PARCC Practice Analysis Essay How would you react if you read about how unique elephant behaviors are? In the articles “Elephants Can Lend a Helping Trunk,” “Elephants Know When They Need a Helping Trunk in a Cooperative Situation,” and “Elephants Console Each Other,” authors Virginia Morell and Joshua Plotnick discuss the high cognition elephants have. They are able to tell when another another elephants needs assistance or if they’re in need of consolation. The authors’ purpose of the…
This stage of the model (Wiggins, 2005, p.14) had me considering the different ways to check students understanding and how they will demonstrate their knowledge and understanding. I used open questioning, class discussion, and cooperative and collaborative learning, to assess students while providing positive feedback as formative assessment (Callcott, Miller &Wilson-Gahan, 2012, p.141) through teacher-directed questioning, observations, and an individual student reflection. Allowing…
else agrees to believe the lie” (Meyer 01:08). In Oates 's “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been”, Arnold friend manipulates the conversation to gain control over Connie and her emotions. Is Connie allowing this to happen? If lying is indeed a cooperative act then why is she allowing a stranger to take such an affluent power over her? We learn later on in the TED talk when Meyer says, “Lying is an attempt to bridge [a] gap, to connect our wishes and our fantasies about who we wish we were,…
making a 108-minute orbital flight in his Vostok 1 spacecraft. Newspapers like The Huntsville Times (right) trumpeted Gagarin's accomplishment. Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space less than a month later. The first cooperative human space flight project between the United States and the Soviet Union took place in 1975. The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project was designed to test the compatibility of rendezvous and docking systems for American and Soviet spacecraft and to…
The most effective professional session that I attended was ten hour multiday training session on Kagan Cooperative Learning Strategies. These sessions were led by two Kagan coaches who presented their material to classroom teachers, specials teachers, and related service providers. This session was effective because the session leader provided activities that were engaging for everyone that was in attendance. The session leader also provided modeling of how to use the strategies. She also made…
I chose that OSHA's Marine 200 program gives interested companies to choose between working with OSHA to decrease injuries and hazards or facing strong enforcement. The employers gained assistance in improving a good safety management programs, and they were provided fewer inspection. However, the inspection will happen if there are complaints about severe accidents. The first advantage of this criteria is decreasing the injury and illness rates by encouraging companies to ensure more safety…
relevant to explaining why independent learning skills are important for student well-being and success because it gives us the language and the mechanisms to explain how independent learning and psychological well-being are linked”. "The State of Cooperative Learning in Postsecondary and Professional…
and practice and the reason why accounting research is so different from teaching accounting. Bloomfield writes that standard setters are necessary for accounting because these bodies are ubiquitous and binding. In addition, accounting is a non-cooperative type of communication. One characteristic of this type of communication is selective silence, where a topic should not be mentioned unless one will look worse by being silent. Another characteristic is selective obsfucation, where one…
This in turn allows for students to have a better viewpoint on their peers. These cooperative learning strategies also make students rely on one another in order to improve each other’s learning. It is important to make sure that these strategies are used frequently in the student’s classes to help build peer relationships. It is also important…
has created an unemployed reserve, which has weakened working union’s bargaining power. A solution to structural employment would be ensuring the wealthy pay their fare of taxes to stimulate social programs, change government spending, promote cooperative businesses within the United States, and expanding the health care system. History has shown us that society benefits when the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes. During the Great Depress, the wealthy were paying up to seventy-percent of…