Numeracy

Teachers have access to endless amounts of resources to assist them with all different aspects of teaching, such as classroom management, different teaching approaches, and curriculum. A crucial piece of teaching that can positively impact all students, and particularly English Language Learners (ELL), is using model programs that help make lessons more applicable to ELL students. One example of a model program that has shown success is the AppleTree Institute for Education Innovation’s creation…

Music’s Impact on Development: from Beginning to End Laura Halcom DEP 2004 01C Patton 28 October 2015 Abstract Music has been known to affect people throughout their life. Whether it be instrumental or lyrical, both listening to and making music can have profound impacts on development. Music helps infants and children in manners of comfort and learning. As adolescence, music is a key for developing identity and emotional stability. Even as adults, music continues to guide…

by using words like “you can do it, I believe you can do it, don’t be nervous, calm down, feel free to take a break when necessary, Hi five, you did it,” etc. • Person-Centred Theory: with this particular client, I coordinate him when doing his numeracy sheet, readings and spellings; but I ensure that he completes the working himself at his own pace without been rushed. In addition, I focus on how well he does his work even if he did not get through all the sheets assigned for him to work on…

Desistance is the process of an individual having the ability to stop committing crime. In order for a criminal to desist from crime, they themselves must want to change and understand fully the circumstances involved. According to Gottfredson and Hirschi (1990) people who go through the process of desistance often continue to carry out crime but perhaps get others to do the work for them. Desistance is about the individual being able to remove themselves away from crime completely and being…

Reflection and analysis on the project "working together" through Reggio approach Introduction The Reggio Emilia approach is one of the most advanced, innovative, distinctive, coherent, and high quality infant-toddler and preschool approaches in the world. This approach is founded on a evolving set of perspectives such as progressive education, constructivist psychologies, and postwar left-reform politics. It believes that as educators, we should listen to children's needs and there is a…

Reporting and Responding For my Community/Educational Links Program I spent my twenty hours working at a primary school, helping out in a pre-primary class. The focus of my twenty hours was mainly spent with two of the boys in the class. One of the boys was on the Autism Spectrum (Bob*), and the other (Tom*) had high needs, with symptoms of ADHD. I also worked with the other children in the class to help them understand the importance of inclusiveness. (*Children’s names have been changed to…

My chosen area of mathematics is angles in polygons, due to the visual nature of geometry enabling the students to be engaged and stimulated (Chambers & Timlin, 2013). Not only this, but since geometry is present in our everyday lives, students have a basic grasp of shapes, however, they have not developed a critical understanding of what properties define that shape (Bell et al., 1983). This basic foundation knowledge can also cause difficulty when it comes to teaching and learning as the…

Child's Background and Development History Max is a 5-Year-old boy who is actually in Kindergarten. Max has physical which doesn’t affect his learning and learning disabilities. When Max was born mom had difficulties during the pregnancy based on information provided by grandparents. Max live with his grandparents, he also have a baby brother who live with Max’s biological parents. The services provided to Max are occupational and physical therapies and a one to one health paraprofessional who…

After reading and researching I found out that the theorists I originally wrote about in my planning stage were still relevant. By doing further research I found out that there were other theorists which were more compelling. I made a change to one of my objectives as I thought it would be more effective because then I could show the results of what the practitioners views were. Objectives 1) I completed a literature review and I read a lot of books and done research on various websites. I found…

Introduction We are currently being faced with a third industrial revolution comprised by the exponential changes in technology and digital advancement. The past two industrial revolution have created new economic opportunities and have ultimately made the global economy what it is today. Mass jobs have been created, new ideas have spread, and businesses have boomed due to the two main revolutionary advancements in history. The current problem with the technology wave is that there are far too…