...The difference between the ADHD group (who performed worse) and the control group approached significance (p = .05; adjusted p = .02) in the Virtual Classroom presentation, and the classification rate of the Virtual Classroom was better than when the standard CPT was used (87.5% versus 68.8%). Children with ADHD were more affected by distractions in the VR classroom than those without ADHD. Results are discussed in relation to distractibility in...
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...My Ideal Classroom within my ideal school A Classroom is a place where individuals gather for the purpose of learning and studying. The classroom may be of a primary school, an elementary school, a college or a university - but the purpose remains the same. In order to get the most of the learning process, there are certain standards that a classroom should meet. A classroom should be in a way where students can comfortably spend their time, getting the most of their study and where teachers can be at comfort too, to provide the sublime education. Without proper configuration and set-up, an ideal classroom cannot be made. The environment, room plan, decoration, and utilization of a classroom have a huge impact on how a child learns and behaves. This semester-long project will help you learn techniques for setting up your own classroom in a way that will enhance student learning. You will research and write about an 'ideal' early childhood classroom. You will take a virtual field trip via the Internet to critique online classrooms. You will then design your own "Ideal Classroom" and present it to the ECD163 class. My first requirement will be parents that support me in my task of educating their children in the way I was trained to do. Myself and parents need a clear picture of the sort of person we would like a young person to become. Next I want a class full of students that enjoy learning. I want students that feel comfortable to voice their opinions about any...
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...Teaching with PowerPoint has been an exercise in frustration for me. I find that my course preparation takes twice as long as it should, and the results are more often than not unsatisfying. It also makes me feel muffled and absent from the classroom. Maybe this is a function of my poor PowerPoint form, of being a latecomer to a technology that younger faculty use with more ease and panache. In a way, it’s not surprising that I would struggle with it. Although I’m young and pretty tech-savvy at 43, I can’t associate PowerPoint with my lived experiences as a learner. I spent my whole life as a student, from kindergarten through graduate school, plucking words out of the air to put them in my notebook, or following along as my teachers scribbled on the blackboard. The most technology-forward moments involved the occasional projection of transparencies in science classes. Last semester I decided to conduct an experiment. For years, even before becoming a PowerPoint user, my chalkboard form had suffered from a lack of discipline and focus. What if I really rededicated myself to it? I decided to make writing on the chalkboard my primary method and PowerPoint my secondary tool. The outcome of the exercise was fantastic. I felt like I was waking up from being half-asleep as a teacher. One of the things I liked the most about the experience was how using the chalkboard freed me to be more responsive to the needs of my students. Although I always came to class with an outline of...
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...The name of the online textbook is Student Success and after you get into your classroom you can access it from the bookshelf. By accessing your book from the bookshelf you are agreeing to the terms that are required for the class and all of your classwork that you will be doing for the class. Your instructor will hold a one hour live chat session each week on Monday’s from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. CST. The live chats are recorded so that you can go back and listen to them anytime that you need to throughout the class. In the Student Success class there will not be a small group assignment because this class has been designed to help you get familiar with the virtual classroom. Every discussion that you have each week will consist of a main post and two other posts to your classmates. Your main post is due by Wednesday of each week and your replies to the students are due by Sunday. Your Main Post for your discussion needs to be uploaded to the discussion board along with your replies to the students. When submitting your Individual Projects for the week you need to submit them to the assignment box so that they get graded and you don’t lose any points for submitting it late or to the wrong area in the classroom. When you are doing your discussion posts just remember that you can’t post them after Sunday 11:59:59 p.m. CST because they will not be accepted after that. The only way that you can get your discussion board posts to be graded after the deadline on Sunday is if you have made...
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...critical thinking skills which are imperative to the success of the student’s future. That is why in my opinion, it is imperative that we integrate technology in the classrooms successfully. There are so many different technologies that can be used for many different things in the classroom to help enhance the learning experience such as smart boards, digital media, computers, dvd’s , tutorials, apps, and the web just to name a few. However, to integrate these tools into the curriculum successfully, so that the students can get the best experience possible, I need to be properly trained. “There is growing interest in the integration of technology into the classroom. A range of initiatives have been launched to develop in service teacher training process that will strengthen this integration.” (Guzman,A.; Nussbaum, M. 2009) “Billions of dollars have been spent to bring computer technology into k-16 classrooms, since 1999, congress has devoted over $275 million to the Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to use Technology program. States and local districts have spent tax dollars to wire schools for internet access and to conduct summer computer technology academies for teachers.” (Royer, R, 2002) I must learn how to “align lessons with content standards, familiarize myself with the technology before using it in the classroom, prepare...
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...would expect at this level. An A paper must: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Be well-structured or organized by using headings throughout the paper (not one long essay), i.e. Introduction; Executing Global Strategy; Global Virtual Teams; Action Plan; etc. Be comprehensive in its coverage of the material: include specific examples to justify what you are saying and where appropriate linking the paper to concepts such as the MBI, COF, Hofstede's values, Organizational Architecture model. etc. Incorporate references from the background reading materials as appropriate (or additional resources/references to augment what was included in class) [note: don’t go crazy with footnoted references. Just state the author in the paper, i.e., according to Lane et. al. … and then create a bibliography at the end, only if you are including references other than class reading requirements]. Although 2 and 3 are important, remember this is a management course and not an academic seminar. We are particularly interested in your management insights and not just your ability to show us that you have read the book. Make the links to the book, concepts, etc. where appropriate. Include a “Going Forward” section about how you can apply what you have learned to your world outside the classroom and/or change how you have been doing things....
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...Chat (Now) • Questions (Now) • Recording (1 year later) • Webcams and video (Now) • Writing using fonts or word (2 years later) What we are doing (cont’d) On-line presentati on Scores Prepare Tests Answers & Questions Preparation Lesson Script Invite What we are doing (cont’d) • Successfully completion of the trial period Increase Contact Hours and e-Lesson:– • To increase class contact hour and enhance students ability in language learning, BLLS Bangla school has started first e-Lesson class on 19 May and currently almost half of the classes (P5, P6, Sec1, and A-Level) are covered under this scheme.. • Demo 2. MoE background Proposal Scope 1. BLLS e-Lesson programme will provide a virtual classroom facility to it’s e-Lesson teacher and students to learn Bangla language at low costs (per student per contact period). 2. The programme will...
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...Influences in the Teaching Enviornment By Grand Canyon University (EDU-450) 8/25/2013 In any classroom there will be positive and negative influences in it. The way at which these negative influences are handled will have a lasting effect on the students learning process. There are a vast array of theories and styles to choose from to help and control these behaviors from getting out of hand. The main point to remember is to find a strategy that works well for each individual. I will be addressing 10 possible behavior problems and how they should be approached. What could be the most important aspect of trying to keep negative influences at a minimum is the teacher’s ability to connect with the students. The teacher needs to keep the students from becoming bored in the classroom. Once a student gets to the point of boredom they can start disrupting other students and even forget assignments that are given in class due to a lack of attention. To keep boredom at a minimum The Institute of Education Sciences recommends that modifying the learning environment as well as teach and reinforce new skills to the students is a key concept (Epstein 2008). This in my opinion translates to the teacher needs to be able to recognize when a possible situation can occur and be able to change before the possible problem arises. The teacher could just offer some alternative actions to those who might become a possible disruption. Teachers sometimes tend...
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...narrow classrooms composed of a minimum of 50 and a maximum of 60 pupils per class, but its nature is much more difficult backbreaking responsibility to do than other obligations of the teacher and in this situation she should be able to bridge the between discipline and pupils behaviours. Militant, disobedient, socially inadequate and withdrawn behaviours of pupils are disruptions of class and establish a set of problems to public school teachers. As a teachers they claim it a great burden to deal with in their daily lives. Most teachers are claiming that their effort do not to effectively handle disruptive pupils. With fifty or more pupils in the classroom per section, almost one half of the members of the lower sections are disruptive. These behaviour pupils constantly disrupt classroom situations. Behaviour control is important. Success in teaching is often directly proportional to a teachers ability to use appropriate disciplinary measures. Teachers play a vital role in the total development of the child’s values. He is the key figure in the success or failure on the childs behaviour enhancement. It should be borne in mind that the ability of the teacher toimpose discipline in the classroom is an important factor inthelearning – teaching situations. Teachers ability is disciplining the pupils is indeed vast andthe challenge for him is great. As a teacher therefore, he should strive his best to maintain a classroom atmosphere...
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... Canter’s Behavior Management Cycle: A Case Study It only takes one student, whose disruptive behavior impacts the entire learning environment of the whole class. Disruptive behavior can be any behavior that bothers, interferes with, disturbs, or prevents effective learning (Canter, 2006). Disruptive behavior can be broken down into three categories: verbal behavior, physical movement, and participation in an activity. The largest category of disruptions can be found in verbal behavior (Canter, 2006). The following case study deals with classroom disruptions of verbal behavior. Case Study Eric is 15 years old. He is a sophomore at Everyday High School. Eric was a very good student last year with little behavioral issues. However this year, Eric has been displaying disruptive behavior in the classroom. Over the summer, Eric’s parents got divorced. Eric’s dad, Dennis, was having an affair, and moved in with his girlfriend thirty miles away. Eric’s mom, Julie, caught Dennis cheating on her which tore her to pieces. Julie has not taken the split of very well. She has begun drowning her sorrows with the heavy use of alcohol. Julie is also meeting with a counselor to help her work through this tough issue in her life. She has been having so much trouble dealing with the situation, that she sent Eric to live with her parents for a while. At his grandparent’s house, Eric has no room of his own. He sleeps on...
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...Running head: Prevention Plan Problem Prevention Plan 2/25/14 Problem Prevention Plan A classroom problem prevention plan is an indispensible part of every classroom. Schoolchildren need to be in a setting that encourages respect for each individual student so that all students in the class can feel comfortable when they make missteps or mistakes. A good prevention plan sets the expectations for the school year. The emphasis of my prevention plan is on preventing problems by keeping the children actively occupied in the lessons being offered. Having a good classroom prevention plan is the cornerstone for learning, without it the students would not be able to learn. This paper is a summary of what I do in my 3rd grade classroom. Rules I begin each first day of school by directing the 3rd graders to come up with classroom rules as a team. Nevertheless, I’ve already made up the rules I want; however, I think that the students should have a sense of ownership in the workings of the classroom. It amazes me that each year the kids come up with the same rules as the previous class before them. Repeating rules are using an ‘inside voice’, raising your hand and waiting to be called on, keeping your hands and feet to yourself and using nice words. These rules are important for this grade level because it teaches respect at the most critical year for school kids. Each kid is responsible for his/her own behavior, but by help making the rules they feel obligated...
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...overview of what teaching in the public school setting encompasses. Student teaching provides an invaluable experience in which student teachers (ST) can not only be introduced to the curriculum but also the classroom environment. The classroom environment is directly affected by cooperating teacher (CT) and the ST’s methods of interaction and instruction. Student teaching allows for the ST to experiment with different strategies and approaches within an environment that has a built in safety net. This safety net creates opportunities for the ST to try new strategies that may not have been used by a first year teacher. Furthermore, because never again will the ST be given so much direct direction, the CT’s feedback and advice becomes priceless. Thus, I am able to grow quicker as a teacher rather than figuring much of this out on my own. Consequently, my experience has enhanced my five core beliefs: * Students are never to be given up on * Classrooms are to be student-centered * Reading, writing, and speaking skills are irreplaceable * Classrooms must be a safe and encouraging learning environment * Soft skills are perpetually worked on and enhanced Throughout student teaching, some of strengths have become apparent and a true asset to the classroom. First of all, I use positive language and respond positively to the students whether they make a great comment or misunderstand. This creates a safe environment and lets them know that I do appreciate their...
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...Classroom Activities and Behaviors Classroom setup can dramatically affect students' attitudes toward learning and their habits of learning. Students need an environment that is organized, stimulating, and comfortable in order to learn effectively. One way a teacher can create this type of learning environment is by creating learning centers throughout his or her classroom along with instructional areas. Take the physical features of your classroom into account when planning out what type of learning centers you want to have in your classroom. As the year progresses, you can add different kinds of learning centers to fit your classes. When sitting up your learning centers you not only want to take in the physical features of your classroom. You also need to consider the age of your students, the number of students and the type of activities you want to be conducted. Learning centers consist of multiple stations for children to rotate through. Stations may contain activities from different subjects, such as math, science and reading, or different activities related to the same topic. Using learning centers in your classroom is a fun way for students to experience hands-on learning independently or in small groups. It also opens up possibilities for you to work with small groups or individual students. One type of learning center that is valuable for young children is a reading center. A reading center is a place for students to read independently or quietly with...
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...first observation took place in a third grade classroom of twenty-two students. All students were of Mexican descent and labeled as intermediate/advanced English language learners. The classroom environment itself was very warm and welcoming. There was a bulletin board that displayed pictures of students and their families along with autobiographies. There was another bulletin board dedicated to celebrating Mexican culture and people. The teacher was a Caucasian women in her mid twenties with three years of teaching experience. The second classroom I observed was a first grade class of twenty-five students. Students in this class were all of Mexican descent and labeled as early intermediate English language learners. The classroom environment was very welcoming and appealing. There were colorful posters and pictures displayed on the walls. There was a bulletin board that displayed pictures of students with a caption that said “I am special because...”. Another bulletin board celebrated diversity with pictures of people of different cultures. The teacher was a Mexican-American woman in her early thirties with five years of teaching experience. My last observation took place in a fourth grade classroom of twenty-four students. Twenty of the students were of Mexican descent, one was Caucasian, and two were African American. This was a mainstream class with intermediate/advanced English language learners. The classroom environment was somewhat plain and boring. The...
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...raise their hand when they have a question, and then wait to be called on before they ask it. This behavior will help students understand the value and importance of patience as well as begin to condition them to recognize and accept acceptable patterns of behavior. Another behavioral expectation would be for the students to only ask questions that are relevant to the lesson at hand. It is very easy for young children to drift of topic and begin asking questions about subjects they would rather be discussing. By requiring students to only ask questions that pertain to the immediate topic of discussion, they are more likely to stay focused and gain a better understanding of the lesson being taught. Another common activity in today’s classroom is the use of learning centers and computer stations. Without the proper rules and expectations these activities can quickly turn into chaos and defeat their intended purpose of providing students with useful tools for furthering their education. One behavioral expectation during the use of a computer station would include only visiting websites...
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