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Effective Educator Computer Technology Communications Annotated Bibliography

technology" (Ebersole and Vorndam, 2002). The researchers found "time, resources, and lack of confidence in the benefit of educat...

National Standards/Social Studies Performance

the classroom with assigned materials" (Leckrone and Griffith, 2006, p. 53). Considering this background, when a parent asks "At ...

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 ...

English Language Teaching And Metacognition

to clarify: if a student asks what a word means, he is using cognition; if the student asks what the best way is to learn and reme...

Teaching in an Information Age and Global Economy

the cost of a car wherein 60% of the cost is related to the materials used and the workforce to create the car (Riegle, 2007). In ...

Stakeholders and Teacher Evaluations

a repertoire of effective age- and content-appropriate methods" (Koops and Winsor, 2005, p. 61). When evaluations are effective, t...

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...

Developing an Educational Curriculum and the Value of Teacher Involvement

are to be truly effective, since it is up to the teachers to be the main implementers of change in our schools" (Klecker and Loadm...

Willy Russell's Play Educating Rita and the Portrayal of the Teacher

you mean am I determined to go to pub? I dont need determination to get me into a pub" (Russell). In this we see a bit of a condes...

Educators and Merit Pay

of data generated by the requirement of the "No Child left Behind Act" makes it possible to make statistical comparison between te...

Education and Gender Inequality

al, 1988). Obviously, these are old-time descriptions of the roles men and women were expected to assume in decades past. These ro...

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...

Overview of Pragmatism

Scientific reasoning or experimental reasoning is a branch of logic that follows along Deweys pragmatic combination of deduction a...

Cultural Diversity and a Mexican American Teacher

"Classroom instruction can be designed to connect the content of a course with students backgrounds" (Cultural Diversity in the Cl...

TESOL Educator Effectiveness

language, including listening, speaking, reading and writing so as to convey these lessons to ESOL students. It is important for T...

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. ...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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 ...