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Introduction Patient education has had a relatively new emphasis in recent years, due mostly to the offering of choice to those whose employee health plans made such offering. Patient education then became a way of offering a direct benefit to patients in an effort to keep them engaged in the...
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Two other software examples that may be used for instruction and learning in an educational setting include Number Munchers and Oregon Trail. These games were used in the late 1980s and early 1990s in order to teach children their multiplication tables, teach problem solving skills, understand how to plan properly,...
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In assessing whether students with severe disabilities should be allowed access to a regular curriculum, it seems that one factor above all must guide the decisions; namely, what is in the best interests of the disabled students. There is in this scenario the element of how the regular curriculum would...
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In both John Updike’s “A&P” and Toni Cade Bambara’s “The Lesson”, the young protagonists learn about the consumerist nature of American culture, as well as the strict class divisions that are constitutive of the American system. The two stories themselves thus function as teaching instruments, according to which the narrative...
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One of the primary focuses in teaching is to allow students the space to explore their inner thoughts and ideas with confidence and to search out hidden memories and experiences. Sometimes art is created through simple expressions or emotional acts, and to that end, I have built a repertoire of...
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Talk About Teaching is a book based on the premise that professional conversations can enhance teaching practice. It contends claims that there is a link between good teaching practices and professional conversations. Written by Charlotte Danielson, the book is a good resource for principals and supervisors. Seven years since its...
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The Constructivist Theory of teaching is based on the belief that learning occurs when learners are actively engaged in the process of meaning and knowledge construction. In Piaget’s research of the development of a child’s brain, he theorized that assimilation and accommodation require an active learner, not a passive one,...
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Autism can be described as a condition that hinders the forming of relationships and communication in learners (DeStefano et al., 2014). Apparently, it is a typical situation in most learning institutions thus implying that educators should demonstrate a high degree of professionalism and competence to assist students who are caught...
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Teacher pay increment has dominated debates throughout 2016. However, the issue is often distorted by misleading statistics. Therefore, while addressing the issue of teachers' pay, it is critical to understand the actual statistics of teachers pay. Throughout the previous periods, the media has been awash with information of the falling...
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The article “Middle school co-teaching: Effective practices and student reflections” focuses on how co-teaching has impacted middle school students. The authors provide a comprehensive look at how the No Child Left Behind Act asked for the highest quality of teachers. Conderman (2011) reflects on how the implementation of co-teaching’s purpose...
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Teachers are a vital resource in any education system. They are the individuals who guide students in the best practices and curriculum so that they can achieve their academic goals. Students are people who have enrolled themselves in a particular course or institution for the purpose of getting educated and...
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Over the years, educators and researchers have identified a number of teaching methods, each of which is associated with specific advantages and limitations. Dialogic teaching uses the power of constructive dialogue to stimulate students’ thinking and facilitate both their learning and understanding. Unlike more traditional teaching methods which rely on...
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Introduction The subjective and personal framework as an educational professional holds to the social and philosophical foundations of education that incorporate the influences of Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) and B.F. Skinner’s Operant Conditioning theories in creating classroom learning tasks. Further, the underlying intention of incorporating these influences into...
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