...Neglect and Abandonment: Les 400 Coups Les 400 Coups, is a 1959 French film directed by François Truffaut is highly impactful first-person narrative. The protagonist Antoine Doniel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), is a young Parisian boy who struggles with life. The theme rejection is supported in the film, Les 400 Coups through demonstrations of abandonment, neglect and unhappiness, conveyed through robust cinematography. Abandonment is dramatically demonstrated in the opening sequence. Anotine Doniel, is first introduced to us in the classroom setting. The camera zooms in on him drawing on a pinup poster. Immediately Anotine gets in trouble and is segregated from everyone by being directed behind a large black board. He is being denounced from the...
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...The Brown v. Board of Education case was long ago, but the argument remains that minorities in the teaching profession still do not match the percentages of minority students in the chairs. There are many compounding factors that have also contributed to the minority teacher shortage. Seven additional reasons for the limited presence and dwindling supply of minority teachers in the classroom has been attributed to: minority teacher candidates’ low scores on competency tests, a decline in the number of minority students graduating college overall, the disproportionate failure to meet revised certification requirements, the decreasing amount of financial aid available to teacher education students, declining teacher salaries, and minority teachers...
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...single phonemic component, two phonemic components, or 3 more phonemic components. Students typically learned PA through identification, categorization, blending, segmenting, deletion of phonemes or manipulation of onset-rime units. There was a large effect size when teaching one or two phenmic awareness skills and a small effect size when teaching 3 or more. The skills of blending and segmenting phonemes appears to be the most beneficial when transferring phonemic awareness skills to reading. Interestingly, the study also found that a greater effect size was established when the use of letters was used in addition to sounds. The insruction of phonemix awareness had the largest effect size compared to one on one intervention or whole classroom intervention. Programs that were long-lasting had a smaller effect size than shorter...
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...that the group with the deviant friends was more likely participate in delinquent acts than the group with conventional friends or the friendless group. Furthermore, the group with the deviant friends experienced higher levels of depression than the non-deviant and friendless group. It was inferred that having friends of any type serve as a buffer against feelings of loneliness. However, he also states that any type of peer association, whether good or bad, may protect adolescents from the social isolation that often precedes depression. According to Müller, Hofmann, Fleischli and Studer (2016), their study determined that the development of antisocial behaviour among students is influenced by the behavioural characteristics of their classmates. Their study was conducted with 825 students. These students answered questionnaires about self- and peer-reports on aggressive, delinquent, and disruptive classroom behaviour. He concluded that the perceived characteristics of the entire classroom, dominant students, and friends significantly predicted self-reported aggressive and disruptive behavioural development. However, it did not significant predicted delinquency in...
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...concert with face to face communication where it is used to bridge the instructional. ELearning is learning utilizing electronic technologies to access educational curriculum outside of a traditional classroom. In most cases, it refers to a course, program or degree delivered completely online. Advantages of distance education 1. Access to global resources and experts via internet communication and Internet resources. 2. Allows for the internationalization of learning opportunities. 3. Centralized resources can produce higher quality materials for distribution 4. Distance Education is Learner Centered -DE places responsibility for learning with the learner who must be more active and self-directed. 5. Facilitates greater learner-instructor interaction. 6. Facilitates Pedagogic Development-Individual Instructor Development. 7. Greater flexibility for scheduling learning-Students can determine time and place of "class time". 8. Greater flexibility in location for study-Students can engage course at home or work or on campus or at a library. 9. Has the potential to equalize access to education. 10. Increased interaction with classmates. 11. Opportunity to develop technology competencies for instructors and learners. 12. Produces a carry-over effect into the regular classroom of improved pedagogic techniques. 13. Provides for a modality of instruction better suited for certain learners. 14. Provides for an increase in Access to education for those who otherwise have no...
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...Core values of gifted education (i.e. high order thinking skills and creativity) are now introduced to the general classrooms in all subjects and schools under Tier I, with some special groupings to address the different students’ needs with enrichment and extension of curriculum (Education Bureau ,2012). Tier II promotes some pull out programs for training homogeneous students??? outside regular classrooms, while there is some pull out programs for students with excellent performance in specific domains (Education Bureau ,2012). Tier III is based on off-site support; there is mutual cooperation among the Gifted Education Section of EDB, the Hong Kong Academy for Gifted Education and other tertiary or educational institutes to provide extra and challenging learning opportunities for students with special gifts and talents nominated by their schools (Education Bureau...
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...Cyber School Advantages Cyber schools are the latest step in home education. Based entirely online, most cyber schools are regulated by the Department of Education. These schools offer state-certified teachers and present students with lots of options when it comes to subjects, electives and graduation dates. The term cyber school sometimes also refers to higher-education institutions such as colleges, although these are most often known as online schools or universities. Read more : http://www.ehow.com/about_5040292_cyber-school-advantages.html Varied Curriculum * Cyber schools allow for a flexible curriculum that parents (or even older students) can customize. Because they are self-paced, they allow for changes to be made to suit the student's learning style, capacity and interests. This will affect how much the child learns and retains for later use. Because digital media can be easily integrated into the curriculum, learning becomes a much more accessible and fun event. Most cyber schools encourage the use of videos, audio materials and forums to facilitate learning and comprehension. Many also push for taking to the outdoors as a way to get a real-world understanding of the concepts learned in cyberspace. Both elementary schools and high schools can be completed completely online with no specific time frame required, which means students can graduate as early or as late as their schedule requires. No Need to Travel * A commonly quoted advantage of cyber schools...
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..."Read-Only Participants: A Case for Student Communication in Online Classes" In the article titled "Read-only participants; a case for student communication in online classes" impairs the importance of community and communication in online courses. It also discusses the reason students succeed or fail in online classes. To discover the concerns listed above, a study of eight weeks was conducted on students. The study monitored classroom activity as well as communication among students coming from diverse backgrounds. Such examples are geographical location, race, gender and age. The study resulted in both success and failure. Both were discovered and documented. With the results of success the following findings were noted: firstly online courses that had discussions where students and teachers would interact had a positive effect on introverted individuals. In a traditional classroom these students would have participated less but now found a voice in the virtual classroom. Secondly, the skills necessary in an online classroom can improve higher order thinking as well as critical thinking. This was done by the discussion forums and posts that required students to apply and create learned knowledge. Thirdly, a professor that had great involvement with his class became a positive feature by providing encouragement and support through posts. As a result of the instructors involvement students were eager to become more involved in the discussions. In addition to results...
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...A. Submit a data report from the five walk-throughs s an attachment to this task. Copy the data reports into a word processing document if necessary. Attached please find the data table for the walk-throughs conducted between February and March 2015. B. Conduct a “reflection protocol” with your practicum administrator. 1. Explain what patterns you saw in the walk-though data. There are several patterns identified from these walk-thoughs. In most classrooms, there is nearly an equal amount of student and teacher centered instructional strategies being employed. The majority of the classrooms are well managed and the students were engaged in the activities. No lecture was occurring in any of the classrooms. There was a lot of hands-on activity and practice occurring. There was a wide variety of instructional materials being used (although this is not reflected in the data), and even in the class where there were no materials being actively used, the students were actively focused on a teacher prepared game. All of the teachers are proficient at asking the lower-ordered questions (knowledge, comprehension and application); there was very little higher-ordered questioning happening. 2. Explain what conclusions you arrived at from reviewing the walk-through data....
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...Mary W. Douglas January 21, 2013 Explain some forms of language assessment that you use with children? In the Montessori classroom, assessment occurs in 4 ways. * The Montessori three period lesson. * 1st Period: I (the teacher) show and name a new concept. Example: “These shapes are congruent.” * 2nd Period: I then (at a later time) ask the student to show a particular concept. Example, “Show me the congruent shapes.” * 3rd Period: Finally, I ask the student to recall the concept. Example: “What are these shapes called?” * The materials are self-correcting which shows my students when they have made a mistake so they know to go back and try again. * There is an isolation of difficulty in the lesson sequence that allows me (the teacher) and the child to assess understanding of complex processes from the beginning to the end. * Eudsoft Unit Testing. Edusoft is a Benchmark Assessment Program that East Baton Rouge Parish School System utilizes. The tests content is aligned to the Common Core State Standards. Each unit test has both multiple choice and open-ended items. How do you work to meet the language goals of all the children in your class individually? Individual learning takes place within the Montessori environment. The Montessori classroom is prepared with a wealth of materials selected and designed to meet the needs of the children individually. This allows each child to learn at their own pace. What techniques...
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...surveys, as many as 95% of schools are connected to the Internet; even at the level of the individual classroom, connection is nearly as universal—close to 75% of classrooms in the United States have Internet access (CEO Forum, 2000). Despite this nearly ubiquitous access to computer technology, however, there is a significant gap between the presence of technology and its usage in the classroom. While some type of technology is present in nearly every classroom in the country, it is rarely used to its fullest potential (Royer, 2002). Some of this discrepancy is due to a lack of comfort with using technology for teaching and learning. Even teachers who are using technology and report a high degree of comfort with technology tend to use it in fairly rigid ways, such as searching for activities to use with students, communicating with other teachers, and word processing (Price, Cates, & Bodzin, 2002). And while students frequently do use computers in the classroom, use is often limited to information gathering and word processing rather than using multimedia tools or digital content to design and create products (Price et al., 2002). Often, learning with technology is teacher-centered rather than student-centered. While many teachers still feel uncomfortable using technology in their teaching practice, it is also likely that teachers feel new technologies are unproven in the classroom (Royer, 2002). Though there has been a great deal of research on the efficacy of technology...
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...Critical Thinking Paper: Curriculum vs. Technology Introduction The emergence of technology has done more than change the way we communicate; it has helped students all over the country learn and provided them with an endless amount of knowledge at their fingertips. At one point the only technology being used in the classroom were the three to five desktop computers and the overhead projector. Now students are being introduced to and highly encouraged to use tablets in the classroom to help the teacher covey the information. “Equitable access to technologies and technical support are critical and directly influence what teachers and students accomplish” (Jenkins, 2006). This can however cause the focus to be on the technology itself rather than the curriculum. Some people feel that computers and technology are destroying literacy (Gardner, 2008), however I feel that moderation it the silver lining. The Appropriate Steps to Take I am not an educator and though I had the experience from my many years as a substitute teacher, I was not given the technology to use. However, I think that if I were an educator, I would make sure that incorporating technology in the classroom did not over shadow the lesson. I think using too much technology could cause the lesson to focus more on the applications and having to give a lesson on how to properly use and handle the technology. I would keep it to a minimum and only allow things like tablets to be used sparingly and only one to two days per...
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...As reports have noted, social situations always provoked great anxiety in Lanza, additionally, when in the eighth grade, Lanzas’ mother Nancy withdrew him from school, and he was placed in a program for children who were “too disabled even with support and accommodation to attend school”. After returning back to school in tenth grade, Lanza finished high school outside of the traditional classroom setting, and rather through independent study, and tutoring. According to police, psychiatrist, Dr. King reported that Lanza “displayed a profound autism spectrum disorder with rigidity isolation and a lack of comprehension of ordinary social interaction and communication” (Oliveira, P., 2014). King also told police that “my concern was that Lanza’s social isolation and withdrawal was increasing” (Oliveira, P., 2014). The police report on Lanza revealed that he was seen at the Yale Child Study Center in his early teens and prescribed the antidepressant, Celexa. Lanza was prone to anxiety, was becoming more isolated, and viewed his Netwon home as a secure zone while school and interacting with peers resulted in pressure. Prior to the December 2012 massacre, Lanza had not left his room, where he lived surrounded by an...
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...alternative to traditional classes for some students. It is precisely this situation that studies are being conducted to determine if high school students should be allowed to take online courses. Even though studies have shown distance learning in the high school environment has taken away the teacher/student direct interaction and inhibits socializing with other students, allowing this type of learning to continue may be more beneficial in today’s society because further research still needs to be conducted. The use of technology has made classrooms accessible via the World Wide Web and studies have shown some interesting facts about online learning in the high school environment. One main study showed that there were issues with technology itself and the lack of in-class discussions among students. Williamson, Bernhard & Chamberlin (2000) noted that in what they call “Far View Courses” that there were technical problems within the virtual classroom with audio and video freezing up. Advances in technology have reduced many of these problems over the past fourteen years. Back in 2000, the internet was slow compared to today. Multiple students can sign into class at the same time and are able to stay on pace with the lectures and readings. They also noted that there was a lack of in-class discussion among students and the instructors and that this lack of being in the same room as the instructor and classmates that made them feel isolated (Williamson, Bernhard & Chamberlin, 2000)...
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...person’s personality as well as their relationships with other people (Slaven, 2015). Personal Stage The sixth stage of Erikson’s theory occurs sometime during young adulthood. It is during this stage that an adult either finds happiness in their relationships (both sexual and non-sexual) or becomes distant and standoffish which eventually leads to isolation (Slaven, 2015). Myself, I would fall into this, the Intimacy vs. Isolation Stage, as I am thirty years old. Throughout life it is necessary to form healthy bonds and relationships with other people in order to avoid isolation and loneliness. According to Slaven (2015), a relationship is healthy if all parties involved are enhanced without stifling the growth of each other. As an educator, being able to form meaningful relationships with students, parents, and coworkers. A teacher who is in this stage of development will be able to connect with the students and their families thus create a healthy, trusting relationship. A teacher who lacks the ability to bond with a student, will have a much more difficult time reaching the children on an academic level. Stages in the Classroom Building self-confidence and a sense of industry is the main goal during the fourth stage of development (Slaven, 2015). Children in my third grade class most likely all fall into this stage. They are constantly seeking approval, often for very insignificant accomplishments. An act as simple as wanting to show me their latest drawing, can either...
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