As a current student in high school, I am very aware of the controversy towards standardized testing being required for measuring student comprehension. There are those that are completely for it and there are those that are completely against it, there is not an in-between. At the high school that I attend, this is not a constantly discussed and debated issue. The only time that I even hear people discussing this issue is when it is time for our school to take these tests. However, there are…
with. What drives people to achieve their goals or to simply wake up to go to work everyone is motivated by different things. Motivating employees will always be a central concern for people in leadership roles. Most employees need motivation to feel good about their jobs and their overall performance, and then there are the employees who are money driven. When employees are not motivated, they spend very little or no time and effort in their tasks and sometimes avoid showing up to work all…
While the nine classes considered originally began with a total enrolment of approximately 450, students who withdrew midway through the semester or failed to ever attend class are excluded from the results. As a result, there was a very strong positive correlation between the overall scores obtained on the written homework assignments (M = 78.08, SD = 23.07) and the combined exams (M = 72.76 SD = 17.51), with r = 0.71, p < 0.001, N = 375. This is noteworthy given that the exams (which are…
It is true that standardized testing is a good resource, that provides administration as well as the government with a sense of where each student may be with the curriculum. According to former Washington, D.C , schools chancellor Michelle Rhee, “ standardized testing typically accompanied by a set of established standards or instructional framework…
this unit will be planned for an inclusion Social Studies class, in a middle school seventh grade class. Students will be between the ages of eleven to fourteen. Children in this class have disabilities that range from emotional disturbances, Attention Hyperactivity Disorder, ADHD, and dyslexia. Students in have a variety of learning needs. As for reading levels most of the class is below grade level. One student is deemed illiterate, and half of the class is more than two years below reading…
In high schools across America, students are first exposed to the dismaying trend of anti-intellectualism through the concepts of tracking and career placement, political correctness, cultural parallels, educational values, and curriculum standards like Common Core. Disturbing aspects common to this trend are standardization of curricula and a limited point of view when investigating ideas and and drawing conclusions. In many peoples’ opinion, America is turning towards Socialist ideas and…
need to get more rewards for educating the future. This generation and on after need to comprehend to be successful in life. Computer engineering and computer programming is a high paying field but teachers should be rewarded more because they are the ones educating you the skills you need. The pay teachers get compared to some other entry level jobs need to be considered. My teachers work harder than anybody I know they work constantly during the school year if they have 150 students and 3…
Topic I decided to research student motivation for my topic for this assignment. I am a program director and teacher of polysomnography at a private career college in Michigan. It seems over the last year that my students’ motivation to learn has declined. The excitement and enthusiasm did not exist with my 2015 cohort as compared to my 2014 cohort. Looking at this problem objectively, I compared the grades, assignment completions, discussion board, blog, and journal participation rates of both…
In this class Management Issues with Individuals with Disabilities the students were to go out to a school and observe a child who exhibited behavioral issues. This case study will be over what I gathered throughout those 10 weeks of observing. Section A = Legal basis for Behavior Management Planning Between the three sections of legal references for positive behavioral interventions I would have to choose section 2 which states, “ The IEP Team must- In the case of the child whose behavior…
(Woolfolk, 2016).” It is comprised of two parts. The first part is originality. The second part is quality. An outside party, who view the work as good and/or useful, acknowledges the quality of a creative work (Beghetto, 2010). There are three components of creativity (Amabile, 2012). The first component is domain-relevant skills, which is the material used by people to develop possible responses. Domain-relevant skills consist of previous knowledge, intelligence, and talent. The second…