SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Teachers and Their Constitutional Rights

Essays 511 - 540

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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 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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Pop Quiz's Validity

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Research Study on Essay Verification Engine Plagiarism Software

to "finding out" and research studies can be designed to discover virtually anything (p. 71). Research design addresses the planni...

1st Year Teaching

incorporate a multi-cultural understanding and outlook on the world and toward other people who are different than they are. This ...

Classroom Technology and Research into Brain Function

prunes connections based on experience." The cycle is "most pronounced between the ages of 2 and 11, as different development are...

Professional Education Organizations

Consider St. Louis, for example, where at the turn of the century students completed less than three years of school prior to ente...

A Review of an Internet-Based Educational Activity for Children

greater I.Q.s than those with smaller brains but size is not all that matters ("Big," 2004). The question that should be asked: "I...

Demographic Changes and Education

consistently adapt their instructional methods in an effort to create a learning environment that is responsive to these students ...

Teachers and Tutors of ESL Adult Learners and a Phonemic, Web Based Instructional Approach Preproposal

and phonological similarity of verbal items in memorized sequences" (Mueller, et al., 2003; p. 1353). The phonological-loop model...

An MA in Education Admission Essay

school needed to be literate. The emerging view at the time was that schools also provided the single most effective setting for ...

District Professional Development Plans

the teachers themselves to assess the plan. As this suggests, the plan is accessible to the teachers in this district and open to ...

An Article on Literacy Reviewed

the entire article and the question is specifically: "What do teachers in our schools value in literacy?" (Dadds, 1999, p. 9). Thi...

U.S. Quality Education Decline

that can only be provided in smaller-size classrooms (Gilman and Kiger, 2003). Unfortunately, with most U.S. education budgets be...

The Teaching Profession from a Philosophical Position

teachers beliefs, principles, convictions and interpretation of reality are all pertinent. They influence the students and so it i...