The text shows a great deal of material in a single frame. The reader sees a box of text to the left side with the name of the comic "The Joy of Learning" (Roanoke Times 2009). ... This text is clearly showing one error in our methodology of instruction to students. ... The author of the text is bringing light to this. ... The Joy of Learning is one text to open our minds to begin to contemplate such thoughts....

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

As these languages usually are not spoken any more we can study them in different written texts and literary works they preserved in. ... Teachers should vary the materials used in the classroom, e.g. articles from newspapers on different topics, selected literary passages, texts from the Internet, advertisements, etc. ... So even if we want to use the Grammar-Translation Method we should choose texts at the beginning from the wide variety of simplified texts in course books. I suppose the most important is to find texts that are both interesting and accessible to the students at their given l...

• Word Count: 1851
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The lesson I was supposed to teach as reflected in the lesson plan (see appendix) had theatre as the theme and was based on text types. There was a text book to refer to as well as worksheets supplementing it. ... The lesson: Introduction My instructional goals for the lesson was for the pupils to recognize a particular text type (a programme) and observe and identify the components of the text type. ... These objectives are similar in previous chapters; only the text type is different. ... Most times, however, I had to submit to the expectation that the required texts and accompanyi...

• Word Count: 1751
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• Grade Level: High School

Another section in chapter two of our text describes an English teacher using cooperative learning groups to discuss a novel they are studying (50). ... I have learned from the text that this is much more appealing to middle school students than high school. ... I believe, as our text mentioned, that creating the right environment from the time students enter the classroom is so important. ... Before reading the text, I was unsure about using class work as a form of punishment. ...

• Word Count: 2071
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• Grade Level: High School

In Freire's text, he discusses the attitudes and practices of teachers who use the banking method of education. ... According to Freire's text, the banking concept of education that was enacted at St. ... 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. ...

• Word Count: 1453
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• Grade Level: High School

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. Readers" Theatre supplies students a chance to communicate meaning through their voice and have an audience interpret and understand the meaning behind the text. ... After text is selected allow students to work together to formulate their own dialogue. ...

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Reading and interpreting primary texts? ... If they are reading primary texts, use what we call the "main idea" strategy. Teach them how to find the topic (usually a noun or noun phrase), the main idea (a sentence that states the text's position on the topic), and reasons or evidence to support the main idea. ...

• Word Count: 1444
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The ancient Greeks wrote texts intended for education. ... Compulsory education and the subsequent growth of schooling in Europe led to the printing of many standardized texts for children. ... - Writing activities integrated in text. - Promotes cross-cultural awareness. ...

• Word Count: 1475
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

For example, the children whose home literacy experiences were similar to school literacy experiences, performed well at school because school valorised and rewarded the types of literacy that they had, such as story reading and making meaning from text. ... These experiences include things such as: alphabet and print awareness, storybook reading, talking about text, observing family members use written language to gain information for day to day life, to maintain careers and for entertainment purposes. ...

• Word Count: 1973
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Michael Moore's "Idiot Nation" focuses on the failure of the educational system by using his own past experiences. His text is intended to state his judgments. In doing this, he lacks the credibility and efficiency of a good writer. This isn't the type of writing that informs and persuades the audie...

• Word Count: 1296
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When I would visit, he would let me go through his book shelves and enjoy texts from all subjects as much as I pleased. ... I would take notes as if there was going to be quiz on the text I had read. ...

• Word Count: 1444
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Nevertheless, I found them to be very relevant, succinct and in line with other theory that I had read, in particular my text. ... Although Asperger's Syndrome is regarded as part of the Autistic Spectrum Disorders it does not include the same language and communication difficulties that define Autism (See text, Page 10) One of the main characteristics of Asperger's Syndrome is that students still show a normal to above average IQ. ...

• Word Count: 2363
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Fergus Falls Senior High School's personality has changed this year. The High School has adopted a "block schedule," which is reportedly more successful and beneficial for students than other types of schedules. It also benefits teachers more. The block schedule isn't a new concept to the High S...

• Word Count: 1854
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• Grade Level: High School

This essay will review chapters two and eight from the text Practicing Education by Meadmore et al, and discuss the concepts of discipline and devolution and the conceptual links between them. This text will then seek to address: how devolution operates as a form of discipline, how devolution works for and against equity, an example of how devolution governs schooling and finally, proposing one strategy for making an aspect of devolution more equitable within primary education. ...

• Word Count: 2402
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Born to this world of high efficiency, people nowadays have been trained to maximize the use of every second of their daily lives. Designing methods helping students to achieve "success" more efficiently is nevertheless one of the most popular goals of our society, other than inventing faster tran...

• Word Count: 1253
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Philosophy of Education "It seems to me that education has a two-fold function to perform in the life of man and in society: the one is utility and the other is culture. Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life." -...

• Word Count: 1557
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• Grade Level: High School

As a future educator I would like to work with multiple subject students ranging third to sixth grade. However for the purpose of this paper and to help focus my beliefs of classroom management, I have chosen to discuss sixth grade. My basic beliefs for running a successful, positive, and supportive...

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The Paideia Propasal: an educational Manifesto by Motimer Adler, in my opinion, is a very well written book. It contained easy, well flowed text. It enlightened me in more ways than one. According to this writter this book sends out a message about how our schools are in dire need of reform, to ...

• Word Count: 1922
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• Grade Level: High School

This can be interpreted as purchasing the newest IQ and assessment books, educational software, enrichment and private tuition programmes, and numerous copies of school texts, teachers' guides, and examination papers from top notch schools. ...

• Word Count: 1604
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate