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Authentic Learning

Bransford and Pellegrino, n.d.) that resemble real-world situations (Donovan and Bransford, n.d.) Further, the tasks must meet at ...

Free Resources For Teachers

finally see a complete lesson plan for different topics (TheTeacherCenter.org, 2006). * The Teachers Caf? [http://www.theteachersc...

Rereading America by S.B. Heath and Gary Columbo

Trackton, that power has become constrained due to the atmosphere in which the residents find themselves. Their way of assimilatin...

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...

Multicultural Education - An Overview

come from different disciplines (Gay, 1994). For instance, educators might look at multicultural education from the point of view ...

Licensure: Education: Tennessee

in Tennessee (Rules of the State Board of Education: Tennessee, 2006). The last possibility is simply "good cause" which could cov...

English-Language Learners

do with teacher preparation. Surveys during faculty meetings reveal that 70 percent of the teachers do not feel they are adequatel...

Expository Writing - Lesson Plan

writing needs to be clearer or more interesting. Teach students to consider these questions: Does the reader need to know somethin...

Encoding And Cognitive Development

improve and become more sophisticated with age, leading the child being able to use them in problem solving and other cognitive ta...

Personal Teaching Philosophy

may be because he expressed what I believe - learning is a social event and social interaction plays in cognitive development. He ...

Using Technology In The Elementary School

scores on the states Comprehensive Assessment Report were strongly related to increases in technological use (Page, 2002, p. 389)....

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...

Wordsworth/Solitary Reaper

on the beauty of the scene. The Romantics tended to be introspective, while also placing emphasis on beauty of everyday life, rath...

Key Concepts/Phonemic Awareness

when it focuses on only one or two types of phoneme manipulations rather than several types : One possible reason for this researc...

Teaching Reading Fluency

the other student takes the role of teacher and offers suggestions and feedback (Richards, 2000). Another method for introducing t...

Philosophy, Ideology, Theory and the Teaching Profession

always move from there to a philosophy that incorporates helping students learn as its main objective. That is, they are trying to...

Process Approach/Teaching Writing

in teaching students how to write. The six steps outlined by these educators in regards to the writing process are: 1. Choose a to...

Reading Comprehension

or information that is not included in the text at all but is instead, related to knowledge they already have. When students gene...

Expanding Primary Care at Blackwell Health System

from large teaching hospitals, leaving them with the more seriously ill patients, whose care also is the most costly (Johnson and ...

Lesson Plan/Insulin Administration

include an understanding of how insulin functions to control glucose levels and the interaction between variables that can affect ...

Article Analysis: Blackbeard

Town (now Charleston) South Carolina, holding the city hostage (Bond, 2007). His demand is for a chest of medicine and he threaten...

Classroom Strategies for Teaching Children With Dyslexia

inaccurate word identification; spelling may also be affected (Gersons-Wolfensberger & Ruijssenaars, 1997). That is a rather bro...

Philosophy of Vocational and Technical Education

Clearly, vocational and technical education is required in many instances for such programs to be successful. Vocational, career a...

Teaching Mission And How To Achieve It

for Students My hopes are identified in the explanation of the mission statement and in the previous section. First, students wil...

Counseling Ethnic Minorities

at once the most primitive and most efficient means of communication throughout time: the art of narration, or storytelling. Huma...

Integrating Assessment to Support Learning

deficits. In the past, evaluative methods were designed largely to sort students. This definition of assessment requires strategie...

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 ...

The Holistic Model From Dunham

Katherin Dunham developed a model for teaching that was holistic, cross-cultural, and multidisciplinary.The model has gained accep...

Diverse Adult Learners/Teaching Styles

This paper pertains to a literature review that focuses on scholarly evidence that is relevant to addressing the relationship of t...