... Language Arts classrooms. Article Reviews 1. Multiple Intelligences in the English Class: An Overview by Peter Smagorinsky This article reviews the Multiple Intelligences (MI) theory and offers suggestions for classroom instruction. Smagorinsky begins this article by introducing himself and touching upon his teaching background and experiences. He discusses Howard Gardner's MI theory and how it provided a ... strips, playing songs and discussing and analyzing the meaning of the lyrics, free reading and journaling, student creation of assessment rubrics and independent projects. Ruggieri ...

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... encourages exchange of relevant ideas among the members, which plays a role in vision development. The school professionals should be encouraged to assume interdependent roles with the students. This measure entails a communal learning process among the participants in the classroom setting. Students acquire a sense of belonging when the teaching staff includes them in the learning process. Assigning ... knowledge necessary to reach academic goals while gaining opportunities from scholarships and having discussion necessary to empower students to excel in areas that have been identified...

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... key factors are missing in schools as they attempt to implement technology, resulting in less than expected improvement of students' learning environments. Sometimes schools make large technological purchases for classrooms but tend to ignore the fact that the teachers need proper training. Other times resources are wasted as teachers get the training needed but then are assigned a classroom ... the influence that West Virginia's Integrated Learning System technology had on student achievement. The Integrated Learning System Technology fixated its teaching on spelling, vocabulary, readi...

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... and teachers dread standardized test. According to Strenio in Standardized Tests Aren't Like T-Shirts: One Size Doesn't Fit All High stakes tests may give us a slight measure of a child's intellect, but they also measure the child's culture and language. Standardized test are biased. Bias takes place when the test scores are influenced by irrelevant characteristics of the test taker, such as ... race, sex, family, wealth, religion, and so forth. Many studies have shown that the more money the student has access to the more likely they are score higher because they can pay for ... misus...

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... their studies; they demonstrate little or no emotions and anxiety, which helps them to concentrate on their studies (Sobel, Cepeda & Kapler, 2011). Spacing effects to students serve as a control measure to the learner's anxiety and emotions. Spacing effect on their performance gives them a relief; they feel special and encouraged, thus helping them to relax (Brookhart, 2008). Emotions can be disadvantageous ... a shallow on, while others will prefer the shallow spacing effect dimension (Stella Hurd, 2008). This in itself is a demonstration of how a universal spacing effect measure canno...

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... Revolution in History class (Musslewhite, 2000). This would allow individual subject area teachers to address specific issues to the discipline along the same theme, creating more connection and relevance for the students. The case study of Great Meadows mentioned that teachers were overwhelmingly positive regarding the new approach, but did not address aptitude as well as attitude. Although teachers ... their discipline can connect to other disciplines and develop knowledge they may not have, change assessment strategies and somehow prepare students for high stakes testing at the same ti...

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... to practice a profession, etc. many school districts today frequently give tests to measure students performance and to hold individual schools and school systems accountable for that performance. To know wheather what students are learning is important. The important goal of using high-stakes testing is to measure and improve student and school system performance is laudable, it is also important that ... yearly progress (AYP) since every racial and ethnic subgroup must do so. Thus, when AYP is based on academic achievement levels, the subgroup rules create unintended negative consequen...

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... teachers make students want to come to class. Anyone who wants to share knowledge can be a teacher. This willingness to share knowledge is an important trait for a good teacher. In Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," Marguerite frequently speaks about Mrs. Bertha Flowers, a woman who ... had invited Marguerite into her home to enjoy her books, and who had shown her poetry for the first time in her life. It was a simple gesture that perhaps the average person would not have thought twice about. However, the impact ... forever. She says, and I quote, "She was one of the few g...

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... likert scale of 4) that are considered before selecting a restaurant. Whereas Discount, Location and Price were rejected during hypotheses testing hence had no significant impact in selection intention. For analyzing what affects the students the most these parameters were divided into 2 categories benefits and cost, where benefits leads to value and cost to effort. Combination of effort and ... when it comes to choosing a restaurant. Although at a new place online recommendations and rating play an important role. A recent survey found that 64% of diners search for ratings/online revie...

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... Looking at it this way, we have stark differences of relative value on a global and a domestic scale. We can measure this in various ways, but, naturally, I come back to standardized test scores, a common indicator of academic success. According to the most recent scores ... the higher percentage of FRL (free and reduced lunch) students in a school is usually associated with lower scores on mathematics, science, and reading. For example, the Denver School, which has a low percentage of FRL students, has 14% of its students who scored "advanced" on the ... the communities that these scho...

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... Bronfenbrenner's social ecology model relate to a child's environment and the affects this environment has on their development and education. This framework has been used as a basis for childhood learning for many years and will continue to be used in the future. Vygotsky social constructivist views on learning are that children construct knowledge, learning leads development, learning occurs in ... effective approaches to understanding learners through the use of assessment. The first assessment stance is 'Assessment as fact/measurement'. "The function of this assessment is to me...

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... teaching-learning process and used to improve the teacher´s and student´s work. Furthermore, they want to avoid teaching exclusively for the tests and competition among students, because they think that testing must positively affect the student´s learning, not just measure the increase or decrease of the student´s mark in a particular test (Sahlberg, 2012, p.7). The fact that Finland ... that constitute sustainable leadership and renewal." (Sahlberg, 2012, p.8). Increased interaction among various public policies has strengthened the relationship between economic and social reforms, ...

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... beings are supposed to be treated. In 1948, there was the formation of the Human rights organization which was called the UDHR (Universal Declaration of Human Rights) to fight for what was considered to infringe human rights. Frankly speaking, the human activity has been integrated into a globalized world where the use of international standards has contributed positively on the ... on them, students curse the day they were taken to school. They end up dropping out from schools out of their own will. In essence, corporal punishment is not a good measure of disciplining students as it ca...

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... these positive outcomes can really happen just because of school uniforms. "Doesn't the approach of many schools constitute a blatant disrespect for the rights of students of freedom of expression through their choice of clothing, and consequently an attack on all of our rights?" ... wish. We are restricted from many things; we cannot wear muscle shirts, females cannot show their shoulders. Shorts, skirts, and dresses must measure a certain length. Students cannot wear sandals to certain classes, wear jeans/tights that show our curves too much, and we must wear athletic ... Uniform ...

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... progressing toward their objectives. The act also says that children will be tested annually in grades 3 through 8, in reading and math to measure their progress. It will also set annual progress objectives to make sure that all groups of students reach proficiency within 12 years. The ... government does not take into consideration that some students do not want to learn or do work while attending school. Making the teachers suffer for the students actions, putting the teachers to struggle trying to reach the minimum amount of work needed. Placing the students to push out ... the learn...

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... . This "teaching to the test" eliminated the use of Socratic instruction and focused on teacher delivered information; lecture rather than the collaborative, hands-on learning needed for a global multidimensional society. Because of time constraints, teachers were hard-pressed to deliver the "test" information in a way that would reach the academic diversity of ... work independently and cooperatively, learning "collaborative" values through constant productive group work as the teacher "facilitates" all this (Rochester). However, there is no time for this type of instruction when your sc...

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... in the subject being taught," the report concluded."(DeWayne). Teachers are being set-up to fail their students by being required to teach a subject they were not educated for. "Many states are also imposing accountability through "high-stakes" testing. If testing reveals that schools don't meet the new standards, students aren't allowed to graduate ... idea. By allowing these standardized test to be put in place it will allow better comprehensive learning for the students and better preparing them for the future. "Most educators agree that setting standards for what students learn and ...

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... potential, improving our collective productivity, and reestablishing our competitiveness on a global scale (Madaus & Russell, 2010). Another cause of the problem is that these tests are poorly designed and don't measure what they should. The NCLB legislation from the Bush administration promised that all children would be held to the same high standards in core subjects such as math and reading ... cited in Onosko, 2011), so skills needed to enter higher education have not improved despite standardized testing programs. Our poor showing compared to other developed nations continues unaba...

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... tasks (43). I hope to be able to encourage these strategies effectively. Standard 3: My Views on Curriculum and Assessment I have learned that teachers primarily use curriculum-based assessments to measure the learner's performance in specific areas of the curriculum. To become a more effective teacher I would follow in line with the status quo by attempting to link assessments more closely to ... from the time students enter the classroom is so important. This classical conditioning will produce a pleasant involuntary emotion or physiological response (Eggen & Kauchak 164). This makes f...

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... as an intervention: 1) Promotes independence; 2) Easy to individualize; 3) Low in cost; 4) Provides consistent implementation method; 5) Efficient across settings. This article provides a tutorial for Speech-Language Pathologists and other professionals to implement video modeling. The use of video modeling offers great potential to effect lasting change in social, communication, adaptive, self-regulatory and ... composed of approximately 90% (36 students) Caucasian students, 8% (3 students) African-American students and 2% (1 student) Asian students. This dispersal is very close to stati...

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... the teacher obtains information about knowledge gains, behavioural changes and other aspects of the development of learners (Oguneye, 2002). It involves the deliberate effort of the teacher to measure the effect of the instructional process as well as the overall effect of school learning on the behaviour of students. Assessment covers all aspects of school experience both within and ... should be given to principals in order to purchase these necessary materials. 2) OVERPOPULATION There are cases whereby pupils are overpopulated. In such a case, it will be practically difficult for tea...

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