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Teaching Language and Constructivism

pronunciation or the definition of the word, but in the application and cultural connotation of that word. Each word contains cert...

Multiple Intelligences, Behaviorist Approaches, and the Teaching of Math

approaches. For example, the humanist approach focuses on the affective side of learning or the feelings and emotional components ...

Reaction Paper to Taking the Good from the Bad by McArthur

their final portfolio as an example of an "ah-ha" moment in the course" (McArthur, 1999, 46). An example is provided of a Worst A...

Inquiry Based Learning and Elementary School Science

inquiries, the scientific information covered in any particular lesson plan will undoubtedly be remembered long after memorized fa...

5 Senses 1st Grade Unite Plan

Students will use their knowledge to guess what is in the box and then determine if they were correct. Materials: * Hot Air Popco...

Open Mindedness and The Republic by Plato

a weapon to the hands of a madman is obviously unjust. Taylor (2003) comments on how this refutation of Cephalus position demonstr...

Worldview of Catholicism

list is completely comprehensive, but this is a beginning point, particularly as one prepares to teach the topic to high school st...

Special Needs Children and Education of Handicapped Act 94 142

who brought into being a new type of legislation that would alter the federal governments assistance to those in need, including t...

Statistics and Article Summaries

preferred over teaching the perspective of the moment. Chu, K.H. (2002).To Switch or Not To Switch? Retrieved August 19, 2004 ...

Students with Autism or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Education

Within six years the name was changed again and is now well know by the acronym ADHD (1997). While the names have changed, that d...

Community College and Psychology Teaching

sort of degree that they completed with a measure of success. Still others would rather be attending a university and plan to aft...

Chapters Eight and Nine of Teaching to Transgress by Belle Hooks

somewhat skeptical on the idea of "feminist studies" and "feminist thinking," as such studies and thinking tended to overshadow th...

Bell Hooks and Feminist Thinking

black women, from their perspective, was racism, not sexism. Hooks relates that her students often asked her such questions as "Ha...

Test-Taking Skills

considerable pressure on the students involved. Literature Review Hong, Sas and Sas (2006) conducted a study in order to investi...

Luke and Human Suffering

in mind for part of being human is experiencing crises and suffering. Another author offers an important condition as well, a cond...

Report: “Teaching the Elephant to Dance”

in the past is actually keeping them from succeeding in the present. That is, because methods worked for them before, they keep do...

Teaching Profession

first teacher was God who taught Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. In a more secular context, the next formal teachers would hav...

Paideia Proposal - Book Report

of schooling. Another foundational premise is that individual differences must be considered and those children who arrive at scho...

History of Aging

has long been recognized that people do not age at the same rate. In early modern Europe, the period during which a person is cons...

Teaching American Sign Language to Infants

Could sign language be taught by the parents? Should a class be taken to ensure the right words were being taught? Could a person ...

Fred Jones Model & Classroom Management

crowd," which means that a teacher should not spend all of his or her time in front of the class but should put the students "to w...

ADHD: Causes, Behaviors, Strategies

259). Furthermore, the nature of the classroom environmental and the curriculum can also produce symptoms that mimic those of atte...

First Impressions, Second Impressions of Teaching

I was learning was superfluous and I was unsure of how the theories could be applied in the classroom setting. After gathering a ...

Content Area Reading

literacy and the difficulties for the teacher in a diverse classroom. There are many different ways to foster reading comprehensio...

Derrida, Literature and “Midsummer Night’s Dream”

tend to overlook all the rest" (Chandler, 2000). If we didnt sort things out in this way, we would be overwhelmed with stimuli (Ch...

Bottle Feeding

There are actually numerous reasons why a woman may choose to bottle feed over breast feed her infant. She may need to return...

Questions and Prompts Mathematical Thinking

a student agreeing to do some of the work (Brousseau, 1997). It may be argued that this contract between teacher and student is ea...

Educational Philosophy

their place of origin or starting language capabilities. Multiculturalism is a component of my educational philosophy because it ...

The Intention Of The Holy Ghost ……

the creation of the universe. Genesis says that at first the earth was covered by water. Scientists claimed, even at that time, th...

Using Scaffolds To Teacher Higher-Order Cognitive Strategies

that are the foundation of journalism - "who, what, when, where, why and how" (Rosenshine and Meister, 1992, p. 26). Whatever cues...