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Reallocating School Resources - Case Study

free and reduced lunches. Test scores for language arts are low, in fact, 6th grade reading scores fell short of expectations by -...

CALLA/ESL Instruction

to understand than language that is lacking such support that contains new and/or difficult information (Chamot and OMalley, 1996)...

Language Teaching Theories

or not "communicative competence" includes "grammatical competence" and that at least one critic suggests that it does, because ad...

Self-Reflection of Development

language skills which allowed him/her to engage in conversations. However, there were rules that were obeyed. 4. Stage 4: School A...

Should School Students Be Made To Learn An Additional Language?

one of the most dividing among peoples. Given the nature of todays globalized society, learning a second language will inev...

Development - Self-Appraisal

but otherwise, they are content with companions or short-term relationships. Erikson identified love and affiliation as outcomes...

The Social Adolescent

make her laugh and Debbies mothering tendency. Marie said she appreciated Denaes honesty, Jills spontaneity and Lindas frankness....

Meaningful Learning Experiences

brain and how learning takes place supports moving away from a "mechanistic/Newtonian paradigm" that relies primarily on teacher-d...

Group Development

This essay discusses two separate topics. The first is team development according to Tuckman's theory of stages of development and...

Self-Reflections

This essay presents a self-analysis with a personal reflection. The analysis focuses on the writer's adult development. Analysis c...

ESL Instruction, Cross-Cultural Activities

This essay offers two lessons and activities that provide cultural instruction within the context of ESL (English as a Second Lang...

The Potential benefit Of M&A's in Supporting Nigerian Economic Growth

During the early 20th century merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the United States provided one of the tools for economic gr...

At Risk Elementary Students and Active Learning

In this paper consisting of ten pages a literature description of at risk and active learning is offered as well as numerous activ...

Adult Learning Theories of Freire and Mezirow

In three pages this essay considers the adult learning theories of these scholars when compared to the writer's own personal learn...

Learning and Psychological Theories

In three pages this essay discusses how learning experiences are psychologically influenced in a consideration of humanist, social...

Model A’s, Model T’s, and the Changing Face of America

few weeks later, the company sold its first automobile, to a doctor in Detroit (Davis). As noted above, the company produced 1,700...

Operant Conditiioning in Learning

Skinner believed that we are what we do and he also believed that we can change what we do for the better. The key to his theory a...

Learning Styles Discussion

This paper discusses learning styles and the instructional paradigm shift that began happening two decades ago. Theorists cited in...

Experiential and Brain-Based

because there is not enough space. Also, the constructivist approach is prevalent in regular education-think of Piaget and Vygotsk...

Aspects of Learning Among the Elderly

This research paper addresses pertinent literature on the topic of elderly learning. The author contends that further education a...

Learning Disabilities and Cooperative Learning

gone beyond Deweys premises (Brufee, 1995). In the current processes used in cooperative classrooms, students work in small groups...

Alfie Kohn's The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

reward. He has been joined by a number of other theorist, each of whom present their own social cognitive theories. Several of t...

The Use of Songs and Games to Teach English as a Second Language

repetitive and consistent (Schoepp, 2001). 2. Affective reasons: this reason involves the Affective Filter Hypothesis and basicall...

Reviews of Articles about Bilingual Education and English as a Second Language (ESL)

believe that acquiring English skills is the more important than teaching the children in Spanish (Porter, 1999). Porters article...

The Relationship Between Organizational Learning and Organizational Knowledge

that others can label as being attuned to learning from events that have occurred in the past. A learning organization is one tha...

Operating a Small Business While Learning

proposed by Kolb, has four main stages, these all reinforce each other and create a continuous learning cycles. These may be seen ...

Connectionism Versus Motor Theory: Language Processing

and classical theories of language processing. That he supports the claim there are "syntactic substantive parameters in language...

Learning Teams

team groups to undertake team marking for some assignments, lessening the workload of the teachers and increasing the consideratio...

Learning from Experience

as the years go by a person learns how to drive in particular situations, such as high traffic and bad weather through experience....

The Case of Miss A; Planning with a People Centred Approach

housework and laundry. Miss A is unable to do much housework, does not eat meals with him and goes to bed very late due to eating...