Educational psychology

codified as IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act), No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and the required adequate yearly progress (AYP), students are being served in various ways and the United States is striving to improve the quality of the educational practices and academic outcomes for students with disabilities (Palmer, 2015 and Stoutjesdijk, Scholte, & Swaab, 2012). In an attempt to meet the mandates of NCLB and IDEA, educators must address impediments to special education student’s…

In an inclusive classroom, there are always going to be some challenges the teacher must face when implementing different adaptations. Inclusive classrooms involve children who are ether typical developing or atypical developing. All types of children are involved in learning to work together and learn through different techniques. When having to make certain adaptations for specific students, some challenges can develop. One of the adaptions Ms. Diaz had to make was to provide a corner…

My Philosophy of Education Children are our future leaders. Because of this, I believe that teachers should expect great things from all students. I believe that all students can learn when they are given the tools they need to be successful. I believe that students should be expected to learn and develop authentic skills that are imperative to be successful members of a community. I believe it is important to instill the value of diligence and dedication in a child regarding their…

“Always treat books like gold.” “Never settle for the mediocre.” “Best effort doesn’t always mean giving 100%,” To this day, these little nuggets of wisdom are the first to resurface whenever I think about the different teachers and mentors who have poured into my life over the years. The educators who said these words are people who have influenced me in ways that I am still discovering and have helped me grow into who I am today. While these phrases may seem a bit cliché, they have…

form of recreational reading material to a form of a genre of literature. Some high schools even start to use them as necessary educational tool in classroom. Bring graphic novels into high school curriculums to support teacher education is a highly charged issue and has been debated in a long time. In many experiments, graphic novels which are described as “educational heavyweights” have demonstrated their merits in teaching teen students in literature class (Jonathan 47). Visual literature…

In “Disliking Books” (an excerpt from the 1993 book, Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education) Gerald Graff tells his story about growing up as a middle-class Jew in Chicago (22). He grew up disliking and fearing literature, history, and other advanced books. His explanation for his disdain towards reading was his fear of being bullied by the other boys in the working-class. Reading at the time was only acceptable for girls. When entering college, he…

Service Learning Reflection Through my service learning experience in libs 3000 I have had the opportunity to learn invaluable classroom techniques and procedures that could only be learned through observation and practice. The service learning experience also offers future teachers a crucial resource to becoming good teachers. Additionally this experience allows those volunteering to see a different perspective on what teaching entails and if it is truly the path they will continue to follow.…

The world is composed of more than seven billion individuals. With a large number of inhabitants on Earth, people are bound to have differences between each other. An area where diversity can be observed among individuals is in their ability to learn information efficiently and effectively. A publication from North Carolina State University called Learning Styles and Strategies written by Richard Felder and Barbra Soloman, discusses various learning styles and strategies that people use in…

Asesores could be defined as “curriculum specialists appointed to oversee specific educational programs; math, Spanish, religion, sciences, social studies, nutrition, counseling, preschool education and special education.”. The assessment of the education of the students, teachers, and curriculum provides evidence that education is paramount in Costa Rica’s small democratic society. The downfalls of the asesores in the education system in Costa Rica are: the lack of transportation and the…

The purpose of the current study is to examine how standardized language assessment affects Chinese young learners’ motivation for second language learning. Adopting the L2 Motivational Self System as the theoretical framework, this survey-based research uses two sets of questionnaires among 6th-grade test takers of MSEET in a Chinese urban city. This study uses a pre-test questionnaire to elicit 6th-grade young learners’ self-perceptions about how their L2 motivation has been influenced by…