DESCRIBING LEARNERS * Age * The age of our students is a major factor in our decision about how and what to teach. * Different needs‚ competences‚ cognitive skills. * “Acquisition is guaranteed for children up to the age of six‚ is steadily compromised from then until shortly after puberty‚ and is rare thereafter” (Stephen Pinker‚ 1994) * Age- some beliefs * Adolescents are unmotivated and uncooperative and therefore make poor language learners; * Adults
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Should Animal Farm be studied in school? Yes‚ Animal Farm should be studied in school. Animal Farm teaches about the Russian Revolution in an allegory‚ and shows how being uneducated can make you easily persuadable. It does this by the use of Animals to replace the Russian government‚ people‚ and leaders. Such as Napoleon who is symbolizing Vladimir Lenin and Snowball who represents Trotski. Throughout the book most of the animals are uneducated and are not very smart‚ and if you are not educated
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Middle school students should not be drug tested because it invades students rights and there is little to no evidence to prove the program works. The student’s privacy is invaded when they are forced to be tested for drugs or alcohol with little notice and are unsupervised when doing so. There is not much evidence that shows these programs work as far as getting students to stop taking the drugs or alcohol(it’s rare that they even were taking them in the first place). Middle schools should not be
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This essay is about persuading people why students should not wear a uniform. Do you ever hear students saying‚”I wish we don’t have to wear uniforms”? Do you ever wonder why? This essay will be about why we shouldn’t have uniforms‚ why we should wear as we like‚ and why uniforms shouldn’t be a part of school. Wearing uniforms has been annoying for students and adults know why in this essay. We shouldn’t have uniforms because students have a right to express themselves. Some students need
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Declaration of Independence that all men‚ (and women for that matter) are created equal. So students should be able to drive to school in their vehicles just as faculty and staff do. For one‚ if schools did ban students from driving their cars to school‚ many students will complain to the school board because their whole purpose of getting a car was to have means of transportation to and from school. That is thousands of dollars wasted on a vehicle you spent your hard earned money on. Students would
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“Why Mental Illness Should Be Better Taught In Schools” How well is mental illness taught in school? Not well enough considering how many teens suffer from mental illness. According to a teen mental health website‚ ¨The statistics are staggering‚ 1 in 5 young people suffer from a mental illness‚ that’s 20 percent of our population but yet only about 4 percent of the total health care budget is spent on our mental health” (TeenMentalHealth.org). No money or time is being spent on the importance of
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their own personal struggles and challenges they face in high school academically. For some‚ this may include a specific subject‚ or an assignment that comes along with the subject. One form of difficulty for students may be solving complex math problems. To graduate high school in West Virginia‚ students must complete the equivalent of algebra one‚ algebra two‚ geometry‚ and some form of trigonometry. The requirements of high school math courses specifically related to West Virginia are fair because
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and on their way to school. Advertisements invade individuals’ lives almost everywhere‚ but schools have been a safe haven from this – at least they were. Some schools have elected to take sponsorships or other advertisements to increase school revenue. However‚ some of these ads inhibit the activities of students in their learning environment. Some of the sponsored items include actual lesson plans‚ which could be propaganda instead of actual learning material. Schools should not be sponsored by
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HARMFUL AND DETRIMENTAL EFFECTS IN CELLPHONE USAGE In recent years‚ mobile telecommunication systems have grown significantly‚ to the point where more than a sixth of the world’s population uses mobile phones. By the end of 2004‚ more than a billion subscribers across more than 200 countries were estimated to be using mobile phones The development of mobile communications has moved rapidly. In the 1980s‚ first generation mobile phones‚ using analogue technology‚ allowed the transmission of
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Schools need to address the problem more forcefully and frequently. Frankly‚ I don’t believe that one week a year is enough to teach kids about the dangers of drinking underage‚ and driving under the influence. The problem is partially due to the fact that in almost every school‚ elementary through high school‚ that on week is the same week‚ every year! Red Ribbon week is great‚ however there needs to be more. The school board is worrying too much about the money
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