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As of today, classroom observation continues to remain the main methodological instrument of assessing the professional adequacy of teachers and evaluating the effectiveness of the learning process as a whole. After all, the assessment technique’s theoretical premise draws from the assumption that, when it comes to evaluating teachers’ performance, one...
The Week’s Learning and the Final Project: Summary Pre-school education is an important issue with which several parents are concerned nowadays. With a steep increase in the number and level of demands in the contemporary global economy, it is crucial to building the foundation for academic success for younger children....
Introduction Education of talented students in any school should be considered as a right not privilege. Education is considered as fundamental human right as per Act 445 of 1983 which is Quality of Education Act. According to the school’s mission, programs for gifted should be prescribed, sequential and made permanent...
The fellow staff debriefed the Head of Academic Dean about the progress of the interview done to applicants who vied for the job vacancy in the University. The Dean became astonished at certain remarks made about Feather Sharon Eagle. The staff reported that Sharon never used eye contact, seemed evasive,...
Introduction There are fifty strategies for creating meaningful guidance and experience in teaching social studies in elementary and pre-service schools. The fifty strategies provide models and examples that teachers can utilize when teaching social studies. This essay describes the most engaging instructional strategies. It also looks at how they can...
Summary “Evaluation of an ESL English Course Book: A Step towards Systematic Vocabulary Evaluation”, an article by Azadeh Nemati was a study meant to evaluate an English textbook used to teach pre-university students in the state of Karnataka, India. The study included 26 pre-university instructors that were recruited randomly from...
The Executive Summary Mike has designed a graphic that will aid in illustrating the level of services approach. According to Mike, different levels of service should be used to address individual needs of students in grades k-12. The levels of service are designed in such as way the individual needs...
Aims and Purpose of the Proposed Research Drama remains applicable to the improvement of social skills. It is possible to develop a drama in a distinctive style. These might enable participants to acquire skills in specific areas of social interactions. Through drama, individuals can develop skills such as timing and...
Introduction The implementation of a curriculum-based dynamic assessment requires additional attention when dealing with students who have special needs. The student is experiencing issues with reading. To assist him, dynamic assessment should be utilized. It would include pre-testing, mediation in the form of teaching, and post-testing. This paper will present...
While conducting research or looking for some information, undergraduates can turn to various sources such as the Internet, databases, books, and so on. However, not all the sources should be considered trustworthy or relevant and can be used in academic research. To ensure that students have access to reliable data,...
Synopsis of the first article This article by O’Neil (2011) is a guide for teachers to enable them to assist their students in attaining visual literacy skills. The article has placed attention on picture books that make use of both pictures and text to convey information. It shows that the...
Summary Assignments created to assess the learning of medical students are targeted at identifying whether the students demonstrate the expected behaviors, developed new abilities or values, acquired new knowledge with regards to the medical practice and were overall successful after completing an educational program. To assess the student learning at...
Introduction The Bologna treaty was characterized by a series of reforms undertaken by 45 European countries. The reforms aimed at creating an integrated higher education era in Europe. The 1999 Bologna treaty presented and emphasized on six objectives which were directed towards the establishment of a European Higher Education era...
Research Organization: Concept Map The concept maps are the software tools that may be effectively used for the systematization of information and its storage (Martelo, 2011). The developed concept maps include the main ideas introduced in the reviewed articles. The tool allows the readers to arrange the information in a...
Today, more than ever before, it is increasingly becoming clear that big-time college sports are adversely affecting the quality of education provided by American universities. Many of the students enrolling into these institutions seem motivated by other concerns outside the scope of achieving quality education. This trend is not new,...
Introduction The United States is one of the most culturally diverse countries in the world. The rising number of immigrants in the country has resulted in increased population over the years. One of the distinguishing characteristics of the increasingly heterogeneous society is the multiplicity of the languages spoken by different...
Introduction There is no doubt that early childhood education remains an extremely important branch of science as studying the mechanisms responsible for perception and processing of the information in children involves significant scientific discoveries capable of improving the modern approaches to education. As for the latter, they may be regarded...
Abstract Being a student is a dynamic and interesting stage of development, especially at the college level. At this stage of live, there several development phases, challenges, and achievements that come into play. At the same time, many negative influencers might distract or even make a student drop out of...
Introduction Nowadays, education remains one of the most important things for children and adults. Therefore, parents from Canada cover the expenses of summer camps with various developing programs for their sons and daughters. The following paper will present a literature review of works that describe the conditions and financial means...
Introduction If it is a question of finding universities, many choose Canada as a country to study at the college, where the level of education is high enough, and the diplomas received here are appreciated all over the world. The issue that interests both international and local students relates to...
“I don’t want to work at Walmart” (DeParle). Insightful as it is, this phrase can be perceived as a motto of all three girls told about in the article under consideration. Even though only one of them mentioned Walmart, it is the abstract idea, which is related to all three...
The peer-review cycle is a time-consuming process that requires a considerable amount of effort. Some essential steps of a peer review include ideas, grants, and research. The first step- finding an interesting idea or a fresh, relevant perspective can be hard due to the abundance of research. Secondly, research can...
As the cost of education in the United States grows, more and more young people find themselves unable to pay for the degree. Hall mentions the fact that the cost of attending institutions doubled during 1980-1990 and experienced the same changes during 1990-2000 (par. 2). This fact helps to understand...
Introduction Abstract Increasingly, efforts aimed at understanding why some teacher’s impact on students more than others, is on the rise. Determining what is effective teaching and how it can be evaluated is now a concern for educational policy makers. On the whole, proper teaching is directly related to performance of...
Introduction The creation of a positive learning setting allows students to feel well-cared-for, engaged, and comfortable, which makes them motivated to strive for success (Henderson, Cooke, Creedy, & Walker, 2012). In an environment where ideas and tasks stay constant, and focus is set on the positive attributes of learning, learners...
Classroom teaching is a very complex, challenging, demanding, frightening, and nuanced activity (Shulman, 2004). Notably, teachers receive and teacher education in learning institutions in a specific field, general knowledge, and pedagogical formation (Abell, 2008). As such, pedagogical content knowledge is based on both pedagogical and content knowledge. It incorporates pedagogical...
Cultures and Literacies The concept of literacy has been significantly changing during the last several decades due to the digital revolution and invention of new information storage media. The common types of literacies during my study in high school were books relevant to the subject (if one could find them)...
Introduction Following the studies showing that there is isolation and discrimination of students with intellectual disabilities, this article attempts to evaluate and assess the effect of new instructional model, with the aim of enhancing the performance of these students. The discrimination and isolation of the students with intellectual disabilities is...
Pedagogical content knowledge has become increasingly important for science teacher education. The delivery of rich educational content to learners in the modern classroom environment demands a profound understanding of the subject matter in question. The history of educations shows that teacher-training courses have been focusing on the teacher’s content knowledge....
This piece of work is based on Imelda S. Caleon’s journal article, “Attitudes Towards Science of Intellectually Gifted and Mainstream Upper Primary Students in Singapore” which was published on 11 October 2007. The target audience of the article is the teaching staff. The article expounds on the response or attitudes...
“Emotionally disturbed” & “behaviorally disordered” The terms, ‘emotionally disturbed’ and ‘behaviorally disordered’ are associated with emotional impairment, conduct disorder, and behavioral challenges (handicap). Behaviorally handicapped children exhibit adverse behaviors making them considered handicapped. These children thus need special education for personal adjustment. Teachers perceive children who are behaviorally disordered to...
The paper under the investigation is written by Robert Rosenthal and Leonore Jacobson, and it is called Teachers expectancies: Determinants of pupils IQ gains. Despite the fact that the article was written in the middle of the past century, the given issue could still be considered crucial as it gives...
Writing a grant proposal is a challenging task. To win, the applicant should consider multiple factors. Establishment of a budget for the project and provision of an eloquent rationale supporting it are among the most important things one must take into account. In her post, Tylisha says that these areas...
Problem description The student exhibits a learning disorder, which involves social withdrawal and adverse educational performance. In this regard, the student does not relate well with other students and does not complete schoolwork assignments as expected. Behavioral program The behavioral intervention program determines behavioral symptoms of a student. In this...
APA Style and Its Usage in Academic Writing The choice of APA style in academic writing is preconditioned by the fact that it allows a reader to quickly locate and identify the resources used for in-text citations. The presence of such indicators as an author’s name and the year of...
It is worth noting that with a highly globalized world all sectors including institutions of learning are highly characterized with diversity. People from different cultural backgrounds have found themselves studying together. It is important for institutions of learning to put in place a mechanism that will address the discontent as...
Do you know how much time you are likely to spend at work? One-third is not exactly correct since you do not work all your life. Most definitely, though, the number of hours you will have spent working by the time you retire equals 80 000. It is an impressive...
Introduction DREAM (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors) was a legislation that was developed to provide the opportunity for undocumented students to attend university or even at least college. This legislation stipulated that states would be allowed to offer in-state tuition rates to those foreign students who had lived...
Relationship between Bilingual Education and Literacy Bilingual education is the delivery of academic content in more than one language. The main purpose of multilingual schooling is to enhance understanding of the contents of academic programs amongst learners who are not proficient in the native language (Escamilla et al., 2014). It...
College Textbooks Rising costs of college textbooks is a significant problem for students of Florida National University that has to be addressed to reduce the financial pressures that can damage academic performance. The question of ever-increasing costs of tuition has been discussed ad nauseam in media over the last decade;...
Introduction Everyone knows what bullying is. A great number of people experienced bullying as either victims, perpetrators, or bystanders. It is a problem that has existed ever since the creation of first public schools in the 18th century. While the society is aware of the problem, little is done to...
The present study examined the influence of mathematics methodology courses on pre-service early childhood education teachers’ sense of self-efficacy. Seven specific areas were targeted to develop an adequate understanding of how courses in mathematics methods affect the development of self-efficacy among pre-service early childhood teachers. The first two areas aimed...
APA citation style allows including different articles, researches, publications, and various materials belonging to other authors in the written text. It enables providing the correct bibliographic description of the resources used in accordance with uniform rules and methods that will meet contemporary academic standards. It should be noted that APA...
Moral development is a gradual process by which children build up appropriate mind-set toward other people within a particular society. Kohlberg proceeded further to modify the work of Piaget within the concept of psychology and moral development. He explains that children can only form their ways of thinking capability by...
Introduction In the recent past, managing college affairs through college leaders has become an uphill task. Leaders are facing challenges that range from one field to another. They have been long considered as the voice of the entire student group. Their main function is to make the wants or needs...
A range of situations can cause an evaluator to use tests of nonverbal intelligence as primary instruments to assess children at different stages of their development. The first reason to choose this test in order to evaluate children’s cognitive abilities in contrast to verbal tests is the children’s age (Overton,...
Introduction Standardized testing is one of the main forms of student assessment today. Indeed, the current educational system is aimed at providing learners with the essential knowledge required for the successful completion of standardized tests. However, this form of control and evaluation implies the presence of specific skills in students...
The rationale for Topic Selection Despite numerous endeavors to address the instances of domestic violence, the current situation with abusive relationships remains drastic. According to global statistical data, in 2017, approximately 35% of women have experienced abuse at some point in their lives (World Health Organization, 2017). Since the problem...
Introduction An early childhood program entails appropriate development practices for decision and policy makers in program centers. The main reason for the creation of such programs is for the care and education of young children. The program aims at establishing quality standards in the process of delivering the needs of...
Children’s education is one of the most important social institutions that guarantee existence and the further development of our society. For this reason, the level of interest devoted to the issue has always remained high. Thus, today we can observe numerous attempts to improve the outcomes of the academic activity...
Introduction The choice of learning strategies is important since it predetermines the success of the learning process. People have diverse learning preferences. Some learn better through visual strategies, and some are more successful with reading or writing strategies. There are tests and questionnaires which help to determine learning preferences and...
As concluded in the literature review, the education in the United Arab Emirates requires modernization and changes at every level. The proposed research will attempt to gather information concerning the modernization in the educational institutions of the UAE that has already been going on for some time and review its...
The purpose of inclusive education. The difference between inclusion and “mainstreaming” School population becomes increasingly diverse, and inclusive education is meant to address such rapid demographic change and adjust and develop teachers’ professional skills to stimulate the academic achievements of diverse students. While mainstream education implies the absence of a...
Introduction In any education setting, testing forms an integral part of any learning process, it is one of the primary methods of ascertaining whether learners have mastered all the content learned in class. Because of the dynamic nature of the learning process, which results due to the differences in learners’...
Introduction: A General Concept of Fire Safety Although the concept of fire safety might seem self-explanatory to an adult, young students need to be taught essential rules on the subject so that they should not expose themselves to the related dangers. Furthermore, maintaining fire safety is a challenging task that...
In order to understand the importance of incorporating culture in early childhood education, it is important to start by defining culture. The term culture has varied definitions but basically, it entails the things that people develop together, what is shared amongst themselves and generally how they live together. Being more...
Introduction The Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) and other methods of argumentative and alternative communication (AAC) have gained popularity in their usage to improve the communication capabilities of people with extreme communication impairments. An example of communication disorders is Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Individuals with ASD have challenges with speech...
Introduction Promotions on campus range from consumable products such as foods and drinks to non-consumable products; which may include services and raw materials. People tend to react uniquely to different occasions and the promotions on campus are not an exception (Eagly, 2013). This is for the reason that both females...
Children are inclined to associate new concepts with ideas that they have regarding certain objects and phenomena. Therefore, they can experience difficulties while working with concepts and terms that have different connotations in various situations. For instance, it is often difficult for children to distinguish between objects and materials that...
What the US has done There has been a remarkable improvement in my state based on the education excellence for all children act of 1999. The US government has played a pivotal role in uplifting the standards of education especially in the elementary and secondary education. For instance, my District...
The first objective to prepare for a future career is to gain sufficient proficiency in communicating with employers. The performance aspect of this objective can be defined as the ability to engage in meaningful communication with the representative of a company or organization in the field of my interest. The...
Introduction The school district has a program of gifted education which is quite comprehensive and effective. Nonetheless, it has a number of drawbacks. Shaklee (2001) stress that it is important to have an efficient program or it is better not to have any program at all. Therefore, the school district...
Step one is to communicate with parents frequently. It is important to keep the parents of children who are consistently experiencing difficulties informed. If parents are unaware of how their child is performing at school, a proposition of involving the child in special education may be shocking to them, and...
Peer review process Two points of the peer review process seem especially important to me. First, it is important that the peer reviewers are working separately and do not share their findings before arriving at a definitive conclusion. I think it is important because it eliminates the cognitive bias of...
Athletics Athletics is a collective term used to refer to competition in different sporting events like walking, throwing, jumping and running. Competitions involved in athletics include race walking, road running, track field and cross-country. Athletic competitions are simple because they do not involve the use of expensive equipments. Athletics is...
Introduction The key purpose of the relevant paper resides in analyzing and evaluating Standard 2 ”Building Family and Community Relationships” retrieved from the list of Standards for Initial Early Childhood Professional Preparation (National Association for the Education of Young Children, 2010). It is considered critical to examine this standard from...
How the language is used for assessing ESL for students Understanding of English language has the capacity of going a long way in helping students improve their accent skills. The key to accepting the language is engraved in understanding which words are strained and which ones are not. In the...
Abstract A classroom should be the place where all children regardless of disabilities receive the most appropriate education. Children with speech and language impairments have the right to receive efficient education. Thus, the task of the professional school staff is to adapt a classroom environment and educational curriculum in such...
Introduction The main purpose of the internship practice was the obtaining of professional experience and learning from communication with competent specialists. Throughout the course of the internship, the students develop professional skills by dealing with multiple challenges and fulfilling daily tasks. The internship facilitates the learning process because it allows...
Introduction Sherman Alexie’s quote is quite harsh, but true: young adult fiction should not become milder or sweeter just because some of the critics see is as too daunting. Instead, YA literature’s aims should focus on addressing all children and being relevant to all social classes, without including or excluding...
Why is APA Style Used to Document Ideas in Writing? APA citation style is used to document ideas in writing because it demonstrates that a person who works on a particular text refers to other authors’ opinions, statements, and conclusions. It is essential to outline a certain idea of another...
The primary purpose of the paper is to summarize the selected standard while providing a rationale for the choice in terms of professional, advocate, and personal development. In turn, the questions are designed for the professional of early childhood education to clarify the primary intentions of the standard and offering...
Introduction Autism is a condition that affects a number of individuals around the globe. In the past scholars downplayed the condition with the thought that was a mental issue. However, the discovery that the condition is treatable and that people suffering from the condition can live normal lives changed the...
APA Style In order to document ideas in writing, a variety of styles may be employed. However, one of the most effective methods to do so is the APA style. With its help, the author makes it easy for readers to find the sources that were employed while writing the...
Introduction Like many schools in the United States, Florida National University offers an orientation program to its first-year students. It is held before the beginning of actual studies. Orientation includes a greeting ceremony and instructions. New students are instructed on the university’s policies and procedures, schedule, student services, and the...
In this article, Participation of Students with Moderate to Severe Disabilities in the General Curriculum: The Effects of the Self-Determined Learning Model of Instruction, the main aim of the study was to find out how Self-Determined Learning Model of Instruction (SDLMI) affects the performance of the children with varying degrees...
Introduction Purpose of the Paper There exist numerous requirements for early childhood professionals (ECPs) related to their personal and professional qualities (Colker, 2008; NAEYC, 2010a; NAEYC, 2010b). The purpose of this paper is to study the standards related to ECP activity and provide questions that could be asked for an...
I decided to choose the controversial topic (fad diets) due to the direct effect of such diets on the daily lives of thousands of Americans. As fad diets can be dangerous and cause dehydration, I believe people should understand their side effects and be aware of how such diets work....
Introduction Different people tend to use different learning styles and techniques, and coaches should take into account these peculiarities when developing planned training programs. The learning style is an individual’s preferred method of achieving the goals in the context of learning. The quality of the learning styles used by individuals...
There are two theoretical frameworks that are pertinent in instructing elementary teachers on teaching mathematics: the developmental approach and the constructivist approach (Van de Walle et al., 2010). This discourse shall be delving deep into this viewpoint in the quest to establish their suitability and whether one is more preferable...
Motor delays are experienced when children fail to attain a certain stage of development within a given time. Causes of motor delays can either be genetic or environmental. There are many signs which indicate that a child is experiencing motor delays. These signs are behavioral, vision, gross motor, and hearing....
The current study examines the effects of a mathematics methodology course on the efficacy beliefs of pre-service elementary teachers, with a focus on identifying (1) how the teaching efficacy of these teachers is affected by the course, (2) teachers’ perceptions of their skills, competence, and ability to teach mathematics, and...
Introduction One of the functions of universities is to generate knowledge through research (Brennan, King, and Lebeau 11). While this function is typically assumed by research universities, other educational facilities must recognize the role of research in students’ education and teachers’ development. The lack of sufficient research funding at Florida...
Key Issues in the Peer Review Cycle In my opinion, one of the primary points in the peer-reviewed cycle is the research because it is the stage that requires a long and detailed analysis, which gives the possibility to proceed to the subsequent stages of writing a scientific work. Besides,...
Multimedia technologies are discussed by educators as effective instruments to enhance instructions and contribute to learning different concepts. Researchers often propose using multimedia technologies to improve the results of students with learning disabilities. In their article, Kennedy, Deshler, and Lloyd (2015) discussed the effects of multimedia on teaching and learning...
Poor social development ranks as a common problem for children who suffer from conditions such as autism. This paper considers one study on the use of peer networks to improve social interactions among students with special needs. The studied literature (Debra et al., 1997) presents suggestions on how early childhood...
Educational approaches entail the methods that are used for teaching. The curriculum developed for various students depends on the different needs of each category of students. The curriculum to be developed for students with disabilities must meet certain three conditions. Therefore, it should answer the following questions to ensure effective...
Introduction The article under analysis deals with the effects the educator’s presentation style and charisma can have on the learning process. The study described in the article is based on the assumption that learners can be seduced quite easily by the personality of the educator and appreciate the learning experience...
The variety of lenses provided by Lehman and Roberts (2013) in their book about close reading is expected to be a powerful tool in teaching students about close reading and its impact on text comprehension. The authors discuss different lenses for narrative and informational texts and include them into six...
Abstract Knowledge sharing is seen as one of the important elements of talent development and retaining. This paper includes a brief description of the development program aimed at training employees to share knowledge effectively to contribute to the development of the organization. The program lasts for 10 weeks and involves...
Peer-Reviewed Journals The process of reviewing is an important part of publishing new research. The peer-review cycle encompasses many steps that ensure high quality of articles and studies in scientific journals. The most important parts of this cycle include assessing the quality of research and determining its significance to the...
It is very important for students to write using their own words because this makes a positive contribution to the scholarly world. It would be very difficult to make any advances in the society if no scholars wrote any original work. Whenever someone writes something using new words, this approach...
APA and Its Significance Why Is APA Style Used to Document Ideas in Writing? The importance of the APA referencing and formatting guide is rather self-explanatory. The APA framework provides a set of rules that allow for a homogenous format to be applied to all studies. Therefore, the process of...
According to the VARK testing, my leading learning strategy is kinesthetic. As per scores, they were visual – 2, aural – 3, read/write – 7, and kinesthetic – 14 points. Kinesthetic perception is a way of obtaining information through the establishment of direct physical contact through any type of feeling...
Human capital is the most valuable resource in an organization, therefore, it is a critical resource as it determines the quality of services offered. It takes years to develop skilled employees, as such they must get superior salaries. According to Lussier and Kimball (2009) “a key driver of business success...
Visit India Please kindly consider the educational route to India aimed at educating the students on cross-cultural influences in global cultures. India is a country of diverse cultures, religions, languages, and races. The identity of Indian people and the social structure of this country are nourished by the rich cultural...
The one-sentence summary The article provides a study of the concordance of self-assessment of college students regarding their height and weight to their actual body weight and height; it is concluded that such self-assessments are usually rather precise. The one-paragraph summary The authors research the precision of college students’ self-reports...
In general, the concept of related services presupposes those approaches that are used to meet the needs of students with disabilities. Their purpose is to improve educational outcomes and help learners to achieve those goals set by their individualized education program (IEP). Related services help to participate in the general...
Research Methods & Processes Justification of the selection of the research methods and processes The systematic processes applied in the planning of actions and the subsequent analysis of data play an important role in any research process. They form the basis for understanding how the project was carried and the...
Introduction The paper provides a model of the innovative school development, which is based on the multiple intelligences concept. The approach was elaborated by the professor from Harvard University, Howard Gadner. In contrast to the traditional understanding of human mentality, Gadner’s methodology claims that intelligence should be viewed as a...
Introduction One of the major responsibilities of a teacher in a teaching environment is to manage students’ behaviors. Many scholars in education agree that a student’s performance is not dependent on intellectual ability alone but also in other factors such as behavior. A student’s behavior not only affects his or...
Literature Review The last decade has brought multiple opportunities and benefits for the UAE. The main factor contributing to the growth of the state’s economy was the oil price that has facilitated some rapid increase in assets available for the development of the country. At the same time, the strong...
Synopsis of Denny’s article Deeney, T. A. (2010). One-Minute Fluency Measures: Mixed Messages in Assessment and Instruction. The Reading Teacher, 63(6), 440–450. This article explores the issues of the response to intervention (RTI) and Learning Disabilities in quite a systematic manner. The author, Deeney, intended to examine the effectiveness of...
The completed session is important to provide a teacher with a lot of information regarding the classroom management and collection of data to demonstrate the students’ understanding. First, it is necessary to discuss a general approach to organizing classroom practices and creating the working and positive environment during lessons. In...
Abstract This paper provides a review of the literature on the problem of dyslexia and its relationship to children’s and adolescents’ academic achievements and self-esteem. The purpose of this literature review is to analyze, compare, and contrast the recent studies on the topic and identify possible interventions to cope with...
Introduction A trend that has developed in recent years is the inclusion of children with special needs in settings where they can interact with their peers (that are exhibiting signs of normal development). Such a direction has resulted in the inclusion of children with autism disorders in elementary schools. As...
Learning remains one of the most important and significant things in life of any person. It is necessary to remember that studying is not connected only to visiting classes at school or at university. Instead, people have to learn throughout their entire lives. In this connection, there is an extremely...
Introduction Education is one of the core foundations for the development of any society. The educational initiatives in the United States including No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and the Individuals with Disability Act aim at ensuring the inclusion of all students in the accessing education. The educational policies and acts...
Educational strategies are the instructional methods and the learning activities used in imparting knowledge and skills to the learners. Mathematics is an abstract and empirical subject requires exciting ways to drive home the concepts and facts. To achieve this, mathematics teachers use several strategies that are not limited to gaming,...
Early Childhood Education: Introduction Standard Summary: Building Family and Community Relationships Promoting diversity and improving the process of cross-cultural communication In the environment of the 21st century, where diversity is one of the foundational principles of intercultural communication, it is essential to teach learners to be perceptive of other people’s...
Reading Program for 1st Grade The reading program discussed in this essay is going to focus on the first-grade students. The key components of an effective reading program are fluency building, phonemic awareness, and phonics. Phonemic awareness is especially crucial for first-grade students because it is the basis of the...
Introduction The demand for higher education has been on the increase in Europe for the recent past. The United Kingdom, in particular, has had a doubling number of student enrollments for undergraduate to doctorate level courses in its institutions both by in-statee students and international students. This has been attributed...
Early childhood education (ECE) is focused on the teaching and development of children younger than five years of age. The inclusion of families is crucial to the learners of this age. That way, the ECE teachers who work in a wide range of versatile settings (kindergartens, preschools, community-based classes, homes,...
Introduction The purpose of this paper is to give a summary on the article “Access, participation, and progress in the general education curriculum in the least Restrictive environment for students with significant cognitive disabilities” written by Ann Smith. The article addresses the right of education to children irrespective of their...
Introduction This paper seeks to examine three topics about the current issues in education concerning the educators’ perceptions and attitudes towards different teaching approaches, policies, and the training of teachers. The first topic for study is, “Teaching linguistically diverse students: a mixed-methods study of the elementary practitioners’ coursework, attitudes, and...
The issue of self-censorship is a relevant one because, in our rapidly changing world, the literature that is seen as “fitting” into the curricula often does not adequately reflect the processes and events that happened. This happens because of the self-censorship of teachers or whole institutions that believe adolescents need...
In the paper titled Teaching to the test: high crime, misdemeanor, or just good instruction, James Popham talks about teaching targeted at helping students pass exams and contrasts it with teaching aimed at helping students gain knowledge (Popham 1). Popham describes the kind of teaching whose main purpose is the...
Literature Review of References used in the Overrepresentation of African Americans in Special Education Programs. The following literature review looks at peer-reviewed journals whose research topics relate to culturally diverse pedagogy, the teaching of students of color, and the experiences of special education, segregation, equity in educational opportunity, and African...
Introduction A major challenge facing mathematics teachers and teacher trainees is how to deal with the negative attitude many students have towards the subject. They often discover a disparity between their students in that some take naturally to the discipline, while others appear unable or unwilling to grasp its constituent...
Reading Fluency on Elementary Level and Technology It is impossible to underestimate the impact of technologies on our daily life. This topic is relevant because the digital revolution has provided us with different tools and activities that can make the problems that we need to solve easier and less challenging....
Designing and developing a course-centered curriculum in the agency The course-centered curriculum requires the support of the professionals involved in requirement and training and experienced workers of each department that will participate in the course (Rothwell & Kazanas, 2003). That way, the curriculum will be designed based on the subjects...
Introduction It has been acknowledged that teaching careers are based on the principle of sharing knowledge and experiences. Educators are passing on certain knowledge and skills to younger generations. There are different ways to improve this process and a proper combination of curriculum, instruction and development can be crucial. Importantly,...
Introduction Kindergarten is one of the basic institutions that are present in any educational system. It serves to cultivate the societal values in children, developing their social integration, and most importantly forming their academic base. The main interaction in these institutions is between teachers and students, with the student-student interaction...
The relationship between the process of learning and the role of the trainer is rather complex. Different theories of learning refer to trainers as to interventionists or facilitators; however, these two sides are not polar, and their compilation provides an opportunity to review the issue more comprehensively. The purpose of...
I watched the following four videos: About oceans-integrating language and literacy activities, Providing phonological awareness instruction, Becoming aware of print and Dialogic reading –an interview with Christopher Lonigan (WETA, 2011). I found the last podcast most interesting. Here the speaker, Dr. Lonigan, briefly details the strategy as a teaching approach...
Introduction The new development discussed in this paper is the recently published list of the QS World University Rankings in the field of nursing. The list of the best institutions has been made public in March of 2016. It covers educational programs and universities all around the globe. This year,...
There are multiple ways to deliver the curriculum to students. Despite the fact that only one Ontario Curriculum is applicable at schools, the teacher can accommodate and modify it so as to respond to the existing diversity of the class and address the needs of every student so that no...
Impact of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Cultural Differences on Student Learning To a large extent individuals’ cultural and linguistic backgrounds, as well as inherent cognitive abilities, define their personalities, behaviors, and decision making. These factors also affect the process of learning across the lifespan. Therefore, every teacher must consider all possible...
It should be stated that outcome-focused evaluation can be considered a functional approach towards teacher preparation assessment. It provides an opportunity to display the levels of readiness of teachers to furnish educational services right after graduation. It is worth noting that on the one hand, such an approach to the...
Nowadays, many organizations pay much attention to the role of professional standards for teaching (Tuinamuana, 2011) and improve the quality of education from different aspects. NAEYC is a well-known professional organization that promotes the quality of early childhood education employing the standards developed based on teachers’ and learners’ needs, expectations,...
Introduction The Saudi Arabian education system appears to be radically evolving from the time when the system was first founded. In fact, having been in existence for over 78 years, just the affluent and kids from the elite families enjoyed the Saudi Arabian education system privileges from the onset. Now,...
The problem of integrating students with disabilities into the normal learning curriculum has emerged as big challenge to practitioners, policy makers, administrators, and families. In particular, childhood practitioners have been the most challenged since they encounter children with disabilities on regular basis. In reference to the text, the authors do...
Introduction There is a strong body of arguments proving that experience before turning five years old shapes personality. Because childhood professionals help define and facilitate positive economic, social, and psychological trajectories in life (Leske, Sarmardin, Woods, & Thorpe, 2015), early childhood preparation has increased in significance. This paper aims at...
Abstract The mixed-methods approach is effective to be used to conduct the evaluation of the social or education program. The data analysis stage referred to the research on the role of higher education for African American women consists of such steps as the analysis of the secondary data, the analysis...
The Role of Education Education entails the involvement of a person in the social perception of the contest. This means that education is an extensive process that starts as soon as an individual is born. Throughout the process, an individual’s consciousness is saturated, shaped, trained, and developed whereby the behavior...
Introduction The very identity of further education in finding interventions with students with severe disabilities has been deconstructed from its original inception. The article describes several evidence-based practices that have been used over the years in trying to build more effective educational system for students with cognitive disability. First, the...
Group Scenario The targeted scenario for this analysis is a group composed of teenage students in a learning institution. The members of the group are from different social, cultural, racial, and religious backgrounds. Some of the individuals have been known to abuse certain drugs and engage in risky sexual behaviors....
Introduction The primary goal of the paper is to compare and contrast essays such as Are Colleges Worth the Price of Admission by Andrew Hacker and Dreifus and Blue-Collar Brilliance by Mike Rose. Despite the presence of the value of education in the society due to the improvement in the...
Self-Rating and Effectiveness of Courses for Pre-service Teachers’ Perceptions of Their Skills, Competence, and Ability to Teach Mathematics The research question chosen for analysis is “What are pre-service teachers’ perceptions of their skills, competence, and ability to teach mathematics?” To answer the question, seven preservice teachers were interviewed on themes...
Introduction The learning process can be complicated by the inappropriately chosen learning strategy. People have different learning styles, so it is necessary to consider the peculiarities of each person and apply the correct learning strategy to assure the best effectiveness of the learning process. The Visual (V), Aural / Auditory...
Introduction Over the last two decades, there has been a significant achievement in availing learning to students with disabilities. The progress in availing learning to students with disabilities has originated from an array of research on the subject of inclusive learning. Relevant parties in the education sector are now exploring...
Last week, two students were temporarily arrested by law enforcers for demonstrating unbecoming behavior and damaging property belonging to private citizens after engaging in an off-campus binge drinking. Later in the week, another college student sustained serious injuries after he was run over by a motorist, but after preliminary investigations,...
Background information Bronx Envision Academy is a public school located in Bronx, New York. This public school is a small community located on the 4th floor of the Herman Ridder Campus. The Herman Ridder School Campus is an urban district 12 New York City Department of Education School established on...
The purpose of this paper is to deepen the knowledge about young children employing the second standard to improve early childhood professional’s preparation. Even though early childhood professional is considered to develop children’s abilities, the role of family and community cannot be overestimated. Standard 2: Building Family and Community Relationships...
Introduction This paper assesses the transition-related strength of students with severe disabilities from the perspective of the educators, parents and the youth. It is based on various ratings for those students with severe disability by their teachers, parents and fellow students (Carter, Sun & Owens, 2009, p.74) The writers have...
My curriculum is organized around an analytical skill. I organized my curriculum in a way that leads to instilling in my students’ analytical skills, this relied on none other element but grammar (Graves, 2000, p.135). In this curriculum, learners received suitable program support to allow them to participate productively in...
Definition of the research topic The most disturbing question for educationists and trainers concerns the mechanisms used in fostering the learning abilities of children with disabilities. While it is evident that educational institutions have developed classes for children with mental disabilities, it is still challenging to enhance learning among such...
Those who cannot do, teach. Those who cannot teach, teach others to teach… or do they? The idea that those people who cannot teach, teach others to teach is rather provocative, and it is based on following the balance between theory and practice, passive discussions, and real actions. This balance...
The curriculum design is implemented in a secondary classroom setting in the US state where multi-race students are able to get their education and improve their level of knowledge. The teacher described the majority of her students in class as “disinterested” in mathematics and that there are distractions in learning...
The debate on whether or not school uniforms should be introduced in public schools has been raging for decades. There is no indication that this debate will come to close any time soon. In Northern America, wearing of school uniforms in public schools is disfavored as uniforms remain to be...
