... submit to their instructor or Tech Guide an electronic file containing a database that the teacher candidate has designed to organize and work with text such as the teacher candidate's notes on professional literature, the teacher candidate's feedback to K-12 students about their work, K-12 students' journal writing, etc. Such a database normally would include title fields, keyword fields, and author and date/time ... when the university gave laptops to all full-time teaching faculty. "We held orientation sessions and focused our training on three thrusts-equipment, software, and e-lear...

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• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... education and salary, and low negative correlations between success on the examination and criteria of age and experience. Morrison (50) applied the principles of learning as found in the literature of educational psychology to a shorthand text series and found the series deficient because it taught parts before the whole, did not create conditions favorable to transfer of learning, and ... addition, the multiple-regression technique used for the study made possible the development of an equation to predict the number of errors students are likely to make in their shorthand notes when tak...

• Word Count: 3268
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... to offer. Woolf's personal views, opinions on women's place, plus her examples of rhetorical devices such as diction, details, and syntax, add up to one incredible and creative piece of literature. Woolf expresses through diction, her own attitudes about the way women have been treated, and how their values are naturally different from those that men have. In describing the men ... the men. In order to contradict this idea, Woolf adds in her second section that, "it is the nature of biscuits to be dry", and when describing the dishes, she notes that, "There was no pattern. The plate was...

• Word Count: 680
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... : Classroom Culture and Society in a Rural Elementary School, is a firsthand account of the almost minute-by-minute activities of a rural school. Along with the description of each day, are side-notes analyzing the events and happenings, putting into context and to some extent, explaining the behavior of not only the students but also the teachers. Johnson, in his own words, said ... data on the educational trends of rural and urban poor, and the funding of the relative school systems. One website, called ERIC: Rural Education Directory, provided brief summaries of recent literature on r...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... a consequence, homeschooled children have a difficult time rising above the level of academic achievement of their parents. Even parents holding doctoral degrees in mathematics and science are often poorly educated in literature and history. Furthermore, homeschool parents lack the necessary training and skills to teach their children effectively. Elementary school subjects are simple enough subjects to handle for the parent, but what ... in today's society do not take religious values sincerely. Homeschooling recognizes religion as part of ones culture, influencing the basic moral and ...

• Word Count: 1609
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... -in the state and in private systems-are taught primarily because they are part of the traditional curriculum. We believe that it is important that children know about science and literature but we cannot say exactly why. Some children just don't get it Children have a right to understand why they are being taught what they are taught. But even that isn ... have been trained, in order to introduce a system of equality; research shows that they too aspire to those of different classes to themselves and promote the middle class values. Hargreaves notes that bias" teachers have for those in...

• Word Count: 4180
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate