Gifted education

for helping people become the best they can be. The education levels required vary depending upon the career path an individual chooses. The different career paths may be: a private practitioner, professor, military, or working for an NCAA institution. Depending upon an individual’s specialties one may work with various kinds of people, and can influence one’s salary. An individual looking at Sports Psychology will need to look into the education and training needed, employment outlook, career…

enrollment (approximately 500 students), particularly students from non-English speaking background (9%) (See Figure 37). Enrollment is critical to a school reputation. Generally speaking, the choice a school that parents make for their children’s education is based on a school’s reputation for academic quality, curriculum, location and etc. A higher student enrollment may in large part indicates the school reputation within the community. Considering an increasing number of immigrants locating…

critical in shaping our idea of public education…

the 1820s all the way up to the 1920s about childhood, education, and family. Excerpts from the authors autobiography concerning education in particular show the evolution of the education system in England as the school system became more accessible, standardized, and less reliant on religious Sunday schools for a formal education while maintaining some aspects such as corporal punishment. The earliest of the excerpts shows the formal education in the 1820s when the industrial revolution was…

America for decades, but it’s clear that there are many flaws in the system. 1.2 million American students drop out of high school every year (DoSomething.org). Even more students have enrolled in what are known as “alternative schools”: modes of education other than public schooling (Guthrie 82). Obviously, there is something these alternative schools have that public schools do not. Several of these alternative schools implement something known as the ILP – or the Individualized Learning Plan.…

social studies. According to assessment information on the Georgia Department of Education Website, the Milestone assessment includes open-ended constructed responses in mathematics and language arts, a writing component within the language arts assessment, and norm-referenced items in all content areas (Georgia Milestone Assessment System, 2015). The Georgia Milestone Assessments were developed by the Department of Education in partnership with countless stakeholders, including teachers. The…

success by spending more time on studying. The more effort students make in studying, the more reward they will get. For example, students could improve their writing skill by keeping practice. Furthermore, people are born differently. Some people are gifted, while others are ordinary. Although some students are talent, other students can compete with them by hard…

and Support Consortium (InTASC) Model Core Teaching Standards is a required guide of standards that models what a highly-qualified teacher is required to teach, that helps trains and develop a learning environment for students to obtain a proper education and to assist teachers with keeping their jobs (InTASC, April 2011). Based on my review of the InTASC there are key terms that I feel are very important to help in the development of an effective teacher. These key terms are group into four…

Using tracking I can identify what methods of instruction best work for each student and personalize an education to each of these individual. Plenty of people take a stand against tracking as they believe that this method can victimize specific individuals who are falling behind or who do not understand. The targeting of tracking is not used in a poor way to…

continued to focus on her academics and through her own perseverance and with the encouragement and support of Mrs. Little and Mr. Braxton, she succeeds academically in a school where the dropout rate was 50%. For Oliva, and the others enrolled in the gifted magnet program at Crenshaw, they found a place where they could share her love of learning with the others and connect to them in a deeper way then just through shared struggles of their life experiences, a place that felt like family.…