The Paideia Propasal: an educational Manifesto by Motimer Adler, in my opinion, is a very well written book. ... Democracy and Education In the Book Adler points out a book written by John Dewey "Democracy and Education" written in 1916. ... Teachers need to motivate children, they nedd to guide them and inspire them to learn not only within the classroom but also outside of the class. As stated in the book teachers need to guide their students they need to keep them as active participants wanting to discover and wanting to know. ... To learn how to do anything well one must not only do...

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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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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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While in an adjacent classroom another teacher is using a math book to teach her students to count 1 to 10. ... This step allows the teacher to ask probing questions or guide the students if they get off track. ...

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Allowing freethinking is still essential, but sometimes the thinking should be guided to a certain point that the teacher is trying to express. ... Rather than having the teachers spit useless interpretations of the book at us, we were given the task of interpreting it for ourselves. ...

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The book also gives the traditional definition of intelligence as to "usually include mental capabilities such a s reasoning, problem solving and abstract thinking"(Sadker & Zittleman, p. 26-27, 2010). ... Core Values and Guiding Educational Philosophy In becoming a teacher, I feel that my underlying purpose would be quite a few things. ...

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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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And in this interview, we realized that people have many misconceptions about children's learning; therefore the objectives of our research are: 1.To help parents, teachers and adults in general, in guiding children towards learning basic about religion, human sexuality and language. 2.To clarify some misconception about children's learning in different social areas. 3.To identify some myths that adults keep, in relation to issues that children should know, depending on their age. 4.To point out why education is different depending on children's age. ...

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