[A.1.a.‚ A.1.b.‚ A.1.d.‚ A.1.g.‚ A.1.i.] These materials were used in high school 10th grade U.S. History classroom with students ranging from regular education students‚ ELL student‚ special education students‚ and life skills students. This material was used in a one day lesson within a 3-week lesson duration. This artifact format reinforces the benefits of primary documents in the classroom. “It is well known that primary sources are important for teaching historical thinking
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Theory of Education: Natural Education Darny Mao November 10‚ 2014 Introduction to Philosophy Providence College Professor Nichols Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a revolutionary French philosopher who in addition held his position in society as an eloquent writer of the Enlightenment Age. Much of Rousseau’s thoughts and theories illuminated through his writings‚ and his works reflected his disdain for contemporary society in which he assured to undermine
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What do you think about when you walk into a classroom? I usually look at the signs on the wall‚ because I feel that they allow anyone that walks in the classroom to see what resources the teacher gives the children to learn. During our class discussions‚ the classroom environment was explained as the third teacher to the child. After most of my first week of observation‚ I can fully agree that the statement is true‚ because everything in the classroom was there to help the child learn and be creative
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Classroom Walkthrough Kachur‚ et.al.‚ (2013) delineated classroom walkthroughs as brief‚ frequent‚ informal‚ and focused visits to classrooms by observers for the purposes of gathering data on educational practices and engaging in some type of follow-up. Moreover‚ Grissom‚ et.al. (2013) mentioned in their study that classroom walkthroughs may serve multiple purposes. Principals in the 2011 survey where they learned about the instructional practices of their teachers‚ 62% of principals identify
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An Emerging Trend in Education: The online classroom Phillip Stuart Lincoln Memorial University Trends and Issues within Educational Technologies EDL - 872 Dr. Chris Henderson July 06‚ 2012 An Emerging Trend in Education: The online classroom The National Science Foundation‚ which managed the Internet in the early years‚ prohibited using it for commercial purposes until 1993‚ when it lifted the ban. This led to the growth of the World Wide Web‚ with its user friendly features and colorful
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Since food and drinks were not allowed in many places of the library‚ those who wanted to have food would come here. These people usually shared the same pattern that they would read books or stare at their computers while eating. During the observation‚ seven people went straight forward to the newspaper shelf‚ picked up their favourite copy‚ found a seat and began to read. They usually came in alone and knew exactly what they wanted to read. There was another group of people who regarded the
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or things‚ especially in an artistic context. Ideally‚ any classroom in any academic institution should facilitate this no matter what subject is taught‚ no matter how many students attend‚ no matter what; there are no exceptions. To our dismay‚ this is not a utopian world. Indeed‚ there’s certainly a “gap between faculty and student expectations that leave the both parties unfulfilled” as mentioned in the essay “Creativity in the Classroom” by Ernest L. Boyer. In the essay‚ Boyer claimed that “if
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play is not simply a reproduction of what he or she has experienced‚ but a creative reworking of the impressions that he or she has acquired (Vygotsky). This simple phrase is meant to carry the notion that observation and documentation is key in understanding young children as learners. Observation and documentation of children has been an important part of early childhood teaching throughout history (Stuart Reifel‚ 2011). In the early nineteenth-century German educator Friedrich Froebel encouraged
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Farm Animals The standard way of thinking about farm life is that it is boring‚ lots of work‚ dirty and inhumane. Changing the views that people have about farm animals is important‚ especially with our change in politics. I don’t not want to get into the political side of raising animals‚ but instead focus on what farm animals have to offer. In viewing farm animals‚ one can see that farm life is interesting‚ exciting and the opposite of being inhumane to animals. Each day has something
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Theories on Outdoor Education Outdoor education is a heavily debated subject with many facets and many opinions about each of those facets. Even the definition of “outdoor education” varies from person to person. In a 1958 edition of the Journal of Physical Education‚ Recreation & Dance‚ Donaldson and Donaldson wrote outdoor education is simply “education in‚ for‚ and about the outdoors.” As outdoor education has evolved in the decades since the 1950s‚ however‚ so too has its definition. In
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