...It is no doubt that 8th graders love to have fun. Yes, Riverbend Middle School is a very fun and welcoming place, but we are always looking for more ways to improve. We strongly believe that bringing the 8th grade lounge back, will be just the improvement we need. We believe that here at RMS, academic success is number one, but there is just not enough celebration and reward going towards the students that are succeeding. The lounge does just that. Students have to have above a 3.5 GPA and can’t be on the late/missing work list. It is no secret that 8th graders have an overwhelming amount of late work this year. Bringing back the lounge would be motivation for students on the late/missing work list to turn in their homework. We know that the...
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...Lexington Middle school has the mission to educate the young minds from grade six to eight and prepare the students for high school and some real world situations. Mostly preparing the students for the high school environment and expectations. The school prepares the students by using similar schedules and/or similar systems for example switching certain classes on certain days. While also teaching them the needed materials to prepare for future classes. While also preparing the students for CTE classes. While as this is the case I believe that some of their systems are failing the students. For example having students walk in a line and the “home base” class is wasting the students time because of how the high school is set up....
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...Reports also show that there are several fights between students that occur on campus at Brown Middle School. On May 2, 2013, 13 fights were reported on campus. “Every day they come home and tell me they’re on lockdown. It’s prohibiting from learning.” Andrea Powe said about her twin daughters (as cited in Willis, 2013). Davida Reed lives next to the school and reported that some of the fights have even spilled onto her front yard. “Students just walk up and attack one another, whether it is single fights, whether it is in a group, and with no regard for adults coming” (as cited in Willis, 2013). School violence is a major issue for schools in the United States. Several factors cause school violence like house environment, depression and anxiety,...
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...This year Renner Middle School has brought back the Spirit of Renner award. This award is for kids exemplifying what Renner administration and teachers view as admirable traits. All of the kids chosen were picked for a reason, the reasons varying between kids, but they all had some type spark in them that their teachers noticed in them. The teachers then emailed in with nominations that were then tallied, to find three girls and three boys from each grade level to receive the award. When asked where he wanted to be in 10 years time, Josh said wants to see himself in college, preferably UCLA. When he grows up, he wants to have a family and a good job to support it. Right now he is learning Spanish and is enrolled in a technical theater class....
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...My agency of choice is Williamstown Middle School, part of the Monroe Township School District which is located in Williamstown, New Jersey. Public schools are considered local state agencies. Williamstown Middle School is a public school that services grades 5th through 8th. This school is a Title 1 school, which means it receives additional federal funding for economically disadvantaged youths. This school offers public school choice to all students and offers parents additional options of supplemental educational services for their children. The U.S. Department of Education defines supplemental educational services as extra academic assistance for low-income students who attend Title 1 schools that have not made adequate yearly progress...
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...Middle School Student Criteria for Avid College Readiness Program: A Delphi Study Education in the US, just like any other country is a top priority. Students go through elementary school, secondary and post-secondary school to be equipped with life skills and to get developed. In the colleges, students are prepared to be independent and acts as a bridge between high school and employment. Therefore, before students get into the colleges, they are well prepared through various programmes. Advancement via individual determination (AVID) is one of the programmes used to prepare students to be eligible for the four years in college. This programme is an instructional programme based on research, where teachers are provided with training that enables them to help their students develop critical thinking skills: its major focus is on career and college readiness. This programme targets the middle students who have the desire to go to colleges, through a well-defined criterion used to select the students. However, this programme has failed to be a success and it is the interest of this research to find out the reasons as to why it is failing....
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...A Case Study of Disruptive Behavior in The Classroom 1 A Case Study of Disruptive Behavior in The Classroom Grand Canyon University-EDU536 Peggy Mosley 05/01/13 A Case Study of Disruptive Behavior in The Classroom 2 Both parents worked long hours, Tammy's father is a pie and cookie chef at the locate bread factory, he leaves for work at 5:00 a.m. and gets home by 3:00 in the evening. Her mother works at the mall as a sales manager at one of the clothing stores. Tammy's mom sees all the children off to school before she has to be at work, she works 10:00 a.m. until 9:00 p.m. at night. She is usually home to say good-night to the children. There are five children in the family: Richard is 6 years old and in the first grade, Barbara is 9 years old and in the fourth grade, Allen is16 years old and a 10th grader, Diana is a 14 year old 8th grader who has a learning-disability. A disorder in the basic psychological processes involving understanding or the use of language, which the disorder may reveal itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell,...
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...CHAPTER 2 Review of Related Literature and Studies The researchers are conducting a study on the academic performances of students whose parents are working abroad. But to conduct this study the researchers researched on the definitions of these terms. Academic Performance and its Definitions: Education is one of the fundamental needs that every person from this humanity must acquire and register into. As stated and defined in the Grolier Encyclopedia of Knowledge (2000), societies have sought to educate their people to produce goods and services, to respond effectively and creatively to their world, and to satisfy their curiosity and aesthetic impulses. To achieve any of these objectives people need to acquire reliable knowledge and to think systematically. Likewise, Education is one of people’s only sources of survival and all human beings are allowed and encourage obtaining such. According to the Oxford Dictionary, academic performances are the performances of students within an academic year concerning with their studies particularly in English, Math and Science the major subjects in schools and universities. Academic performance is also about coming out on top in argument, the contours of which (intellectual ,effective ,performance) are shaped by institutions in which we work and in which we have worked since we were young children. And this returns us to the classroom, which, as it turns out, is the most important setting in which we worked for, without...
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...Chapter 1: Introduction Background Information: Bullying has been an ongoing problem for many years, it can occur in the workplace, school, or online. Although this can happen anywhere, I will discuss bullying in the school and the measures being taking to prevent it. In Dake, Price, and Telljohann, they state that in the past three decades, school bullying gained increased attention in the United States due to media attention on homicide and suicide cases where bullying was a precipitating factor (Dake, Price, and Telljohann, 2003). The US Secret Service investigated characteristics of students involved in school shootings in the United States. During the Secret Service’s research, they found 37 different school shootings, two-thirds involved attackers who "felt persecuted, bullied, threatened, attacked, or injured by others prior to the incident". While two-thirds of the cases did not directly involve school bullying, "a number of the attackers had experienced bullying and harassment that was longstanding and severe. In those cases, the experience of bullying appeared to play a major role in motivating the attack at the school (US Secret Service, 2000)”. Ethics is another factor to consider when thinking about bullying and its effects on the victims. Burke and Richer break down behavior into two groups. Clearly wrong and conditionally wrong, of the two clearly wrong would be the proper fit for the topic that I am discussing. Clearly wrong includes behaviors which are so...
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...Select a case study from the University of Phoenix Material: Young and Middle Adulthood Case Studies located on the student website. Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper describing the influence the experiences have made on the person’s development. Address the following in your paper: Discuss the family, social, and intimate relationships of the person in the case study. Identify any role changes that have occurred. Explain the immediate and future effect of healthy or unhealthy habits practiced by this person. Include at least two peer-reviewed resources. Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines. University of Phoenix Material Young and Middle Adulthood Case Studies Read the following case studies in order to complete the Week Three Individual Assignment. Case Study 1: Jackson Jackson is a 25-year old male who has recently been admitted to a substance abuse program in Chicago, Illinois. He has been arrested several times for possession of a controlled substance but has not served any time in jail. He grew up in a single-parent household with his mother, Tina. Tina, 45, is employed as a high school teacher; his biological father is not involved in his life. Tina’s boyfriend, Michael, often attempts to serve as a father figure to Jackson. Jackson went to college immediately after high school, focused on a degree in chemistry. In high school, he was a good student who earned A’s and B’s in most courses. After a car accident, a slight head injury...
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...Young and Middle Adulthood Case Studies Alicia Steele BSHS 325 May 26, 2014 Jeni Maijala Young and Middle Adulthood Case Studies Case studies will be an important part of the profession of human services. Not only is it important to keep notes on each client but also for future reference on a client, a case study will come in handy. This paper will illustrate an example of a case study and examine the following, family, social, and intimate relationships of the person in the case study, identify any role changes that may have occurred, and the immediate and future effect of healthy and unhealthy habits practiced by the person. My case study is on Jackson. A 25 year old male with a substance abuse problem. Upon graduating high school, Jackson attended college the following fall to obtain a degree in Chemistry. During his freshman year of college, Jackson suffered a head injury after a car crash and resulted in the loss of cognitive and analytical functioning skills. Thus began drinking alcohol and abuse of painkillers. Jackson has left college and now lives with his mother while he attends a substance abuse program in Chicago, Illinois. According to his mother, Jackson currently isolates himself in his room and refuses employment opportunities. Growing up in a single parent household with no father figure involvement, Jackson has trouble maintaining any type of relationship. Although he had relationships in high school that he considered serious, he became distant with...
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...income and social statues of respondents and asked people graduated from both independent schools and public schools a series of questions regarding major social issues related to social injustice, to investigate the different social and political attitudes from both groups. The results were that indeed independent schools tended to create attitudes that are more politically conservative and less sympathetic on social issues. This research also discovered that independent school attendees tend to perceive themselves as belonging to middle or upper middle class even in the case in which financial background and current situation is controlled. In addition, it is important to note that difference in attitudes between private and public educational program participants can be mitigated through completing university level of education. The findings in British Social Attitude Journal are related to our main research in a way of predicting public opinions regarding independent schools to be negative, because the journal and its study clearly demonstrate the comparably lack of interest in addressing social inequality and sense of superiority of independent school attendees in contrast to the worldview and self-perceptions held by students from public school; and it is reasonable to believe that such different worldviews will generate a certain degree of negative impressions on public school among U.K general publics (who are much more likely having received public education than...
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...Analyse the importance of poverty as an explanation of social class differences in educational achievement Introduction Sociologists have argued that social class differences in educational achievement can be explained in terms of 4 not necessarily mutually exclusive kinds of theory: IQ theory; theories emphasising social class differences in material circumstances; theories emphasising social class differences in subcultural attitudes and values; and theories emphasising the importance of within school labelling processes. Sociologists tend to be critical of IQ theory for several reasons and point out that there is good evidence to show that social class is a major determinant of educational success even independently of measured differences in IQ. I shall therefore concentrate upon the three more sociological approaches and in each case it may be argued that the factors which may disadvantage working class students in general are especially likely to disadvantage those working class students who experience poverty. However before analysing the possible effects of poverty on educational achievement some preliminary investigation of the nature and extent of poverty in the UK is first necessary and for these purposes we must first distinguish between absolute and relative poverty. Absolute poverty is said to occur when individuals lack the money necessary to ensure their basis physical survival whereas relative poverty exists where individuals have insufficient money to...
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...The Changing Mathematics Curriculum: An Annotated Bibliography Third Edition April 2005 1 2 The K–12 Mathematics Curriculum Center The K–12 Mathematics Curriculum Center (K–12 MCC) supports school districts as they build effective mathematics education programs using curricula that align with the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics’ (NCTM) Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics (1989) and Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (2000). The K–12 MCC offers a variety of products and services to assist mathematics teachers and administrators. Our seminars address selecting and implementing new curricula, designing professional development and support, aligning curriculum with assessment, and examining leadership in curricular change. Our other resources include: About This Publication This publication, an annotated bibliography of articles relevant to Standards-based mathematics curriculum reform, is intended as a resource for educators and communities considering the selection and implementation of a Standards-based mathematics curriculum. It also may assist individuals who are interested in learning about the student achievement, classroom practices, and implementation challenges associated with the use of Standards-based materials. When gathering resources for this publication, the K–12 Mathematics Curriculum Center staff reviewed articles that either addressed important issues in mathematics curriculum change or shared experiences...
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...Comparison of Research Designs Capella University Comparison of Research Designs Template The following seven tables are part of a template that will guide you through the comparison of research designs assignment. The tables include: • Descriptions of basic research designs. • Types of basic research designs. • Main characteristics. • Followed steps. • Appropriate usage. • Purpose statement and sample questions. • Associated research paradigms. This template directs you to portions of the course text, Educational Research: Planning, Conducting, and Evaluating Quantitative and Qualitative Research (Creswell, 2008). Each table includes chapter numbers and page numbers to guide you to the most relevant sections of the text book. Reference Creswell, J. W. (2012). Educational research: Planning, conducting, and evaluating quantitative and qualitative research (4rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. Descriptions of Basic Research Designs Develop an original and concise description of each research design. The appropriate sections of the Creswell text are listed to guide you; however, the end product should be your own paraphrase. Each description should be about one to three sentences in length. The first part of the chart has been completed for you as an example of how to proceed. You can leave it in the first cell and consider it to be part of your assignment...
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