The NSW Cultural Diversity and Community Relations policy (NSW DET 2005: online) is a document which aims to outline the responsibilities which NSW schools have to provide teaching and learning programs which will enable students across many different cultures and communities the opportunity to be able to identify with‚ and as‚ Australians. This policy should aid schools in developing students from all cultures and communities across NSW to develop the knowledge‚ skills and values for participation
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How the Environment Affects Students’ Learning By: Jessica Robinson REED 504: Processes and Acquisition of Reading Skills Professor Curbeam-Newby Recently there has been more thought put into how vital a students’ environment is as it relates to their academic success. Both community environment and physical learning environment in schools have a great deal of influence on how the students learn‚ handle certain situations‚ perceive things‚ and overall just how their brain processes
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sleeplessness and circadian rhythm sleep disorders increases the chance that children and adolescents who attend school have a tendency to fall asleep or become sleepy while at school. It has been found that ‘chronic sleep loss affects many aspects of adolescents lives and that there are repercussions of unhealthy sleep habit.’ (Owens‚ J‚ 2013). Chronic sleep loss is very serious and affects school children because the pupils are too tired to achieve high academic due to low concentration levels‚ and also
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The study sought to develop an understanding of identities related to eating patterns between eating at home and school. The study showed different cases to see if religion had an impact on if individuals eat differently at home than in school. The main source of information used in this study was gathered on the campus of Northeastern Illinois University in 2005. Ninety one students were asked questions pertaining to their nationality‚ religion‚ ethnicity‚ work‚ family generation / family background
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use these personality tests when they are recruiting staff and it provides significant information about candidates’ strengths and weaknesses. Despite this‚ some other researchers argued that well structured-personality tests do not predict job performance under certain conditions. They suggested social analytical effects (Blickle‚ et al.‚ 2009)‚ frame-of-reference effects (Bowling & Burns‚ 2010)‚ cultural variation (Borkenau‚ et al.‚ 2013)‚ gender variation (Costa et al.‚ 2001) and the effect of
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a former undergraduate student in communications at Penn State. ’Techspeak’ inclusdes shortcuts‚ homophones and the ommission of non-essential letters‚ such When tweens write in techspeak‚ they often use shortcuts‚ such as homophones‚ acronyms and omissions of non-essential letters such as ’wud’ for ’would.’ But researchers say the texting is having a detrimental effect on normal rules of grammar. Mr Cingel gave middle school students in a central Pennsylvania school district a grammar test
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become an essential part in today’s society since people can now work anywhere that they want. However‚ this technology also has downfalls that negatively affect the same person’s life. The distractions that technology brings can be seen clearly with someone’s work performance since they will likely do poorly on a project. The way that technology affects someone’s life varies within the different part of their life. With the multitude of benefits that
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RATIONALE Speaking is one of the most challenging skills for high school students. They may feel bored because they can not handle it so well. Therefore‚ we tried to integrate interesting activities into the lesson so that we could arouse students’ spirit. We made full use of pictures to teach the lesson as meaningful pictures talk more than words. On designing the lesson plan‚ we took students’ learning styles into consideration. Consequently‚ all the activities are arranged with
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Successful Online Students “In this age of learner-centered learning‚ online instruction provides a unique opportunity for learning materials‚ tasks‚ and activities to fit individual learning styles and preferences (Bonk‚ Wisher & Lee‚ 2003).” Learning styles along with other factors have an impact on the characteristics of successful online students. Each student is different‚ how he or she obtain information and apply it to their online learning will determine their success. Successful online students
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On February 2013‚ a survey was given out to the Social Work 411 class. The purpose of the survey was to determine how the lack of sleep affects a student’s academic performance. A series of questions were asked to determine the average amounts of sleep students get on a weekly bases‚ and if they encountered any difficulties sleeping. A total of 26 surveys were handed 25 were completed during this study. Of the individuals surveyed‚ 96 percent of participants are female‚ and (4) percent were male
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