Studying the arts can help students develop coordination and even spawn creativity. ... A report in January 2006 on the status of arts education in California concluded that: "Emphasis on reading and math in both state and federal accountability systems has an unintentional impact on the provision of instruction in the arts and other required subjects. ... One of the studies performed concluded that students involved/experienced in music performance scored 53 points higher on the verbal portion on the SAT and 39 points higher on the math portion than students that are not involved/experienced ...

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If the lesson the teacher is teaching has the encouragement to help the students want to participate in the activity or lessons; when the teacher uses an act of motivation on the students and get the students to want to learn more every day they are at school. ... As the students life span grows older they will have the common knowledge to help them remember the facts of since and life . ... For example in other words, the country of china expects their future leaders to have the excess knowledge in the subjects of math and sciences, the curriculum is foreign countries such as china d...

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"Only one-third of American students achieve proficiency in reading and math by our nation's own standards. ... The NCLB (No The Child Left Behind) act prioritized math and reading, demanding an overall increase in proficiency. ... Subjects like: science, history, literature, and even art and music should be held at the same level of importance as math and literacy. ... Get tough policies and zero tolerance gave way to high-stakes testing, alienating students that needed the most help learning. ... The No Child Left Behind Act has hurt more than helped and needs to be abolished or am...

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The film is not completely unbiased by the evidence used in the documentary helps the cause for a better educational system. Guggenheim uses sources from international indices for nations and their math and science test scores. In America we rank 25th in developed countries in math proficiency and 21st in developed countries in science proficiency. ... Guggenheim incorporates small graphs to help with statistical data as well as shots of things said in the film. ... The visual scenes present help create an emotional attachment to the kids featured in the documentary and helps with Guggenheim&#...

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This meant that ELL students would not only have to test in a language they were not fluent in, but also be proficient in the subjects of math and English. Schools put the focus on teaching math and English to the ELL students in hope that their test scores would go up. ... The teachers in this school district had the help from Science educators that created a lesson that merged with ELD. A proposal was made as to how we could alleviate this issue, and having training seminars as well as furthering the science education of the elementary teachers could help this program emerge successfully in ...

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This meant that ELL students would not only have to test in a language they were not fluent in, but also be proficient in the subjects of math and English. Schools put the focus on teaching math and English to the ELL students in hope that their test scores would go up. ... The teachers in this school district had the help from Science educators that created a lesson that merged with ELD. A proposal was made as to how we could alleviate this issue, and having training seminars as well as furthering the science education of the elementary teachers could help this program emerge successfully in ...

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According to the test rankings from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), American students' rankings in math, science, and reading continue to decline. ... Under the NCLB law, all schools were required to bring 100 percent of students to the proficient level on states' reading and math tests by 2014. ... At the secondary level, according to California Educator, struggling students are assigned double and triple periods of math and English. ... As mentioned before students often are forced to forgo electives that would engage and motivate them for remedial readi...

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Research showed that there were few or no differences in curriculum content and student activites in either language arts or math. However, grade 3 teachers did report spending more sustained attention to students that did need help with reading than teachers with larger class sizes. ... In contrast, another study found that smaller class sizes did affect how subject area teachers taught, especially in the subject areas on math and science. ...

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Scholarly research shows that the emphasis placed on testing and standards, mandated by the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, is causing teachers to focus entirely on basic skills in reading, writing, and math (Banks & Banks, 2010). ... However research over the past ten years has found that the high-stakes testing policies have not improved reading and math achievement across states, and have not significantly narrowed national and state level achievement gaps (Au, 2009). In fact, the high stakes testing and standardization of classrooms has hurt the very students it set out to help. ... Class...

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Flatland will help stimulate ideas of how to better get along with those they feel different from and uncomfortable around. ... This project will be used in all my math classes that I end up teaching, especially in my Geometry classes, and will also be used in my profession portfolio for teaching position interviews. ... Hands-on manipulatives, cooperative group learning activities, learning to use the vocabulary by discovering the meanings during discover-a-relationship exercises, overhead displays to help visualize concepts, and the use of computers are some of the ways that the Flatland ...

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I've been following and reading publications distributed by the Triangle Coalition for over a year now. The Triangle Coalition is a group of organizations that came together in 1985 to form a national forum for the discussion of science, mathematics and technology education issues. The Triangle C...

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In addition, I will endeavor to help each child reach his/ her potentials by continuously joining forces with parents to ensure that my students receive academic and behavioral support at home. ... I was given only three months to help the students improve their test scores and overall abilities. ... Although at times my students felt discouraged, bored, and even uncooperative, I remained positive and determined to help them improve their academic skills. ... Also, I would allow each student to become the teacher and explain math operations to the class. ... That experience shows me ...

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For example, history (what is remembered of it), math, and music. ... Certain songs in particular are designed to help people, both young and old, learn and remember things for lengthy periods of time. ... Many languages have disappeared from the face of the Earth, simply because here is nothing to help remember them except plain memorization tactics. ...

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The story of Gillian Lynne, as told by Sir Ken Robinson, is compelling as it helps us to realize the possible negative effects of not nurturing creativity. ... The hierarchy of public education puts a lot of emphasis on math and science and much less on arts and humanities. ... It is important to consider that we do not teach children art, dance, and drama with the same magnitude that we teach them valued subjects like math and science. ...

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"Technology can help improve student's abilities to: (a) solve problems, (b) communicate, (c) work on/as a team, (d) acquire and evaluate information, (e) think creatively, and (f) make decisions- (Ferguson). ... A teacher of fifth-grade math and science at Oakwood Intermediate School in College Station, Texas uses interactive Web quests to teach groups of students "the impact of climate changes and their effect on global commerce- (Drake). ... Here, students are aware that they are learning because they are actively involved, and these constructive uses of technology help develop creat...

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Additionally, parents can ask what they can do at home to help their children in school. ... Parents can also act as tutors to help students with problems. ... Schools seek parents to serve on advisory committees, sponsor certain school activities, and to help with fundraising. ... Though workshop topics may cover anything from children's literature to diabetes prevention, the district always devoted several springtime sessions to giving parents strategies for helping their children prepare for the math, science, and writing sections of the TAAS. ... Their goal is to bring parents into ...

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The plan also introduced the Regents Minimum Competency Tests, which requires a student to pass tests in five major categories; math, science, reading, writing, and two areas of social studies. ... Similarly, success should be rewarded with recognition and incentives to further encourage progress for districts, teachers and students while others who are not as accomplished are provided remedial training or resources in order to help them achieve success. ...

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Despite there being policies developed to help improve educational attainment, some policies are not being implemented properly which means that a lot of people, particularly those with Special Educational Needs (Cassen & Kingdon 2007), are becoming losers because the Government are not doing enough to make legislation work in their favour. ... The National Curriculum included ten core subjects, which were; English, Maths, Science, History, Geography, Technology, Physical Education, Art & Design, Music and Modern Foreign Languages in secondary Schools (Ward & Eden, 2009) which meant that since...

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For the past thirty years in the State of California, bilingual education has been undertaken by all the public schools of the state. Under such system, children of non-American ethnic have had a special treatment in their early academic career. Children of minority groups have been thought various ...

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There are many types of CPD, which can help teachers at every stage of their career, and suit their own interests and availability of time. ... According to that, the teachers are playing the most important role to help the students to excel in both knowledge and skills. ... Several studies, including a large-scale randomized, controlled trial recently completed by researchers, have found that when teachers use Responsive Classroom practices, students show increased achievement in math and reading and benefit in many other important ways. ... The message is crafted to help students focus on t...

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I will draw upon the readings of Michael Apple and Lisa Delpit to help develop an understanding of this issue. ... I will now draw upon Michael Apple as a critical theorist and Lisa Delpit, a "multiculturalist,"" to help support my stance. ... She believes that every student is different, which they are, and believes that there should be a way for students to be taught based on what would help them learn the most. Every student is different in that each individual has different means of learning information the best, each excels in a given area of education over another (one student may...

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When a child speaks little, or no, English in the home or outside of the classroom environment, they may need intensive help in learning and mastering the English language. ... Minority students are over represented in lower tracks for math, with African American males having the highest enrollment in these low ability classes. ...

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