...such objectives, it is paramount to find out students’ attitudes towards using reading comprehension strategies and teachers’ role in raising their awareness about their use. Research Questions Such objectives can be attained by trying to answer the following research questions: Q1: What are the attitudes of secondary school students towards using reading strategies in enhancing their reading comprehension? Q2: Does the teacher raise students’ awareness about using reading strategies to enhance their reading comprehension? Q3: How can adopting the suitable reading strategies facilitate students' process of learning. ? Research Hypotheses In conducting the present study, we hypothesize that: H1: Secondary school students hold positive attitudes towards using reading strategies in enhancing their reading...
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...such as the medical field, highly trained practitioners should enjoy the confidence of autonomy in deciding what is best for the people they serve. This is not a novel idea and has been researched for decades. Little (1982) argued that successful schools appear to be those which allow staff a greater say in educational decisions, and which open up communication between parents, teachers, and students. Finn (1984) also contended that the more efficient schools are those who allow their staff high levels of responsibility and decision-making. It is my belief, along with many researchers, that these environments foster higher teacher morale, teachers’ sense of efficacy, sense of community, and collegiality, which all lead to a rich school climate conducive to enhanced student learning. I am completely aware that there are demographic variables beyond teachers’ control that play a role in school effectiveness such as, class size, school size, socio-economic status of the student population, etc. However, independence over the variables that can be controlled such as curriculum, staff development, teacher evaluation, pedagogical decisions, school policy, and budget allocation, could account for a large percentage of improvement. Although I am in agreement with the SBM model, I must...
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...Customer Inserts His/Her Name Customer Inserts Grade Course Customer Inserts Tutor’s Name Writer Inserts Date Here (Day, Month, Year) Student Test Scores used for indicating a School’s Competency Student’s test scores are regarded as a pivotal means of evaluating an institution’s progress relative to all other institutions. Traditionally, students securing high scores are considered as the apple of everyone’s eye and all the schools view them as their prized resources that are a means of enhancing the reputation of the institute (Astin, 5). This essay caters with a meticulous account of the extent to which test scores are beneficial in assessing a school’s competency. It highlights the factors affecting the evaluation based upon assessments of school competency level linked to student test scores. It also presents some alternative methods in deploying the use of test scores in a more accurate way in order to measure school competency thoroughly. Test Scores Indicate Proficiency of Learning at School Test scores are a useful tool in evaluating the performance of schools provided they are interpreted very carefully, keeping in mind the reasons and objectives of tests. A single test can only reflect a sample of skills; therefore, every score involves error to some extent. Majority of factors influence scores, particularly validity and reliability. If reliable tests are taken at regular intervals, they yield consistent results. Valid tests like the ones testing reading decoding...
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...professional career begins here being the most important roles; Caring professional of which teachers are most caring people who cares about the students and their environment on a daily basis, they make themselves available to the students showing empathy to their situation. Caring teachers shows their ability and help the students with their behavior and to obtain better grades, guide their emotions and help them to improve intellectually. More so students who receive support from their teachers improve achieve better in the classroom and school work and becomes more responsible and comfortable with their social environment which is both valued by teachers and students. When a teacher does not care about a student it affects their mind and makes them want to leave school. Creator of productive learning environment is an environment that is orderly and focuses on learning. Students feel safe in the schools and classrooms where learning is productive. The students feel safe emotionally and physically with the everyday routine of the school. Being an Ambassador is when the teachers represent the school and they are visible to the public and parents. The teachers are the link to the school and parents , the parents assess the students through the teachers, and the teachers are always being scrutinized and at that the parents regard the safety of the students more than teachers ability to teach, but with communication on both sides and the improvement from the students and...
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...Leadership Styles and School Effectiveness Labels: Change Management Research Proposals, Leadership Research Proposals, Strategic Management Research Proposals, Travel Research Proposals Introduction The human mind is like a mine bestowed with billions of innovative seeds, and every one of those seeds can grow a fruitful tree of new inventions. At home, the education of a newly born child starts from the lap of a mother, for whom it is an obligatory privilege to look after her child. Education starting in the dark-age has been transformed as it has passed from mind to mind and race to race, based on spiritually traditional ways of learning, observations, and experiences. The acquisition of knowledge began with the informal learning process at home to formal learning in institutions or schools. In this way, knowledge was progressively traveling down different paths and in different ways through human minds. In recent years, the advent of new technologies from photocopying machines to computer programs, optical scanners, and telecommunication networks has contributed to knowledge transformation. Moreover, today, the dominance of digital technologies and distorted media information has set the stage for the human mind to be idle. It can be thought that the idleness of mind is not due to insufficient or a lack of information and ideas for knowledge development but rather the inevitability of creating multiple choices and overloading us with information. Here, the ramifications...
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...concerns standards and qualifications • 70% concerns whether teachers are learning every day, continuously improving their craft collectively Policies and practices that stand a chance of changing a dysfunctional culture within schools must focus on … • Standards of new practice and opportunities to learn new ways of working together. • Opportunities for people to argue new ideas into their own normative belief system Standards of Practice National Board of Professional Teacher Standards in the US in 1987 (www.nbpts.org) • Developed standards and assessment procedures in 30 subject matter disciplines organized around five major propositions 1. Teachers are committed to students and their learning. 2. Teachers know the subject they teach and how to teach those subjects to students 3. Teachers are responsible for managing and monitoring students learning. 4. Teachers think systematically about their practice and learn from experience. 5. Teachers are members of learning communities. • currently over 100,000 teachers have been certified and reports of teachers feeling that the process of analyzing their own and their students work enhanced their effectiveness in the classroom Implementation of standards ultimately leads to re-certification standards with performance based compensa-tion. Those in favor say that that it is fairer to reward teachers who perform well rather than paying all teachers equally. Others say that that this is a business model designed...
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...PROFESSIONAL ISOLATION AND OCCUPATIONAL STRESS IN TEACHERS Education is the ability to meet life's situation, it is a character building process, enhancing one's personality and making him/her rational, capable, responsive and intelligent. Twenty first century is characterized by the emergence of multiculturalism due to industrialization, urbanization, globalization and disintegration in the family system. It is described as the century of stress and strain. Since, education is viewed as an instrument to develop the cognitive qualities, tolerance and understanding of people, it should prepare the younger generation to understand and face the realities of globalization. In this context, the schools and the teachers have more responsibilities in moulding the character of the students. Thus, the role of the teacher in the society is vital for its improvement. Professionalism demands teachers to be innovative in their attitudes, flexible in their approach, always refreshing themselves with day-to-day developments in their respective subject area. At the same time, they should be capable of recognizing the value of human potentials, understanding the diverse needs of learners and enrich the environment for their growth. In essence, the dream of learning society in this information age becomes real only when the teachers are able to collaborate with each other to accomplish the task, and, towards this end, their ability to communicate effectively becomes more critical...
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...inclusive, learning oriented, growth-promoting way.” Bolam et al (2005) describes “an effective PLC has the capacity to promote and susutain the learning of all professionals in the school community with the collective purpose of enhancing pupil learning”. According to Hipp and Huffman (2010, as sited in Wang, 2018) they see PLC as “professional educators working collectively and purposefully to create and sustain a culture of learning for all students and adults”. Another definition by Liberman and Miller (1999) describes PLC as “places in which teachers pursue clear shared purposes for student learning, engage in collaborative...
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...These claims and arguments manifested the urgent need to new entrance; which prompted the stakeholders to search new approaches that combine the properties of both, the traditional learning and e-learning and, to overcome the deficiencies of both at the same time. The way therefore, was paved to the emergence of "Blended Learning" as a new approach blending all forms of traditional learning with the different varieties of e-learning creating an innovative teaching-learning methodology. A new innovation that increases the effectiveness of the teaching situation and offers new opportunities of interactive learning situation. Blended Learning and CALL Historical background The use of computer in language learning has started actually in the sixties of the twentieth century. With the advent of the eighties of the century, CALL have been gained considerable space in language learning systems especially, in the advanced countries, in association with great developments in language learning programs. Computer-assisted language teaching and learning development can be categorized into three stages associated with changes and developments in the linguistic and psycho-linguistic fields. The first was started in the sixties. It was established on the principles of the behaviorist theory, which considers the computer as an optimal tool for learning; that it allows repetition, which enables learning. Therefore, the implementation in this period was restricted into extensive drills...
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...Motivation in learning and teaching Introduction Teachers play the first and foremost role in undermining or enhancing the motivation of students. They can facilitate self determination and essential motivation to students if the teachers are in practice of autonomy supporting style. Such a motivation is also likely to create positive consequences among students. The students of such a teacher will be less distracted in their classes and will be anxious to what is being taught. He will be associated with more positive emotions and his learning will be comprehension centered and will be ready to put more effort in his studies. He will gain better grades in class and there is only very less chance for a drop out. Only those teachers who are motivated will be able to motivate their students. Within disciplines of psychology motivation is an important aspect in both teaching as well as in learning. Hence motivation is to be considered from the perspective of both teacher and student. Definition The word motivation comes from a Latin word meaning movement (Steers, Mowday and Shapiro 2004, 379 as cited in degree essays, 2011). Motivation can be defined as the state or internal condition that directs the behavior of a person. It is the process determining the action of a person or the fact on the basis of which a person chooses to act and not to act in another way. According to (Pintrich and Schunk. 1996 ) motivation is directly related to achievement made by a person. An...
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...Abstract From time immemorial, the role of education has been to prepare individuals to contribute to the society, while also furthering their course. However, the disparity in the US education sector is preventing the system from meeting this key goal. Therefore, blended learning has been hailed as a possible answer to the current limitations of the current system. In this paper, the writer examines the current literature on blended instruction, its benefits, and challenges, as well as, the current evidence on its effectiveness. However, there is no conclusive evidence that blended learning is effective in promoting academic success. These results could be attributed to the lack of consensus on the actual definition of blended learning and its composition. However, the transition to blended learning is inevitable. The review concludes by examining how school administrators can adopt and promote change within their jurisdiction concerning the adoption of blended learning. Blended Learning: Possibilities, Challenges, and Embracing Change Introduction and Background Any education system has the purpose of preparing individuals to contribute to the society, while also allowing them to create desirable lives, either for their families or themselves. The world of work has evolved from an industrial orientation to an information age. Despite this evolution, the education sector has not evolved fast enough and is still operating under the same rules that...
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...the academic performance of the students will improve through the use of Strategic Intervention Material (SIM) in the topic, Factoring Polynomials in Mathematics Grade 8. This tool of teaching, if properly done, has been proven to encourage students to understand more of the lesson independently and with less teachers’ guidance. The proponent also patterned the activities from the K to 12 curriculum while transforming the learning process into an enjoyable reading, problem solving experience and make an impact to their academic performance. Review of Related Literature Intervention has become an important way for teachers to ensure that all students succeed in today’s high stakes testing environment. Intervention is needed by those low performing students who find it hard to cope-up with the bulk of knowledge presented to them inside the classroom instruction. SIM refers to teaching aid which stimulate students’ learning activities which help them increase the level of understanding and skills on the lesson. It also helps master a skill which they were not able to develop during regular classroom teaching. The SIM enables direct intervention by the teacher....
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...Teaching Strategies NUR 588 August 5, 2012 Kelly Martin, Facilitator Teaching Strategies Nursing education is a key component to keep nursing practice relevant to the health needs and also to the expectations of society. Nurses provide an essential part of health care in most health care setting. Education, training, and experience are constantly changing and enhancing learning for students, enriching lives with knowledge. Educators have an important role in learning. They have to keep up with developments in the specific specialties, literatures, and the practice. They are responsible to educate new, and experience nurses, and students, and therefore have to master education. The goal of education is to instill in learners the academic and moral knowledge that should constitute those ‘essential things that a mature adult needs to know in order to be a productive member of society’ (Cowles, Strickland, Rodgers & Beth, 2001). Developing curriculum objectives is an important task, and it should be seen as an ongoing process. It is an essential process for the educational goals to be successful. Systematic approach is important when developing curriculum for students, and health care professionals. Different components should be carefully reviewed, and considered: staff, students, community needs, and readiness. It is important to specifics of the institution and involves the key subject in the process of education. Objective ...
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...TEACHING METHODS OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL MATHEMATICS TEACHERS IN THE DISTRICT OF ORANI: AN INVESTIGATION ________________________ A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School Bataan Peninsula State University City of Balanga, Bataan _______________________ In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts in Education Major in Mathematics ______________________ by FAILLA B. PEPITO 2016 Chapter I THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction Caring classroom communities that are focused on mathematical goals help develop students’ mathematical identities and proficiencies (file:///D:/effective%20pedagogy.pdf). That’s why it is important that the school must have teachers using an appropriate method of transmitting knowledge and skills to the learners. Mathematics is the most international of all curriculum subjects, and mathematical understanding influences decision making in all areas of life either private, social, and civil. Mathematics education is a key to increasing the post-school and citizenship opportunities of young people, but today, as in the past, many students struggle with mathematics and become disaffected as they continually encounter obstacles to engagement. It is imperative, therefore, that we understand what effective mathematics teaching looks like—and what teachers can do to break this pattern (file:///D:/effective%20pedagogy...
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...Differentiated Instruction: Multiple Instructional Method (MIM) Emanuel Parker Saint Leo University Introduction Instruction is an important part of the development process for children when they are beginning to read. Many children do not learn or begin to read at the same level as their peers. Research suggests that reading problems are preventable for the vast majority of students who encounter difficulty in learning to read, if these students receive extra support in the form of an early intervention program (Goldberg, 1994). Interventions programs provide multiple methods of instructions that are particular to that student. Being able to determine if differentiated instruction is more effective than the use one method of instruction would be sufficient to change the way America teaches their children to learn. Every learner is different; however, instructors still use one method to instruct. Doing this does not facilitate learning for every learner. Using differentiated instructions would allow for instructors to enhance the learning experience for learners in attendance. The Multiple Instructional Method (MIM) allows the instructor to use various approaches to learning in order to affect every learner. Curriculum would be designed to enhance the learning experience for all learners by being flexible, strategic, and affective. Instructors are aware of how their students are learning; research will never be able to tell them exactly...
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