Elementary and primary schools

name. Purposefully ostracizing someone from a group or group activities is a form of bullying known a social alienation. Threatening a person in order to elicit a desired reaction or response is a form the bullying known as intimidation. The grade school occurrence of taking a student’s lunch money by threatening violence upon them is a prime example of intimidation. For many people, acts of intimidation and alienation can be even more detrimental to a victim’s mental state than direct forms…

often begins with resistance and before confidence in its worthiness is achieved, there is often anxiety and frustration. But in the end, change is growth. Aspen Heights Elementary School is located in Red Deer, Alberta, a town found halfway between the cities Edmonton and Calgary, right in the middle of Canada 's oil country. The school is located in a low income area and many of the children are from single parent households. Many teachers at Aspen Heights, such as Milt Williams, Allan Baile,…

Susan Ohanian has a crystal clear opinion on educational standards: they don’t work. In her book, “One Size Fits Few,” Ohanian shares this point-of-view with plenty of personal experience, research and case studies to back her up. The title alone says so much: there is no “one size” when it comes to education. “Standardistos,” as she refers to them, all seem to agree that a standardized education system would make things easier. However, this group of people, be them fellow educators,…

Learning in school was difficult when I was younger because I struggled with being moved from different schools. As I grew older, I would start to think about my future career and goals. Including thinking about going to colleges, but knowing it will be tough financially. One of the biggest struggles I have had is changing schools often. When I was in elementary and junior high school my mother would be switching me from one school to another. I would not be stable in only one school. It had…

learning at the middle school level. Having a vast knowledge about middle school philosophy, development of adolescents, role of family and community, and role of the educator are important factors in understanding middle school education. Knowing not only these factors but also how they impact students is crucial for effective learning to take place at the middle school level. When examining the middle school philosophy and history, we can learn where middle schools started and…

teachers to develop their professional skills in arts and make their practice of teaching more effective and attractive. Several researchers such as (Armstrong, 2000; Baum, Viens, & Slatin, 2005) have highlighted the fact that the confidence of the elementary teachers are boosted…

a truck will when it’s stuck on a hole. Well let me tell you a story where I know that at that point you have been proven wrong. I know that everyone in this world deserves to be cheerful and grateful for the things they have. When I was in elementary school, I always had the struggle to find friends. I never had any close friends where I can trust them deeply and tell them about my personal life. My dream was to…

From starting at my elementary school John F. Peeler all the way to graduating Mountain View College it has been a journey for me. Many events in my adolescent life have molded the student I am today and the person I plan to be in the future. Higher education has improved my life because I lacked it as a young man when I committed awful deeds through peer pressure. Many losses have happened in my life that I couldn’t control which contributed to not knowing myself, however going through certain…

Elementary Grouping; a Disadvantage for the Majority Labels and ability grouping help determine a student’s future. A label can give a student an unfair advantage or disadvantage. Let me tell you about two second grade students. Both student A and student B have straight A’s, but yet there are some slight differences. Student B has a slight reading disability and a speech disorder. Does this mean student A is smarter than student B? Well, in the eyes of this particular school, student A is…

The last one I found that I need to improve everything when it comes to writing in general. I have two problems; First is every time I am going to write something I always think about the subject in Spanish and that is a big problem because in Spanish is different from English. Everything is backward and the verbs and transitions are very different. That makes it more difficult for me because I have to go back and try to make sense on what I am writing. The second problem that I have is, that…