ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS’ ATTITUDE TOWARDS INCLUSIVE EDUCATION IN KERALA Dr. Santhosh Kumar Vallikkat Principal Farook B.Ed College ‚Kottakkal Malappuram‚ Kerala Abstract Attitudes about inclusion are extremely complex and vary from teacher to teacher and school to school. This article explores the attitudes of elementary teachers about inclusion of special needs children in general education. This study adopted a descriptive survey research design‚ with 600 teachers as participants
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Brief History of Physical Education A brief history of physical education in the United States would kick off in the nineteenth century. There was growing popularity of formal physical education programs all across Europe where calisthenics and gymnastics were all the rage. American schools looked to follow the European model by incorporating physical education into the curriculum for primary and secondary schools. And a brief history of physical education would not be complete with a consideration
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2010 Physical education class instruction should be designed for all students. I believe that every skill‚ activity‚ and game should be taught with the non-athlete in mind. Sometimes those students get pushed to the back because they are not the most talented. My philosophy of physical education deals with students becoming physically fit. The major reason for having physical education in schools is to lead the students toward better lifestyles. The plan as a physical educator is to have
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teachers focus more on testing than the information needed throughout life‚ and it judges kids on skills instead of knowledge. Standardized testing causes kids to have high anxiety. In the Midwestern states‚ a study was conducted using three elementary schools. The study was on the anxiety that mandated tests cause on children and teachers. One of the scales used to measure anxiety was the Children’s Tests Anxiety Scale‚ also known as CTAS‚ which assess children’s physiological and disengagement behaviors
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manufacturing economy to a technological and knowledge economy recognize that an adequate supply of higher education graduates is a necessary pre-condition for achieving and sustaining advanced levels of development in this globalized‚ competitive‚ fast-changing world‚ as the tiger economies of Asia have proven. Until about thirty years ago the Philippines boasted a well-established higher education system that provided relatively democratized access for over a century‚ enrolling proportionately more
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Washington Elementary School is located in West Orange‚ New Jersey in a neighborhood where mostly African American and Hispanic businesses and people were surrounding the area. As I arrived to the school or left‚ I usually only saw minorities in the surrounding neighborhood. This correlated with the students I saw in the classroom I observed‚ and throughout the school. In the classroom there was a total of 17 students‚ all of which were minorities. Ten of the students are Hispanic and seven are
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In elementary schools around the United States‚ you stay with the same teacher all day. Many elementary schools are switching class because it helps out the teacher. In my personal opinion‚ I specifically think we should be able to switch classes in elementary school. In the text‚ examples from the text why we should be able to switch classes. Switching class allows teachers to get more creative when they are teaching the same lesson all day. When teachers teach the same lesson all day they can
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Physical education is when an individual has sufficient energy to enjoy life and avoid fatigue (Landy & Burridge‚ 2009). It has been suggested that well conducted physical education programs can result in increased activity levels during the school day as well as increased active living outside the school setting (Morrow‚ Jackson & Payne‚ 1999). This is why it is beneficial that both schools and families encourage physical education to children. Physical activity brings many health benefits
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Elementary School August 2004 I started my first day of Kindergarten at Deer Valley Elementary School. I still remember taking the hand of the fifth grade peer helper‚ who I thought at the time was basically an adult‚ I walking to the library where I waited for school to start. Little that I know that as I took the peer helpers hand and walked towards the library I was also walking towards the beginning of a very enjoyable six years. I give a lot of credit to my elementary school teachers in how
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Language arts are one of the most crucial parts of education for an elementary aged child. In learning language skills‚ a child will be able to communicate with the world around them. Language arts is a very broad term. Many people will hear that and think it only refers to reading‚ but there are many other parts that encompass language arts. Listening- Listening is most usually the first component of language arts development. From birth‚ children will benefit and learn from just listening to
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