The original OTA report on technology and education (OTA, 1988) dealt with the entire field. ... One area of that report dealt with teacher education. ... It was one of the last reports produced by OTA before Congress eliminated the agency. 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. ... Although empirical-researc...

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Northern Caribbean University College of Education and Religion Department of Education MTED 201: Primary Mathematics Methods Factors that influence how children learn Psychological influences Professional influences Technological influences Language influences Societal influences Research influences Psychological influences: The essence of this theory is students construct their own understanding of math ideas (by interacting with physical models of these ideas). ... Research influences: Research is very important, because it can help us understand what to teach, wh...

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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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Teachers know how to address the issue of the struggling reader but the problem is teachers are afraid to address reading concerns because they feel that they were not credentialed to teach reading, they feel they are only expert in the area of their certification and it is the English department's job to address reading problems. ... The importance of knowing how to read to learn is assessed by state and national tests. ... Knowing how to read to learn is one of the most important components of becoming a successful adult. ... When used effectively, students start using this strategy ind...

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When we see how pointless such correlations are, the means by which they are less about success than about triumph, we may arrive at the conclusion that they are a bit much. ... Recently author Anya Kamenetz wrote a book called The Test. ... How does each student individual score reflects the teacher? ... School systems start standardized testing on young children, as young as the age of eight all the way up to high school when the child has reached the age of eighteen. ... Instructors are reporting children hurling, losing control of their bowels, and expanded duties for psychiatric and un...

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In addition, we will discuss events occurring in the world today and both read and write about how these larger events affect our lives. ... Related Objectives • summarize, analyze, respond to, and evaluate print and digital texts • compare and contrast various genres, including essays (academic and popular), literature reviews, annotated bibliographies, proposals, blogs, websites, and reports • identify and use various methods of developing paragraphs • identify and use various organizational strategies • distinguish types of evidence used in essays (i....

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