...Curriculum Planning This paper will explore the effects on a child’s growth and development. What factors, such as, poverty and abuse can have on the development of a child. What educators can do to help identify delays and develop appropriate behavior in children. Also, this paper will explore what children are learning in preschool and programs that can be useful in the growth and development of children. There are differences in the growth and development of every child. Growth refers to specific changes and increases in the child’s actual size (Allen, K. & Marotz, L. 2010, p 24). Development refers to any increase in complexity, from simple to more complicated, and detailed (Allen, K. & Marotz, L. 2010, p 25). Teachers and caregivers often get these confused. Growth defined as an increase in size, whereas development defined by the improvement and acquisition of skills. Growth often limited by the lack of resources and development, will still take place by using the resources a child possesses. Our textbook, states “growth and development are influenced by a child’s unique genetic makeup and the quality of the everyday environment, which includes nurturing, health care, and opportunities to learn the full range of skills that are evidence of developmental progress” (Allen, K. & Marotz, L. 2010, p 25). Every child grows and develops differently according to how the child acquires the necessary skills in six key developmental areas (Allen, K. & Marotz...
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...Mind Travis Harris Mind-Body Article Review The article i choose was a very simple article that covered basically everything we went over during class. It was an article i pulled from the "New York Times Opinon Page" titled, Exercise and Academic Performance. The articles starts off by stating that the research they based the article on was preformed by the Institute of Medicine, which is part of the National Academy of Science. The findings concluded that exercise was incredibly important to improve childrens academics performance. It went on to explain what the research had found, and the benefits of exercise were greater muscular strength, lower body fat, and better cardiovascular and mental health. The benefit of the exercise correlated with the academics in a way that children were found to be able to focus better, perform simple task quicker, and even have better working memories. The most imporant thing i believe they found was that they preform better on the standerdized test. Which i believe to be quite funny since the part of the reason they are cutting physical exercise from schools is to try to preform better on testing. The reports conclusion stated that students should get at least 60 minutes of exercise a day. The final sentence to the article i think is a strong one, editorial board said (2013), "Physical activity should be a core educational concern, not a dispendable option." Overall i think they article was well written, and made a strong and precise...
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...Alicia Smith ELED 415 Chapter 3 Summary In chapter 3 Queen discusses how educational philpohilsy influence that help form the six educaitional models. These six models are: Perennialist, Essentialists, Progressivitst, Existentialists, Recontrustionists, and Futurist. The first two models that were discussed in this chapter is the perennialists and Essentialists. These two models view education as being concentrated on cultural inheritance over time. The teaching focus on ideas that are ongoing. The perennalists believe that’s education is constant like human nature. This model also ensures students to understand great ideas of Western communities. The Essentialist believe that there is a systematic ways of knowledge that needs to be taught to students in a certain way. Essentialist differs from perennalists because they accept the idea of change in curriculums. In this model students are prepared to become better members in society by teaching students how to read, write,and speak clearly. Essentialist. believe that change is necessary. This means that the teach should help the students in their Alicia Smith ELED 415 Summary of Chapter 5& 6 In chapter 5 Queen discusses the process of creating a curriculum, the different meanings of a curriculum, patterns of curriculum organization, balancing subject content and process, and lastly cautions and warnings. In chapter 6 Queen describes content that is taught in early grades K-2 grades. In...
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...Reflections on Education Policy SOC 320: Public Policy: Social Services Instructor : Exaterina Gorislavsky Adrienne Henry August 23,2015 My journal today will discuss the reflection on education policy. What are the current major issues reflecting to education? Some of the major issues that are taking today in our nation with education in public schools is poverty. Poverty has been a crisis for the longest and there are so many children who come from low income families. Many families only bring in 23,000 a year or less a year with this going on in the homes it has caused the drop out rate to increase. A big impact to the issues is what goes on in the home as well. Teachers have to deal with students being disrespectful towards adult authority and their peers as well. When you have negativity going on it brings bullying and violence and many students face this on a daily basis. There are Too many students in one class up to thirty students. This is a issue because how can they learn you have too much distraction and this causes the teachers a lack of interest to teach. The Government should take fault for this because they should provide money to pay more teachers to be employed and build more schools...
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...Educational Preparation Michelle Holmes Grand Canyon University: NRS-430V Professional Dynamics October 27, 2013 Educational Preparation Although there are differences in competencies between nurses prepared at an Associate-degree versus the Baccalaureate-degree level in nursing, they are slight. As I started my nursing career as an Associate-Degree Nurse (ADN), I felt inferior to my colleagues whom possessed their Baccalaureate-degree. That inferiority faded fast, as I saw that what an ADN and BSN did in my particular specialty was just the same. There were more similarities than differences. The similarities in competencies I found were, that both were required to pass the same NCLEX exam that is needed to possess the required license to practice nursing. There are no differences shown is regards to the legal scope of practice between an associate degree–prepared and baccalaureate-degree prepared nurses; for they are earn the same license upon passing testing from state boards. Although the required testing does not attest for differences between graduates of different programs, it does test for the technical competency that’s required for safe entry into basic nursing practice for both degrees. Secondly, by definition, the act of nursing for both is the same, ‘the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in...
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...Vark Learning Styles Ranee Tozer Grand Canyon University Family Centered Health Promotion NRS 429V-0105 Carrie Trimberger June 29, 2014 Vark Learning Styles The Vark learning system is a guide to help individuals identify and analyze their learning styles. Within the system there are five domains for analyzing learning visual, aural, kinesthetic, reading/ writing and multimodal. According to Fleming (2011), approximately 60% of the population fits the multimodal category. This writer is among that percentage. The results of the test yielded the following information; Visual-2, aural-12, reading/writing-5 and kinesthetic-11. A review of the different learning styles and how they affect learning will be discussed in the following paragraphs. A multimodal profile can have varied combinations of two or more of the learning styles. They may have equal strength is all categories, or show a dominance in two or three of the categories. The multimodal learner can adapt and change their mode of learning to suit the learning situation or to interact with others for a positive outcome. This profile gives an individual the opportunity to use all their preferences to get a well-rounded understanding of the material to be learned or conveyed (Fleming, 2011). The visual learner uses pictures, diagrams, slides, and flow charts amongst other visually pleasing designs to take in information. Fleming (2011) suggests when studying to draw and reconstruct your lectures using pictures, symbols...
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...The Effectiveness of Scientific Games in Teaching Chemistry Concept A Thesis Presented to The Faculty of College of Education Eulogio “Amang” Rodriguez Institute of Science and Technology In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Basic Research Prof. Ed. 11 Submitted by: Glenda C. Perlota Reymund G. Reyes Jay-Ar D. Rivera Ronald A. Sato Macel T. Solis Avegail B. Vega School Year 2007-2008 Submitted to: Mrs. Eleanor S. Arcillas TABLE OF CONTENTS Title Page Acknowledgement ……………………………………………………………i Abstract………………………………………………………………………..ii CHAPTER 1: Problems and its Background………………………………5 Introduction…………………………………………………….5 Theoretical Framework…………………..…………………..6 Conceptual Framework………………………..……………..7 Statement of the Problem……………………..……………..9 Research Hypothesis…………………………………………9 Significance of the Study………………………..…………..10 Scope and Delimitation………………………………………11 Definition of Terms…………………………….……………..12 CHAPTER 2: Review Related Literature…………………………………...14 Foreign Literature…………………………………………….15 Local Literature……………………………………..………...16 CHAPTER 3: Methodology……………………………………..…………….20 Method Used…………………………………………………..20 Respondent of the Study……………………………………20 Sources of Data……………………………………...
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...7) Technical education should be made mandatory part of education since it teaches skill. Courses of carpentary, electrical works etc should be included in the curriculm. 8) To minimize the dropout ratio, economic incentives may be provided to parents so that they may send the children to school. 9) Since education has been made a provincial subject, provinces should form respective legistlations and devise educational policies according to the needs of their people. 10) Career as well psychological counselling should be made mandatory in secondary schools so that children may choose a career according to their aptitude and thus con tribute to their nation. 11) Parents should also be counselled. So that they can choose a market friendly career for their child which he can live up to according to his aptitude. 12) Federal government should support the provinces in compliance to the constitutional responsibilities...
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...WARDHA SCHEME OF EDUCATION The Wardha scheme of Education, popularly known as ‘Basic education’ occupies a unique place in the field of elementary education in India. This scheme was the first attempt to develop an indigenous scheme of education in British India by Mahatma Gandhi, the father of our nation. As a nationalist leader he fully realised that the British system of education could not serve the socio-economic need of the country. At Round Table Conference in London (1931) he pointed out the ineffectiveness of the system of primary education in India and the alarming low percentage of literacy among Indian people. He held the policy of the British Government responsible for this painful situation in the field of mass education. Gandhiji said “I am convinced that the present system of education is not only wasteful but positively harmful.” It was in this context the concept of Basic Education emerged in the mind of Gandhiji. In this unit we will discuss the historical background, the Wardha scheme of education, its fundamental features, curriculum and merits and demerits of this system of education. The word ‘Basic’ is derived from the word ‘base’ which means the bottom or the foundation of a thing upon which the whole thing rests or is made o stand Mahatma Gandhi wanted to make the foundation of the educational edifice strong. It is with this objective that he put forward this scheme. This scheme of education is based on the national culture and civilisation of India...
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...Forensic Accounting In Practice Contemporary Business 508 This paper discusses the role of forensic accounting practices. It takes a look at the skills sets of forensic accountants and the role they play out in the court room. It goes also analyzes the legal responsibilities of a forensic accountant form a professional perspective as their role for expert opinion in the court room. A forensic accountant is someone uses their accounting credibility for investigative or other legal applications, such as corporate acquisition, divorce proceedings, insurance settlements, or other legal purposes (Brody, Melendy, & Perri, 2012). Determine the most important five (5) skills that a forensic accountant needs to possess and evaluate the need for each skill. Be sure to include discussion regarding the relationship between the skill and its application to business operations. The first identifiable important skill for a forensic accountant to posses is investigative intuitiveness. The forensic accountant should possess creative and analytical thinking (DiGabrielle, 2008). According to DiGabrielle, the ability to solve a financial puzzle with an incomplete set of pieces is an extremely important characteristic for forensic accountants (p. 336). The forensic accountant is providing a service to a client for the purpose of expert information as it pertains to legal matters or for the purpose of finding or preventing financial misrepresentation. Their role is not to merely...
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...CURRICULUM Introduction As part of transforming South Africa, the educational landscape has undergone dramatic changes where ultimately teachers have to decide to either implement a curriculum as mandated or to adapt the curriculum to take into account their particular context. Teacher’s in South Africa battle on a daily basis with the effects of teaching large number of learners in an under-resourced context. Teachers are expected to adapt to those changes and such changes impact heavily on the roles of teachers in the classroom. They must find a way to facilitate teaching, learning and assessment despite difficult conditions. The gap between curriculum as intention and curriculum as reality confronts teachers regularly. The aim of this essay will address the narrow and broad definitions of the concept curriculum, as well as the official, explicit, implicit, covert and hidden curriculum as they are viewed by different authors. Defining Curriculum Two views on curriculum: Narrow and Broad Many educationists argue that awareness of different interpretations is important in developing a Good understanding of what curriculum is (Booyse & Du plesis, 2014: 4). However they make a point that different approaches, either as a blue print or adaption approach, may be appropriate for different situations. Take a closer look at the various interpretations: Eisner (1985) defines curriculum as a series of planned events that are intended to have educational consequences...
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...Standardized Testing- How Beneficial is it? Student Name Toulmin Model Position Paper English Comp II – 112 Phaire Due Date – mm/dd/yy Word Count – nnn Outline Position Statement: Is ‘No Child Left Behind’ a valid method of assessing school, teacher and student performance? No, I do not think this act is a valid method to assess school, teacher and student performance. Rhetorical Context: This issue will address all the problems that are occurring because of the standardized testing which is taking place in all public schools. This issue is important to parents who have children going to public schools because it gives them an overview of what is wrong with this act. It is also important for the teachers and school administrators since they take some part in shaping the curriculum around standardized testing. Audience Analysis: The audience for this essay will be the parents because they are able to make changes to this act. Many parents may not understand the problems that this act is causing which can be quite harmful for their children. Many parents let the government make laws for the schools, because they think if the government is doing it, it must be right. Claim: The ‘No Child Left Behind’ act is not a valid method to assess school, teacher and student performance. Reasons: There are many reasons why ‘No Child Left Behind is not working. 1. The same tests are used for all students...
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