by the teachers but also by parents and guardians. Reinforcement particularly direct reinforcement has been influencing the students of things that are expected of them inside the classroom. The main purpose of the study was to determine the common indicators of attention seeking that are prevalent inside the classroom, and its level. And also to determine the common direct reinforcement used by the teacher to lessen these behavior. Intervention plan are recommended ny the researchers to help lessen
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Elementary School: One School’s Experiences in Meeting New Mathematics Standards. Throughout the course of the 1999-2000 school year, Dorgan observed and interviewed teachers who were members of the faculty of an economically and racially diverse elementary school in Virginia. The purpose behind the case study was to examine how the changes in the state Standards of Learning would effect pedagogical decision making, teaching and learning, and methods of instruction and evaluation. My evaluation/critique
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Runninghead: IMPROVING COLLEGE GRADUATION RATES: A FOCUS ON ADULT LEARNERS Improving College Graduation Rates: A Focus on Adult Learners Lloyd D. Martin II Western Governors University 1 IMPROVING COLLEGE GRADUATION RATES: A FOCUS ON ADULT LEARNERS 2 Improving College Graduation Rates: A Focus On Adult Learners The increasing concern of declining college graduation rates has become a significant issue across the nation, so much even, that it has risen to the top of our current presidential
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even a political topic above the rest. When you see a classmate 5’2” and 131 lbs. be harassed for his appearance and be taunted for his lack of “vertical stature” it may seem like a common case of teasing. But when the actions become physical such as my classmate being stuffed into trashcans because he is “compact-able” what then would you describe it as? Did I have the proper tools to notifying someone or the education to know what I might be able to do to stop it from happening? There were no publicized
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States. Ideologically, the common school era was rooted in classical liberalism, which had practical consequences in urban New England different from those in rural Jeffersonian Virginia. These variations were due to differences in regional political economy as well as shifts in religious thought. While Jefferson had encountered difficulty gaining consensus for a state-funded but locally controlled school system, Horace Mann sought a state-funded and state-controlled school system. In part because of the
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Adams once said, “Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since” (Adams, Abigail. Letter to Elizabeth Shaw). In every American elementary school classroom, children are being told the story of the country, how George Washington crossed the Delaware River, how Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, and how America, a colony still in infancy, managed to gain independence from powerful
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divisions of American society, and as well as the rest of the world. The hamburgers here in the United States are the same all over the world. McDonaldization can be looked, in a way, in which the hamburger chain makes food for ingestion is taken as an ideal of Max Weber's philosophy of the reasoning of the modern world. McDonaldization is the development of rationalization. Rationalization is a sociological word that means the replacement of reasonably reliable rules for old-style or inconsistent rules
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more specifically, a society that upholds egalitarian and meritocratic ideals. As a nation, we have fought wars and faced internal struggles in order to establish this system and champion these values. Within the last two centuries we have abolished slavery, given women the right to vote, and desegregated schools. In more recent years the movement towards equal opportunity has been advanced even further; public and private schools have increased financial support for economically disadvantaged scholars
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Creating my embodied knowing In being a leader Chapter Four connects my learning from experience, the creation of my embodied knowing as a leader, my integration of ideas from the literature on leadership and my support for individuals to develop their capacities as I discover and manage resources to support visions of an improved educational system. I conclude by emphasizing the importance of my knowledge-creation in my professional practice as a Superintendent of Schools and by asking
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future. Now we must seize the future and strive to be excellent. As for me, I miss all my friends and all the cool teachers. I will miss people accidentally setting themselves on fire in Ag Mechanics class. I will miss the morning TV show with Bryce’s Safari Adventure. I will miss the Friday night football games, and all the other sports. Even a part of me will miss the bomb threats. Earlier I called this a high school, but it is more like an airport terminal with hundreds of planes. As we each go to
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