Curricula

problem seems emanated from the nursing education and curriculum development. The researchers found that nurses, who were involved in professional nurse education program development, distanced themselves from developing computing clinical practice curricula compared to physician training program. Nursing education is more focused on theory “rhetorical moves to the dangerous irrationalism of intuitive practice or with the strict and possibly disempowering following of procedures” (Traynor et…

The SIOP Model is advertised as a solution to the problem. There are other structured learning curriculums but marketing and branding of the SIOP Model has pushed it to the forefront of curricula selection by many districts. Generally speaking, it appears that the SIOP Model sends the basic message that when it comes to making decisions about instruction, the teachers’ professional judgement is not to be trusted. The SIOP Model tightly controls…

This refers to the difference between a learner's ability to perform a task independently versus with guidance. The project method is one of the modern methods of teaching in which the student’s point of view is given importance in designing the curricula and content of studies. Teaching strategy refer to the method used by the teachers to help students learn the desired course contents. This identifies different available learning methods to enable the teachers to develop the right strategy to…

to be competent in responding to these changes. Changes in the healthcare environment have stimulated the need to increase the content in nursing programs; however, the Institute of Medicine (2003) cites that content saturation, “overly crowded curricula” (p. 38), is one of many challenges of health education reform facing nurse educators…

The Brown v. Board of Education is one of the most influential Supreme Court cases in American history, because it not only expunged the “separate but equal” doctrine, raised in the Plessy v. Ferguson case, in regards to education, but it also changed the course of American history. In arguing this case, it was incredibly difficult and seemingly impossible to change the minds of the Supreme Court Justices in regard to race relations and segregation. In order to do successfully do so, they had to…

I was thinking that observation is one of most important elements in teaching young children. Even if I knew that it is important, I did not know the methods and skills to observe the children. By spending time in the classroom every week doing observations helped me a lot to practice and gain the right skills to observe a child. I was able to catch more behaviors in children that I have not noticed before because I was more cautious and tried to see in details of children’s behaviors.…

The aesthetic approach suggests music is understandable by all humans and there is no in-depth training required to understand the inherent human qualities of music. In line with this, Alcodia (2012) stated that one does not need to be a music major in order to teach music and movement to young children. She strongly emphasized that teachers should keep themselves abreast to be familiarized with the modern approaches in teaching music. The paraxial approach emphasizes that humans must be engaged…

The issues that in our present day public education system are, unfortunately, not extremely different from the issues of over a century ago. As our societal expectations have shifted over the years, the points of equity and equality continuously remain at the forefront of education’s challenges. From America’s construction of the public education system in the early 1800’s, reform acts have been a part of the game and have historically been influenced by those in power. From political leaders…

international connections between students, galleries and artists along with teaching the next generation of creative practitioners about Japanese culture. This will introduce a much-needed alternative to the often highly Eurocentric undergraduate curricula in Britain. The JET Programme’s focus on internationalisation, language tuition, and opportunity to have first-hand experience of Japanese life make it ideal for achieving these goals. Though I am only just…

The National Council on Family Relations is fundamentally the leading professional association for the multidisciplinary comprehension of families. Their members’ interests, are different from their careers as well as their background. However, they are primarily focused on subject matters and attempts that produce a usual benefit, which is, understanding and strengthening families (NCFR, 2017). The National Council on Family Relations was established in the year 1938. It is an unbiased,…