The objective of this 30 minute professional development workshop is to inform pre-service undergraduate teachers of useful strategies and interventions that may be useful in their classrooms. The intended goal is to provide research-based assessment strategies that will improve literacy proficiency in their students. Teacher preparation programs teach theory therefore, the teachers do not have the hands-on experience they need. By having this workshop and future workshops to keep teachers…
Professor Batorsky WRT 101 11/30/2016 Brain Development Does the question " Why is he/she smarter than me? " brush through your mind whenever you see that someone always gets better grades than you do? Brain development is affected by certain factors that include both physiological as well as environmental. However, the influence of these factors must be equalized for maximum brain…
Department of Health & Human Services, during 2011, approximately 680,000 children were victims of maltreatment. With these facts, two studies have been conducted. One, to observe the degree to which abused and neglected children perform criminal violence, child abuse, and intimate partner violence in and outside of homes. The second, to determine whether the mistreatment of children leads to an increased risk for poly-violence perpetration. Children up to the age of 11 with documented histories…
psychologist to make a systemic study of cognitive development. He was a very talented scholar and his first scientific paper, on the Albino Sparrow published at the age of ten. After he received his doctoral degree at the age of twenty-two, Piaget formally began his career that would have a profound impact on psychology and education. Today, Piaget is best known for his research on children’s cognitive development. He studied the intellectual development of his own three children and created a…
very difficult because the recipient’s body can reject the transplant and then complications follow. With cloning an individual, there will be an exact donor for the transplant and the body will not reject the new organ. It will increase the success rate of transplanting organs exponentially and will make it easier to…
Cocaine is a substance that has been around for many years and still remains highly abused today. Cocaine is the psychoactive agent found in coca plants. Coca is one of the first, most compelling and most dangerous drugs of natural origin. It is used medically as an anesthetic and as an illegal drug. During the 1980’s cocaine use was at its finest. It was the preferred drug of use for the wealthy and acclaimed and was part of what some called a captivating life the “Champagne of Drugs”.…
psychosexual stages, Maria Montessori with her theory of the planes of development, and lastly, John Piaget with his theory of cognitive development. Sigmund Freud traversed the depths of the human mind unlike anyone else in history. He was a pioneer of developmental psychology. Freud believed that if we explain our behaviors to others, we do not tell the full…
the viewpoints of two acclaimed theorists Piaget and Vygotsky taking their stances on whether development is self-taught (Piaget) or culturally aided (Vygotsky), who were both massively influential in establishing a scientific approach to analyzing the process of cognitive development and active construction of knowledge in children. Both Piaget and Vygotsky agreed that children 's cognitive development took place in stages. (Jarvis, Chandler 2001 P.149). However they were distinguished by…
different but related types of disorders (American Psychiatric Association [APA], n.d.). Symptoms that manifest in patients are usually varying in aspects and seriousness, resulting in different levels of impacts in their social life and academic development. This essay demonstrates the writer’s understanding of ASD, with an emphasis on adolescents, and some common teaching and organisational strategies to be adopted in mainstream secondary schools. Autism, Asperger’s syndrome and pervasive…
context, taking into account biology, psychological processes, sociological context, environmental impacts and political climate (Green, 2010). These factors cumulatively impact on an individuals ability to function on a daily basis, and shape development through the life course. Taking a more ecological approach (Germain & Gitterman, 1980), the life model considers the interactions and transitions between the individual and their environment and aims to enrich this relationship. Using this…