Many schools have experienced protests to the book being taught in the educational curriculum, and in their libraries. ... It came from his belief that, "the pervasive use of the n-word makes it difficult for the reader to understand or absorb the book.... It is the use of the word, 219 times, that makes it such a frequently challenged book. ... Teachers guide students as they are reading the novel, and are continuously exposed to the, "n-word.... Keeping this book in the curriculum gives students to address all the problems that the, "n-word," comes with. ...

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It took a full school year for him to comprehend one book, but the joy that he felt after reading the book back to me was something that I had never experienced. ... I feel that this scholarship will guide me to my future and assist me in accomplishing my dream of becoming a high school chemistry teacher. ...

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In researching this topic, it seems that opposition is largely guided by simple headlines such as, "Common Core is ROTTEN TO THE CORE," losing any sense of journalistic integrity by trading balanced accounts of an issue, with emotionally charged speech that diverges greatly from the topic at hand: will it make our children smarter? ... Her critical response to the lesson, that it was limiting the ability of the students to think freely in groups making questions of their own, points to the fact that the way that Common Core is implemented is an open book, (Calkins). ... A set of par...

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The assignments were normally just answering the questions at the end of each chapter, which we could easily find the answers, simply some dates, names and locations of each events, in the book because they were usually in bold. Some answers were even in the back of the book, so we just copied. ... If we were never guided to jump out the box, we would lose ourselves completely and stay in the box forever as an result. ...

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You have a choice of two options for this assignment: OPTION A "Intelligible pronunciation is an essential component of communicative competence" (Morley 1991) Do you consider this to be a useful quotation, in terms of how you might wish to develop a policy for including pronunciation teaching in ...

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In his book, Ain't No Makin' It, Jay MacLeod tells how a group of poor students in a particular school were able to relate to a teacher (Jimmy Sullivan) who spoke their "language."" " It was cool, cuz like you walk in there you talk to Jimmy, and you know Jimmy's real cool, - said one of his students. ... In their book, Social Foundations of Educational Decisions, Fischer and Thomas state that distinctive things about a subculture (including language and behavior) have a definite influence on a child's learning style (26-27) and that "informal education- "which occurs...

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Pearson from a book titled, "-What Research Has to Say About Reading Research- by Alan E. ... Four questions will guide this examination: What are teachers understanding of reading comprehension, how do they instruct reading comprehension and what strategies they use? ... The understanding of the idea, moral, concept and theme of a book. ... Through guided reading students summarize and retell what they have read. ...

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Guided reading is viewed as the dominant component of Reading Recovery lessons. It is during the actual reading of increasingly less predictable text that Reading Recovery teachers guide children to consider multiple sources of information in thoughtful and flexible ways as they monitor the child's reading and solves emerging problems. ... 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. ... If a c...

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The author of our text book speaks of three different frameworks that can be used to design a course. ... This framework offers a guide for breaking things down into chunks of information that can be used on a day to day basis making it easier for them to create learning objectives and goals for the students of the class. ...

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II-4 Guidance-oriented nature of continuous assessment: Continuous assessment is guidance-oriented because information is used to guide his placement, career prospects, vocational training and further development. ... Continuous assessment also enhances student learning in an inquiry based classroom when the students and teacher work together to articulate a vision of "good science." 3) ENABLES TEACHERS' PROFESSIONAL GROWTH By striving to better understand and guide students' thinking and learning, a teacher can become more reflective about his own practices and refine his teachi...

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For instance, the book by Williams (2009) painted changes caused by technology as inevitable and impactful. ... This information is useful in determining the instructional behaviors based on the best practices – cooperative learning, project-based learning, problem-based approach, instructor's learning of technologies, instructor acting as a guide or coach, concentrating on teaching skills as well as content and individualized instruction (Prensky, 2010). ...

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THE PROBLEM RATIONALE High performance in every test is one of the major goals of every teacher and every learning institution. But most of the mathematics teachers, especially the researcher, failed to achieve these goals. During the seminar, the researcher had an informal interview with the other mathematics teacher, teaching Grade 7, in the district. Based on the interview, the researcher found that most of the students, especially those who belong to lower section, perform slowly and poorly in mathematics. Students do not have mastery even in fundamental operations. ...

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Discuss teaching and classroom management strategies to incorporate children with Asperger's Syndrome in Mainstream Primary Classrooms. I have chosen this subject because one of the pupils in my stage two, year four class, has been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome and is treated by the school i...

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Introduction Somewhere between Vygotsky and Piaget; somewhere between Newton determining the laws of the universe alone with his apple tree, and Andrew Wiles proving Fermat's last theorem with the aid of his colleagues around the world; somewhere between learning the 3Rs by rote under a strict scho...

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Even with the growing recognition of the need for work on ITTE, it is interesting to note that the 1200-page Handbook of Research for Educational Communications and Technology (Jonassen, 1996) does not have a chapter on technology and teacher education, and the term teacher education does not appear in the index of the book. ...

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