First, I left my family to be together with my husband and I miss them a lot but my husband and my little daughter are helping me a lot filling my empty space for my parents with love. They are my only reason why I am here. ... When I see my friends that are teachers now and working, I am like 'I want to go back in my country and work there' but I can't go back there anymore because I have my new family and they are here. ... Then, I quite my job and going full time to school. My husband is supporting me a lot and helping me too. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

I remember meeting many of my friends in Mrs. ... Ball, my kindergarten teacher. ... Students received a "demerit card," which had space for a teacher to write the student ten demerits. ... My favorite of these professors was Mrs. Reznicek, my junior year World Faiths professor, who first helped spark my love to learn, and helped me to grasp my interest in different cultures and different world views. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

As suggested by Ellis (2003: p 68), trainee teachers need to recognise the difference between discipline and control and make space for students" voices to be heard. Capel et al, (2003: p 116) suggests that the key to achieving this rests in the quality of my classroom management skills. ... Additionally it is important to reflect on my own teaching approach to analyse whether my expectations of, and behaviour towards, pupils are being influenced by previous knowledge given to me by my mentor about the ability or behaviour of particular pupils in the class that I am teaching. ... Again ...

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The study in progress has actually grown out of my personal observations and interactions with my students inside and outside the classrooms. ... The current study that follows has actually grown out of my personal observations and interactions with my students inside and outside the classrooms and also out of my continual effort to find the middle ground to deal with these practical concerns. ... And my changed philosophy of education, thus, concentrates on student-centered one. ... According to Mary Louise Pratt, "contact zone" is "social spaces where cultures meet, clash, and...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When I think Kindergarten, I think of a big open classroom so that the students could have space for themselves and to move around. The picture I sketched of the classroom is not scaled to correctly match the classroom space wise. ... The teachers' desk was on one corner of the classroom, surrounded by piles of books and papers and more posters on the walls surrounding his space. ... There were also plenty more shelves throughout the entire classroom that was used as storage space. ... There was no empty wall space to put any more shelves or any other kind of furniture. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

I have chosen Shaidi Nur Hisham bin Shaidi as my client for my guidance session task. ... My relationship with my client is teacher and pupil but still during the guidance session he was able to talk comfortably without any stress detected. ... I smiled at him, nodded my head and make eye to eye contact with him. ... I have done this stage during my guidance session. ... Self-discovery of the client in that case shows that the Client Centered approach can provide enough space for my client to change. ...

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Although these characters, like me, faced challenges in trying to achieve their education, they were able to endure poverty, the lack of support, and feelings of doubt regarding their impossible goals, they overcame their barriers to achieve their college education just as I too will obtain my college diploma and dreams. ... In "October Sky," Homer when he saw Sputnik, the Russian rocket fly into space, he realized he wanted to become an astronaut and go to the moon. ... And like Maria from the play, "Simply Maria or the American Dream," my parents never give me as much f...

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Learning is a philosophy. Education is a form of learning and can be a very important thing in life! People do go on in life without an education but cannot go on without learning. Life is a learning process in itself. Money is a powerful thing now in life, but an education has no price. To have mon...

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Martin (1998), explores how factors such as everyday movements, manner, and how children consume physical space become gendered. ... If I send my little girl to preschool, whether in a dainty dress or boy-like overalls, I would expect that she is being reminded of how to conduct herself as a little lady. ...

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Before moving on to possible solutions for our education system, I want to note an interesting point made in the final chapter of Ryan's book, Five Miles Away, A World Apart that is the basis for my thesis. ... Cities can help reduce white flight by making the living environment more enjoyable and suitable for the average citizen; Ryan notes efforts by cities in "cleaning up parks, creating more retail and living space, and cracking down on street crime" (283). ...

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Thurgood Marshall High School is the newest of the six schools in Great Falls Illinois. The school opened two years ago amid national acclaim for being an important breakthrough in inner-city education (Gabarro, 1993). It was specially designed and constructed for the "house system" concept. Upon enrollment, students are assigned to one house. Houses may compete with one another at sports and maybe in other ways, thus providing a focus for group loyalty. ...

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Abstract Western governments around the globe have become increasingly focused on the successful transition of young people from school to further education and/or training. It could be suggested that for many countries this is the key focus of their youth policies. Nevertheless, the divide between those young people who manage to successfully transition into a meaningful careers pathway and those who do not continues to widen. Establishing stronger welfare safety nets and better youth services that can respond more effectively to the needs of young people as they reach fruition have all been ...

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Abstract Western governments around the globe have become increasingly focused on the successful transition of young people from school to further education and/or training. It could be suggested that for many countries this is the key focus of their youth policies. Nevertheless, the divide between those young people who manage to successfully transition into a meaningful careers pathway and those who do not continues to widen. Establishing stronger welfare safety nets and better youth services that can respond more effectively to the needs of young people as they reach fruition have all been ...

• Word Count: 5459
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate