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Learning Differences Between Adolescents and Adults

behaviors of older students (i.e., adult students). Classroom activities that pair younger students with older students may "encou...

Classroom Management and Cooperative Learning

time to teach students the necessary social and personal interaction skills will reap great benefits in the classroom in many ways...

Andrew Cherlin's Introduction to Public and Private Families

we spend most of our personal lives, it is within this context that we make decisions about personal concerns, like whether to mar...

Adult Education, College Instruction, and Electronic Learning

back before the first microcomputer was released during the late 1970s. It, in fact, goes all the way back to 1957, when Sputnick,...

Learning Theories of Vygotsky and Piaget

some concrete ideas in his mind as to how things work. When a new idea is introduced such as our example of learning how to open ...

University Honor Codes

to be self-regulating, although as Georgia College (2002) notes, over the years the focus has changed. In the majority of colleges...

School Environment and Experiential Learning

the student was supposed to learn for himself. Concrete Experience Not all recognize this collective and monumental lesson,...

Animal and Plant Evolutionary Examples

Each has a definitive place in the worlds ecology. As our first example of the contention presented above, take the...

A Business Dilemma and the Ethics of Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, and Thomas Hobbes

a fair and equitable return for the business owner and his or her investors. Clearly, the world has become far more complicated a...

Literature Review of the Topic Letter Reversal in Children with Severe Learning Disabilities

the genetic inability to connect phonemes with written symbols. A subspecies of dyslexia however embraces a simpler type of visua...

Online Education and Marketing

Successful completion of the program (and therefore awarding of the degree) requires five weeks of study on Dukes Durham, North Ca...

LD Testing

deal to work situations, it also affects special education. What it had done is to change, from a legal perspective, the notion o...

Machine Learning, Data Mining, and KM

new information becomes available. This requires a dynamic form of programmes that will facilitate machine learning. In this paper...

Handicapped Individuals and Recreational Activities

are all potentially disabled" (pp. S8). The point he goes on to make is that the vast majority of disabled people were not born wi...

Contract Proposal for a Nursing Program

expenses, the learning contract is a device used by those involved - the student, the school and any other interested parties - to...

High Textbook Costs Stifle Students' Learning Potential

apply. Basically meaning that minorities and white students with little or no visible means of support are directed, because of th...

United States and and the End of the Cold War by John L. Gaddis

confrontation known as the Cold War was aided and abetted by the American tendency to be suspicious of power, even when it wielded...

The Importance of Instilling a Familiarity With Employment Law for Employment Agency Employees

the work of Steven Corey who under took "action research", it was this research that has formed the basis of the Learning Style In...

Child Well Being and Learning

are contingent on the baby performing some basic skill, then what has the child internalized? Sadly, Erikson also notes that thos...

Teaching Reading with the Fernald Method

channel, thus, giving all students the opportunity to learn through whichever channel is their strength. This approach has childre...

Mathematics and Creative Classroom Approaches

or curriculum used" (Pearce, 1998). To make these changes teachers must gain an...

4th Grader and an Application of Lev Vygotsky's Theory

Vygotsky Lev Vygotsky, who was born in Russia in 1896, created his social development theory of learning during the early ...

Reflection Questions from Week 1

background in my goals and findings and encouraged them to play "devils advocate." If, as administrators, they could recognize fe...

Pros and Cons of Learning a Second Language

among the most notable. Essentially, he believes that natural language and conversation is the best means of acquiring a second l...

Intelligence and Critical Thinking

its female counterpart; while this mentality has been somewhat reversed in certain global communities, it still takes precedent in...

Measuring Academic Standards in Arizona

Standard 3. Meets the Standard 4. Exceeds the Standard (Anonymous, 2003). Educators are able to gauge how well a student h...

Three Discussion Questions from Week Two

therefore more attractive to those very human individuals filling its nursing positions. A mentoring program can help support tho...

Jean Piaget, John Dewey, and Constructivism

way will these children be able to discriminate, to make distinctions that penetrate below the surface" (Campbell, 1995, p. 216). ...

Importance of Perceptual Motor Skills

in judging vision specifically, they look for: 1) localization, which refers to the eyes reaching out to find a target; 2) fixatio...

Philosophies on Personal Learning

1999, p. 104+) - believed children are not merely a collection of empty vessels waiting for information to fill the void, but rath...