Metacognition

America’s Education system has transformed into a world in which cultural pluralism has taken over the classroom. Multicultural education is a broad term that encompasses: race, culture, gender, and social class. This perspective poses many challenges for current educators and draws upon previous ideologies. According to the Michigan Sociological Review, “The multicultural perspective represents an ideology involving justice, social fairness, and equality for all” (p. 52). While this…

development is the stage of formal operational thought, which includes the use of different perspectives, logical thinking, and ability to reflect internally (Berk, 2010). A child in the formal operational stage will exhibit behaviors such as the use of metacognition or awareness of thoughts, understanding of abstract ideas, generating solutions to possible problems, and planning ahead, while demonstrating a goal-oriented attitude (Berk, 2010). The patient is appropriately developed…

Introduction Whereas some understanding about creativity and its importance in education exists, many questions remain. For example, while individual aptitudes have been explored as academic outcome predictors (Alloway & Alloway, 2010; Noftle & Robins, 2007), their relationship to creativity lays at the fringes of academic research (Plucker, Beghetto, & Dow, 2004). Although it is considered a higher-order cognitive skill (McWilliam & Dawson, 2008; Perkins, 1990; Sternberg, 2006 Yang, Wan, &…

Even though while technology is helpful to people in and out the classroom, teachers should monitor the amount of mobile technology in the classroom, because mobile technology makes it easy to look up answer for assignments and test on the internet, and it takes their intelligence away because no one is learning the material or gaining skills. Technology helps Students and teachers in the classroom because as we sail through the 21st century, technology in the classroom are becoming more…

Component A Expected learner outcome: This lesson plan is designed for year 7 students and introduces the concept of variables / pronumerals, like and unlike terms in algebra ("Mathematics Years 7-10 Syllabus," 2003, p. 82-83). By the end of this lesson students should be able to distinguish between like and unlike terms and know how to perform an addition or subtraction involving these terms. Describe the lesson: In this lesson, the teacher introduces the concept of variables and develops the…

According to Domenech et al. (2016), personalization has become the hallmark of exemplary schools. One of the essentials in a personalized curriculum is flexibility. Innovations Early College High School in Salt Lake City, Utah provides a perfect example of how flexibility is beneficial to learning. Student can begin their day as early as 7:00 a.m. and stay as late as 5:00 p.m. Each student’s schedule is customized to meet his or her individual needs. Students progress through a…

Moreover, receiving vaccines on time had a full-scale IQs, stuttered less, and had a higher verbal performance. They also scored better on the teacher Connor’s ratings for inattentiveness and hyperactivity, grooved pegboard, Boston Naming Test, and metacognition. Through theses analyses, there was no statistical differences favoring the least timely group. “Timely vaccination during infancy has no adverse effect on neuropsychological outcomes 7 to 10 years later (1134).” Nnotwithstanding with…

All this while, lecturers were trained on how to teach with various instructional strategies. Now, this university is progressively moving towards student centred teaching and lecturers need to be re-trained to focus further on students’ learning. Hence, Lecturer e-Training Programme (LeP) was designed and implemented. The results show that Stage 3: Face-to-Face Action Learning, has the highest significant impact on the lecturers’ preparation for student centred teaching. On this stage,…

Introduction I would describe myself as an engineering enthusiast, and have wanted to create things ever since I can remember. While it’s really hard to pin-point exactly why I’ve always wanted to become an engineer. I love the engineers give a purpose to mathematics and science, and use them to create the tools of our world. I want to experience the intellectual challenges engineers face. Engineers are paid well, and encouraged by everyone to solve the biggest problems of today. This report…