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'Inner Discipline' of Educational Theorist Barbara Coloroso

them ways to solve the problem; and 4. It leaves their dignity intact (Give Poor Parenting a Time-Out, 2002, p. 12). Barbara C...

K through 5 Special Education and Learning Stations to Improve Behaviore and On Task Completions

all students. This type of classroom or programming design is especially helpful in classrooms of learners who progress at varie...

The Great Depression History Firsthand by Dennis Nishi Summary and Review of Dennis Nishi's “The Great Depression (History Firsthand)”

the stock market crash of October 1929 that blindsided everyone even though there had been disturbing warning signs surfacing week...

Lesson Plans for Language Arts

leads the students through the steps necessary to perform the skill using the trimodal approach - hear/see/do" (Robinson and Crawf...

Fuchs, Fuchs, and Compton Article on First Grade Reading Monitoring

CBM integrates a long-term component that is supported by the content of the testing mechanism and its repeated use. The creation...

Multicultural Classroom and the Effects of Involvement by Parents on Literacy

Many of these students are described as limited-English proficient (LEP) students, and many teachers current lack the skills and l...

ELL Programs

working in this program must have ESL certification. They need professional development in instructional methods (Idaho State Boa...

Math Lessons and Classroom Management Plan for 3rd Grade Inclusion

of water with them today that water breaks are not as needed today as they were years ago. Restroom breaks will always be needed. ...

Portfolios, Grading and Assessment Plus an Annotated Bibliography

analyzing portfolio contents. The point of this text is to help instructors in training students to be self-assessors, which are c...

Second Grade Literacy Teaching

In seven pages this paper discuses inner city schools and the various approaches for teaching literacy to second grade students. ...

Special Education Reading Instruction Action Plan

and/or accelerating literacy skills (Feldman, 2003). When accommodations are the focus, the message is that the adults around have...

An Interdisciplinary Unit for Science and Health

(See Appendix with complete Standards) The following are the CT State Standards in Health for this lesson plan: 2.3-4.3 Identify ...

Reading Assessment - Nonreader

gets frustrated easily and wants to give up. At the same time, John wants to read books. Also available were the Stanford 9 Achie...

Curriculum Standards Overview

link to the API reports for the state. The State Department of Education designs, develops and publishes (after approval from the...

Teaching Rounding Off Decimals

we are rounding fractions to a more convenient size." This explanation would take place within the framework of a class discussion...

Confirming Understanding of Probability

come up on 1 die for the sum of two dice to be 3. As the sides of the dice are numbered from 1 to 6, the die would have...

Classroom Observation Analysis

Slattery and Steinberg, 1999). Dewey promoted social experiences and having students solve problems in group settings (Kincheloe...

Standards Based Assessment

which the general attainment is either falling or rising, in which case it is possible the overall marks will skew, if a whole cla...

Full Option Science System (FOSS)

. the scientific enterprise is both what we know (content) and how we come to know it (process)" (Lawrence Hall of Science, 2005)....

Internet-Based Activities

the site entitled Endangered Specie.com, The Rarest Info Around, which is sponsored by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. This site...

SIM Test Strategies: Literature Review

students. There are four conditions that must be maintained within this group: 1. "Both group and individual needs are valued and...

Technology and Learning Styles Among High School Freshman

about the impacts of specific instructional methodologies and motivational elements. As a result, Cohen called for the expansion ...

Journal Writing for Elementary Grades

70 percent Hispanic and 24 percent limited English speaking (Calderon, 1991). The author does not state if the reader is to under...

High Stakes Tests and Their Effects

with new and higher levels of standards for each grade level, standards that in many cases cause profound anxiety in students and ...

6th Grade Student, Mathematics, and Methodology

school students being displayed for comparison. GENERAL MATH FOR LIBERAL EDUCATION For most students the question arises at some...

GPAs, Greek Fraternities and Sororities

to have higher GPAs than their non-Greek counterparts. Most of the national Pan-Hellenic organizations, in fact, place a high stan...

Overview of Project Based Learning

hold true for students at every grade level. While project-based learning has been gaining in popularity with educators over the p...

The Educational Framework for Language Arts in California

the framework (California Department of Education, 1999). This draft was critically reviewed by an external researcher to validate...

Classrooms That Are Graded versus Nongraded

ideas concerning education. Rousseaus thoughts were very different. Rather then seeing the mind of the child as a blank slate, Ro...

Reading Achievement and Personal Development Effects

a large number of low-income students (Picker, 2002). Because of the very low achievement scores, more than 70 elementary schools ...