ESL learners need to be taught about the concept of minimal pairs since, being new to the language, ESL students are likely to confuse or conflate the words that only have one minor difference between them. Thus, the use of an exercise that could shed light on the difference between...
The play has been identified to be an exceptionally accurate method of identifying the needs of children who suffer from both physical and psychological disabilities. This is mainly because of its ability to engage the child on a more personal level to a point where his or her inherent characteristics...
Culture plays a huge role in any person’s life and heavily affects the way of how he or she perceives other individuals. Similar to any other people, educators may sometimes fail to understand that the norms of their native culture are not universal and applicable to all students. It may...
Child development is an extremely complex process that involves a long sequence of physical, language use, cognitive, emotional, and psychological changes allowing the child to gain knowledge and master new skills needed to become more independent from adults. Traumatic experiences often have a detrimental impact on developing learners, and it...
Groups are a basic part of social life. A group exists when two or more people define themselves as members of it and when its survival is familiar to at least one other. Workgroup means “Two or more individuals who routinely function like a team, are interdependent in the achievement...
This type of learning has had a number of leaders; most notable of all is the progenitor Jerome Bruner. Born in 1915, he was an American psychologist, who contributed immensely to developing the theory of cognitive psychology in educational psychology. His main ideas revolved around a theory he formed and...
Professional development is a systematic strengthening, improvement, expansion of the range of skills and knowledge, and personal qualities necessary for pursuing a career. If specialists are not trained, over time, all their knowledge becomes obsolete. It is necessary for an individual to be an excellent specialist with high payment in...
Educational Objective: To enable the learner to understand, recall, comprehend, analyze, synthesize, evaluate and apply concepts related to team teaching. Knowledge: The learner is able to recall principles and theories connected with team teaching. Comprehension: The Learner “grasps the meaning behind the information and interprets, translates, or comprehends the information.”...
Modern research in the sphere of education has gone far beyond prescriptive recommendations on how to present specific material. Instead, today’s context of teaching concerns one’s ability to revolutionize the means of education, especially when it comes to theoretically bound subjects like math. Thus, the first way to apply critical...
Over the course of educating young children, it has already been established that interdisciplinarity plays a significant role in terms of developing kids’ critical perception of reality and creativity. However, despite the widespread use of a cross-disciplinary curriculum, many educators still draw a distinct line between STEM (science, technology, engineering,...
Since children who are under 16 years cannot be vaccinated against COVID, there is a need to ensure that as they get back to school for the year 2021-2022, the school environment will be conducive to learning with minimal spread of COVID among the students. This project develops an optimized...
Civic activism is an essential phenomenon in the modern world, and students can benefit significantly from incorporating it into their college education. On the one hand, it refers to the fact that these activities help students improve the conditions of the whole education system. For example, if they see that...
Since the approach to kids should be different if the coach expects to reach the best possible results, the first step would be to avoid criticism by all means and focus on praising the children’s stronger suits. Every team member is giving their best effort to become a better soccer...
According to Kalra et al., implicit learning and memory represent the field of human capabilities that can be activated without a response from a person’s awareness. There is a huge difference between implicit and explicit types of learning and memory, since a variety of brain systems are engaged in the...
When studying for exams, many students are wondering if the capacity of their memory could be increased to help them person remember everything they need for the upcoming test. Due to the inherent plasticity of the human brain, it may be possible to expand memorizing capabilities in a timely manner...
Craig McCaw, his wife Susan, and the Seattle school superintendent Stanford McCaw initiated the Team Read program because they believed that all students deserved to be readers. The initiative targets the poor, underprivileged students who have difficulties reading, affecting their overall performance in school. Therefore, analyzing the Read Team program’s...
The Industrial Pedagogical Institute in Tuskegee for African Americans was founded, where students received secondary education for future work in the industry. In his speech, Washington stated that “we began teaching wheel righting and blacksmithing in a small way to the men, laundry work, cooking and sewing, and housekeeping to...
It is part of the teacher’s professional practice to act ethically toward the indigenous Canadian children and their kin. The ethical mandate entails creating teaching programs that are inclusive for each person. The job also entails making sure that all the families are treated with a high level of dignity...
Writing skills are an integral part of communication. Excellent writing skills are dependent on good grammar, proper punctuation, a captivating introduction, and well-structured statements. Grammar and punctuation are vital as they enable one to communicate their intended message with clarity and ease. Distinctly, punctuation plays an essential role in writing....
The nature of pedagogy and andragogy presents two types of learners with unique attributes and characteristics. First, the pedagogical learner will depend on the instructor or teacher to achieve the intended learning aims while the andragogical student depends on the self. The pedagogical learner will collaborate with the educator to...
Andragogy is a teaching model and strategy aimed at meeting the educational demands of mature learners. This concept could be considered as holistic because it entails the application of science and promotion of practice to empower adults. The consideration of the process is necessary in an effort to improve the...