGANIZATION

These days, a learning organization can be defined as one that has a flat, or horizontal, structure, and contains customer-directe...

The Importance of Diversity in Leadership Development

draw a lesson from any situation, internalize that lesson, and then improve ones approach to leadership on the basis of those less...

TALKING TO THE TEXT - VIDEO ANALYSIS

as note-taking among junior high school students, and repetitive learning among younger students). Briefly summarize the ...

"Two Types of People" - Sample University Application

the real world. When one of them escapes one day, he would likely be met with pain and ridicule, but after adjusting to the light ...

PERCEPTIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS: TEACHERS, STUDENTS AND ADMINISTRATORS

get excited, loud and talkative). But as the video went on, it became apparent that the teacher had more in mind than simple fun a...

TV and Society

some level, the shows impact society by questioning values that are currently held. For instance, Jersey Shore has created a lot o...

Human Intelligence in the Cold War

as spy satellites are vital to intelligence gathering efforts, the best tool for making sense of human behavior remains the human ...

KOLB’S LEARNING STYLES

adapt learning into a process, into a never-ending cycle that focused on concrete experience as its starting point. Through...

Intelligences, Metacognition, Moral Reasoning

different learning styles but the theories discussed take this further. Gardners multiple intelligences provides insight into the ...

Children with Specific Language Impairment and the Relationship between Working Memory and Language Learning: An Experimental Analysis

diagnosed with SLI than in the hearing-impaired children. In other words, a diminished functioning of complex working memory may ...

The Importance of Direct Learning in the Childhood Development Theories of Jean Piaget

process of creativity and interaction, and that this model was applicable to all "types" of knowledge, including social, cognitive...

Environment for Optimal Development

be one where there are both structured and unstructured activities. Play is essential during this time and the young child will de...

English as a Second Language Preschoolers

learning to read English as well. Between reading books at home and book in the classroom, children picked up a significant amou...

Introduction to Montessori

it. She said: "It may be said that that we acquire knowledge by using our minds; but the child absorbs knowledge directly into his...

Balancing Loops and reinforcing Loops in the Service Industries

1 Figure 1 Balancing feedback loop In this loop it is possible to see how if there is an improvement in the quality of the servi...

Observing Communications Theory in the Real World

US students require detailed information and extensive explanations in order to understand communications. This may leave Arabic s...

Techniques for ELL Students

(Ghaith, 2003). Cooperative learning encourages meaningful, real-life conversations between students, regardless of age. Researc...

TRANSACTIONAL LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING

best leader for a knowledge organization, but that would be a wrong assumption. In the literature, there are many differen...

Psychological Well-Being and Islam

The sawm, the fourth pillar, is an annual fast that is held during the month of Ramadan. Again, communal identity is strengthened...

Social Networking and Transformational Leadership in Learning Organizations

of information among employees at all levels of the organization, to develop organizational knowledge in the most broadly effectiv...

An Interview Incorporating Appreciative Inquiry

The air transportation industry offers numerous high performing job positions. When a manager is selecting from a pool of applica...

Cheating Is No Way to Learn

suffering from information overload is a vital skill. They may cheat on assignments by using professional paper services (had to t...

Immigrants and English

neighborhoods of their ethnicity and thus they spoke their homeland language a great deal of the time. This is also the case today...

The Army Today - Work and Learn

of organizations, meaning that they make life and death decisions on a daily basis and go into situations that most people never f...