Every teacher needs to know and understand the needs of their students. ... Psychology of education also helps the teacher to understand the process of learning. ... The culture of school includes the curriculum, pupil cultures and teacher cultures. ... With such exposure, the teachers are hopefully, would not relate or let the principles status or competence to influence their belief or principles of teaching as we know some teachers are fear of being criticised or judged by other teachers and also parents. Sociology of education also provides the knowledge of the pupils" views of ...

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Although it may not be within a teachers' spectrum of expertise to conduct diagnostic tests, it should be within a teacher's expertise to recognise the needs for such tests. ... The special education teacher and the classroom teacher continually discuss these lessons and the students' development. ... It is important that the teachers understand this and find a way to accommodate the special need when it arises. ... It is best if he/she is closest to the teacher, for purposes of attention encouragement and support. ... By observation and assessment the teacher will come ...

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As a Media Studies teacher, I am well aware that facts are easily available on the internet (Attwood, 2008). ... From the one week Observation period we underwent as Pre-Service Teachers, I noticed that the main issues faced in a media studies classroom is the constant talking, unwillingness to participate in classroom activities, being disrespectful by talking over the teacher and the continuous need to use inappropriate language in class. ... For example, before entering the class, students should line up in an organized manner and greet the teacher as they enter class. ... For example, st...

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Consider how elements of Carol's approach become teacher centered. ... This essay will define the concept of constructivism and consider the important elements of Carol's teacher centered approach. ... This teacher centered discussion does not allow learners to actively build knowledge on their own. ... A teacher-centered approach is when the teacher is in control of the main source of information (Woolfolk & Margetts, 2013). ... Both of these limitations outline that Carol's teacher centered approach does not support student learning. ...

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The teacher converses with the students, poses questions and responds to students questions. ... It should be noted that the spacing effects also acts as learning tools to both the students and the teachers. ... The teachers gets to learn on the students needs, strengths and weakness, which puts the teacher in the best position to respond to students needs in the quest to help them excel academically (Cepeda, Vul, Rohrer, Wixted & Pashler, 2008). ... This can prove to be difficulty in situations where the teachers' population is below standards. There must be enough teachers in the instit...

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Teachers are faced with many obstacles every day and learn to adapt accordingly. ... The head teacher is a key stakeholder as ultimately, a teacher may not be able to teach in a creative way if the head teacher is strictly Traditionalist and is against Progressivism. In spite of this, it can be possible for the teacher and the head teacher to negotiate a learning plan for a certain class if the teacher can assure the head that their teaching methods can get results, if this is what the head teacher is striving for. ... From my own experience I have seen head teachers come into the class I was ...

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A pragmatic teacher should use some real experimental methods in subjects like environmental science. ... Dewey (1990), views the teacher in any sound teaching and learning episode as an organizer, facilitator and supervisor. In mathematics, the teacher should pose some real life situational that require a simple operational solution. ... The teacher's authority must not be seen to derive from attempts to oblige the learner to accept whatever he says. ... The teacher must use polite ways of punishing pupils in the class. ...

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A learner with strong metacognmitive awareness often wants to listen to the teacher himself and he thinks that kind of listening is an important part of English class. Even though he doesn't understand what teacher say well, he will try to understand that after class or make a effective preview before class. The learner gets more intake than others as he pays graet attention to the teacher, which makes acquisition more possible. ... enables them to practice the process It enables them to obtain feedback and to make adjustments regarding their effective use of the process it enables th...

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Asperger's Syndrome is a disability that many teachers may come across throughout their teaching experience. ... With the education provided to the teachers of tomorrow, will guarantee an improvement in how we teach the children for their future. ... If a child's behavior becomes uncontrollable, there are different strategies that a teacher can use to change their unacceptable behavior. ... I find it very important for all teachers to get background information on any disability that any child in their classroom is facing. As a teacher, you have responsibility in giving the stud...

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The educational setting must have teachers, curriculum, and classrooms that promote brain-based learning. ... As the research suggests, effective brain-based learning requires teachers to modify their thinking and teaching strategies to embrace research on learning and the brain. ... Teachers must immerse learners in complex, interactive experiences that are both rich and real. ... A brain attuned teacher teaches with the brain in mind. This teacher understands the principles and uses strategies in a purposeful way. ...

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A study by Foltos (2002) showed that educational technology can be beneficial to academic learning if it is used correctly by teachers. ... Given that, if all teachers were able to provide assistance to students in using technology in an appropriate way, technology would still be a good tool to improve academic learning. ... On the contrary, teachers who are able to create simulations by having their students to solve problems using computer technology have a class of students with their math scores increase significantly (Wenglinsky, 1998, as cited in Foltos, 2002). In sum, teachers who hadn...

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Hence, it is the expectation that the students will "follow" the teacher mandated procedure, and by doing so will learn (Geahigan, 1998a, p. 293). ... Dewey believed that teaching becomes a "social stigma instead of an honor" when student and teacher thinking is done with " uniformity as well as conformity- (Dewey, 1959, p.135). ... And inquiry is unique because it allows "teachers and students [to] enter a process of social construction of knowledge that encourages critique, diversity"-and meaning making" (Fecho, 2000). ... Learning logs are metacognitive tools that focus on content and...

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Better understanding of social problems will simply make life easier for classroom teachers who do not have to struggle to find appropriate materials as for children. ... However, in my personal view, if an adult and child are exposed to the same foreign language teacher and the same hours of class instruction, child would still be better imitators of the teacher's pronunciation. ... Most of them have the experience of going to foreign language middle school and being taught at an early age by foreign teachers. ... What is implied by this difference is that language class for children s...

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Accordingly, he tends to roam around the classroom and or ask permission from the teacher to go to the comfort room so he could go out. He as well seems not to be listening to the teacher's lectures and disrupts his classmates. ... In educational practice, teachers should take awareness of symptoms of impulsivity in the class. ... Similarly teachers would be able to give special attention to such children. ...

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An understanding of basic human developmental stages can be used to gear the teacher's lesson plans in order to maximize the success of students in both the academic and the social realms of their lives. ... Early childhood educators have a responsibility to establish proper language skills for their children because children spend most of time with their teacher. ... At this age, a progressive change begins; however, they need help from other people who they admire such as teacher to get greater satisfaction. They also start to understand other people's feelings with their parents a...

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The tasks we designed mostly focus on meaning since all of them except the focus on linguistic features step target a meaning-related outcome like our decision-making activity in which they have to decide on a restaurant to celebrate their teacher's birthday at. ... In terms of learner and teacher roles, our learners are the real doers of the tasks and the teachers, us, act only as a facilitator, and observer. ... As mentioned in the very beginning, under normal circumstances, we would have conducted a needs analysis to determine the learners' interests in order to involve the learn...

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The outcome of that question is important to help parents, teachers, and others who work with young children understand what social skills to specifically foster and promote in order to enhance children perceptions of their peer acceptance. ... For example, a teacher who believes a child lacks confidence in his or her peer acceptance might pair the child with another child who is confident about her peer acceptance, in order to provide a model of behavior. ... Children own feelings of peer acceptance, psychometric ratings from peers, and teacher and parent perceptions of children confidence in...

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In the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) there is a Diagnostic criteria for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder as shown below: (1) six or more of the following symptoms of inattention have persisted for at least 6 months to a degree that is maladaptive and inconsistent with developmental level: Inattentive (a) often fails to give close attention to details or makes careless mistakes in schoolwork, work, or other activities (b) often have difficulty sustaining attention in tasks or play activities (c) often does not seem to listen when spoken to directl...

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Subjects, the teachers, were to administer increasingly higher voltage shocks to the learners" when an incorrect answer to a question was given. ... For example, when orders were given over the phone or when the teacher and learner were in the same room, obedience was less likely. ...

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When April 20, 1999 came about, students at Columbine High School were shocked when the students they were classmates with, suddenly entered the school with weapons. They killed teachers and students with no fear before they finally turned their weapons to themselves, taking their own lives. Anoth...

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The Black psychologists caucus was established with the goals of promoting and teaching psychology in Black schools, to encourage study, to explore and exchange, to set up credentials for psychology teachers, and to aid Black institutions in training and selecting psychologists. ...

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Preparing children for school is a challenging, but necessary task for parents. All parents want their children to do well in school, but starting school is a huge milestone in a child's development, and not every parent knows how to help their children be successful in throughout school. Tackling t...

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In this course, I learned the significance of group process, and how different groups function. What I have learned not only applies to small groups, but the same concepts apply to larger ones better known as societies. Through the concepts exposed in this course, now I have a better understanding a...

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One of the ways school mirrors the workplace is in the presence of hierarchies, with head teachers or bosses at the top making decisions and giving out orders and workers or pupils at the bottom obeying. ...

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Individuals have different behaviors depending on how they feel, think, want, or what they do because these things change from moment to moment. This paper will be writing about human personality and how this can be influence by other psychological subfield in social and clinical factors. I will exp...

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