... Deficit Disorder (ADD) is a growing problem in U.S. One of the first questions parents ask when they find out their child has ADD is "why, what went wrong?" The fact is children with ADD cant help the fact they have it. ADD is a chemical imbalance in the brain. It is caused by a lack of seretonin in the brain. Seretonin is the "happy ... is a lack of seretonin, the person can't concentrate or control their actions. ADD can be detected in children easily. Children with ADD usually have problems in school. Not only academic problems, but behavior problems too. Children with ADD don't lear...

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... may at first sound threatening and ill-suited to a child's nature, but it is a necessary part of teaching and learning. The secret lies in pitching assessment activities at the children's level and encouraging learners to be actively involved in their own assessment. Evaluation: it is the process of gathering information in order to determine the extent to which a language programme ... testing. 2.Students think assessment only happens when learning has finished. 3.Assessment often relies too much on grammar tests. 4.Children feel assessment tries to reveal what they have not learned. ...

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... in a gifted program either. Although some teachers believe this is true, I believe this is wrong. Attending a gifted program is a need, not a privilege! Some gifted children may misbehave because they are bored. Attending a gifted program will challenge gifted children and they would be less likely to misbehave, act up, or disrupt the classroom. It will stimulate and challenge them and make them more ... interested in school. n many ways, gifted students are getting the short end of the stick. I believe gifted students have less support, funding, attention than learning-disabled childre...

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... would take motivation to get me focused and enroll. So what did it take to get me motivated? I would like to say that it was a revelation or vision I saw in a midnight dream. Or even a financial motivation from work or business. Instead I would like to attribute my motivation to my daughter. My daughter who is now 9 years old, speaking French, reading at ... the University of Phoenix, I can assume with what I have experienced so far, that I am not the only person motivated to go back to school by their children. I applaud them all and encourage them to let their children be a source of ...

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... any activity, and whenever we are intellectually engaged in almost anything. Many people fail to recognise this and has therefore led to a waste of talent and human resources. Robinson also notes of the faults of the education system. Too many schools are failing to see the importance of creativity. There is a preoccupation with developing students in more academic subjects without recognising ... a high priority on developing more scientists and technologists. This is only achievable with the downsizing of other subjects such as the arts. This is having a negative effect on students as ...

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... the school. If I know somebody in the class I like to have study groups because we can quiz each other on the information and look at each other's notes to see if we missed anything from the lecture. Most of the time I will have my mom or sister ask me questions out of the book, or have ... it refreshes my mind about the material I studied the nights before. I like to get to the class about ten minutes before the class starts so I can go over my notes or if I had any questions for the teacher that I didn't understand. I asked some of my friends how they study for a big exam and some of t...

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... stimulate the creativity, critical thinking, and collaborative nature of students. The effect music has on students is most commonly known as the Mozart Effect. One program in Florida "mandated children receiving state aid to have at least 30 minutes of music instruction daily" (Jensen 38). This program was just the beginning of a movement to shape young minds through melodies ... was playing, rather than the concepts you were studying. Studying music is a valuable tool that causes test scores to improve and memory-recall in general. This happens through the moving notes in the music. W...

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... content knowledge, general pedagogical knowledge, and knowledge of learners and learning. While I was observing this fifth grade parochial school teacher and her students, I looked for the four knowledge bases. I took notes and paid attention to what topic the teacher was teaching and how she presented the topic to her class. I then examined the teacher's lessons to see if the teacher herself ... the subject matter because if she did not have the material, she would not have been able to think offhand of examples to make the subject matter comprehensible to the children. Knowledge of Pe...

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... change on my perspective on literacy, just as it has changed again now. I interviewed three people on their perspective on literacy; a 15 year old girl, a 19 year old boy, and a 39 year old woman. I asked what they thought about reading and writing, they are useful to them, and why or why not, and is it important, why or why not. Both ... like without our knowledge to read and write and said adapting to a world where literacy didn't exist would not only be unimaginable but a place I wouldn't even want to experience. The 39 year old I interviewed, however, said a lot more about how liter...

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... quiz your self to see how much you know, and how much you don't. Whatever you don't understand go back and redo it untill you do understand it. Also comparing notes is a good things to do, because you might have missed something that was very inportant that was going to be on the test that you did not have or something ... there, or if there is and bonus questions. It never hurts to ask the teacher and questions, because all they can say is no.You will need to review your notes, make summeries or outlines. It also helps to make questions for yourself. Review a week or two before the exa...

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... order when reading aloud, and poor reading comprehension. With older students and adults, dyslexia is often suspected with students that have difficulty remembering what is read aloud, has difficulty taking notes from a presentation, or is a very poor speller. Most of the time, kids with dyslexia aren't recognized until they are about eight or nine. By this time, the level of frustration ... . It simply occurs when the barrier in the language center of you brain cracks during development. In some experiments done by the University of Montreal, scientists are comparing non-dyslexic childr...

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... be a visual learner. In my job, listening is required in order to investigate a particular problem. I find that when I am required to listen, I must take notes. It is much easier for me to go back to my notes to summarize the conversation then it would be to rely on what I think I might of heard. People don't always hand me things in writing. They ... leave voice mail messages, or tell me something in passing. I've found myself using a lot of post it notes so I can write down what I need to know and be able to follow-up on it later. I am fortunate that I am aware of my learning style, a...

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... and systems, some of which are outlined in The Adult Learner and will be discussed from the point of view of this adult learner. Concrete Experience Adults learn differently than children. This is the premise of the class and the book The Adult Learner. As part of this class I have been assigned to read chapters in this book, take quizzes based ... on the readings and the instructor's notes, participate in classroom discussions and produce two papers. The first paper was an overview of what I have learned. That was an easy paper to write. The second paper is what ... Learner 3 in-servi...

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... often sit near the front of the classroom because they need to see the teacher's body language and facial expressions to understand a lesson. In the classroom this student will take notes using pictures. The visual/ spatial learner will exceed at creating collages, painting, storyboards. They have great conceptualization skills. The fourth intelligence is musical/ rhythmic, who have the ability to produce ... of learning. Finally, logical/ mathematical is the proposed eighth intelligence. This style is heavily implemented in the traditional curriculum. This student will be able to do ve...

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... -school are based towards both visual and verbal learners, when teenagers hit college, they often get lost. Most college professors tend to rely on the verbal teachings with handouts and notes. In order for the visual learners to help themselves, they must try to find any type of diagram, drawings, or anything they can connect to the concept that has to ... do with a picture. If a visual learner color codes the notes, they are more likely to find the important ideas because of the stimulation of the colors. Verbal learners can gain more understanding by writing everything into their own ...

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... quickly with eye contact or proximity. The second behavior is minor problem behavior. These are ones that usually go against the classroom rules, such as calling out, leaving seats, passing notes, eating candy, and so on. These do need to be addressed promptly, so do not ignore them. First, make eye contact with the student. Then, move closer to the student ... as they are speaking, do so by repeating the words correctly but do not make the student repeat the corrections as well. Also, do not treat the ESOL students like children, do not jump in immediately to supply words for the stude...

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... starts to distance herself from not only Chris, but from school, her family and friends. She starts to write "Dear Nobody" letters and she starts to write in a diary. Her notes and letters are the main content in the book. Helen's mother isn't very supportive of Helen and the baby. Actually the only time she ever talks to Helen is when ... ...

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... styles. Visual learners need to see the material presented. They learn better by reading an article or book, rather than having it read to them. They tend to take detailed notes during lectures or meetings and then read over them later to fully understand what was covered. You may notice visual learners, "by their vivid imaginations, their creative use of colors ... ...

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... ability to organise their own work. Criteria: Is the student able to organise work systematically or produce presentable work?, Is the student conscientious? To look at their notebook and grammar notes are indicators and help you to assess this area. Independence It refers to the ability of students to work on their own as well as part of a group. They should ... ...

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... had read a book five years ago and went back to it then you could remember exactly what you had been thinking when you first read the book through your margin notes. Reading a book is like a "conversation between you and the writer". Active reading allows you to pick up this conversation wherever you left off. Also a reader's grasp of the text is ... ...

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... are not TESL trained? Then, they will be learning the wrong pronunciations and mechanics and this will affect their future. Where is the authenticity of this activity! According to Jayakaran"s notes, "materials should require and facilitate learners self-investments and self-empowerment". As we know, material should empower learners and put them in control of their own learning. Littlewood (1981) makes ... ...

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... . One way of activating these strategies is to encourage students to make predictions about the subject and become mentally prepared for the content of the unit. Other examples include: taking notes; skimming a text for the main idea; working out analogies; memorization; inference; discovering and "noticing- new language patterns. 2. Metacognitive: What learners do to regulate and manage their learning. They involve thinking ... ...

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... because the child effortlessly takes in, or absorbs, sensory information and experiences from the environment. This quality particularly captivated Dr. Montessori. It seemed miraculous to her that very young children, living simply and joyously, could learn and orient themselves to complex systems without any teaching, - just by living. Because the sensory information and experiences that the child takes ... can continue to work and achieve independence within a larger social context. This new environment is designed especially for this work; everything is proportionate to the size and ...

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... and paying attention, difficulty controlling behavior, and hyperactivity (over-activity)" (NIMH, 2012. Para 1). Symptoms of ADHD make it very difficult for children to be successful in school, as well as many other aspects of their daily lives. Some symptoms that can cause problems at home and school ... may make it difficult to succeed in school, but that has nothing to do with the child's intelligence. School is not an easy thing for children with ADHD for many different reasons. Difficulty with their ability to pay attention is a major symptom of ADHD. This can cause problems for a ch...

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... specialists to find out what kind of disability the student has and try to accommodate that student's learning disability. According to Bishop, J. C., & Block, M. E. (2012), children with ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) have motor skill problems and fifty percent of students with ADHD have coordination disorder and difficulties in general motor coordination and control. The reasons ... why students have difficulty being able to master motor skills is because their motor skill competence. As Bishop and Block (2012) state, children with ADHD have trouble academically, socia...

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