... activities and not implementing a variety of complimentary methods of assessment and evaluation will actually impede effective teaching and learning. There needs to be committed changes in what teachers and students believe to be appropriate and acceptable ways of ... and Transcendentalism by Colleen A. Ruggieri This article begins with Ruggieri relating her own experiences as a learner and how her learning was hindered due to a limited variety of teaching approaches. She takes a look at her own practices as a ... how she decided to transform her Language Arts classroom into one that wo...

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... that zero tolerance policies have no notable impact on improving student behavior or improving school safety as they intended. Furthermore, the authors underline that zero-tolerance policies interrupt the learning process and provided recommendations for schools to adopt more productive, proven alternatives. In a Law Review published by American University, both the social and legal implications of zero ... receive a proper education (Teske, 2011). An additional goal of this multi-systems approach is to address the disproportionate number of adolescents with emotional and mental disorde...

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... approach that relies on structure and 'the notions of theory and practice' (Williams: 1983). There is also support for a hybrid approach to EAP learning, known as critical pragmatism. This method encourages the characteristic critical pedagogical challenge of the status quo, while still requiring ideas to be translated and conveyed by means ... I intend to argue affirmatively that vulgar-pragmatic based pedagogy is the best and most effective method of teaching EAP to university students. The concept of critical pedagogical learning relies on the principle that 'the classroom n...

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... the general education milieu, and disabled students are required to benefit educationally as opposed to necessarily completing the goals and objectives set for their non-disabled peers. Sacks stresses that children with disabilities have some academic proficiency just as regular students (20). Because learning is no longer viewed as a concept requiring all students to complete all tasks at the same time, the ... inclusion view it as a means of enhancing student improvement through encouraging special students to attain a deeper understanding of material rather than memorizing facts. In ...

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