This can be achieved through academic instruction as well as through physical education. The students will learn the importance of teamwork and how to work together to achieve a common goal. They can achieve this through a game of Jeopardy, where the students work collaboratively to earn a reward and through the game of Islands, where the students must work effectively together in order to make it across the gym. ... Ultimately, they will understand that as a team they can achieve what they could not accomplish individually. Although the students are motivated to imitate the behavior I am se...

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The goals of the RIDBC are stated in their statement of purpose. This is to provide the best education possible for children with vision and/or hearing disabilities, so that they may achieve their full potential in life. ... The RIDBC does fulfil its goals by, providing the children with a wide range of activities and educational programs to make sure the children achieve their full potential in life. ...

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It serves as a guideline for developing sub-goals and it offers different ways of assessing if the goals have been met. ... Furst (1994) questioned the assumption that The Taxonomy was a "purely descriptive scheme in which every kind of goal could be represented in a relatively neutral way.... Perry and Baxter-Magolda argued that educators would be more effective in achieving different outcomes if they used a conceptual framework that provides a more holistic approach. ... The goal of this framework is to encourage students to engage and work together. ... The con is that many teachers te...

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He further explains to us that liberation of the oppressed "the student" can only be attained through the understanding of several themes: Understanding the banking concept and problem-posing methods of education and believing that liberation can only be achieved through the practice of critical thinking with the use of communication and dialogue. ... They achieve this by relying on a hierarchical method that glorifies the knowledge of the teacher and the incompetence of the students. ... The author conceptualizes the learning and teaching process to be active between the students and the te...

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One major thing that I have discovered about learning: motivation always determines what drives a learner to learn something new and striving daily to accomplish set of goals while staying focused to the tasks. ... It empowers me to survive daily struggle, handle challenges and accomplish goals. My compilation lists of long-term goals such as to visualize myself to be a well-known public speaker, successful entrepreneur and mother have always energize my mind, will, and emotions to do everything, to be a highly motivated learner. Alongside motivation, overcoming obstacles or challenges is ano...

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These skills include effective time management for lesson plans and classroom productivity; great communication skills to convey what is needed from the students and to be able to talk with parents about their child's needs and progress; being able to work collaboratively with many different people from many different cultures; adaptive thinking (Institute for the Future, 2011) which will allow me to assess the classroom dynamics and adapt to fit the situation; media literacy to introduce 21st century media into the classroom; and a design mindset which will help in developing lesson plan...

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Johnson et al, in their publication, described a cooperative condition as one in which, "an individual can attain his goal if and only if the individual with whom he is linked can attain his.... As enumerated earlier, students see their colleagues as hindrances to their success and rather than cooperating to achieve a goal, they tend to be divided between themselves. ... Great minds with similar goals and passions could be identified to achieve greater and more qualified common goal because, "students succeed in spite of competition, not because of it," (Kohn, 1987)....

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Various techniques have been developed to assist people achieve knowledge management. ... Communities of Practice came up from the need to achieve information sharing as part of knowledge management. ... People become motivated to achieve more when they have the necessary skills to carry out their tasks. ... Also, it is a learning theory that is focused on achieving knowledge development and information transfer. ... In businesses, the Communities of Practice can be in the form of workgroups or teams that work together towards achieving a particular goal (Schenkel & Teigland, 2008). ...

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Before a Learning Organisations can be implemented , a solid foundation should be laid and this can be achieved by taking into account some certain factors: Firstly, awareness. ... Individuals do not have a comprehensive picture of the whole organisation and its goals. ... Companies can learn to achieve these aims in Learning Labs. ... With learning organisation greater motivation is also achieved. ... It has been long observed in several consulting works that far fewer organisations achieve synergy than as...

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In most cases' students with special needs who are included are achieving at far higher levels than they did in segregated classrooms. ... In general, students with disabilities in inclusive settings have shown improvement in standardized tests, acquired social and communication skills previously undeveloped, shown increased interaction with peers, achieved more and higher-quality IEP goals, and are better prepared for post-school experiences. ... Low-achieving students also benefited from the review, practice, clarity, and feedback provided to students with disabilities. ...

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There are seven goals of early childhood special education programs (Bailey and Wolery, 1992). They go as follows: To support families in achieving their own goals. ... These goals apply to all students with severe disabilities, and they are what make up the structure of the intervention programs. ... Curriculum-based assessment measures are used to determine a child's current abilities, derive instructional goals, and track a child's progress along a continuum of objectives. ... Early interventionists find that a valuable tool in determining educational goals and evaluatin...

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Communication takes the verbal and non-verbal form and I have observed that effective communication allows the teacher to express goals, intended outcomes, and expectations clearly and effectively and this has a direct impact on motivation. ... Capel et al, (2003: p 116) suggests that the key to achieving this rests in the quality of my classroom management skills. ... Rogers, (1982) emphasises this importance because pupils perform according to the expectations of them and I have observed that the implications of low expectations is that pupils are not motivated, achieve little and b...

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This adaptability is extremely appealing in a field with a wide variety of program types, content objectives, instructional settings, and learner needs and goals. At the classroom or individual learning level, new technologies present opportunities to accomplish multiple instructional goals; i.e. - integrated language skills, critical thinking, cooperative and interpersonal skills. ... Matching technology applications to the instructional needs and goals of the program is another challenge. Factors such as financial limitations or fascination with a high-end technology application can lead to ...

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The ability of a teacher to contribute to the pedagogy of students is essential and of great privilege. American journalist and former news anchor Dan Rather, opened up his 1977 autobiography The Camera Never Blinks, with a profound statement about the beginning of his dreams, ignited by a former t...

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In order to have an effective learning environment for children, goals must be set, families must be involved, curriculum must be hands on and child directed, appropriate assessment and documentation must be conducted in order to further the curriculum and the learning in the classroom. A classroom designed for the highest level of engagement and effectiveness is one in which the children are a part of the designing, one that is neat and well organized for optimal learning, and one in which children and families feel comfortable enough to achieve the highest level of learning possible. ... M...

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It gives the teacher feedback that helps him/her to understand the next step in learning and to plan how to achieve them for the benefit of the students. ... Assessment of learning is summative in nature and is used to confirm what students know and can do, to demonstrate whether they have achieved the curriculum's outcomes. ... Edmonton states that an assessment is valid and reliable when the assessment is considered and provide with relevant information about the goals intended to be learned and content of instructions. ...

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If after sixty lessons, the child has not achieved the reading level of his or her classmates, the child is released from the Reading Recovery Program. The program's long term goal is to have children continue to progress through their regular classroom instruction and independent reading, after their intervention is discontinued. ... Most students need between twelve to sixteen weeks of help before they are discontinued form the program whose goal is to bring students up to the level of peers and to give students assistance they need to develop independent reading strategies. ...

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The article began by offering a stance on what the ultimate goal of education is. ... If your goal is to convince someone of the importance of something it is imperative that you make that person understand how qualitative natures are just as important as quantitative natures. ...

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In sense of metacognitive awareness, "monitor" means monitoring the whole process of learning, to see if anything needs to be revised in order to meet the learner's goal or monitoring what the learner's weak points of language proficiency are, and then try other strategies to make up for this weak point... Researches conducted on second language learning in recent years indicate that most successful learners are active thinkers, decision-makers and good problem-solvers, and they also have great control over themselves and the whole learning process, including goals setting, strategie...

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THE PROBLEM RATIONALE High performance in every test is one of the major goals of every teacher and every learning institution. But most of the mathematics teachers, especially the researcher, failed to achieve these goals. ... The main purpose of this study is to develop additional exercises in Mathematics to achieve higher performance in the subject. ... With the mastery exercises, it can help Secondary schools to achieve higher performance in Mathematics 7. ... Using the mastery exercises, the students will have a lot of exercises to work on for them to achieve mastery in the least mastered...

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Edwin Abbot Abbot's goal was to teach people to examine things from a new perspective, and not just go through life with tunnel vision. ... Through the reading of Flatland, and the activities that go along with it, such as the observation of two neighborhoods and the participation of the ESL students in talking about their experiences similar to Flatland experiences, students will learn that they have the power to achieve and make a difference. ...

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While some problems regarding special education have been addressed throughout the years, however, currently there are many pressing issues limiting the access disabled children have to achieve their educational goals. Education is the single most important aspect of achieving freedom and future achievement for children with disabilities, yet not enough importance is placed on granting these marginalized children the programs and services they need. ...

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Suppose you are compiling a battery of psychological assessment measures for selection of students at a South African tertiary institution. You decide to include a group test of intelligence (based on the psychometric approach) but given the multicultural context in which you are working, you also administer a test that measures learning potential (using dynamic assessment). Your assignment is to write an essay in which you discuss the theories underlying each of these two types of tests, indicating the value of each approach given the context. Provide an example of a group test of intellige...

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Central to this belief is the convinction that when all members of an organization fully develop and exercise their essential human capacities, the resulting congruence between personal and organizational visions, goals and objectives will release this potential. ... In his book "Notes on Continuous Learning, Culture and Organization-, Bob Mingie defines the Learning Organization as "an enterprise that focuses on the continuous improvement of its processes, products and service; that facilitates the learning of its members, both individually/independently and as groups/teams; that continuous...

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Some educators with high expectations forget to commend their students along the way as they gradually achieve the desired goal. ... This may be difficult for a teacher to accomplish in a classroom with physical, emotional, behavioral and/or learning disabled children, but it is imperative that every teacher discovers the appropriate strategies in order to achieve this by getting to know your students. ... Children are proud of the tokens they receive, and repeat actions that won them tangible rewards to achieve more goodies for the work they have done and efforts they have brought forth. ...

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