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more difficulty in attracting and retaining qualified teachers. Nowhere is this issue more prominent than in urban schools" (Sawk...
instructor more accessible than they were only a few years ago. In the highly interconnected world of the new communications era,...
greater I.Q.s than those with smaller brains but size is not all that matters ("Big," 2004). The question that should be asked: "I...
qualifications (2004). While teacher qualification is something that many have paid attention to, and this is something that No C...
ideas concerning education. Rousseaus thoughts were very different. Rather then seeing the mind of the child as a blank slate, Ro...
She offers as an example a booklet used in schools entitled, "All About Me," which consists of a series of dittoed pages where the...
students); and three grade 6 classrooms (78 students). The professional staff includes one principal, one part-time assistant pr...
repeat this process in order to provide a basis through which the concepts can be internalized. Testing, then, occurs after an ad...
read aloud with other children in age/reading skill level groups. Reading aloud, then, provides a means of assessing learner prog...
matter and issues of gender stereotyping and identity, arguing that sex roles and identification determine variations in the motiv...
models that have been shown to decrease the incidence of behavior problems in the classroom? Cooperative learning, for example, ha...
to call on the same students every time. In fact, it is natural. The same students raise their hands and so the teacher calls on t...
a PC from the mid-1990s and the simplest cell phones of today carry computing chips that are more powerful than the on-board compu...
help teachers meet the demands of their students and motivate teachers and enhance teacher performance. Background...
consequences. It can lead to children repeating the actions of perceived heroes that may get them incarcerated. It also leads to e...
the classroom and to replace those behaviors with prosocial skills. If this approach can be implemented successfully, it will redu...
which had been a post office in the early 1900s. There were several minors in the restaurant but only three were six years old or ...
different learning styles but the theories discussed take this further. Gardners multiple intelligences provides insight into the ...
creation and implementation of effective lesson plans. A huge number of studies indicate that "direct instruction" in the style of...
than profoundly retarded. Intelligence assessments typically have a mean average score of 100 with a standard deviation of about f...
all students can learn and that all students deserve nurturance and help to reach their potential. The classroom needs to be a saf...
with changes effective in July 1998. The changes brought about a greater emphasis on mainstreaming, i.e., having children with spe...
are new and innovative ways in which information can be communicated between two or more parties. This not only applies to two fri...
Behavioral problems in the classroom can manifest in relationship to any number of causal factors....
typed their writing assignments, they were able to make more effective editing choices (Fletcher, 2001). Other findings included: ...
with high expectations and are more likely to exert a significant effort in learning the English language, once those individuals ...
takes place approximately halfway through the year, and as stated, the purpose is to review the employees progress on those items ...
online" (MacGregor, 2001, p. 77). Although distance education encompasses all of the venues identified above and more, in todays ...
their child, where the mother has a greater knowledge of child development they are also more likely to place the play level at sl...
standardized testing. However, Buell and Crawford (2001) note that the test does not ask students to justify their choice, "Yet kn...