This knowledge will help make me a better teacher because it fosters great discussions and new learning, and can be intentionally used as a strategy for teaching new subjects. ... Teachers that ask questions to their students and attempt to research the answers as a group will help their students learn and retain useful methods for personal future research, as well as, their current knowledge base. ... Using these methods and teaching the students to do so will help give everyone more opportunities to become more intelligent, as well as, help the teacher gain more knowledge of an array of s...

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"Teaching to the test" altered the way in which teachers teach resulting in lower standards. ... This "teaching to the test" eliminated the use of Socratic instruction and focused on teacher delivered information; lecture rather than the collaborative, hands-on learning needed for a global multidimensional society. ... According to the findings of the National Board on Educational Testing and Public Policy, teachers' instructional methods have been altered using more whole-group instruction and individual-seat work than cooperative learning and problem solving methods....

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Cudworth (2008) also mentions that minimal understanding of the culture is not only reflected by attitudes of the teaching staff, but also the National Curriculum within the educational structure. ... Although opinions of teachers can differ, Kiddle (1999) suggests that even those who welcome GRT children into their classroom can prevent an inclusive education through their teaching methods, the resources that are accessible to them or the framework of the syllabus. ... It is therefore vital that the teaching staff recognize this and provide clear instructions to ensure a child fully underst...

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At this point, teachers had to focus on how they were dealing with students with diverse abilities in a more explicit and comprehensive way due to the reforms, which meant that they needed to adopt new instructional methods. They had to be able to come up with different learning environments and different methods so all students could learn. Thereafter, teaching became a highly desired, independent and creative profession, but only people with a Master´s degree could teach in Finnish basic and high school. ... They think that "teaching is the key element that makes a difference in what s...

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Methodology The methodology employed for the process review included both qualitative and quantitative methods. ... The task team members were trained in the use of the instruments with the purpose of confirming that valid and reliable data is collected and documented; The methods will mainly be used to capture the district information around resources at their disposal, financial and human capacity. ... Subject advisors should also be a catalyst for excellence in teaching and learning. ... The ideal school principal should also be focussed on quality teaching and learning and not be involve...

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Home Schooling Home schooling is a method of education through which the parents take sole responsibility to oversee the entire education of their children in a personal, direct manner. It is a one-on-one tutorial method of education using the parents as teachers/tutors and most often takes place within the home of the students. ... Individualized instruction is powerful, even when parents fall short of teaching excellence. ... Methods also differ between home schools. ... Advances in technology have provided a teaching method for the home schooling movement. ...

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This report made basic observation and recommendations concerning, content, expectations, time, and teaching. ... Basically, this is to see if we are teaching what we"re testing for. ... The new Teacher Evaluation could be used more for measuring teaching methods, than used for content. ... Teaching methods can be developed after those three are addressed. ... They learned how to teach when they were exposed to good teaching. ...

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Now the educators were posing open-ended questions, teaching their students how to think and use their cognitive abilities, not firing cold, hard facts. ... Calling this method progressive education, Dewey believed that its purpose was "to discover and apply the principles that govern all human development that is truly educative, to utilize the methods by which mankind has collectively and progressively advanced in skill, understanding, and associated life" (Wirth, 122). ... When asked why he felt such a style was thought to be better than the accustomed teaching practices he simply repl...

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More assessment, different forms of assessment, and accountability programs that stress the establishment of standards for student performance are some of the many methods currently being explored or implemented by school districts around the country. ... Develop cognitive skills and processes, such as writing, by frequent and systematic practice that involves teaching and learning of underlying processes, such as the dynamics of written composition. ... Another factor associated with higher achievement levels in the NAEP surveys conducted by Patrick was use of electronic technology in tea...

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In her article "The Japanese and American Educational Methods," Jane Korission states that most American high school students are underachievers, and are not pushed enough to reach their ultimate goals whereas, Japanese students have shown the best performance in all categories of the mathematics exams. ... According to the American Educational Service Group, the American testing method however will help the students understand and know the material fully, for they have tests every week. ... With the Japanese way of teaching, this may cause the students to be afraid to go out into society and ...

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Stanley Aronowitz, author of "How Class Works in Education: A Memoir", states that in today's system "schooling focuses on preparing students for state exams ("teaching to the test") and for jobs while education teaches students how to think critically and explore new ideas, whether or not they're related to a specific job path or a state exam.... Aronowitz, also in his memoir, condemns the new dictated style of teaching in schools by proposing numerous methods to broaden the way students are educated and the creativity among both the teacher and the student....

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In Freire's text, he discusses the attitudes and practices of teachers who use the banking method of education. ... Few of my teachers used the banking method of education, and there was a unique, liberal disciplinary system. ... Throughout my educational experience, I have been exposed to many different styles of teaching. Two very prominent, and opposing, methods that are discussed by Paolo Freire in his text, "Pedagogy of the Oppressed," are the banking method of education and the problem-posing method. ... In many of my high school and college classes, however, the problem p...

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When children are home schooled parents can plan special field trip geared to help with the things they are teaching their children and can also use daily and weekly tasks to teach everyday education to children such as trips to the grocery store or preparing meals can collate with a math lesson and also help to make the task a fun learning environment. ... (French) When a parent home schools they can personalize the courses they are studying or use a personalized approach to teaching the child or children traditional materials. ... In the public schools a teacher must teach in a way that...

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Inappropriate curriculum and teaching strategies can contribute heavily to students" indiscipline in my school (McEwan, 2000). ... It had to do when there is a mismatch between teaching style and learning style of the students. ...

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Despite many parental complaints, Richard C. continued to lawfully hold his teaching credentials and current job status. ... Do you want someone who repeatedly breaks the law and has consistently displayed poor judgment teaching your child? ... "Iron clad tenure as well as aggressive union tactics allow a teacher to remain deeply embedded in the establishment as recertification takes place every five to seven years regardless if they do any actual teaching. ... Across the nation, many states have begun to create more efficient methods of dealing with and dismissing incompetent teachers. ...

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The interactions between children and adult to child are key relationships that are focused on at Clear Horizons ("The DIR Teaching Method"). ... She informed me that it is a very individual based way of teaching. ... It is a very holistic way of teaching and helping each student with their individual differences. ...

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Students acquire a sense of belonging when the teaching staff includes them in the learning process. ... The majority of teachers, however, did not feel that the current status in the school focused on practical teaching sessions. ...

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They also come to understand more about their children's teachers and their teaching methods. ... When teachers were asked if they would approve or disapprove of parents at their school participating on a committee to propose changes to classroom teaching methods only 15% approved, while 85% would allow the parent/committee to propose changes to the lunch menu. ...

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ANALYSIS Methods, ideals, goals, and values of teaching and learning vary from community to community and country to country. ... During class, we have discussed many topics and watched videos concerning various teaching techniques in other countries, as well as our own. ... Various methods are used as well, there is not one single way that is acceptable, any approach is possible, as long as the result is a lesson learned. ...

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HOME SCHOOL CONNECTIONS IN LANGUAGE AND LITERACY For several decades now educators have recognised with great significance the integral role that parents play in their child's foundational language learning (Cairney & Munsie, 1992, p.1). It has also been suggested that the relationship between s...

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Religions are based on opinion and centuries-old teachings rather than scientific proof. Religious teachings belong in the church and the home, rather than the educational setting. ... Tighter control is placed on the teaching methods and system of education within the classroom. ...

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Admissions to universities to study teaching are limited and only the top graduates are offered employment. Competition is fierce for teachers in South Korea for teaching positions. ... Teaching in this way encourages free thought and creativity in a student. ...

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It could even be applied to home schooling, to offset the cost of textbooks and supplies, and to partially compensate for the parents time spent teaching instead of working. David Barulich, a writer for the Education Liberator, gives one method for the distribution of these vouchers. ... However, the way to educate students is not by teaching them that we all have to be the same. ...

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When Sputnik rose into the sky in 1957 and Americans were concerned that the Russians were outgunning us in the Space Race, millions of dollars were poured into math and science programs to bolster teaching and resultant learning in these subjects. ... On the contrary, students' motivation and teachers' instructional methods have been negatively affected by these tests, with negative connections found between these tests and student achievement and graduation rates (Nichols, Glass, & Berliner, 2012). ... This effect, teaching to the test, is pervasive; teachers essentially teach only...

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The "charter" establishing each such school is a performance contract detailing the school's mission, program, goals, students served, methods of assessment, and ways to measure success. ... This is helpful in not only involving the student in the local community, but also in teaching valuable real world skills. ... If anyone can teach math classes as long as they have some background in math, hopefully to the level of a bachelor's degree, does that mean that methods classes are now obsolete? ...

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