Education through Play -- the Ways Young Children Learn
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This 5 page report discusses how educational games support the learning process for children in Kindergarten and the first grade. Most of the best memories one has of their childhood educational experiences are the lessons they learned while having fun. While teachers of all age groups make every effort to make learning fun, they often do it because happy students make their job easier. However, there are a number of reasons to take advantage of educational games that range from retention of the information being taught to a student’s positive sense of his or her own abilities. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Education: Books Versus Computers:
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This 4 page paper examines the assumption made by some educators that books are better than computers in the educational setting. This paper examines the foundation of this assumption and seeks to determine the validity of such a premise. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Education: Curriculum And Instructional Supervision
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10 pages in length. The writer discusses a specific approach to achieve higher academic standards as well as the problems facing instructional supervision. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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EDUCATION: GENERALISTS VS. SPECIALISTS
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This 4-page paper discusses whether a generalist or specialist approach to education is more effective. The paper argues in favor of a generalist approach and provides reasons why this is important.
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Educational Administration
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This 6 page paper begins with comments about the complexity of school leadership today. The essay focuses on two issues, the importance of shared decision making and the importance of excellent communication. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Educational Administration Versus Supervision
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A 5 page paper. For more than two decades, the educational community has been trying to attach a valid definition to the term educational supervision. Thus far, no consensus has been reached. The definition for educational administrator is taken from the Occupational Outlook Handbook and the descriptions of an educational supervisor are taken from different sources. The writer focuses on the complexities of the high school principal, including comments from principals, and explains how supervisors assist. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Educational Analysis
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3 pages in length. Dr. Wilson - whose combined skill and proficiency is supported by a blend of program goals, competencies and indicators as evidenced in her work - understands the fundamental nature of reaching students through honesty, reflection and open-mindedness. Based upon her purposeful glance inward, Dr. Wilson is able to relate to her students on a level few others ever reach, inasmuch as she gives forth a large portion of herself within her lesson plans. The extent to which her unmitigated involvement and enthusiasm for imparting lessons delves deeply into society's humanity factor is both grand and far-reaching; that she chooses readings that are socially enlightening and extracts lessons from students' real lives to cultivate genuine learning speaks to the level upon which teachers are able to incorporate much more than book instruction into their educational plans. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Educational And Instructional Technology
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This 11 page paper is divided into two parts. Part 1 discuses the history of technology in education and instruction and the purpose of technology. Part 2 reports a few studies that reveal enhanced learning when today's technology is incorporated into the lesson design. In some cases, specific applications or Web sites are identified. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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Educational Impact E-Text
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A 3 page research paper/reaction essay that offers a summary of a web site (www.educationalimpact.com), as well as the writer’s reaction to the site and a discussion of its application to classroom situations. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Educational Issues based on Gender
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This is a 7 page paper that discusses the issue of whether or not the educational system favors boys over girls or vice versa. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Educational Philosophy and Learning Theories
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This 7 page paper outlines two specific segments on the creation of an educational philosophy: the philosophy statement and the application of learning theories in the classroom setting. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Educational Philosophy, Accomplishments and Challenges
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This 8 page paper provides an overview of a personal educational philosophy. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Educational Philosophy: A Personal Educational Statement
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This 8 page paper provides an overview of a personal educational philosophy. As a Special Education teacher, one of the most significant issues that must be addressed to improve special education is in the way educators view students. Children in Special Education should not be viewed as a product of their designation, as the totality of the experiential, psychological and physiological elements that determine their placement in a classroom. Instead, the individual nature of educational planning for students with special needs should support a more holistic approach. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Educational Planning and Instruction
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This 4 page paper outlines the central role of an educator and the process of planning and instruction. This paper relates the view that educators must view the planning process as one that is based on the needs of their students and the requirements of their programming design. As a result, no planning or preparation process is complete without a total view of the goals and instructional strategies that incorporate these different areas.
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Educational Psychology
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This 9 page paper responds to 12 specific and varied questions. Some of topics include Piaget vs. neo-Piagetian, Baumrind's styles, how concepts of intelligence have changed, improving relations between cultures, acceleration vs. enrichment programs for gifted, classical and operant conditioning, Maslow's hierarchy, standardized tests and more. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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Educational Psychology - Case Study
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This 4 page paper presents the case study of a six-year-old boy who was observed by the student. The essay discusses the boy's behaviors, learning theories (Piaget, Vygotsky and Erikson) and how the teacher could have helped the boy in the classroom. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Educational Psychology: Tracking
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6 pages in length. The educational experience is meant to provide a comprehensive and well-rounded approach to the objective of learning; when students are divided by and taught within stringent criteria, the capacity for expansive knowledge is significantly stunted. The extent to which tracking serves to detach students from new experiences and each other by placing them within the confines of regimented, uniform study is both grand and far-reaching; that such division not only cultivates but also perpetuates such social ills as class and racial status speaks to the impact administrators very obviously do not take into account with such a divisive program. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Educational Reform and Failure: A Look at Georgian School Performance
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A 3 page contention that although Georgia has implemented a number of measures to enhance its student's academic success, however, many of the state's students still lag behind. The state is the fourth worst in the nation, in fact, in regard to the number of students that it graduates. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Educational Research Process
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This 4 page paper begins by outlining and explaining the different areas of the elements of the educational research process. The writer also provides ethical standards for educational research. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Educational Research Steps
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This 4 page paper reports and discusses the six steps in the research process. It also comments on ethical issues related to research. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Educational System: Article Reviews
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This 5 page paper comments on six articles about education, although the focus of each article is different. The articles discuss: the trend towards for-profit educational institutions; companies needing to become ecumenical for success; allegations from corporate executives that poor education was leading to a loss of global competitiveness, an allegation that had to be adjusted in the 1990s; projects supported by IBM in one school district and how they did not achieve their goals; the story of a teacher who did not want to be a teacher but had limited choices as a girl because of her color; and finally, the story of a teacher in a low-income predominately black community and how she assures success. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Educational Technology and Computer-based Instruction
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This 11 page paper considers the issue of computer-based instructional models as they apply to the developing area of educational technology. This paper considers the evolution of the area, the role of computer-based instructional models, and discusses the potential and actual benefits for educational improvement. This paper also makes predictions about future trends in computer-based instruction. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Educational Theorist Barbara Coloroso’s ‘Inner Discipline’
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A 4 page paper which examines Coloroso’s theory of inner discipline as it relates to elementary grades 1-4. An overview of the theory along with its major tenets, evaluation (positive/negative), a discussion of choices, consequences, and an application of the theory are presented. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Educatonal Censorship: elementary style.
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(8 pp) Efforts to make fundamental changes in public schooling for the 21st century face a number of obstacles. Among the significant threats to these efforts are challenges from conservative citizen groups objecting to particular instructional strategies and materials. Challenges by these groups to the public school curriculum are increasing dramatic; according to People for the American Way, the number of reported incidents was 50% higher in 1991-92 than in the previous school year Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Effect Of Professional Development On Reading Achievement
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A 12 page paper that addresses the question of whether professional development activities improve student reading achievement in the elementary grades. There are few studies that address this specific issue and those that have been conducted are contradictory. Some conclusions have been made from the studies reported, however. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Effect of Teacher Training/Technology in Education
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A 6 page research paper that investigates educational literature pertaining to the effect of teacher training on the implementation of technology into classroom instruction. The writer argues that this literature review shows the crucial nature of this factor. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Effective Approaches to Teaching
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A 5 page paper providings an overview of the perspectives of Vito Perrone as they relate to Fenstermacher and Soltis' Approaches to Teaching. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Effective Behaviour Management: Suspension and Exclusion
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The management of students can be difficult when there are limited resources and many needs to consider. This 7 page paper considers the role and place of exclusion and suspension in schools, the advantages and disadvantages of its use and potential alternatives. The bibliography cites 19 sources.
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Effective Educational Leadership Today
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A 5 page paper that discusses some of the challenges educational leaders face today. The essay explains how globalization affects educational systems and the global nature of the challenges. The writer comments on chaordic leadership as a model that seems to apply to public education today. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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EFFECTIVE INSTRUCTORS IN EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS
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This 3-page paper offers characteristics of effective instructors. Included in the discussion are professional and personal characteristics. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Effective School Administration
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A 3 page paper that offers comments about the effective principal. The writer begins with some of the expectations of the school principal. The essay includes but some of the many characteristics research has attached to the effective principal, such as a visionary, a focus on instructional leadership, a collaborative leader. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Effective School Leadership
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This 7 page paper discusses specific issues related to effective school leadership: maintaining high faculty morale, parent involvement, and inservice training. The writer begins with confirmation of the importance of the principal and how the role of the principal has changed. Sergiovanni's nine essential tasks of the principal are also mentioned. Teacher morale is approached with a study that illustrates some of the many behaviors that positively or negatively affect teacher morale. Ideas to improve morale are provided. The writer then discusses the importance of parent involvement and how principals and teachers might gain more involvement. Finally, the issue of the importance of staff development or inservice training is discussed. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Effective Technology Training For Teachers
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This 5 page paper discusses effective technology training. The essay begins with general comments, including some essential components of any effective staff development program. The writer then relates six different programs that were highly successful in training teachers to use technology. The essay concludes with tips to improve technology training. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Effective Tutoring Programs
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A 10 page research paper that examines the parameters and efficacy of various tutoring programs. The writer examines the different types of tutoring programs and what research has shown to their efficacy. This examination demonstrates the components of these programs; how teachers perceive them; and how they have, in many cases, incorporated technology into the context of tutoring. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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Effective Vocabulary Development in Special Education
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A 10 page exploration of vocabularly development efforts as they apply to special education students. This paper reviews one program in relation to inclusion. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Effective Writing Through Knowledge Transformation
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This 9 page paper evaluates the concepts of knowledge transformation and knowledge telling. Ideas for effective writing are relayed. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Effectiveness Of Online Learning In Continuing Education
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This 50 page paper discussed the issue of the effectiveness of Online training and continuing education courses. The essay begins by explaining the terms effective or successful education cannot really be defined. A comprehensive discussion of this issue is provided. This section also includes a discussion of the seven principles of effective education and evaluation processes. The literature review reports and discusses numerous Online continuing education or professional development courses, their purpose, how they were evaluated, when that information is provided, and what critics say about Online learning. The Methodology section provides a comprehensive discussion of the design-based research model, including a comparison with a more scientific model and why design-based is so useful. Specific statistical data included. 1 Table included. Bibliography lists 25 sources.
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Effects Of High-Stakes Tests
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This 46 page paper presents a hypothetical research study that investigates the effects of high-stakes standardized norm-referenced tests on fourth grade students and teachers. Standardized norm-referenced tests have been an issue of great controversy for many years. The implementation of standards and high-stakes testing has only fueled that controversy. While the purpose of high-stakes testing may be laudable, the results are not. More and more studies report the harmful effects of these testing programs on both students and teachers. Good teachers have had to change the focus of instruction as well as their teaching practices to meet the demands of these testing programs. The pressure is profound teachers, students and administrators. This essay provides a comprehensive overview of high-stakes testing. As a hypothetical research study, the paper includes an introduction, definitions, purpose of study, problem statement, hypotheses, extensive literature review, methodology of the study, discussion and conclusion. The 'subjects' are 4th grade students and teachers in New York. Statistical data are included throughout the paper. Bibliography lists 18 sources. PGhistk.rtf
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Effects of Standardized Tests on Curriculum
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A 6 page research paper/essay that examines the effects of standardized tests on curriculum. For decades, policymakers and educators have been attempting to address the problem of declining quality in the public education system. The latest effort in a long series of remedies is to institute standardized tests at various levels of education, beginning in elementary school. Students must pass these tests in order to proceed and it gives authorities a basis for giving schools, teachers and principals "report cards." Inherent in this scenario is the idea that employing standardized tests will necessarily result in a superior education; however, examination of several recent articles negates this assumption due to the negative effects that standardized testing is having on curriculum. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Efficacy of Tutoring Programs & Math
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A 10 page research paper that offers a template to a student researcher on how to go about conducting a proposed research study that examines the effect of 2 types of tutoring programs, peer-tutoring and a math content master lab, on academic achievement using a sample group of African American special education students within inclusive classrooms. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Eighth and Ninth Graders and Learning to Write -- Perspective of a Behaviorist
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This 4 page report discusses the processes associated with improving the writing skills of 8th and 9th grade students through a number of behavioral processes combined with actual skills development. The challenge is to establish a program, along with all the many other programs that middle school students and high school freshmen must deal with that will assist in enhancing written language skills. No bibliography.
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Elementary Journal Writing
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A 3 page paper assessing two articles describing research into the use of journal writing in the elementary grades. One of the articles is technically sound; the other may be practically useful but is not of empirical quality. The paper analyzes each to conclude that the differences in these two studies illustrate the gulf between useful, valid research and efforts born of mere curiosity. There may be room for each, but those seeking to gain from the research of others need to be able to distinguish the category of work before them. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Elementary Principals' Views on Administration
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A 5 page paper discussing an interview with two elementary school principals. These principals feel that most of their students' parents care, and they are adamant that all of their teachers do. One pervasive problem is that everyone suffers time pressures today, and everyone - including children - experience frustration over how slowly improvement can appear. One gratifying attitude is that all involved, including parents, appear to be hopeful. Administrators, teachers and parents all are aware that practices need to change, though few have definite ideas of what form those changes should take. No sources listed.
Filename: KSeduPrinci.doc

Elementary School Career Guidance Program Proposal
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This 5 page paper responds to a scenario provided by the student wherein students have noted they are bored with the career guidance activities and gender bias exists among the students. This is a proposal that begins with a short overview about today's thoughts of career guidance in elementary schools. The writer then proposes two activities and one career guidance program for the school. Each recommendation notes the objective and expected outcome. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Elementary Science/Inquiry-Based Learning
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A 3 page reaction paper to an article by Elizabeth Wafler, "Inspired Inquiry," which describes Wafler's experience in teaching her fourth grade science class through hands-on experimentation. No additional sources cited.
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