...Tutoring Observation This week, on Tuesday, I observed a tutoring session between a student and a fellow tutor. Luckily, I got my observation done at this point in time because this student was the only one who came in during both of my shifts this week. However, the center’s lack of attendance is another issue altogether, and I did manage to observe a tutoring session. During the session, I noticed several tactics employed by the tutor, which would definitely be applauded by our textbooks, and only a few minor things which would be frowned upon. The session began with the tutor cheerfully greeting the student and having the tutee sit at her table. The tutor then began by asking a knowledge deficit question, by which she sought to understand...
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...www.ccsenet.org/ies International Education Studies Vol. 5, No. 2; April 2012 Group Dynamics and Peer-Tutoring a Pedagogical Tool for Learning in Higher Education Muhammad Azeem Qureshi Associate Professor School of Business Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Oslo, Norway E-mail: muhammad-azeem.qureshi@hioa.no Even Stormyhr Senior Lecturer Department of Film and TV, School of Communication, WSoC University College of Communication, Oslo, Norway E-mail: even@westerdals.no Received: October 19, 2011 doi:10.5539/ies.v5n2p118 Accepted: November 3, 2011 Published: April 1, 2012 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ies.v5n2p118 Abstract The increasing diversity in students’ enrolment in higher education in Norway offers an opportunity to use collaborative learning and teamwork as a learning vehicle to exploit the synergy in the community to have formal and informal agoras. Theoretical and empirical observation of the value of team processes provides the framework to personify our understanding of learning and present a model for teaching in higher education in Norway. We consider learning as a holistic process and one must appreciate its dynamics and be flexible and responsive to it. Moreover, such a view of the entire process necessitates an active communication with all stakeholders of the system and to make an integrative and coordinated effort to ensure availability of the required institutional resources, equitable distribution...
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...use viable techniques to educate these students, whether they are general education students or have a disability (Byrd, 1990). There is also an emphasis on mainstreaming, so classrooms are becoming more and more diverse. Peer tutoring is one technique that can be implemented in general education classrooms to help lower performing students improve academically. It is a system that children learn from teaching other children, or by being taught by other children. (Franca, Kerr, 1990) It also can have social...
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...Introduction Shuell (cited in Ertmer & Newby, 2013 p.45) defines learning as an “enduring change in behaviour, or in the capacity to behave in a given fashion, which results from practice or other forms of experience.” It is from this central motif that I will discuss my own philosophy of knowing and learning through the support of relevant educational theories and my personal experiences of tutoring this semester at Thomastown West Learning Club. I will also evaluate the theories critically and analyze their limitations and/or benefits when implemented during tutoring. My philopshy of knowing and learning is that no one learner is the same and learning effectively requires the tutor to understand the student through their education level,...
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...and can double as tutoring help. Hope Haven Hope Haven is children’s clinic and family center for our local families in Jacksonville Florida. Hope Haven is recognized as one of the community's leading nonprofit providers of specialized services for children and their families. It provides tutoring services for children and prices range according to income. Scholarships and financial aid are also available for those who are qualified. If needed, this organization also offers tutoring sessions on school sight. This would allow the tutor and teacher to communicate and come up with the best plan for the child. Studies have been shown that out-of –school tutoring has made a great impact on students, “it concludes that OST tutoring can have positive effects on student achievement (in relation to at-risk students who do not participate), and that effect sizes are larger for programs delivering more than 45 hours of tutoring (but smaller for those longest in duration)” (Heinrich, C…2014). This resource can benefit the student and help them in their troubled areas, which will make homework at home such easier. This resource allows families to be involved and learn with their child. http://www.hope-haven.org/tutoring/ PLAN B As an educator I know that money for tutoring may not be in the budget for most families. Though Hope Haven offers finical help, it is crucial to know that is not the only option for students. Our school also offers after school tutoring with the child’s teacher...
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...are under pressure to finish quickly with a certificate or degree and get to work. They need to get actual practice in the process of designing and developing databases that they can apply in their future employment. They need to create tables, enter data, and run SQL queries. This book is designed for them. Hands on Database: an Introduction to Database Design and Development focuses on the process of creating a database. It guides the student through the initial conception of the database. It covers gathering of requirements and business rules, the logical and physical design and the testing of the database. It does this through a continuous narrative that follows a student, Sharon, as she designs and constructs a database to track the tutoring program at her school. It shows some of her missteps as well as her successes. Students get hands-on experience by doing practices and developing scenarios that parallel the narrative. After completing this book students will have a good sense of what is involved in developing and creating a database. Below is a list of the book outcomes. A student who has completed this book will be able to give a general definition of a relational database to identify a variety of ways to gather database requirements to define business rules for a database to create an Entity design for a database 2 Hands ON Database to normalize a design up to third normal form to develop a database in a given DBMS to run SQL Queries against...
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...HANDS-ON DATABASE AN INTRODUCTION TO DATABASE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT Steve Conger Seattle Central Community College Prentice Hall Boston Columbus Indianapolis New York San Francisco Upper Saddle River Amsterdam Cape Town Dubai London Madrid Milan Munich Paris Montreal Toronto Delhi Mexico City Sao Paulo Sydney Hong Kong Seoul Singapore Taipei Tokyo Editorial Director: Sally Yagan Editor in Chief: Eric Svendsen Executive Editor: Bob Horan Product Development Manager: Ashley Santora Editorial Project Manager: Kelly Loftus Editorial Assistant: Jason Calcaño Director of Marketing: Patrice Lumumba Jones Senior Marketing Manager: Anne Fahlgren Marketing Assistant: Melinda Jensen Production Project Manager: Renata Butera Creative Art Director: Jayne Conte Cover Designer: Suzanne Behnke Cover Art: Kheng Guan Toh/Fotolia, Inc Media Editor: Denise Vaughn Media Project Manager: Lisa Rinaldi Full-Service Project Management: Chitra Sundarajan/Integra Software Services Pvt. Ltd. Printer/Binder: Edwards Brothers Cover Printer: Lehigh-Phoenix Color/Hagerstown Text Font: Palatino Microsoft® and Windows® are registered trademarks of the Microsoft Corporation in the U.S.A. and other countries. Screen shots and icons reprinted with permission from the Microsoft Corporation. This book is not sponsored or endorsed by or affiliated with the Microsoft Corporation. Copyright © 2012 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Prentice Hall, One Lake Street, Upper Saddle...
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...get to know through one-on-one and observations. I began working with my student on February 6th , when I conducted the first ELQA test to determine her literacy knowledge. Once I completed assessing my student, I was able to obtain her scores and assess her weaknesses and strengths, which was an important factor in completing the artifact. Additionally, I analyzed her scores from the first ELQA to create an informal assessment targeting her weakness of expressive vocabulary and print concepts. Furthermore, each week I conducted an observation with or of my student in several circumstances and I noted her behaviors, actions, and environment....
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...delivering all courses utilizing the appropriate delivery methodologies (blended or onsite as scheduled). * Implementing best practices in assessing student learning through exams, assignments and other appropriate methods in all courses. * Support students outside the classroom through tutoring, review sessions, advising, etc. * Accommodate appropriate educational technology that meet or exceed university standards. * Give students the opportunity to work in groups; develop written and oral communication skills; and develop critical thinking and problem solving skills. * Apply a student-centric teaching strategy * Challenge every student. * Teach all assigned courses utilizing approved course delivery modalities. * Teach a minimum of one course online as part of annual credit hour workload. * Average MCE of 3.6 – 3.7 across modalities * Average response rate to MCE of 70% * Average course shell observation rating of 3.5 across modalities * Average class observation rating of 3.5 for onsite courses * NPS course rating of 50 across all modalities * Opportunities to support students outside the classroom (e.g. tutorial support, review sessions, etc.) Objective: 2. Technical Content * Continuously evaluate course content and analyze student outcomes; make appropriate improvements to lesson plans as necessary to maximize student learning and outcomes * Demonstrate current content expertise in teaching discipline by delivering...
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...Peer Tutoring: Its Effect on the Achievement and Attitude in Physics Of high School Senior Students of Naval Institute of Technology ---------------------------------- A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School Leyte Normal University Tacloban City ---------------------------------- In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts in Teaching (Science) ---------------------------------- by Minerva E. Sañosa February 1996 ABSTRACT This study attempted to assess the effects of peer tutoring on the achievement in and attitude towards Physics of high school senior students of Naval Institute of Technology, SY 1995-1996. Five high school senior students with the highest grade point average from first year to third year high school in English, Mathematics, and Science were used as peer tutors. The subjects of the study were fifty high school senior students randomly selected and assigned into two groups, the peer tutored or experimental group and non-peer tutored or the control group. The two groups answered the achievement test in electromagnetic energy and a scale to measure attitude towards Physics before and after the conduct of study. The result indicated that students in both groups increased their level of achievement during the study. Morever, with the use of two-tailed test, it was revealed that the level of achievement of students in...
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...COURSE SYLLABUS: ACC 1002 Financial Accounting 2 CRN 71163 SECTION: 02 PLATFORM DELIVERY MODE: Blended TERM SESSION: Fall 2014 Second Half COURSE MEETING TIME This is a 7-week hybrid course meeting on the main campus on Tuesdays from 5:50 to 8:00 Pm as well as online. PROFESSOR: Prof. Edward Dinan E-MAIL: e.dinan@neu.edu Telephone: 207-650-4000 REQUIRED TEXBOOK Financial Accounting, 7/e Kimmel, Weygandt, Kieso, Wiley ISBN: 978-1118162286 All students are required to obtain the exact book edition in order to complete the course appropriately. This book is available through the campus bookstore, and should be purchased from this location to assure timely delivery of the correct textbook. Extensions on assignments will not be granted because of backordered or late arriving textbooks that were purchased from outside sources other than the campus bookstore. If considering the E-Textbook option, it is recommended that you read the information on the following websites: http://northeastern.bncollege.com/eBooks/EBooksFAQNEW.html http://www.coursesmart.com/ Course Prerequisites: ACC 1001 Course Description: Continues ACC 1001.The course continues with financial reporting, valuation and income measurement. Topics include inventories, property and equipment, bonds, present value and stockholders’ equity. Course Outcomes: Upon completion of the course, the student will have the opportunity to learn an in depth knowledge of: Accounting: The language of business. Internal Control...
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...Marketing Project Juan G Martinez Jr October 18, 2013 Marketing Management 522 Professor Ken Ninomiya 1.0 Executive Summary 2.0 Situation Analysis At this present time, the tutoring industry is not showing any signs of slowing down as the number of students in school continue to grow. It is also important to point out that as the number of students increase, so does the concern of the parents that seek tutoring for their children. According to the U.S. Department of Education, the number of students who were attending public and private schools was at approximately 75.9 million as of the fall of 2010. The current trend is showing that the number of students attending school will continue to increase at a rate of approximately 6% per year through the year 2019 (Digest of Education Statistics 2010). According to an article that went over the best industries to start a business, the tutoring and exam preparation industry was rank seventh as it relates to the fastest-growing industries that are hospitable to small business. It was also indicated that the year-over-year growth rate of this industry was measured to be at 7% (Lagorio-Chafkin 2010). However, there is an opportunity that has not clearly been taken advantage of to its fullest potential within the tutoring industry. As of the fall of 2010, there were approximately 20.6 million people who are enrolled in college with the trend demonstrating an increasing rate of students attending at 14% (Digest of Education...
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...PY 2013 HUMAN DEVELOPMENT UNITY COLLEGE COURSE SYLLABUS Instructor: Bill Davis Fall 2012 Office Hours: By appointment CATALOG DESCRIPTION This course is a survey of the development of a person across the entire age span from conception to death. For each stage physiological, cognitive, social, emotional, and psychological aspects of growth will be studied. Emphasis will be placed on environmental influences that can promote the individual’s growth and development. STUDENT OBJECTIVES (a) To become acquainted with the body of knowledge that deals with the science of human development. (b) To examine the “nature vs. nurture” controversy as it applies to developmental theories. (c) To demonstrate an understanding of several stage theories of lifespan development. (d) To explore both positive and negative environmental influences on healthy growth and development INSTRUCTIONAL METHODOLOGY ASSIGNMENTS (a) Lecture (a) Readings (b) Discussion (b) Projects (c) Selected Readings ...
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...therefore largely depends on self training, either by trial and error while teaching or by observation of colleagues, who may or may not be helpful examples. Getting in front of students is a trying experience for a budding teacher. One may earnestly try to prepare him or herself: read books about teaching methods, attend lectures and take courses on didactics. Yet, in theory everything seems much simpler than in practice. The complexity of a teaching situation can be overwhelming. To deal effectively with it, teachers must not only have a good knowledge of the subject in hand, but also some communication skills such as ability to observe, supervise, lead a discussion and pose questions. Furthermore, a teacher should be aware of how students perceive him or her. This perception is sometimes quite different from the teacher's self-image. It is difficult to self assess one’s own abilities and we benefit from colleagues’ feed back to recognize our strength and identify areas for possible improvement. Evaluation of teaching by students is becoming a common practice, and a constructive feedback could be an effective way to improve one's rating as a teacher. Even the experienced educators may sometimes reflect about strengths and weaknesses of their teaching style. What is microteaching? Microteaching is an excellent way to build up skills and confidence, to experience a range of lecturing/tutoring styles and to learn and practice giving constructive feedback. Microteaching...
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...Master Grind The viability of launching a new App for DCU Ruth Sheridan, Alicia Greene, Pamela Doyle & Pedro Fernandez de Santaella Applied Market Research (MG208) Lecturer: Fergal Brophy DCU Global Business March 22nd 2015 Applied Market Research (MG208) Lecturer: Fergal Brophy DCU Global Business March 22nd 2015 Executive Summary 3 Description of hypothetical Product 4 Research Objectives 6 Research Methodology 7 Secondary Research 7 Quantitative Research 9 Questionnaire 9 Observation 10 Qualitative Research 11 Focus Group 11 One-to-One Interviews 12 Data Collection (Findings) 14 Quantitative Survey 14 Quantitative Observation 17 Focus Group 17 One-to-One Interview Personas 19 Analysis of Findings (Key Takeaways) 21 Quantitative survey 21 Observation 21 Focus Group 22 One-to-One Interviews 22 Conclusions and Recommendations 23 Limitations 24 References 25 Appendices 26 Appendix 1 26 Additional Information on One-to-One Interviews 26 Appendix 2 28 Additional Graphs. 28 Appendix 3 30 Master Grind Post-Graduate Survey 30 Master Grind Student Survey 32 Appendix 4 35 Focus Group theme sheet 35 Group reflection 37 Infographic 39 Executive Summary In the first week of semester two of the Market Research module MG208 in DCU we were designated a task; to come up with a new and innovative business venture that would be of benefit to the students of DCU. We wanted to solve a problem that students who...
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