Training Teacher Leaders as Reading Coaches Imagine this school scenario: A high poverty‚ urban district (more than 80% of students receive free or reduced lunch)‚ with 18% ELL learners (where the state average is 6%) and over 100 different languages and dialects spoken. Teaching reading is a real challenge‚ especially in grades K-1 (Dean‚ Dyal‚ Wright‚ Carpenter & Austin‚ 2012). The district’s answer is to identify excellent teachers and assign them to a reading and writing coach position to
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Should parents be held responsible for their children’s actions? Do you have siblings at home? Have you ever gotten in trouble for something you’ve never done? It’s not a good feeling. If you don’t want to be blamed nor punished for something you didn’t commit why should parents? As violence by juveniles has increased in recent years‚ the debate about parents’ legal responsibility for children’s behavior has escalated. Shootings‚ gang violence‚ drugs‚ alcohol these are very few things that children
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the day of the walkouts‚ school closures were not the only disruption we experienced. Refuse collections were interrupted; cities came to a standstill as thousands marched through streets in protest; some NHS workers refused to work just as some teachers did‚ causing interruption to medical appointments‚ non-urgent operations and house visits; some travel links were closed‚ including mainland/island ferry links; some cancellations to in-bound transatlantic flights to Heathrow; some demonstrators
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shaping our views and mindsets of the world. Thus‚ it is especially important that they are held accountable for their actions‚ even those undertaken in private. Although it is often argued that we can overlook what is done in private if the person performs his or her public job well‚ it is indeed worrying with their massive influence over society. In my opinion‚ public figures should be held accountable for their actions‚ even those undertaken in private. With technological advances in the past few
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did the teacher do to motivate or engage the students in learning? Was the content itself engaging? Were intrinsic or extrinsic motivations used? To motivate and engage the students in learning‚ Ms. Houck used a chunk and chew method‚ she had students use white boards‚ and she used a behavioral system. First‚ she used the chunk and chew (teacher teaches‚ students process information) method to engage students in the lesson. She would teach one strategy and then she would have the students turn and
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For students to be victorious in inclusive surroundings‚ their classroom performance must be reliable with the teachers’ requirements and school expectations and must help their education and socialization with peers. Suitable educational‚ social‚ and behavioral proficiency allows students to become part of the class‚ the school‚ and the community. When students feel appreciated‚ supported‚ valued and esteemed‚ learning comes much more without difficulty produce a helpful learning environment will
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Moderation can be defined as the practice of safeguarding or securing that educators are assessing learners’ work in line with certain agreed specifications and required norms or standards (Maphalala‚ 2015:13). This is achieved by ensuring that assessment tools are of the required/necessary standard and quality‚ by making sure the entire assessment procedure including marking and feedback is credible and ensuring that the learning process has been effective (Maphalala‚ 2015:14). Thus moderation can be
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ourselves despite setbacks. Teachers encounter situations all the time that could be considered setbacks. Kids can be cruel‚ to each other and to teachers. They can have attitudes‚ especially teenagers. I’ve had teachers to were obviously nervous when they taught. Others were shy and only half committed to their subject. But the best teachers laughed off their mistakes: chalk breaking‚ books dropped‚ TVs not working. Where some teachers were flustered‚ the good teachers shrugged and went on about
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For example‚ Bob DeFine as quoted by Robert DeFina (2002) based on study in United State found that poverty do not have strong correlation with unemployment. DeFine further states that relation between unemployment and poverty is strongly affected by how the poverty is measured. On the other hand‚ no strong relation between poverty and unemployment may also caused by a lack of unemployment measurement. This is proofed by Son and Kakwani (2006) based on their study using Brazil data. By modifying
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ASSESSMENT Introduction 1.1 Historical issues and assessment 1.1.1 The Chinese literati 1.1.2 The feudal system in Europe 1.1.3 Colonialism in Africa RE-EVALUATION OF ASSESSMENT IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN CONTEXT 2.1 The exam crisis in South African schools 2.1.1 How valid or reliable is the Matric exam as an assessment method? 2.1.2 Are tests and exams still useful forms of assessment? 2.2 The influence of context on the educational situation 2.2.1 The key economic forces that drive our new education system 2.3
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