to understand and identify with a diverse range of students. My experiences of being a first-generation college student with English as a second language present the main ideals that are the backbone of my educational philosophy. As an academic advisor my primary mission is to help students navigate successfully through their academic careers while exploring their educational and career options. My immediate responsibility is to prepare students to be self-sufficient and life-long learners. My obligation
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08:10 -- 08:13. The teacher turns on the background music, didgeridoo, greets the students and reads the attendance. Then the teacher asks whether the students enjoyed watching the film Slumdog Millionaire. Thereafter, the teacher explains the plan for today’s class. 08:13 -- 08:20. The teacher hands out worksheets and asks the students, if they know anything about Australia, i.e. has anyone been there? Do students know how big the country is, how many people live there, when it was settled by
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□Freshman □ Transfer Student □ Transient Student □Graduate Male: Female: Date of Birth: Month Day Year Surname: Given Name: English Name: Email Address of Student: Housing Options for students: (*Current Year’s Price: Subject to change) Residence Hall Single $5740/Year Residence Hall Double $4736/Year House Unit Single $5740/Year House Unit Double Residence Hall Quad $4736/Year $4736/Year Apartment (Junior, Senior and Graduate Students ONLY) $6110/Year
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providing differentiation because students have a choice of activities. Outcome- • Extend and review skills and demonstrate understanding of content and skills that students need to acquire. Designed to teach color vocabulary, animal names and/or sounds and matching picture to picture. Different students can have different anchor activities so their process of reviewing content will be different depending on what activity they do. The expected outcome(s) : • Students will take an active role in
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effective strategies, along with orientation programs and continued academic support, for improving student success at the higher education (university) level. Although it is impossible to tie advising practices directly to retention, good advising can result in many positive outcomes that are also associated with high retention rates, such as effective career and academic planning, overall student satisfaction, familiarity with campus resources and support services, and interaction with staff outside
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Group work is sometimes difficult to manage, but it builds valuable skills and contributes to a successful issue-oriented program. Lack of accountability of individuals within a group, off-task conversations, and students who try to dominate the discussion are just some of the potential problems surrounding group interactions. The 4-2-1 approach to cooperative learning (described on pages ii–iii of the Introduction to the Teacher’s Guide ) offers a structure that can help you reduce, though
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1. Students will complete a presentation with a partner and have a variety of options to choose from. For example, they one option may be to produce a mini play or a how-to project. This will give a chance to develop a student’ communication skills. If students are able to interact with other students, then they will understand that there are kids like them present. When students find another person like them, they often build a relationship with and do activities together like playing in the park
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in many ways by solving small problems that many students have to deal with on a daily basis whether it's on the bus, walking to campus or even the dining halls. At Georgia Southern, the university requires all freshmen to purchase a meal plan to eat whatever, and whenever they want to. As great as that sounds, it also expensive. The typical meal plan for freshmen costs approximately $1700 a semester which equals out to $100 a week. Once a student becomes a sophomore, he or she is not required to
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capabilities. They believe that standardization better prepares students for succeeding in college and the most efficient way to do so is by having an expert transfer their knowledge to a body of student(s). Contrary, Cathy Davidson, author of “Project Classroom Makeover,” argues that standardization of education isn’t appropriate and instead, believes that education must shift its focus towards finding more ways to interactively promote student learning in a classroom environment. The educational system
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it is used. With a click of a mouse button any student anywhere has the opportunity to learn. It increases flexibility for schools and promotes individual instruction to meet the needs of each student. The computer can also be used to educate the smarter students who easily get bored in a traditional classroom since they reach their goal faster. With computers, students that finish a unit can go to the next one immediately. For these bright students, the challenges that computers can offer encourage
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