Pre-kindergarten

PALS is a state-provided literacy screening tool that assesses a child’s literacy comprehension. It is currently used by 99% of Virginia school districts and is used for students in Pre-Kindergarten through 3rd grade. This data will be provided to BBBSHR by the mentee’s school upon entry of the program and again the following school year. The student’s core grade point average on a 4.0 scale will also be collected. It is comprised of individual…

Conscious discipline teaches the skills to develop emotional intelligence, which is the ability to identify, assess, and manage emotions to better communicate, solve problems and build relationships. For this study more than two hundred pre-kindergarten through 6th grade teachers from four elementary schools and four early childhood centers completed training and implemented Conscious Discipline into their classroom. The results showed that by implementing this system into classrooms a more…

I was once read somewhere that “money, like emotions, is something you must control to keep your life on the right track.” You might be wondering how can I compare money and emotions. It was a point in my life that I had nowhere to lay my head or put food on my stomach because my family didn’t have any money. My mother would always say “don’t worry about what were are going through just focus on your school work, to avoid situations like this, don’t have babies early, you have plenty of time for…

One main reason Eleanor Roosevelt became interested in helping the handicapped, was when her husband Franklin became ill with polio in 1921.It was the hardest time of life from that moment on (1921-1945). Talking about Eleanor and her work with the handicapped cannot be done without mentioning and extraordinary man who has done astonishing things throughout his life. One man in particular comes to mind and his name is Henry Viscardi. Henry Viscardi was a man born with underdeveloped leg…

Australia currently stands 15th on the education world wide rankings and is constantly being overtaken by more successful countries such as Germany, Denmark, Poland and Ireland. In 2015, Australia’s PISA (Program for international student assessment) scores for English, Maths and Science scores have all decreased and was outperformed by nine countries. East Asian countries are continuing to outperform all other countries with South Korea having the best education system in the world. Around 50…

Her father had ordered the family never to speak to her, leading to the gross underdevelopment of her Broca’s and Werinicke’s area—the language centers of the pre-frontal cortex. The lack of stimulation in these speech centers caused irreparable damage. By the age of thirteen, Genie had no real capacity to learn language. This phenomena of severely decreased ability to learn something as someone ages is called a “critical period.” Something is expected to develop within this time and if it does…

Most of our school systems revolve around academics and yet, it is extremely poor of what kids need. From Pre-Kindergarten to University, I truthfully believe our school system of education is deeply overvalued. Students like myself aren’t the only ones displeased about the education system, at least one third of mothers and fathers are dissatisfied with standards at local schools and there is no wonder why. If you ask any child, kindergartner or 8th grader what they disliked most about school,…

Once I was old enough to join my sisters at the Montessori school, I went there for my second year of pre-school. By the end of this year my oldest sister was in the fourth grade and my mom could not find a middle school with a strong enough education for her, so she decided to home school all three of us. During my kindergarten year as a true homeschooler my mom found a virtual school that would guide her through teaching us in a more effective way with a curriculum…

This theoretical Underpinnings paper analyses how I will teach what I am planning to teach, and also what makes this lessons interdisciplinary, differentiated, and what makes them moderate to high cognitive complexity. During my lessons, my main focus was keeping knowledge alive on the students. According to Doll, romance is the early period of fresh exploration when the joy of the new, the zest of undisciplined exploration are dominant. During my lessons, keeping knowledge alive was essential…

stage one as various reading difficulties emerges throughout each year. The U.S. Department of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences (2009) has listed the main learning context in which students from each stage should be focusing on: In kindergarten, students are focusing on phonemic awareness, letter sounds, listening comprehension, vocabulary development (Lennon and Slesinski, 1999). Year one students would focus on phonemic awareness (Ehri, 2007), phonics (Gunn, 2000), Fluency…