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SIU Head Start The Southern Illinois Head Start program is funded through a federal grant which serves income eligible children from three to five years of age. My main goal for choosing SIU Head Start for my practicum was to get experience with small children in a classroom setting. My other goal was to understand how nutrition is involved with the SIU Head Start program. The idea of having direct teaching experience with small children compelled me to choose SIU Head Start for my practicum…

Changing high school start times is beneficial to student’s health and well being. Many teens only get 6-7 hours of sleep per night due to strenuous school work, although these teens need 8.5 to 9.5 hours of sleep per night. In many cases it is not easy for teens to get this much sleep because many teens are unable to fall asleep before 11pm out of habit. “Adolescents’ brains are wired to go to sleep late and wake up late, making it difficult for them to get a good night’s sleep before a 7:30 am…

in the United States. It seems that many people would be affected in a good way by the school being closed at a later time. There are many components and reasons why schools should start at a later time, but yet still there are many opposing viewpoints on this topic. School should start at a later time because later start times will benefit a teenager's sleep pattern, with many other benefits following. School times being delayed shows that the attendance rate will go up. Many…

Let's first start with Italy. Why did the Renassiance start in Italy? One major reason was Italy's location and political situation. Its city-states were on the Mediterranean Sea, which were perfect centers for trade and banking. Because of the ports and the fact that the Holy Roman Empire basically had lost all its power, the leading families, bankers and merchants quickly grew rich and powerful. These people then paid artists to make paintings, providing them with neccessities so they could…

Why School Should Start Later Many teens have died from accidents resulting in school starting early in the morning. A leading cause of death is car accidents, car accidents can be caused by a number things including sleep deprivation. For many new drivers / teenagers, drowsy driving is the cause of many accidents. Some adolescents who get out of school at 3:00 p.m. or earlier have plenty of free time to do anything they want until the work day ends. Also sleep deprivation can increase…

School Start Times Teenagers today face an extensive long-term health problems, but one big problem is sleep deprivation. Teenaers need at least 9 ¼ hours of sleep per night causing teens to be among the least likely to get enough sleep. They tend to only get on average seven hours per night on school nights due to homework and afternoon and before school activities.Sleep deprivation impairs the ability to be alert, pay attention, solve problems, and retain information. Students who are in…

Starting classes at middle school and high schools no earlier than 8:30 a.m. would help teens arrive alert, healthy and ready to learn, U.S. sleep medicine specialists say (Lehman, 2017). Schools should start later to ensure the success of its students. Some might argue students shouldn't start school later because it could make classes shorter. While this could be true, school ending time can be pushed back to accommodate an…

wake up for school your body won't work properly. You will be all lazy,tired,and most likely not paying attention in class. Which equals bad grades and no success whatsoever. Tired teenagers make depression,anxiety,and illness.Some schools start at 7:00 AM which is early,but we could make school later. It would make teenagers less cranky in school.With bad attitudes more likely to cause danger all because of tiredness. People may think their mean when sometimes all they really need is…

Should school start school later, yes because young adults need more sleep. Waking up early causes lack of sleep and can mess up a person’s health said by Later School Mornings. It shows that adolescents who don’t get enough sleep are more likely to be overweight, not engage in daily physical activity, and possibly perform poorly in school. Out of my class only 3/15 people agree that school should start later than normal. They think that it should start and end earlier. My question to the other…

Actually Awake Now It's almost like we are becoming nocturnal, waking up when it is still pitch black outside. High school’s extremely early start times are causing severe physical, mental, emotional, and health effects in adolescents, and it is affecting every bit of their already-difficult lives. Even though there are so-called ‘obstacles’ to the changing of start times, they can be dealt with in reasonable ways and the greater outcome is much more important. Life as a teenager is…