It is extremely urgent that we start sparking interest in girls to find enjoyment in these courses. ... Starting in elementary school, we can have junior achievement classes directed towards STEM careers to spark interest. throughout Middle School there could be more career days and extracurricular groups for these felid. ... Her and her classmates at Stanford University took a group of students from the science math, engineering, and technology majors and asked their opinions on two advertising video, unaware that they were being tested by their skin conductance and heart rate to measuring a...

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The president has suggested that making school days longer and extending the school year will increase learning, raise test scores, and close the achievement gap. ... "The argument that more time in school increases test's scores is debatable. Countries that score better than we do on international standardized tests require fewer hours of schooling per year than we do. ... Some 350,000 students in Chicago missed seven days of school as a result of the walkout that sparked a national debate over education reform. ... I'm a music teacher and my students are not meeting the standard o...

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• Grade Level: High School

A more challenging approach, where they are required to reach mastery levels in their subjects rather than achieve a particular grade, will encourage them and spark their interest again. ... Learning goal positions the students to learn more skills but performance goal, according to Reilly (2007), only tests what the student already knows. ...

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Because the student already feels a loss of sovereignty, he won't feel passion for the subject nor will he be able to spark the change Freire speaks of. ... They, themselves, are graded and tested to make sure they follow a similar method. ... At an early age, they are taught to sit in a class full of their peers, write down the information the teacher writes on the board, and produce the facts they learned come test time. ...

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Educators were no longer drilling information into the masses and testing the regurgitation of said information. ... Why should they not be worried about the poisonous radiation levels around them due to testing in New Mexico and the Philippines? ... Being a man of the mind, he began to ask questions that were open ended to students to "spark a fire". ...

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This generalization created by The Regents Board has sparked a flame of fury amongst the families of special needs children, especially since the commencement credential could potentially hinder their child's chances of employment or going to college in the future. ... The skills credential will only be offered to students with the uttermost level of special needs (students with poor language skills and no ability to write or take a test), which is criteria that only fits about one percent of students currently in special education. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Classroom Management Plan The classroom management plan is crucial, and in support of this, I will find clever ways to spark their imagination while paying special attention to the varying abilities of the students. ...

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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. ... We were never forced to memorize static information, and our intelligence was never quantified through our ability to "be filled" with the teachers knowledge through testing. ...

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• Grade Level: High School