Higher Learning

with many challenges regarding professional learning communities and how they should be implemented into schools. Many schools are utilizing these strategies as a way to improve their schools for the principals, teachers, and students. Although there are many challenges implementing professional learning communities into schools, there are also many successes that provide students with the best education they can receive. Professional learning communities or PLC’s can be defined as a…

It is mid-September, and my service learning information sheet for my Human Behavior class has not been turned in. It has not been a matter of procrastination, time management, nor finding the right place up to my standards to volunteer and work with kids eighteen and under. Unfortunately, my first and preferable choices have specific, time consuming procedures, and with only 8 weeks before my service learning paper must be turned in, starting over was necessary. The Make a Wish Foundation,…

Social interaction with others plays a large part in development and social learning and what the child actually thinks and what they think about (McLeod, 2014). He believes that children are naturally curious about their environment and want to learn, and early learning begins with play (McLeod, 2014). Children retain and organize the information learned to be able to use the information to perform the task while learning. The more that the lesson is performed, the more…

Quality Code for Higher Education (QCHE, 2015), which determines the standards HEIs must meet and stipulates that HEI must provide students with appropriate opportunities to demonstrate the fulfilment of ILOs for credit or qualification awarded. The QC for HE Chapter B6: Assessment of achievement of learning outcomes (QCHE, 2015) also states that "Higher education providers operate equitable, valid and reliable processes of assessment, including for the recognition of prior learning, which…

write a summary of the significant elements of Practice, Homework and Identifying Similarities and Differences integrating concrete examples and/or non-examples from your teaching practice. Homework and practice go hand to hand when students are learning on their own and applying new concepts. As mentioned and described by Marzano, and according to the information provided in the two articles homework and practice are fundamental practices to enhance student achievement. Several elements are…

helped you learn those things? In this class, two of the most important things I learned are communication and higher order thinking. The build your own house unit, was a different project that normally I wouldn’t do in any of my other classes. Throughout the project we encountered obstacles such as all the calculations, however, my group and I used our problem solving skills and a higher order of thinking to fix and resolve the Issues by dividing the work and having our paper neatly laid out…

students will face outside of school, they will work with peers to critically think and understand the challenge and solve the problem they are faced with. This approach to active learning allows students to retain what they learn and how it can be used in real world application. How should learning be measured? Measuring learning is probably the most difficult task for a teacher. However the common theme of this paper has been how are schools preparing students for the outside world. How the…

Children develop language in many different settings and in many different ways. Children’s interactions with their surrounding environment plays a big part in learning language. Language for children and for adults is a way of communicating as well as a way to understand themselves and their world. This essay will look at how children aged 0-2 years develop language. More specifically this essay will focus on how language can be learnt and developed through different types of interactions, the…

has the words written. Therefore, students are able to see the spelling of the word, which would benefit all students, especially students with strong visual learning skills. Lastly, these strategies helps students think about all aspects of the word and create their own personal connection with the word. Thus, students are learning higher order thinking skills while completing the Vocab-O-Gram. In conclusion, numerous words in the story, “Big Cat,” by Lynnette Evans make the story difficult for…

traditional public schools, private schools, charter schools, and Montessori schools. Education is one of the most important parts of all of our lives. While education has such an impact on all of our lives and our future, some of the most important learning happens when someone is in their childhood. Children make up 20% of our population, but are 100% our future. Although every school has its strong points, Montessori schools seem to be preparing their students the most for the future.…