...Key Philosophies The Rudolf Steiner curriculum recognises that children pass through the distinct development stages at which times specific forces are at work and capacities develop. The curriculum is designed to deliver the right stimulus at the right time, allowing each of the development stages to unfold fully. The goal for the Rudolf Steiner school is to prepare young children for not only school but the challenges of life also. Most Steiner ECE services don’t use written materials as they believe the focus on early childhood should be play and new experiences. Models of Provision Young children should stay in the ECE setting until they reach the age of 6 before progressing into a Rudolf Steiner school. Imagination, creativity and the arts feature highly in their programme. In New Zealand over 3,000 children attend Steiner schools or early childhood centres. There are three early childhood teaching groups: The Playgroup which ages from birth to 3 years old, Nursery which ages from two and a half to 3 or 4 years old and Kindergarten which ages from 3 to six years old. There are 6 playgroup sessions: Monday to friday mornings start at 9:30am and concluding with a story at 12pm. Baby group is wednesday afternoon from 12:30pm-2:30pm. Playgroup is an opportunity for parents or caregivers with young children to gather with the Play Group leader for a relaxed morning of singing and learning.Nursery hours are monday to friday 8:45am-12:45pm. Nursery has two very experienced...
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...Lou, Sijia Professor Manly ENG 108 Feb, 26, 2011 Summary 1: Article In the article “What Are Friends For? Power and Pain” which was written be Alessandra Stanley, we can know that the author thinks in adults’ world friendship is more constant than romances, but this rule is not right in the youths. Young people pay more attention to love than friendships, so in young’s world the friendships are more variable than the romances. This concept is also right in the “Gossip Girl”. This TV show talked about the friendship, power, romance, gossip and fashion in the campus between the boys and girls. Some parents think this TV show isn’t suitable for their children, because the contents in “Gossip Girl” let their children grow faster to know the real society. But the Children didn’t agree. Even though the “Gossip Girl” is a soap opera and it is based on a popular book series, it not only put fashion and sex as its main point, but also reversed course and found a way saucily to make a virtue of vacuity and viciousness. Summary 2: TV show This TV show is from Gossip Girl season 4 Episode 2. Serena(S) and Blair (B) still stay at Paris and B get another chance from Prince Louis. But while B was getting ready for her perfect date, S was at Paris Morgue to make sure the people laid may or may not be Chuck Bass. Of course it wasn’t him. When S went back to tell B the whole sordid story B didn’t believe it for she just met Chuck minutes ago. Then S found her wayward stepbrother...
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...Gossip Girl Gossip girl is an American TV show that revolves around the lives of young teens that live in Upper East Side of Manhattan. The show also features the parents of the teens as supporting actors, whose main roles is to guide the youngsters. In addition, a family lives outside Upper East Side who relate with the rich. The show brings to light many issues that rich society experience and their day-to-day problems for the young stars. There are the minorities in the fictional community who includes non-whites and those who are not part of the high society. The show also shows how different classes relate. It is clear that when the lower class are discriminated by some, most do not mind and even have a good relationship with them. Class representation Gossip girl represents the high class in the society; only one family is not rich, and later they move to Upper East Side. Blair waldoff is a young teen who has very high regard to herself and her family name. Blair is conservative and refined, and very careful not to tarnish her family name. She belongs to the high class and does not like those who do not belong there. She does not like Dan Humphrey at first for his low social status, but they later become friends. She has friends who only belong to her social status, and later she gets married to the prince of Monaco. Another character Serena van der Woonsen is a young, rebellious, and very attractive woman who has the status of a celebrity in this show. Her dressing is...
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...Gossip girl Season 4: Section1: N: two years ago, I tried to tell you I loved you. S: you loved me? V: I have feeling for you, I don’t wanna ruin our friendship. I think we should just throw down and see what happens. S: I mean, we just fell asleep. D: after an entire bottle of wine, and one kiss. N: a kiss is not nothing. People kiss because they have feeling for each other. C: blair, you and I are magnetic. Our pull is as undeniable as ever. I’ll be waiting at the top of the empire state building. At 7:01, I’m closing my heart to you 4ever. B: hi, I’m meeting a young man here. Probably in a bowtie, possible carrying peonies. C: I did the most romantic thing I could think of, and it didn’t work. J: I am sorry. B: chuck? What are you doing? Is there someone in there? C: no, nobody. B: dorota went into labor. Sorry, I was so late I can’t deny that our path has been complicated but in the end, love makes everything simple. J: I want to be special. D: what happened? Sb: you need to ask her. C: I’m so sorry for the pain I’ve caused you, blair, will you be… D: you tell her. B: you didn’t. C: blair B: you did. You, go and never come back. S: I think I need to be alone for a while. N: if u’re out, you’re out. S: nate, I love you. B: I’m someone who’s not gonna stop looking which is why I’m going to paris, and why you’re coming with me. S: I really think I need this. B: me too. S: it’s gonna be okey,...
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...The group in society I have decided to focus on for this internal are teenage girls/young women and how they are represented as sexualised/beautified to market a product to a viewer. Also how they are shown as promiscuous, beauty driven people who are obsessed with achieving physical “perfection” based on their favourite celebrities throughout the media. The three media texts I have chosen that I think best portray the idea of teenage girls and how they strive to be physically perfect are; the film ‘The House Bunny’ , the television show ‘Gossip Girl’ and the magazine ‘Cosmopolitan’. (Mainly the cover) My first example is the television series ‘Gossip Girl’ The first image is a photo from the March 2011 Cosmopolitan magazine of Blake Lively portraying her character Serena Van Der Woodsen in the T.V series ‘Gossip Girl’. Serena has been styled based on her character, beautiful and desirable (mostly due to her wealth and social status in the show). She has been dressed in entirely white, surrounded in a completely white background, this allows her skin to be the main aspect of focus, and it portrays perfectskin and skinniness. Most girls who see this aspire to imitate these images and may inspire feelings of failure when they do not achieve the exact image. Her lips in the picture are pouting making her look sexy and draws attention to her lips by also making them look glossy and shiny. Her face has been ‘retouched’ (or photoshoped) giving her a look of perfection and...
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...in 1946 he formed the Hilton Hotels Corporation and in 1948 the Hilton International Company (more than 125 hotels). With the purchase of the Statler chain in 1954, Hilton created the first major chain of modern American Hotels ( group of hotels that follow standard operating procedures in marketing, reservations, quality of service, food and beverage operations, housekeeping and accounting. Cesar Ritz: was a hotelier at the Grand National Hotel in Switzeland, and because of his management abilities, the hotel became one of the most popular in Europe. William Waldorf Astor and John Jacob Astor: in 1893, Wiliam Waldorf launched the 13 story Waldorf hotel at Nex York City. The hotel combined the opulence of a European mansion with the warmth and homey qualities of a private residence. 4 years later, the Waldorf was joined by the Astoria Hotel. They were connected with a corridor, and changed the name to Waldorf-Astoria. Kemmons Wilson: started the Holiday Inn chain in the early 1950s. He wanted to build a chain of hotels fot the traveling family and later expanded his marketing plan to include business travellers. Wilson blazed a formidable path, innovating with amenities and high-rise architecture, including a successful round building concept featuring surprisingly functional pie-shaped rooms. He introduced the in-house Holidex central reservation system, which set the industry standard for both the volume of business it produced and the important by product data it...
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...father, Cheng Ching Wang, owned a medicine company. Wang has one younger brother, Kenneth. She graduated from The Chapin School in 1967, attended the University of Paris and earned a degree in art history from Sarah Lawrence College. Wang began figure skating at the age of six.[2] While in high school, she trained with pairs partner James Stuart, and competed at the 1968 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. She was featured in Sports Illustrated's Faces in the Crowd in the January 9, 1968 issue.[3] When she failed to make the US Olympics team, she entered the fashion industry.[4] Wang continues to enjoy skating, saying, "Skating is multidimensional".[2] In 1968, Wang was presented as a debutante at the International Debutante Ball at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. In 1989, she married Arthur Becker in an interfaith Baptist and Jewish ceremony.[5][6] They resided in Manhattan with their two adopted daughters:[6] Cecilia (born 1990), who currently attends the University of Pennsylvania, and Josephine (born 1993), who attended The Chapin School and currently attends Harvard University. Becker was the CEO of an information technology services company called NaviSite until August 2010. In July 2012, Vera Wang Co. announced that the couple have separated. The separation was amicable.[7] Career[edit] Detail of a wedding dress designed by Vera Wang Beginning in 1970, Wang was a senior fashion editor for Vogue[8] but left Vogue after being turned down for...
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...The American Dream is a set of morals and ideals brought to American by the Puritans from England. These ideals have constantly been critiqued though poetry, film, and literature over time. Through the poems A Lone Striker by Robert Frost and Advertisement For The Waldorf Astoria by Langston Hughes and the film American Beauty by Sam Mendez, three main themes are prevalent. These being work, wealth, and nature/beauty. These themes all relate to each other and play a role in the discussion and reflection of the American Dream through the 3 texts. The importance of hard work is the foundation of the American Dream. The poem A Lone Striker shows us the need for employment in order to live, but how there is the contrasting feeling of longing to be somewhere else. This longing to leave the working life and retreat, is a reflection on the original ideas of the American Dream. “He knew another place, a wood, and in it, tall as trees, were cliffs; and if he stood on one of these, twould be among the tops of trees”. This phrase instantly gives us the imagery of the woods and nature in the surroundings. It is a contemplation of what the man in the poem could really be doing with his time, instead of waiting for his job. This phrase uses rhyme between the words “these” and “trees” and uses a reminiscent tone to convey a longing for the woods. In the same way, American Beauty, in the scene where Lester is at work, sitting at his desk taking a call. The tone of his voice while speaking...
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...The double life of Utopia: the skyscraper 1. the reproduction of the world Each plane of a skyscraper is considered as a virgin land, which the architects have no control over the specific programs. The skyscraper becomes the great metropolitan destablizer that promises perpetual programmatic instability. Considering that Manhattan is separated from the continent by two rivers at each side, which excludes the possibility of expansion, the skyscraper is the only choice for the growing business demand. The skyscrapers are seen as repetition/reproduction of the site/earth by Rem Koolhaas. The lobby of the skyscrapers accommodates social facilities such as shops and bars, which competes with the street and finally makes the surrounding streets deserted. Like the Unite de Marseilles, they have the ambition to become “a city within a city.” The Model of the 100 Stories Building The building is interrupted every 20th floor by public plazas that separate different functional sectors: industry at the bottom, business in the second quarter, living in the third and a hotel in the fourth. The 20th floor is a general market, the 40th a theater, the 60th a shopping district the 80th a hotel the 100th an amusement park, roof garden and swimming pool. And it has a temperature and atmosphere regulating system. The forthcoming model of the skyscraper is the combination of three attributes: 1.the reproduction of the site (seen in Flatiron Building). 2. The introduction of a tower (Metropolitan...
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...they have brought their culture with them. There are many different types of early childhood education that come from around the world to the United States including Montessori, Waldorf, and the Emilia approach. A more popular type of early childhood education is Montessori. Montessori is a way of encouraging children to be hands on while they learn. This way of learning came from a woman named “Maria Montessori [who] developed an innovative teaching methodology for children” (Holfester ). She was an Italian physician and educator in the...
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...Waldorf schools are private schools with one goal: to teach children not only academic lessons, but lifelong lessons that fulfill the meaning of respect and obedience, which is why I agree with the enrollment of Waldorf schools. I believe that the philosophy of the Waldorf schools is right. To support my opinion and viewpoint on the topic of Waldorf schools I will use 2 sources, the article,” Why Waldorf Schools Work.”, and the article,” A Silicon Valley that doesn’t compute.” To support my viewpoint on Waldorf schools. My first reason is that Waldorf students are more engaged, committed, and even more excited in school. In the article,” Why do Waldorf Schools Work.” It says,” Waldorf students are significantly more enthusiastic about learning,...
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...ECE 312 WEEK 4 LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT A+ Graded Tutorial Available At: http://hwsoloutions.com/?product=ece-312-week-4-leadership-and-management Visit Our website: http://hwsoloutions.com/ Product Description PRODUCT DESCRIPTION ECE 313 Week 4 Assignment Childrens Story, The development of a child is most important issue. The purpose is to build a society that does not have prison systems expanding. This is only possible when the child is given the attention the child needs in the formative years, from birth till the age of 18. The Waldorf style of preschool education is appropriate in these modern times but with the discipline of the traditional preschool style. I have been educated in the traditional preschool system and did not come out any worse for it. The case study that I would select is Lisa getting frustrated while trying to play with other children and even hitting out at them with toys. This is a more serious behavior pattern than Shaun clinging to his mother. Most children at that age cling to their parent but outgrow it over a period of time. Children must be left by parents at the main gate of the school and the children must be encouraged to walk the rest on their own and line up outside the school premise or in an assembly hall for morning prayers and a song perhaps before starting the day in preschool. The children must walk in silence to their class rooms and sit where they are allotted. The seat should be a regular seat for them every day...
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...My two semester-long internships gave me a lot of opportunity to be involved with the community of Ithaca. Working at The Waldorf School was a great way to get to know local families and their children and see the activities available for them through their school. I participated in one of the traditional holiday events over the weekend, supervised walks to a farm accross the street to gather vegetables and learn about the environment, and facilitated games and lessons on outdoor education in the classroom. The most exciting part of my internship was taking the children to Cornell and designing a program where they had the opportunity to climb, described in the Work Experience section of this portfolio. The following spring I did another internship...
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...Designing a program for the Ithaca Waldorf Students I designed a program last fall that gave me a personal example of the advantageous outcomes of experiential learning. I recently finished an internship at The Waldorf School, working with 4th, 5th, and 6th graders, where I lead games and initiatives and taught lessons in the classroom. In August, I started adding to the curriculum I had established with the school by coordinating a field trip for the students to climb at Cornell University. There were many logistics to make decisions on with The Waldorf School and Cornell Outdoor Education staff, and my biggest accomplishment was lowering the cost for the school by finding both a grant and volunteers to help belay and lead the activities. I planned to run more of an organized program than simply a time for bouldering and top-roping. For the first half an hour, we did some introductions, explained comfort, learning, and danger zones with an activity to better understand them, and assisted a few initiatives with trust falls. There was half an hour for lunch, which included free juice from the sponsor I found, Red Jacket Orchards, and half an hour for explaining rules, putting on equipment, and bouldering to find candy on the wall, something I thought would be a good sequence to top-roping. There was an hour for the three volunteers and me to belay the students while they climbed, and I ended with a demonstration of...
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...Technological Advancement In Education Education Essay Contents Introduction – Thesis statement: Advances in the technology are very helpful in transforming the way people are educated. From the abacus which made teaching math easy millennia back, to word processor which changed the way research paper are being written and presented. The technological progress of humans has a positive impact on education. Technological change has given shape to education from the very beginning, but with the addition of digital revolution it has popularly increased the speed at which education is transforming. From the past 20 years, there have been changes in technological education that few people ever dreamed. . Many colleges and universities have started offering distance learning programs before the discovery of internet where these programs were difficult to find at that time. Due to this reason, many people who lived in villages and towns lack access to these universities and colleges. There is no doubt that technology has greatly involved in our daily lives and mainly when we are talking about education field. There is almost no escaping from the fact which is produced by the researchers. Education has been widely affected by the integration of technologies as it is a fast way to reach mass number of students. Literature Review – There are basically three main theoretical frameworks presented in the educational technology literature which are Behaviorism, Constructivism and Cognitivism...
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