On reading Audrey Curtis` statement extracted from " A Curriculum for the Pre-school Child-, 2nd Edition (1998) p118, my understanding of the message she is delivering is that since the document released by the S.C.A.A (1996b), early educators are feeling overly influenced into ensuring that children attain the learning outcomes recommended by the S.C.A.A. ... A formal approach is completely uncalled for at this stage of development in a child's life, as the learning outcomes will be achieved by the majority of children on reaching statutory school age, if they are permitted to grow and ...

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It seems essential to have a good understanding of the basis of learning theories to help learn about ourselves, the people we teach, and through this process hopefully make the best choices as part of our continuous improvement as adult educators. ...

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These books also offer the child a chance to gain experience in fluent reading; (2) Independent reading of the previous days book from which the teachers does a running record or miscue analysis of the student's reading performance. ...

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Northern Caribbean University College of Education and Religion Department of Education MTED 201: Primary Mathematics Methods Factors that influence how children learn Psychological influences Professional influences Technological influences Language influences Societal influences Research influences Psychological influences: The essence of this theory is students construct their own understanding of math ideas (by interacting with physical models of these ideas). ... Van Hieles Dutch educators who taught math for a number of years and discovered students had diffic...

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Games activity can be easily modified based on the ability level witnessed; hence all pupils can gain a sense of achievement whilst developing motor co-ordination skills and knowledge. ... Learning has been defined within physical education not as a passive reception of knowledge, however one in which learners must be active in creating their own understanding (Gardner, 2008) stating the importance of a practical element. In addition Katene (2014) recently reported greater cognitive understandings, suggesting knowledge, skills, concepts and attitudes are acquired, understood, applied and exten...

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Communication Arts incorporates logical competencies and wholesome attitudes and values that penetrate in the language trend. When the learner started to learn language, they are being exposed to the experiences that will enrich their logical system and competencies in English. In communication arts...

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The field of educational technology has links that go back for almost a hundred years, at least to the museum movement in the early part of the 20th century. The museum movement and the success of training and development work during the two world wars were major factors in the development of the fi...

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Some shortcomings of the basic business program were uncovered by Jelley (31), whose study of understandings of money management by high school seniors revealed noticeable deficiencies in their knowledge of credit and life insurance. ... Palmer (54) concurred and stressed the permanency of the gains demonstrated by the experimental group. ...

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Classroom Management Classroom management is important, especially for beginner teachers, because it helps make those first few years of teaching easier when there is an effective classroom management system in place. Nearly one third of new teachers leave their teaching jobs within the first two years, and almost all of those teachers say that the reason behind them leaving is because of problems with classroom management. Basically, a great classroom management system means a happier teaching experience. In an ineffective, poorly-managed classroom, trouble becomes the norm as students are...

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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 a...

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