Introduction The saying “children are the future” resonated as a young child to an adult with young children and working with young children. Children are our future and as teachers there is a commitment to help shape them for the future. What is meant by shape? Not to force them to learn, but to allow them to learn and appreciate the learning process. As they mature, they can use their skills and creativity to convey new ideas to the world. Starting a child’s education at a younger age is…
What causes income inequality has always been a very challenging question. In fact, education has been argued to be one of the leading factor influencing income inequality. Though, most researchers agree on the importance of education as a reason, still some theoretical studies question it. Earlier work from Ram (1989) shows, education is closely related to income distribution in advanced developed countries. Becker and Chiswick (1996) (using panel sets in the United States) suggest a positive…
There is a growing body of literature that recognises the importance of coaching and mentoring (C&M) in a workplace. For example, the UK Home Office spent 10 million per annum on mentoring for young offenders (Garvey, 2011). Essentially, the nature of coaching and mentoring can be said to be similar. Connor and Pokora (2012) affirms that both activities share the many of the same practices, applications and values. As a result, defining and differentiating them can be difficult as “we are in the…
Francis Willard Elementary School is located in a Urban city called Arkansas City, Kansas which is located about 20 miles north of the Oklahoma border and 45 minutes away from the big town Wichita Kansas. The population in this town is approximately 12,00- 12,500 . This city is in between low income and middle income families the average income is about 35,000 whereas the state as Kansas income is around 50,000 according to the data city. As not only can you tell that Arkansas City is low income…
The UN has recently drafted a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that they aim to achieve by 2030 in different fields such as energy. Indeed, the UN aims to “ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all” (Proposal for Sustainable Development Goals: Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform). Are targets measurable? 7.1 This target can be measured by combining both population and energy consumption data. That way, an energy consumption per capita unit…
The article I have chosen is titled, “The Critical Importance of Retrieval for Learning,” with the study conducted and written by, Jeffrey D. Karpicke and Henry L. Roediger III. It has been said that learning is considered complete if a student can provide the correct answer to a question. The basic idea of the experiment was to have students learn foreign vocabulary words through the process of repeated study-test trials. The goals of their conducted study were one, to examine the…
Although having full day kindergarten may be too costly from people’s pockets who may not have children or a need for the full day kindergarten program, in the end it’s a positive investment for Ontario schooling to make. “In September 2010, the Ontario government began phasing in full-day kindergarten for four- and five-year-olds. In the first year, nearly 600 schools offered full-day kindergarten, with the number of schools increasing every year.” (Full day kindergarten” 2013) Full day…
1) Review your notes/answers from the midterm exam. Below, list and explain the 10 most important takeaways for you from reading these two articles. (10 pts) My 10 most important takeaways from the readings are the following: 1-6 Ecology of the gym The overall interaction between the vectors, when they match and when they differ The best way to describe the difference between the primary and secondary vector is comparing them to an orchestra performance; with the primary vector as the…
The study area, as identified in assignment one, is VCE computing unit 1, learning outcome 3, which emphasises heavily on the design and development stages of the PSM. In order to teach this, a teacher needs to have a strong grasp of the design principles, web development and project management. The learning areas I have identified are connected to the learning requirements of my recent placement: The immediate areas that I need to learn and update are highlighted (in red) in the curriculum map,…
The way we teach and the way we learn has long been debated and researched. From the development of the IQ test and of SATs our focus has been on assessing intelligence, but it raises the question of what intelligence actually is and what methods of teaching best develop and extend a child’s learning. Subjects cannot truly be taught in isolation, they need to blend and merge as pupils question and connect ideas and thoughts together. Neither can they be taught effectively within the confines of…