To teach without text books seemed like a daunting task. ... Grade V in the course of this one year, did a lot of project work and experiments. ... Pupils made three dimensional models of their inventions; finally they presented the project to an audience, where they displayed their models and explained about their individual projects, thus enhancing their communication skills as well. ... Geography was made interesting by presenting a project on the various regions of India. ... Many such activities, experiments and projects were done to make the lessons interesting, fun, and interactive. ...

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Itard's attempt to "civilize" Victor must have been an overwhelming project. ... I recognize that even today the stigma of the "crazy house" as portrayed in movies and books is an image that is hard to erase. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

A partial list of their responsibilities includes: teaching undergraduate and graduate courses; advising undergraduate and graduate students; serving on disserta-tion committees; researching or working on creative projects; writing grants; writing books and articles; reviewing the work of their students and colleagues; serving on departmental and university committees; and fulfilling duties for professional organi-zations. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

An example of this could be having a student that needs help with a project they can go to a literature teacher and a journalism teacher to see two different sides of the project they are working on. ... Besides having to pay teachers and a staff along with buying books and more computers, you have to think about the other bills in having another building running; electric bills, water bills, etc. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

For example in the first section the author is explaining the difficulty of reading by stating "one of the difficult things about reading is that the pages before you will begin to speak only when the authors are silent and you begin to speak in their place, sometimes for them-doing their work, continuing their projects, and sometimes for yourself, following your agenda" (pg. 1). ... We also never had to read essays, we normally read books that were easier to read than the essays we have to read within this class. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Books with cultural opinions can promote stereotypes and leave out important cultural information. ... Another strategy could be to give her more choices when she's choosing projects or topics to work on for a class. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Project-based classwork is more demanding than traditional book-based instruction, where students may just memorize facts from a single source. ... In order to encourage learning, we must make students see past the boring text books and lecture and infuse them to the vividness of life. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Dream Yet to be Realized. Almost fifty years have passed since the U.S. Supreme Court declared, in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, that laws separating the races in school are unconstitutional. Hundreds of lawsuits later, black and white students were bused back and forth to desegregated schools in cities across the United States. ...

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The teachers' desk was on one corner of the classroom, surrounded by piles of books and papers and more posters on the walls surrounding his space. ... There were multiple shelves with an array of books to choose from. ...

• Word Count: 6745
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• Grade Level: High School