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Supervisory Practices in Teaching

teachers file a personal development plan. While suggested procedures differ from state-to-state, these programs seemed to share t...

Promoting Positive Attitudes in Children Towards Cultural Diversity

to resentment and bigotry. However, these fears can often be countered through education" (Hurwitt). One of the ways in which we ...

Argument: The Revisions to IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) 2004 are Good for Both Students and Teachers

revisions are necessary and helpful, we will examine them in more detail. First, the revisions bring IDEA more closely in line wi...

Urban Schools and Lack of Quality Educators

have emergency teaching certificates (NASBE, 2002). Consider these data: * Urban schools are twice as likely to hire unlicensed or...

Pop Quiz's Validity

the material presented has been sufficiently saturated and incorporated into the students base of knowledge? Most educators would ...

The Unexpected Universe by Loren Eiseley

gently touched a strand of the web. The spider immediately started checking lines in the web. The intrusion was unprecedented in ...

Educators and the Significance of Commitment and Attitude

were attending some type of mass transit facility rather than enrolled in a facility for learning. Teachers stand on the front li...

Classroom Technology and the Education of Teachers

teachers in technology, and how to implement it in the classroom, children who graduate from schools will be better prepared for t...

Education and Enrollment Decline

secure knowledge of basic skills is highly important. In this day and age of technological advancements taking the place of funda...

Teacher Mediation and Educational Interactive Media

distance education is that many of the teachers do not feel they are qualified to successfully coordinate interactive teaching wit...

School Administration, Reform, and Planning

In response to the apparent crisis in our educational system, U.S. President Bill Clinton authorized, and Congress passed the "Edu...

Freire's 'Banking Concept of Education' Analyzed

a bank customer "fills" his or her bank "container" or account with money. Much like bank accounts, students are able to receive, ...

Remedial Reading and Qualifications of Teachers

development cannot be "taught", they are the result of a collaborative effort and social conditions (The Philosophies of Lev Vygot...

Liability and Unqualified Teachers

school system. In the United States we as citizens, however, have come to look to issues such as job security to justify our cont...

Analyzing Curriculum Improvement by Ronald Doll

is that he provides for outcomes which can be measured, and therefore this allows the curriculum to be acted upon and improved. ...

Slut by Leora Tannenbaum

to her being labelled as a slut, presuming on the grounds that it is the sexual activity per se, rather than her consent or lack o...

Three Perspectives on Problems with Teaching English

learn the ways in which standard English developed -- that no language remains "fixed" but is rather a constantly evolving, adapti...

The Effects of Alcoholism

parents are much more likely to become alcoholics themselves than do those who grow up in nonalcoholic households (Powell and Garc...

Uses of Technology in the Classroom

in order for the children of today to be "effective leaders and productive citizens" of tomorrow, they will require confidence in...

Dyslexia and ELL

with the acquisition of print literacy (reading, writing, and spelling). Dyslexia is characterized by poor decoding and spelling ...

NCLB Act and Requirements for Special Education Teachers

a great need to make them feel a part of the overall atmosphere, while at the same time establishing a separate learning basis fro...

Student Influence Exerted by Teachers

day out. At the very least, teachers spend anywhere from 30 to 60 minutes with a particular student in the classroom. In many case...

Lives of Students Changed by Teachers

the undergraduate level, the graduate educators make the necessary additions and refinements which completes the "sculpture." The...

Teaching Profession Entrance from Another Vocation

The most recognized expert in any field is useless in the classroom if he or she cannot communicate that expertise to the students...

Stephen D. Brookfield's The Skillful Teacher

students are not approached as though they were adults, a reality that Brookfield sees as very damaging to the teacher and learnin...

Children with Learning Disabilities and Positive Outcome Strategies

Working with Students with Specific Disabilities, 2002). LDs are characterized by problems in use of listening, speaking, reading,...

Student Achievement and the Importance of Class Size

compared the achievement of students who were in classes of between 13 and 17 students to classes where there were 22 to 26 studen...

Qualitative Study Research Methodology

In six pages this paper discusses bilingual student mainstreaming by high school teachers with a qualitative research methodology ...

Using Animals in a Therapeutic Setting

In six pages research literature that applies pet therapy to assisting children in the classroom to reduce verbal aggression is ex...

A Creative Essay on How to THrow a Piece of Paper

This 6 page paper is a creative essay explaining in great physiological and anatomical detail the actions taken by a student whose...