Community Cohesion: Meet Your Neighbours

23 Mar 2015 27 Apr 2017

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What is 'Community'? The concept of community is multi-faceted and complex, 'community' means different things to different people, it is no longer about people within spatial areas. Below are three broad notions or competing definitions of community:- Community as a locality or geographical area Community as an area of common life or interest Community as identity, that is distinguishable from other groups 'The key thing to keep ...

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Building self esteem of children with dyslexia

23 Mar 2015 27 Apr 2017

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Introduction Learning is a lifelong process, regardless of our age, we all learn from different life circumstances. However, according to psychotherapist Carl Roger (1982), "The only learning which significantly influences behaviour is self-discovered, self-appropriated learning" (p.223). This type of learning allow one's to justify their beliefs through reflection (Dewey,1933). How one's perceive, interpret, remember and generalise a matter mentally has an effect on their virtual behaviour. Reflection ...

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Education In Informal Settlements

23 Mar 2015 27 Apr 2017

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Poverty is a constant sensitive subject in almost all developing countries within the world. Thus, education plays a vital role in alleviating poverty. The importance to investigate whether the different levels of education or literacy may alleviate poverty is necessary. When it comes to informal settlements and adult education provision the classes and structured programmes on offer is of high priority, although informal settlements do not often ...

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Is Home Schooling Better Than Public Schooling?

23 Mar 2015 27 Apr 2017

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"Twenty-five years ago, when I first heard of the homeschooling movement, I thought it had to be some kind of weird cult." It is often said that homeschooling began more than 2500 years ago when Alexander the Great was being tutored at home by Aristotle. People started to homeschool their children before the 1960s because in that time of era, public schools were still not available yet. ...

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Metacognitive Awareness Of Reading Strategies And Critical Reading

23 Mar 2015 27 Apr 2017

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Researchers believe that awareness and monitoring of ones comprehension processes are critically important for skilled reading. Such awareness and monitoring processes are often referred to as metacognition. Recent researches show that metacognitive strategies differentiate between effective and ineffective learners i.e. the more a student knows about how he learns, the better he will learn. This study was designed to investigate the relationship between metacognitive awareness of reading ...

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The Learning Theory Of Constructivism

23 Mar 2015 27 Apr 2017

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Constructivism is seen as the way forward for mathematics education that has the potential to vastly improve the teaching and practise of mathematics in the classroom. Throughout this essay I will define constructivism and revert the concept of constructivism to the classroom, explore the various constructivism positions, take a look at constructivism in the mathematics classroom today and accompany the position of constructivism with its undoubted benefits ...

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Theories And Learning Styles On Teaching Practice

23 Mar 2015 27 Apr 2017

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The process of thinking and learning has proved to be fascinating and interesting for many philosophers, academics and scientists for centuries. Due to psychological and neurological research, evidence has been gathered about use of intelligence and the brain's functioning. Learning, both formal and informal, occurs every day and there are many definitions describing its process. These definitions vary according to theorist's own views and approaches towards learning ...

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Intrinsic And Extrinsic Are A Type Of Motivation

23 Mar 2015 27 Apr 2017

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Intrinsic and extrinsic are a type of motivation that can be used at work, in life and in school. Ones behavior and age are some other factors, to understanding the use of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. This paper will explain what intrinsic and extrinsic is, how it is used, advantages and disadvantages and which is most benefitting amid the youths in school. Among the students and the ...

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The Positive Reinforcement Techniques Of Physical Education

23 Mar 2015 27 Apr 2017

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Childhood dream, being a teacher is many childrens dream; teacher is a role with rich knowledge, being respected, with good behavior and moral in conduct. Since the society is changing very fast, the teaching nature and duties are different from 10 years ago. Teacher is not only act as a role to deliver knowledge, but also to serve the parents, to organize schools events, to promote school, ...

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An Overview Of The Digital Divide

23 Mar 2015 27 Apr 2017

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This essay defines and addresses the significance of the digital divide providing evidence to support its existence in the United States. It analyzes findings from various research reports and case studies identifying factors that cause the divide. The digital divide is a technology gap between the "haves" and the "have-nots." As a result of these gaps, 21st century learners will fall further behind and will not ...

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A Wider Professional Practice

23 Mar 2015 27 Apr 2017

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The English language, written and spoken, is the first language of many people who live in this country. The Dearing Report (Dearing R, 1997) stated that students should contribute and pay towards their education. The Green Paper (Department for Education and Employment 1998); in his introduction to a section called The Learning Age, will be built on a renewed commitment to self-improvement and on a recognition of ...

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The Theory of Constructivism and Self Esteem

23 Mar 2015 27 Apr 2017

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Piaget is a well-know pioneer of on cognitive development theory who created four distinct stage of cognitive developmental in children that described how children's ways of thinking developed as they interacted with environment surround of them. He contributes the theory of constructivism has been adopted by wide-world as major strategy in central teaching. He was different with other theorists who focused on studies children's cognitive aspect of ...

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Issue Of Single Sex And Coeducational Physical Education

23 Mar 2015 27 Apr 2017

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There has been a constant debate surrounding the idea as to whether or not students would benefit more from a single sex environment or mixed sex environment for education (Mael, 1998). This debate has led to extensive research into this issue whereby some researchers have supported single-sex classes while others have supported mixed-classes - the two nature of classes have been particularly discussed in relation to issues such ...

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Education For Creative Innovation And Entrepreneurship Society

23 Mar 2015 27 Apr 2017

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This study will be conducted using a qualitative method and this is just a concept paper. I will see past researches and journals that are related with this study. In this study, we will see the attitudes of the students to become a good engineer, the concept of murabbi in educators, and the implementation of creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship in the curriculum and the style of teaching ...

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Standardized School Curriculum To Achieve Good Results

23 Mar 2015 27 Apr 2017

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This research study significantly brings those factors in to consideration which is important for standardization of Curriculum in Private schools, which may affect the results and assessment criteria of students in a positive manner. 1.1 What is curriculum? Defining the word curriculum is no easy matter. Perhaps the most common definition derives from the word's Latin root, which means 'racecourse'. Indeed, for many students, the school curriculum ...

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A Critical Pedagogy View

23 Mar 2015 27 Apr 2017

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This paper, as its title suggests, introduces some reflections about the importance critical pedagogy as well as awareness-raising practices have in education today, especially in language teacher preparation programs, and how they provide a new opportunity for pre-service teachers to re-think their pedagogical experiences for social transformation. Critical pedagogy (CP) as a philosophy of life helps teachers achieve a better understanding of what teaching really entails and ...

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The values and ideologys of a Head Teacher

23 Mar 2015 27 Apr 2017

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A leader is considered to be a person who knows about the people being led and managed, communicating values and priorities and modelling good practice. Effective leaders adopt a strategic approach and lead by example. Most importantly they know that people are their key resources and without them, there would be no organization to lead and managed (Kydd, 2003). An effective headteacher should have some basic characteristics ...

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Comparison between Piaget and Bruner

23 Mar 2015 27 Apr 2017

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Bruner suggest that learning occurs through discovery. Ausubel says it can occur through meaningful reception learning. If we look at Ausubel's point of view, discovery learning involves rote learning. According to Ausubel, rote learning refers memorization which means no real connection between what was already known and what was memorized (Driscoll, 2005). However, his meaningful reception learning refers to the process of relating new information (meaningful information) ...

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Education throughout history

23 Mar 2015 27 Apr 2017

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Introduction Education has been defined (Ukeje, 1966) as a process by which people are acclimatized to the culture into which they are born in order that they may advance it. It is the process through which people are prepared to live effectively in their environment. Today, the environment refers to the universe. This definition suggests that various cultures from time immemorial patterns and systems of education (formal ...

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Sending Children To Boarding Schools

23 Mar 2015 27 Apr 2017

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A boarding school is a school where students go to school to learn and live together with some or other students during the school year¹.This practice has been on in Europe for well over a thousand years as recorded in classical literature. In the United Kingdom (UK) most boarding schools are independent schools. These boarding schools are controlled by certain guidelines set by the Department of Children, ...

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Effect Of Music And Academic Performance

23 Mar 2015 27 Apr 2017

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My research was to see either music enhances the academic performance of the students or not. To achieve my objective, I developed a questionnaire consisting of two parts. First part had mathematical questions of basic level and the second part consisted of comprehension passage to check performance of students. Students of control group were asked to fill the questionnaire in auditoriums of LSE while my experimental group ...

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Guilt and forgiveness in The Sunflower

23 Mar 2015 27 Apr 2017

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Simon Wiesenthal, renowned the world over as the most effective of Nazi hunters through his work in the Jewish Historical Documentation Center, documents his time in the Nazi concentration camps in the short story "The Sunflowers." The universally perplexing questions of guilt and forgiveness are at the centre of the story and to questions such as these which can have no clearly identifiable right and wrong markers, ...

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The Mauritian Education Structure

23 Mar 2015 27 Apr 2017

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Secondary Education for a minimum of five years leading to the Cambridge School Certificate or the General Certificate of Education - Ordinary Level. A minimum of two more years is thereafter required for the Cambridge Higher School Certificate (HSC) or the General Certificate of Education - Advanced Level. Post-Secondary / Tertiary Education. Success at the CPE examinations is a sine qua non condition for securing access to ...

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Key Concepts Within Transactional Analysis

23 Mar 2015 27 Apr 2017

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In order for a student to learn and succeed within a classroom setting, a good and effective teacher is needed to facilitate the learning process. For a teacher to improve their performance, appropriate psychological theories should be studied and utilised, and the theory of Transactional Analysis offers teachers and trainers a means through which they can better understand what happens within the classroom on a social level. ...

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Pepsico: The fun culture company

23 Mar 2015 27 Apr 2017

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Management Practice adopted by Pepsico 1. Organization Structure PepsiCo is an adaptive organization, as they are continuously seeking constant improvement and keeping new ideas in the marketplace while its products progress along their life cycles. PepsiCo has a decentralized organizational structure, with operational decisions made within the separate business units while being governed by policies at the corporate level. Pepsico has a Code of Conduct that is ...

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An Overview into the term School Readiness

23 Mar 2015 27 Apr 2017

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Is my child ready for school? Will my child be ready for school? What is School Readiness? These are questions that bombard educators starting from preschool to college? There are not any guarantees that a child will be ready for school. School Readiness and other programs have been formed to foster the best practices for children to be as ready as possible for their school years. Educators ...

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Impacts Of Social Networks On Social Behaviour

23 Mar 2015 27 Apr 2017

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Social network sites have become a global phenomenon that plays important roles in our society today. It is a social milieu that allows individuals to present themselves, communicate with one another and to maintain relationships. These SNSs (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and MySpace) are rapidly increasing visibly among the University students. Social network does not only influence students learning outcome but it also help the University students to ...

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Encouraging Reading Habits Among Primary Schools In Malaysia

23 Mar 2015 27 Apr 2017

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Primary schools in Malaysia are known as the early education for everyone. It is the place where the first alphabet is made known, the first digit is being calculated. Starting at primary school, reading is important in order to develop the knowledge and as a good practice for learning process. At the early stage of reading, pupils normally relate reading and books with library. They seldom see ...

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Human resource management importance in organisations

23 Mar 2015 27 Apr 2017

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STRATEGIC HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT INTRODUCTION: Human resources management strategy is very important for every organisation to function smoothly. Faced with rapid change organizations need to develop a more focused and coherent approach to managing people. In just the same way a business requires a marketing or information technology strategy it also requires a human resource or people strategy. Strategic human resource management is a branch of Human ...

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The reliability, validity and utility of self assessment

23 Mar 2015 27 Apr 2017

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This paper is a critical review of Rosss paper in which he presents a review of a research done on the reliability, validity and utility of self-assessment as a technique for improving learning. In his findings Ross (2006) reported that self assessment produced consistent positive results in terms of raising student achievement and improving behaviour for learning. According to the findings of the research it was found ...

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Electro Slag Strip Cladding

23 Mar 2015 27 Apr 2017

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Electro Slag Strip Cladding ABSTRACT: Technological developments have driven up temperature and pressure used in the petroleum, chemical, pulp, and environmental protection. Industries, and increased the likelihood of severe corrosion and wear in process pressure vessels. The industries must improve the corrosion / erosion and wear performance of these major component .Economic factors as a rule will not permit fabricating components from solid high alloyed materials. As ...

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Exploring Students Attitudes Towards English Homework

23 Mar 2015 27 Apr 2017

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Abstract This research aims at exploring students' attitudes towards English homework. There is abundant literature regarding homework, but the voice of the students is absent from most of the literature. In this study, qualitative case study approach is used to look into the perspectives of one junior form class (F.1) and one senior form class (F.4). The literature review includes four major trends in the latest homework ...

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The Government Should Pay More on Higher Education

03 Oct 2016 25 Apr 2017

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Proposal for The Government Should Pay More on Higher Education.The responsibility of running a university like a business can be a very hard task. Dr. Jenkins assigned his business students with the work of researching about what running a university entails. Each student was supposed to identify a topic of interest that concerns running a university and conduct research about the narrower topic. The students would then ...

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How Time Management Skills Can Effect Educational Achievement

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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Time management is very important and it may actually affect individual's overall performance and achievements. However, all of these are related by how individuals manage their time to suit their daily living or to make it flow steadily with their routines. Conducive settings and environment will surely promote positive outcomes to the students, besides having good lectures given by their lecturers. Nevertheless, students' time management can be ...

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Closing The Gap In Educational Attainment

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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'Closing the gap in educational attainment between social groups has been widely acknowledged as a pressing concern of national importance' Introduction "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." Nelson Mandela grew up in a country divided by apartheid. A black man in a country where a white minority ruled, he had a vision for South Africa; to be one nation ...

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Ancient India Vedic System Of Education

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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In ancient India, Vedic system of education was widely prevalent. Under the Vedic system of education, education was imparted through Monasteries under the supervision of a guru. The knowledge in these Monasteries was mostly related to the tasks performed by various sections of the society. In addition to these monastic orders, various institutions of higher learning and universities flourished in India well before the Common Era, and ...

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Play And Learning For The Preschool Child

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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Consider what you have read and viewed this week with regard to the meaning and importance of play for preschoolers. Then summarize the relationship between developmentally appropriate practice, play, and learning. Through the week's study, play for preschoolers has proved indeed necessary. In definition, developmentally appropriate practices can be looked at as the emphasis of development and learning of a child (Wouter Haaften, Wren & Tellings, 1999). ...

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How Reflection Can Develop Teaching Practice

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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In this critical synopsis I will explore how reflection can develop teaching practice. When teachers initially enter the profession they often find their initial teaching experiences stressful, but as they develop knowledge and experience they acquire a variety of classroom approaches and skills that aid their practice. The variety of strategies a teacher uses constitutes their "teaching style". Adhering to a teaching 'style' provides a way of ...

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Audio Visual Material in Education

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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In teaching and learning process, it is considered that audio visual aids are very much practical that approaches to acquire a second language more effectively other than any way. The methods of language acquisition will improve day by day and audio-visual aids will continue be the more effective way to acquire a second language. Material based learning will be the pathway rather than any theoretical way to ...

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Ethics In The Indian Higher Education System

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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This paper examines the importance of ethics while imparting highest quality to education. Universities concentrate on efficiency without looking at values. Deteriorating quality in HEIs resulted in dishonest and disrespectful leaders. Ethical comportment is a function moral development, protocols, and ethics drill, which branded several challenges in ethical philosophy that should be communicated. Keywords: Ethics, Indian, Business, Education, System Introduction In today's modest globalization phase, the prominence ...

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The Non Traditional Student

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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This chapter reviews relevant studies and literature on the experiences of nontraditional students as they make their way towards the completion of their undergraduate degree. An overview of the characteristics of nontraditional students compared to traditional students is made. Furthermore, the barriers towards completion and the support systems needed are examined for nontraditional female students. Finally, theoretical and empirical literature on barriers experienced and the support systems ...

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Bio-ecological systems theory

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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Abstract This paper is about the Bio-Ecological Systems theory of Urie Bronfenbrenner. Bronfenbrenners's Bio-Ecological Systems Theory concerns the environmental influences on a child's development. He observed that these influences were comprised of relationships around the child and these relationships have layers of interaction between the child's and the child's environment. He called these layers 'systems'. These events start with direct influence on the student and progress outward ...

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The relationship between teaching and learning

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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Whilst researching the relationship between teaching and learning, a clear understanding of Realistic Maths Education (RME) was hard to achieve. The characteristics of RME are giving distinguished name to an existing technique that uses real life situations to mathematical problem. Although it is similar to taking a real-life situation and giving the pupils the mathematical problem of it. This gives short term satisfaction, as the teacher is ...

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Late Exit Transitional Bilingual Education

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Transitional bilingual programs are known for teaching some subjects in the students' native language in the beginning of their education and then switching the language of instruction to English after some years. There are two forms of transitional programs, early exit and late exit programs. My research focus is on Late Transitional Bilingual education. The main focus of late exit transition is teaching students proficiency in their ...

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Values And Ethics In Educational Leadership

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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One of the major adversities of applying values and ethics in educational leadership from a innovative perspective lies in convincing academic institutions and administrators to think differently about leadership through Aristotelian principles. Educational executives themselves, are challenged to rethink traditional pedagogical curriculum regarding leadership principles and techniques and are encouraged to utilize Aristotle's philosophy, specifically, the nature of practicing right actions, integrity, and espousing these principles through ...

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Issues Affecting The Transition Of High School Students

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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Individuals experience changes that impact the various stages of and experiences in their lives. Transition from high school to post school activities is one such change experienced by students with disabilities, including higher education and/or employment. The author of this literature presents an overview of the issues affecting the transition of students with disabilities. Specifically, it brings to attention the impact of cultural and linguistic diversity on ...

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Effective Communication Of School Leaders

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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The researchers involvement with the school administration and the leadership profession over two decades has encouraged a desire to perform a study of leadership and its use of the communication process. This communication process and skills have been extensively researched as a means of enabling school leaders to lead their school establishment more efficiently. In fact, it is known that successful schools are the natural outcome of ...

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Identifying Your Philosophical Orientation

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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Identifying Your Philosophical Orientation The multidimensional nature of education is well accepted. This is reflected in works which explore the nature of beliefs in order to better understand how such systems, both on the level of personal philosophies and culture, interact to impact the way individuals behave. From an adult education perspective, much of the focus has been on the way these systems potentially impact teacher behaviour ...

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Improving English Speaking Skills In English Major Students

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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English language has become the global language which dominates in various fields throughout the world (Baker, 2003). Similarly to Diab, 2006 English is not the language that is used by the largest group of people, though it plays influential role in many fields such as in business world, technology, science, communication, and education. High proficiency in English is required for all of these fields (Wiriyachitra, 2002). English, ...

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Chinese Education And Australia Education

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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1.0 Introduction Since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, there are many tumultuous changes in every aspects of Chinese society, and the education of Chinese Mainland also got rapid development. China's education development has achieved a high level due to the success of market-oriented socialist economy after 1978. These changes including the expansion of education scale and system, the gradual elimination of education ...

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What goes around comes around

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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In the Education world, they usually say "What goes around comes around," which means, something that was taught in the classroom years ago, will disappear and suddenly reappear as a new idea or theory for teachers to use. This use to be the case, but with such a changing population and a huge increase of ELL students this can no longer be the case. As Educators we ...

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Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale Forth Edition

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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INTRODUCTION This evaluation summary is written in review of Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Forth Edition (WAIS-IV), an individually administered test of intelligence widely used internationally assessing the cognitive ability of adolescents and adults ages 16 years 0 months through 90 years 11 months. WAIS-IV was released in year 2008 as a revision on its immediate predecessor WAIS-III, which was developed 11 years before WAIS-IV and preceded by 4 ...

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Problems That Students Face In Schools In Cyprus

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Abstract This assignment is an exploration of the problems that students from other ethnicities face in Cypriot schools. It has been for ages that people immigrate for a lot of reasons. In Cyprus there are many foreign students and they face different difficulties. Phenomena of racism, discrimination, isolation, enmity, distrust and alienation occur in schools from native students and teachers against immigrants. Immigrant students have problem with ...

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The Difficulty Of Learning A Second Language

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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This topic can be very useful for adult students who are learning a second language. It shows from a scientific prospective, the explanation of why adult s can not keep a fluently conversation in the second language when they are learning it. The technologies presented give rich data that explains this phenomenon. In addition to this, it also gives another explanation from a pedagogical prospective differencing the ...

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Proposal for an Educational game for Primary Students

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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This proposal is concerned with the development of a multimedia game through a website named ECUTE. The main purpose of this application will be the education in support of culture throughout technology. The pedagogical domain will be based on cultural understanding and sensitivity through history, cultures and ethics in UK. Contents The definitive brief will be divided in the following different sections. And the Gantt chart In ...

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How effective questioning contributes to learning

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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For the purpose of this essay I will look at effective questioning and how the use of effective questioning contributes to the learning process of pupils in a school or classroom setting. The essay will look at the varying Theorists that talk about questioning and how they believe that questioning was a positive part of the schooling day and delve into different methods of questioning and how ...

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The Issues Of Children On The Internet

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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Abstract: This paper focuses on current studies on children and the Internet in historical context noting the main themes in various research papers, books and media research by summarizing both the pros and cons surrounding children's use of computer and the internet, and on which factors society should focus when making important decisions about the role of the Internet technology in children's lives. Is access to the ...

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The need for male teachers as role models

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There is an undeniable cry for male teachers in the education system especially at the primary and secondary school level. Over the last two decades with the proliferation of the feminist movement and a paradigm shift in male/female roles, men have appeared to dwindle out of the teaching profession leaving it a female dominated arena. In fact, it appears that more and more men are not inclined ...

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Gender bias in education

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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Gender Bias in Education At the heart of the gender bias conundrum are questions of male marginalization, stereotypes and gender identity and female subordination. These concepts will be explored throughout this paper as the basis for gender dialogue. At one of the spectrum is a gendered curricula and at the other end teaching. Studies on gender in the Caribbean has focused largely on issues surrounding "gender differential ...

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Physical Education Differentiation And Progression Principles

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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Introduction Reflecting on my teaching experience in gymnastic, it becomes really imperative to give a vivid account of those factors that enabled me prevail over the obvious circumstances surrounding such area of Physical Education (PE). Gymnastics, as an activity, involves the performance of exercises that require physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, balance, and grace. With all these enormous tasks facing me, I still needed to balance training/exercise ...

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What Is Virtual Learning Environment?

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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Virtual Learning Environment is a software program equipped with integrated tools that are built to support and enhance teaching as well as learning in an educational context.VLE is an computerized learning environment and it includes e-learning .VLE is normally used over the internet and is a computer program predominately adapted by educational institutions like Universities and Colleges due to the many benefits such a system brings: A ...

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Study On The Community Outreach

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The modern man caught in a world of crashing values has become a part of the madding crowd. He is wholly, ignorant of his power to shape his own destiny and that of society. Only individuals who have developed their own potential can contribute to the welfare of others. History is replete with examples of persons who cultivated their qualities of head and heart to be able ...

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The Reasons Of Using Games For Learning

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In recent years, English language has been paid more and more attention in Vietnam because its significance has been recognized in many aspects of life. The study of English is now obligatory in most schools, usually starting from sixth grade. However, Vietnamese parents, who want to equip their children with adequate knowledge of English as it may contribute to their success in the future, often have their ...

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Review Of The Teaching Of Early Reading

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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The Rose Report (2006) identified the elements that can impact children's reading ability and made recommendations as to how existing practice could be improved. This discussion will focus on the processes that should be followed in teaching children to become fluent and critical readers by the end of their primary school years. One of the significant recommendations made by Rose was the reconstructuring of the 'searchlights model'. ...

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Video Assisted Teaching Programme

23 Mar 2015 25 Apr 2017

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Childhood is the most beautiful of all life seasons.An imaginative and creative period , a time of innocence, an exquisite time of beauty and growth, a time where one can see the world through untainted eyes ,a delicate and flexible period in which he can be moulded in to any shape just like clay in the hands of a potter.Play is a natural ,child-directed way for child ...

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Pre Service Teacher Education

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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The development of both, Pre-service and In-service teacher education in India is explained, in order to gain a good knowledge of the objectives of the programmes, the developments that have taken place in various teacher education programmes and the current state of affairs in the field of teacher education in India. Pre-service teacher education Teacher education programmes have existed in the country for over a century. In ...

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The academic communication process model

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Introduction This is about academic communication process model and its components; how they would breakdown into three different stages and steps to avoid them. Communication is the most important part of our life. We begin to learn some of the skills of communication before we are born, and most of us will continue to use them until the day we die. We communicate with friends, family, workplace; ...

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Motivation As A Key Factor In Learning

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"Motivation is a key factor in successful learning. A less able student who is highly motivated can achieve greater success than the more intelligent student who is not well motivated" (Reece I and Walker S, Teaching, training and learning - a practical guide, page 78, Fifth edition(2003), Publisher: Business Education Publishers Ltd.) All teachers know that no two students are alike! In a classroom you have students ...

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Bringing Technology To Early Childhood Education

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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There have been studies conducted on bringing technology to early childhood education. There has been seen benefits on introducing technology to early education but they were able to see some difficulties and disadvantages in doing so. The researcher is trying to find out the different advantages and disadvantages and see which outweighs, benefits or the shortcomings. The function of technology in early childhood education, birth to age ...

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Equity In Education: A Main Goal In Schools

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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Equity in education should be one of the main goals that all schools should be aiming to achieve. It should not be accepted that students from various backgrounds and social groups achieve different outcomes (Ryan, 2000). All children regardless of their background have a variety of skills and talents and it is the role of the school and its' teachers to encourage students to develop these by ...

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Multi-sensory approach to teaching and learning

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Introduction: This assignment will discuss how a multi-sensory approach to teaching and learning can enhance children's acquisition of speaking and listening skills and phonic knowledge and skills. It will be referring to the key findings from the Rose Review and the advantages of using the Letters and Sounds programme as well as one example of phonics teaching undertaken during Autumn attachment. The multisensory learning of phonics was ...

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Cultural Border Crossing And Collateral Learning

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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Cultural border crossing is said to occur when a person is moving from one social community to another. A student recently excelled in her GCE 'O' Level June Examination and was transferred to an International School of the country from a science prime school of the country by her parents. This girl for instance will be experiencing cultural border crossing as she is moving from a local ...

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Vehicle tracking methods

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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I have investigated the vehicle tracking methods available in our country. I found three methods which are suitable for the requirements of the company.                 Firstly, I would like to explain about the nature of the vehicle tracking devices available in the market. Basically, they can be classified as "Passive" and "Active".                 "Passive" devices store GPS location, speed, heading, vehicle details, direction and sometimes a trigger event such ...

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Performance Prediction and Analysis using Decision Tree Algorithms

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A Literature Review from 2011 to 2014 on Student’s Academic Performance Prediction and Analysis using Decision Tree AlgorithmsAbstract— Success of any educational institute depends upon the success of the students of institute. Student’s performance prediction and its analysis are essential for improvement in various attributes of students like final grades, attendance etc. This prediction helps teachers in identification of weak students and to improve their scores. ...

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Skills Of Self Reflection And Communication

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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What did I learn from the meeting with the Project Mentor, including the presentation I gave to my Project Mentor? Writing the research project was interest part of my life. Being the first research of this nature, I encountered a lot of challenges. I was not really sure how and where to start from writing this project. The first meeting I had with my Project Mentor gave ...

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Managerialist model of management and leadership

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Explore to what extent the managerialist model of management and leadership adopted in England and Wales has influenced management culture in one other country and the impact that this may have on your own management and leadership style. Introduction Managerialism has become the predominant ideology in educational management. It has been a stably indispensable ingredient in the policy of government in order to operate public school, in ...

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Counseling skills among trainee teachers

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1.0 Introduction Education is for everyone and the need for education has increases in comparison to the past and according to Kangasharju & Pekkala, (2001) it is view as investment for the future. Education, in general plays the role to educate and produces well-rounded person and useful for the development of the country. Therefore, school is the roots of all the work to educate and be the ...

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Systematic Instructional Planning Procedures

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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The article Do Superior teachers employ systematic instructional planning procedures? A descriptive study (1998) which is written by Young, Reiser, and Dick is an explanation of the study that they (the authors) carried out with the aim of determining if systematic planning procedures was being used by teachers. This study especially concentrated on teachers who have been labeled superior and they collected data through surveys and face-to-face ...

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Home Environment and Educational Success

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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Education refers to the procedure of acquiring and mastering various and specific skills and other vocational trainings - anywhere like school, home, or any institution (Bahlkani et al 2009). Although, the step of educational process does not only begin from schools with teachers it also occur at home where home environment and parents have influenced children's education (Bahlkani & Sindh, 2009). According to educational psychological field was ...

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Ideal school for international education

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Before to start talking about international education, it seems appropriate to give a definition from experienced researchers in this sector:" The interest in the field of international education has never been more intense... a rapidly increasing number of schools world-wide have been established specifically to meet the demands of those parents who, through their own global professional activities, wish to have their children educated in programmes based ...

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Education Essays | Students Internet School

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Students Internet School Abstract This study investigated the attitude of students towards internet at secondary level. This survey of Internet attitude by 40 secondary school students from ten schools in the Faisalabad district of Punjab province was carried out in order to assess whether the students have developed positive attitude regarding internet or if there is something missing to utilize. Generally, it was found that most children ...

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Unemployment And Underemployment Among College Graduates

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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"It is expected that the number of jobs requiring a college education will increase in the next decade, [and] it is also forecast that unemployment and underemployment will increase among college graduates because of a mismatch between their skills and the demands of the workplace" (as cited by Johnston & Packer, 1987, in Brown, 2003, 363). To prevent this, colleges should attempt to meet their students' career ...

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Teacher Absenteeism And Its Impact

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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Absenteeism is a major problem confronting organisations worldwide. It causes severe hardships to colleagues, usually resulting in the loss of productive hours for the organisation and hindering it from achieving overall corporate objectives. Absenteeism is very costly since organisations are required to compensate absent workers for services with no corresponding output. Studies within India found that teacher absenteeism vary from 15% in Maharashtra to 42% in Jharkand ...

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Research Culture In Pakistani Universities

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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Research plays an important role in the development of nations. Countries which provide the basic and quality education to their citizens are known for their ethical and social values and also excel in the field of science and technology. People living in these countries are habitual of asking questions, making hypothesis and testify them for the sake of better living life. We are living in a nation ...

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The Purpose of Education: Personal Curriculum

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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I believe the purpose of education is teaching students how to learn, process, and apply that which is learned. In other words, teach students to think. Students must be given a set of strategies, a thought process, which they will be successful regardless of what their future holds. Future job requirements and challenges may not yet exist. If we as educators do our jobs correctly, our currents ...

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The Disavantages Of Education

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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Educational disadvantage refers to situation where some individuals derive less benefit from education system than their peers. The Education Act 1998 defines educational disadvantage as "impediments to education arising from social or economic disadvantage which prevent students from deriving appropriate benefit from education in schools". Educational disadvantage is demonstrated in many ways, most often in poor levels of participation and achievement in formal education system. (Matheson, 2000, ...

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School Of Education And Lifelong Learning

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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Active engagement is a certain variety of effective teaching/learning activities. This approach aims at the engagement of students with content in ways that help and develop abilities and build skills rather than emphasize only the acquisition of knowledge. Classes which engage students actively can be known by at least some of these characteristics: *Students are involved in more than just listening and taking notes. *Students are engaged ...

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Primary Education In Malaysia

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Primary education in Malaysia is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education. It is the goverment responsibility to give a formal education towards children. Usualy, in Malaysia the compulsory education begin at the age of seven. To make sure that the student has improve on their education, it is been set that student have to sit for public examination at the end of primary education to ...

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Selecting A Scheme Of Work Sow

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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The key to effective teaching is organisation and good planning Hunt Touzel, 2009; Capel and Whitehead; Child, 1986. Although, it can be argued that the teacher should not be too prescriptive in order to provide spontaneity to the lesson which is also an important aspect (Froebel; Montessori, cited in Beck & Earl, 2003). In order to support this, a clear scheme of work (SOW) should be provided ...

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To Determine The Technical Skills

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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As an engineer today, many expertise are necessary for them to move forward in their job. It is a common misconception that an engineer will only enhance his or her technical skills and it is all that is needed to actually go into a job. Based on today's job requirements, having technical skills only is not a good idea when applying for a job. When an engineer ...

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The Three Learning Domains Serve

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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Many people would highly likely cite a desire to learn as the main reasons for committing many years to attaining an education. However, what do we mean when we use the term learn? Learning is something we all do from the moment we are born, so most of us likely take this very thorny process for granted. Though many of us have a general idea of what ...

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Definition Of Learner Autonomy

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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INTRODUCTION In recent time, new ideas on the meaning of an educated person, the changes in the traditional language learning system, and educators' mounting apprehension about their roles in the learning and teaching process have been predominantly significant (Benson & Toogood, 2001). The increase of ideologies on the information age, globalization, and the knowledge-based economy have resulted to educational authorities becoming more open to autonomy-related thoughts than ...

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Prior Teaching Impressions And Classroom Reality

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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Teaching profession has a unique standing among the professional fields. Education student do not begin to study their field with a blank mind but from a prior impression about what teaching means. Unlike other fields where student have not come into contact with those practicing, education students has personal experiences with different teachers. Before deciding to become a teacher, the students usually have opportunity to learn about ...

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Identity, Moratorium And Biculturalism

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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Abstract:       This essay will seek to look at how Erikson's theory, based on Freud's school of thought, on Identity vs. Identity Diffusion, which is broken down by James Marcia's four identity statuses, is deeply influenced by social stimuli and pressures. Moratorium, a product of Marcia's concentration of Erikson's work, will be specifically targeted in how it is liable to reoccur throughout a life time. Class-room and world ...

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Study Of Education In Rural India

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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In this report we study the scenario of education in rural India, how has it changed post independence and what has been the impact of different education schemes on education in rural India. The early days in India allowed education only to the people of upper class societies. It was considered to be primitive form of education. But now, education has become modern everywhere. After industrialization, the ...

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A Technology Aided Learning

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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We need technology in every classroom and in every student and teachers hand, because it is the pen and paper of our time, and it is the lens through which we experience much of our world( David Warlick).Technology aided education means employing technology to assist students better understand what is being taught. It is not change itself rather it brings change. Technology is playing a very important ...

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To Understand The Causes Of Early School Leaving

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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INTRODUCTION/BACKGROUND This study is going to look at a particular issue in the Irish society called 'Early School Leaving', this issue has become an area of interest for the Researcher because when the Researcher did her 2nd year placement, she was able to see problems associated with dropping out of school early. Although there have been several studies done in the area before, the Researcher thinks that ...

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Child Development And Social Learning Psychoanalytic Theory

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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The three theories that I want to talk about are social learning theory, psychoanalytic theory, and psychosocial theory these theories are very important they focuse on life experience and cultural backgrounds and how children grow to become adults.. These are three theories that have related to me in so many ways. However, there were also quite a few discussion questions, which related to some of my experiences ...

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Storytelling: Learning And Growth Tool For Young Children

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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Storytelling is a universal tradition, as we know, stories are base on various culture backgrounds, social formation and the thinking pattern of the public, and it is an effective channel to people, no matter young or old, to explain or represent phenomenons and activities, emotions and motives. When it comes to young children, storytelling is like a mental journey which needs to be developed in children, it ...

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Disadvantages Of ESL Course Books

23 Mar 2015 24 Apr 2017

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ESL signifies English as a Second Language. ESL Course books are books that teachers use to assist them in the teaching of the English Language in schools and institutions. These books are commonly used as they make teaching English remarkably easy- teacher uses them to prepare for class, they are visually appealing with pictures and illustrations. They also fit well with school timetables. They were designed for ...

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