Higher Learning

multiracial female allowed me to see and experience differences that occur in the classroom such as the halo effect, judging a person on their appearance, and stereotyping. Due to these differences, having an inclusive learning environment is important because it allows the student to meet higher standards while giving each student an equal choice to meet their full potential. The differences mean that I have to build the classroom as one community and make sure that the student is supported and…

discovering self-motivation, adopting lifelong learning, and believing in myself. I scored higher in these areas because I’m all about the future, bettering myself, learning, and goals. I take anything that I do seriously from school, work, personal life and everything else in between. With that being said I am on who takes responsibility for what I do rather it’s good or bad. If I take the responsibility for something that is bad I will move on, but learning something new from that experience.…

removed from public schools, academic performance would worsen because of the affect fine arts have on students. Fine arts hold a whole other world for students, teachers, and parents in many different ways. However, fine arts are not thought of as a learning experience, fine arts are thought of as an easy A or just another extracurricular activity. There is an incalculable amount of benefits that may come from fine arts being taught in public schools. An unknown fact about fine arts is that…

The Frameworks for Teaching evaluates teachers while ensuring teacher quality and promoting professional learning. Danielson spoke of how important it is for an evaluation to be grounded on evidence of a teacher’s quality in multiple areas of teaching. She point out that, “Without such grounding, (in evidence) impressions of teachers’ skills are based entirely on the observer 's’ own idiosyncratic views of teaching and their understandings of what has occurred and what those events mean”…

D’Annunzio-Green N., published in 2013 by Studies in Higher Education, investigates, the transition students take from college courses to direct entry into 2nd and 3rd year degrees at university, how that impacts their future studies and to ascertain information on the factors that helped them to manage and succeed with their studies. The challenge for direct entrant students is adjusting to the different environment of independent learning at university, where students are required to…

First-Grade Student: Achievement in Handstands and Forward Rolls Cues Improve Learning Cognitive concerns are important for early stages of learning for the author of the article, “Critical Cues Help First-Grade Students Achievement in Handstands and Forward Rolls” which research showed that critical cues are necessary to teach motor skills to young students. According to learning theorist, “Purport the early stages of learning motor skills are dominated by cognitive concerns.” In this article,…

Cooperative learning is a teacher-directed teaching method where the students work together to achieve a common task. There are many components to cooperative learning, one of which being student team learning. “STL” is based on three concepts: team rewards, individual accountability, and equal opportunities for success. The six major elements of this model are intentional group formation, continuous group interaction, interdependence of group members, all individuals being accountable, explicit…

Successful educational programming on PBS has led to an expansion of quality digital offerings, curriculum and content to positively impact the learning environment of children, families and educators. A leader in the field of digital education, PBS is always exploring new ways to help children learn – at home, in and out of school and on the go. WEDU PBS offers a wide variety of resources to compliment the work being done by the Tampa Housing Authority and the ConnectHome initiative. DIGITAL…

There are five parts to powerful social studies that promote excellence and true permanent learning. These five parts are all incredibly important aspects of a social studies curriculum that works. Powerful social studies must be meaningful, integrative, value-based, challenging, and active. Each of these parts have distinct purposes individually, but are of even greater value when working together. The first on the list of powerful social studies principles is the concept of making it…

students and the teacher, the student and the learning subject. 3. It has to act on the motivation of the students for learning and on their feeling of competence, in particular by bringing the students to attribute their success to the effort which they will have applied. It is a matter of turning the student into the activator of his/her learning. 4. It has to be metacognitive in order to stimulate the reflection of the students…