Their oral reading in a play format will help them better understand the text and understand the characters by taking on the their characteristics and personality. ... Students discussion will help them enhance knowledge about the subject. ... One thing that helps teachers in assessing students with Readers" theatre is videotaping. ... In Dramatics and the Teaching of Literature, James Hoetker (1969) contends that theatre increases creativity, originality, sensitivity, fluency, flexibility, emotional stability, cooperation, and examination of moral attitudes, while developing communication ...

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The Grammar-Translation Method focuses on developing students' appreciation of the target language's literature as well as teaching the language. The goal is to make students able to read its literature so their study is limited to literature and fine arts. ... Here the culture is not only limited to literature and fine arts but consist of various topics such as history, customs, daily life, geography etc. ... We can demonstrate with pictures or drawings because it might help those who are visual. ... Translating into the target language also can help learn to think in that language....

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By the way, it would be apposite to mention that my purpose is here just to exploit the parameter of 'contact zone' to show how it helps me to resolve the crisis I experienced while teaching and interacting with my students. ... My class has students ranging from 10 to 15 in number, who previously had courses on literature, General education, and some courses on humanities in keeping with the vision of liberal education, the reward of which lies in itself. ... The aims of the course are: To introduce you to a range of major authors and works of the period To introduce you to key ...

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Walking into a school filled with 1,200 other student, I couldn't help but feel insignificant. ... Stewart assigned a research paper about Western Civilization in the 16 hundreds, it was a chance for the whole class to get their Information Literature paper out of the way. ... I could use a past research paper from senior year and he could go in through the schools gradebook and have it count as the information literature paper. ... In return I would help her by occasionally teaching lower level classes demos, and helping around the class. ... Mrs Marcus as predicted agreed to help me. ...

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"The basic goal of multicultural education is to help all children understand and appreciate events and people from various points of view" (Welton, 113). ... Teachers can help eliminate stereotypes by presenting material and activities that enable children to learn the similarities of all individuals. ... "Through multicultural literature, children discover that all cultural groups have made significant contributions to civilization" (Norton, 62). ... It also helps children become accustomed to the idea that there are many lifestyles, languages, cultures, and points of view. ... Review o...

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"The basic goal of multicultural education is to help all children understand and appreciate events and people from various points of view" (Welton, 113). ... Teachers can help eliminate stereotypes by presenting material and activities that enable children to learn the similarities of all individuals. ... "Through multicultural literature, children discover that all cultural groups have made significant contributions to civilization" (Norton, 62). ... It also helps children become accustomed to the idea that there are many lifestyles, languages, cultures, and points of view. ... Review o...

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High school students, on the other hand, should have the opportunity to be exposed to all ideas that are expressed in literature. ... Most importantly, such books teach life lessons that help nave minds become more open-minded and realistic. ... They should never be deprived of a piece of literature because someone else finds it offensive. ...

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I teach because I love guiding secondary students through the learning experiences of exploring literature, creating personal writing, and sharing ideas in our classroom community. ... As a teacher, I hope to have similarly beneficial impacts on today's learners in order to help them be successful beyond the classroom. ... Teachers depend on aid from outside sources including parents, faculty, professional literature, the community as a whole, and their families. ...

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Thus, in order to help students to good and logical writers, teachers tend to raise awareness of the students for various kinds of genres and let them understand how to write them effectively. ... Similar to the view that scaffolding sustains SFL and ESP, Hyland used Wray and Lewis to cite that: "The concept of scaffolding has been applied through the use of writing frames that are created as flexible and provisional forms of scaffolding to help young children develop a sense of genre when introducing them to non-fiction writing"."(Hyland 2004, p.125) Thus, scaffolding frames have been consid...

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Finally, upon examining the aforementioned approaches to EAP by review of scholarly literature, I intend to argue affirmatively that vulgar-pragmatic based pedagogy is the best and most effective method of teaching EAP to university students. ... Burbules and Berk (1999) incite that by 'urging teachers to help students become more skeptical toward commonly accepted truisms' that they will not allow themselves to be 'deceived' by the widely accepted dogma proponed upon them by society and its authoritative figures. ... During my first year studies in Biology, I was requi...

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Most literature on reflection is based on the works of philosopher, John Dewey (1933) who defined reflection in his early work as the "active, persistent and careful consideration of any belief or supposed form of knowledge in light of the grounds that support it" (p.7 as cited in Chetcuti, 1992, p.238). ... The benefits of reflective teaching are well-known and supported by an abundance of literature. ... There are several strategies that can be used in aid of becoming a reflective teacher such as reflective journal writing, seeking different perspectives from colleagues, audio ...

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My teacher also helped me with a lot of punctuation and when to use certain punctuation at the right times. ... Reading the books that my teacher assigned also helped me with certain situations in my life. ... This sort of helps me get by in life during certain situations when I absolutely don't know what to do. ... I also thought that the books, teacher and assignments that I had all were major factors in getting me to learn literature better. My past English experiences have helped me grow in becoming a better writer. ...

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My teacher also helped me with a lot of punctuation and when to use certain punctuation at the right times. ... Reading the books that my teacher assigned also helped me with certain situations in my life. ... This sort of helps me get by in life during certain situations when I absolutely don't know what to do. ... I also thought that the books, teacher and assignments that I had all were major factors in getting me to learn literature better. My past English experiences have helped me grow in becoming a better writer. ...

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Individuals need to learn values that will help them once they are out of high school. ... Students learn to be punctual, which will help them in the work force. ... Schools also help teach students a sense of moral responsibility. ... Education also helps individuals experience upward mobility. ... George Washington seemed to know what he was talking about when he stated,There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage than the promotion of science and literature. ...

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No interview techniques is used in this study, but this essay is based on literature review. ... Durkheim believes that with education, it helps to kids to the internalization of social rules which needed for social function. ... One of the biggest reason for dropping the school because of the poverty is they needed to work in order to help their family budget. ... Such as on school events, they are not allowed to attend them or about the social helps, they couldn't get it. ...

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Rose ended up being successful thanks to the help of his English teacher, Mr. ... MacFarland and Rose became close, MacFarland even influenced and then helped him get into college. ... Not only rose but his whole class first exposure of literature put down any potential any of the student had because of the teachers uncreative and repetitive teaching methods. ... Rose wants schools to have a better program for children in need of help if they need or show it. ... At the end of this story, the audience have the wish that teachers, professors, and the school system as a whole will help the next...

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Many students grow up being told to focus on "major subjects" such as Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, English and literature in order to secure a place in a high-ranked university and get a lucrative job after graduate. ... Applying in History class, technology can help students with virtual visits to world famous historic sites like the Egyptian Pyramid, therefore arouse the eager to explore more. ...

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In smaller classes there can be more individual instruction and the teacher can center more on the children that need the extra help. ... The parents and the community around the school are more likely to help the administration and the teachers, and because of the close relationships with the school and parents it makes the ideas of everyone more accepted. ... 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. ... I was able to know my teacher...

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Violence-prevention literature and experts consistently associate at least seven characteristics with promising school based violence prevention programs: 1} A comprehensive approach 2} an early start, long term commitment 3} strong leadership and disciplinary policies 4} staff development 5} parental involvement 6} interagency partnership and community linkages 7} culturally...

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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 NCLB is a counterproductive policy that needs to be nullified, in order for a functioning policy to be instilled; a new policy serving to, really, help children and not just better a national statistic. ... The No Child Left Behind Act has hurt more than helped and needs to be abolished or amended. ...

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I want them to come to me with anything they feel is important and need help with. It is my job to help them see the light at the end of the tunnel and become people they can be proud of. That being said I know I can't help every single one, but I will try my hardest to and this is my plan to do that. ... This seating arrangement will also help in the multiple settings I want to create in my classroom. ... These include activities to help students and educators to know and understand each other, to teach students to resolve conflicts and to work together respectfully, to involve students...

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This helps students to comprehend and construct meaning from the text. ... The goal for activating prior knowledge is to help all students employ their prior knowledge in a strategic way. ... All teachers, regardless of their subject area, should be able to help with the reading strategy of decoding of words, the comprehension of words, and the retention of words (Darling-Hammond, Barron, Pearson, Schoenfeld, Stage, Zimmerman, 2008). ... All teachers, regardless of their subject area, should be able to help with the decoding of words, the comprehension of words, and the retention of words. ...

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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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Review of Related Literature Lack of parental involvement is one of the biggest problems facing our public schools today (Desimone, 1999; Epstein, 1991; Hill, 2004, Ladson-Billings, 2001). ... A parent study in a socio-economically disadvantaged community that looked at parental behaviors and how they were influenced by multiple factors that included such things as how welcomed they felt at school, their educational expectations for the child, as well as their own educational aspirations (Overstreet, 2005) concluded that parents need to be educated and better informed by the school so they are...

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We must help them see success as a valuable aspect of their personalities. ... Was it finding themes in literature? ... So how can we help students master such skills? ... By designing more team assignments, we can exploit the benefits of teamwork, where the weaker students will learn by having others help. ... Breaking learning into small packages that can be conquered and that will in some way produce a feeling of accomplishment and success will help motivate students to go forward, even through very difficult material. 4. ...

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