"Some fathers hate to read but love to take the family on trips. Some children hate trips but love to read. ... Students are forced to memorize multiplication tables to pass test and check offs. ... 'We must get the testing scores increased. Everything is overshadowed by one high-stakes test.'...
For the educational system standardized testing is appealing but it measures students by a common yardstick, which should not exist. ... It does not make sense to test everyone the same and to expect everyone to do the same. ... There are abounding aspects that this kind of tests cannot measure. ... This is when the individual's senses are operating at their peak, this is when someone is doing something they love and they feel their blood racing through their body, when they are fully alive. ... Physiologists made an experiment testing kindergartens, their results showed the children to b...
My ultimate goal is to provide a comfortable, welcoming and respectful classroom in which students, their families and I share a passionate love of learning together and from one another. ... Informal assessment provides a clear picture of the child since they are engaged at a level not seen in formal situations, such as test taking or when asked to do something specific. ...
Students are not the only ones that crave technology; teachers love it, too. ... According to the National School Boards Association, "Students who are exposed to a high volume of technology perform as well as expected on standardized test, however, technology can potentially do students a disservice if used inappropriately" (Klaus). ...
Self–efficacy can be described as a social construct to organize and execute courses of action required for attaining design types of behavior (Bandura 1989). It serves to assess individual's capacity to influence their own decisions making and actions. Albert Bandura provided much of what we know about self – efficacy constructs (Flett 2007 pp524). He first proposed a strong sense of efficacy enhances human accomplishments and personal well-being. He States "People with high assurances of their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather t...
I believe that praise, encouragement and love for your students will give them the self-worth and motivation that they need in order to succeed. ... Alex certainly continued behaving negatively, testing my cooperating teacher on her threat. ...
The Study of Attention Deficit Disorder And Attention Deficit Disorder With Hyperactivity The purpose of this paper is to review the contemporary literature related to the cooccurrence of attention-deficit disorder (ADD), with and without hyperactivity, and specific learning disabilities. Factors common to children with either learning disability or attention deficit disorder as compared to common features of children diagnosed as having both ADD and learning disability are presented. Attention disorders are now recognized as the most comm...
If the student wants to take a step towards literacy in reading he can attest himself through several tests that will be able to measure his reading skills. The reading test that he should take should be valid, reliable and simple, if that so, the result of his exams will show his strengths and weaknesses in reading with proficiency, this results will be the basis to further improve and mend his weaknesses while retaining the strengths that he already have. ...
Inclusive education has entered the shores of the Pacific region. It is defined as the "full inclusion of children with diverse abilities in all aspects of schooling, regardless of their ability or disabilities" (Loreman, Deppeler & Harvey, 2005; Rogers, 1993; Salamanca Statement & Framework of Acti...
My next son, academically smart and loved sports, though didn't have the motivation to give it his all; he chose the bare minimum of both to get through his high school years, and through his first year of college. ... And lastly we have my daughter, who I firmly believe is a combination of both my sons in that she is passionate about learning, academically smart, and her love of sports. ...
