Learning theory (education) Learning theories are conceptual frameworks that describe how information is absorbed‚ processed‚ and retained during learning. Cognitive‚ emotional‚ and environmental influences‚ as well as prior experience‚ all play a part in how understanding‚ or a world view‚ is acquired or changed‚ and knowledge and skills retained. * Behaviorists look at learning as an aspect of conditioning and will advocate a system of rewards and targets in education. * Educators who
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Schools Suspensions ‚ Are They Effective? Does a student profit from suspension? Can a child gaining suspension influence a whole school? Does suspension redeem the schools money? In-school suspension has been a method going on for a long time. It has been used as a low-cost and somewhat efficient solution for bad behaving kids. Although suspending a student is uncostly for schools ‚ suspending children from school is not the best option ‚ because students don’t gain from suspension ‚ they
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associated with employee motivation (Geren‚ 2011). Therefore‚ applying appropriate motivation theories is attaching much attention in China than before. As a prime example of Western motivation theories‚ McGregor states that every management method is based on an assumption of human nature and behavior at work in theory X and Y (McGregor‚ 2000). Whereas theory X emphasizes on strategies of control‚ theory Y focus motivators more on individual goals. In spite of numerous criticisms that query the certainty
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Explain and evaluate how you use at least three appropriate communication strategies/theories to enhance teaching/learning experiences in your own subject specialism area. This assignment will discuss and evaluate how I communicate effectively with my learners to ensure their understanding. In particular I will focus on Shannon’s and Schramm model to illustrate how communication takes place and how the communication strategies I use within my own teaching‚ Q&A and body language‚ enhance learning
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This paper is an overview of four important areas of management theory: Frederick Taylor ’s Scientific Management‚ Elton Mayo ’s Hawthorne Works experiments and the human relations movement‚ Max Weber ’s idealized bureaucracy‚ and Henri Fayol ’s views on administration. It will provide a general description of each of these management theories together with observations on the environment in which these theories were applied and the successes that they achieved. Frederick Taylor - Scientific Management
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Schools around the United States are having problems deciding whether or not they should eliminate sports for the sake of their students grades. Studies show that children that don’t participate in athletics do better on tests‚ compared to the teenagers who play sports. Therefore‚ schools should eliminate sports because students will have more time to study‚ the district will save an abundance of money‚ and classes will have better learning environments. Studying before taking a test is the key
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School shootings in general are tragic‚ because they often affect innocent victims and almost always could have been prevented. In the given scenario Harless actions are in fact unstoppable‚ but the actions of the faculty are quite the opposite. The school went about the situation completely wrong. Instead of confronting the students once notified they are possibly in possession of a firearm‚ they should have notified law enforcement‚ worked to secure the area then isolate Harless and McCoy. In this
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students a little better. I think they enjoyed their time playing the game as well. These two boys must feel comfortable with me because they were singing and dancing. I got to learn how they would respond in certain situations and how well they like school. The game we played was “Would you rather?” Here I saw how they would answer questions and what they would do. I was able to ask more questions from the game question. This would then lead into my saying something like “I believe in you and I
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Classical conditioning is a common form of associative learning that is used in everyday life. In some instances it is done unintentionally. One may not know how classical conditioning works or even the definition of it‚ however‚ there is a very good chance that they used it at one time or another to learn or to teach another person or animal. Classical conditioning is a process of learning. It occurs when a conditioned stimulus is joined with and then follows an unconditioned stimulus. This process
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englewood neighborhood is a highschool know as Harper High. The area surrounding this school is known for death of its student residents and gang violence. There were nearly 30 students shot‚ twenty one wounded by and eight students killed. The school itself is a relatively safe place‚ but the beefs and fights in the neighborhood around it frequently mushroom into gunplay.The gun violence happens off of school grounds but majority of the time involves the students‚ leaving them to try and navigate
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