... each of the students were told to choose any book that they wanted to read, and they were to read that book over the summer. When they got back in school, the teacher told the class that they were going to be creating book reports for the books that they read over the summer, ... but they were not going to be ordinary book reports. All of the students were to pretend that the books that they read would be made into ... was a fun and constructive way to learn. The project was also a great example of the teacher's specific content pedagogy because it showed the children how book reports ...

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... to students rather than traditional ways of teaching." (1998, P.4) 'Active Methods' allow the play to be real in the classroom and from simple alterations where photocopies of the book become scripts, for instance, can remove the overwhelming feeling that a large amount of text needs to be studied. Students can make their own annotations on the script, which extend the ... . I would be interested to see if using some circle time in the lesson would help focus and engage a group, and instead of settling students by copying lesson objectives in their book, getting them involved with o...

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... Economics and the more manual subjects such as metal work or technical drawing. Barber asks the question do girls rather than boys naturally approach problems verbally rather than symbolically. Paechter reports that "masculine" subjects are seen as "difficult by girls but "interesting" by boys, while girls see "feminine" subjects as "easy" and "boring" by boys. Girls also saw doing ... hidden curriculum includes class textbooks and extra curricular activities, as well as teacher behaviour, whether conscious or unconscious. Delamont highlights certain subject textbooks and their content...

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... it is also probably the area that receives the least attention in the classroom. A chapter "Effective Practices for Developing Reading Comprehension written by Nell K. Duke and David P. Pearson from a book titled, "-What Research Has to Say About Reading Research- by Alan E. Farstrup and Jay S. Samuels will be used to examine reading comprehension. Four questions will guide this examination: What ... to others. Using text as a medium of thought, where meaningful information is extracted on ever-increasing levels. The understanding of the idea, moral, concept and theme of a book. Sequence ...

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... school the way our parents had. Things, facts, and situations are fluid. Consider how a map of Europe has evolved over the past ten years. Linear learning models, such as reading a book, yield to associative learning models, such as the click-here, search-there experience of being on the Web; as well as relationship-based models, in which knowledge is created with ... , or education. The term "digital divide" became common after publication of the U.S. Department of Commerce National Telecommunications and Information Administration's "Americans in the Information Age: Falling Through th...

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