Florida Virtual School
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This 3 page paper reports some facts about this school, the first statewide virtual school in the nation. Funding and staffing are reported as are the mission and purpose of the school. The writer comments on the different operational structure for this school and reports the latest addition, a comprehensive analysis system. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Formal vs. Informal Education
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A 3 page paper examining the issue of whether students benefit more from a self-directed (or job-based) learning system versus a formal college program. The paper suggests that students should first learn informally on the job and supplement the gaps with formal education. No sources cited.
Filename: Formalv.wps

Formulating an ESL Theory
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A 10 page research paper that discussing ESL instruction. The field of “teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL)” brings together individuals from diverse backgrounds to exchange knowledge on the topics of “teaching, learning and research” (Kubota and Lin, 2006, p. 171). This is an extremely complex field, and one fascinating aspect of this field is how various environmental and physiological factors affect second language learning. This examination of literature attempts to formulate a theory that can be utilized in relation to teaching English as a second language (ESL). Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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Fountas and Pinnell’s “Guiding Readers and Writers (Grades 3-6)”: Summary, Review and Critique
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This is a 5 page summary, review and critique of Irene C. Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell’s resource text “Guiding Readers and Writers (Grades 3-6)”. Irene C. Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell’s resource text “Guiding Readers and Writers (Grades 3-6): Teaching Comprehension, Genre, and Content Literacy” (2000) provides the next essential teaching steps in the educational process after their introductory reading and writing texts for the earlier grades. This text addresses the unique and more mature content handled in the later elementary grades while it “explores all the essential components of quality literacy programs in six separate sections: breakthrough to literacy; independent reading; guided reading; literature study; teaching for comprehension and word analysis; and, the reading and writing connection”. The writers have different focus and targets intended to benefit from this book; the teachers and the students as it will help teachers educate students how to “discover their voices as writers and refine their instincts as readers” and will establish a foundation for teachers to attain this goal. Overall, the book provides a highly comprehensive and more importantly, practical application of the methods they outline which also includes many resource materials for direct application to the learning environment from which teachers will highly benefit. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Four-Blocks Literacy Framework: Literature Review
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15 pages in length. Reaching and teaching all students in today's troubled academic climate - no matter their (in)capacity to learn - has presented quite a challenge for educators who are often faced with the responsibility of instructing many different types of students within a single classroom. Various methods have been introduced as a means by which to address a system whereby at-risk students fall through the cracks because of not being taught in a way they understand, however, not all have demonstrated a true ability to overcome the struggle. Drs. Dorothy Hall and Patricia Cunningham recognize how all children do not learn alike and therefore require "substantial instruction to support the learning personalities of all students" (Hall et al, 2001), which is why they developed the Four-Blocks Literacy Model. As a "multilevel, balanced literacy framework" (Hall et al, 2001), Four-Blocks incorporates four separate components into each day's lesson plans that instruct children as to how they can read, write and spell better, an approach that focuses upon the academic diversity found in today's schools. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
Filename: TLCFourBlocks.rtf

Fred Jones Model & Classroom Management
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A 3 page brief overview of the classroom management model offered by Dr. Fred Jones in his text Tools for Teaching. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Free Writing Frees The Student To Learn
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This six-page-paper presents a discussion on the merits of free style or expressive writing in the classroom. The advantages and disadvantages of allowing and encouraging that style of writing are all outlined and discussed. Bibliography lists five sources.
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Freshman Wings
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This 8 page paper considers the creation of freshman wings, where high school freshman are placed in separate wings, that include their classes, meals and electives, in order to improve performance, reduce disciplinary problems and address transition issues for 9th grade students. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: MHedkent.wps

Froebel
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A five page paper which looks at the contribution made to the educational system by Froebel, and the way in which his methods are continuing to be utilised in Montessori schools. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: JLfroebel.rtf

Full Option Science System (FOSS)
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This 6 page paper provides a description and explanation of the FOSS program, in general, and the modules for Grade 1, in particular. The writer comments on the success of the program. The essay ends with recommendations to improve the program. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: PGfoss.rtf

Future Trends in Technology and Education
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This 4 page paper examines the problem of public education and why schools do not incorporate trends. An article by Thornburg is evaluated. This reaction paper also includes the opinions of other authors. This paper argues that public education will likely never change because it is designed to indoctrinate as opposed to educate. The class divide is discussed. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: SA426Edu.rtf

Futuristic Education Or The Future Of Education
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This 6 page paper offers some ideas about the future of education. There are four sections: the school/curriculum of the future in which the writer those skills and attributes that will be important and the role of technology in them; the child, where descriptions of three children are provided and what they might be doing in terms of learning; the home and its importance; and the teacher and how the role will change. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Gender and the Capacity for Learning Mathematics
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An in-depth, 20 page research paper in which the writer seeks to determine whether which sex is more apt to have problems grasping math concepts at an early age. Report contains analysis, methodology, discussion, etc; Numerous studies are cited and it is found that while girls generally perform better, they are more likely to avoid harder levels of math than are their male counterparts. Standard bibliography lists 20+ sources and a FREE annotated ('working') bibliography is included !
Filename: Mathgend.wps

Gender Inequities In Education
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This 5 page paper discusses the issue of gender inequality in the public school system. There are strong arguments supporting socialization as a key factor in gender differences between boys and girls and schools are a major center for socialization. The first imbalance observed by children is the number of female versus the number of male teachers. Research, however, concludes that both male and female teachers treat girls and boys differently. This paper presents some of the evidence found in the literature. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: PGgnded.rtf

General Methods of Teaching for Primary-age Children
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A 7 page research paper that examines what current research is saying about general methods for classroom instruction for primary-age students. Some of the findings are surprisingófor example, there is current a trend away from reading readiness material. Bibliography lists 4 sources. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Geography / Art Lesson Plan
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A 3 page paper the provides a lesson plan for 6th graders that integrates geography and art. The lesson plan includes a description of the activities, including the teacher's role and what students are to do with each type of map. Includes assessment activity of drawing a map of the route from school to home with certain criteria. No Bibliography.
Filename: PGgeort.rtf

Gifted And Talented Education In The United Kingdom
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This 43 page research report addresses gifted education with an emphasis on the United Kingdom. The report begins with a brief history of gifted education (in the 1870s in New Jersey, USA) and includes the change in focus from intellectual cognitive ability to a broader perspective. Topics addressed in the report include: the definition of giftedness and how that has changed and why, underachievement, methods for identifying gifted children, including tests, teacher recommendations and checklists, identification by provision and identification by provision in practice, Freeman's Sports approach, comments on nature vs nurture, can giftedness be developed, characteristics of the gifted child, emotional/social development, implications for teachers, preparing teachers to work with the gifted, and comments about programs for the gifted. While most of the research is applicable to giftedness anywhere, there is an emphasis on the UK. Bibliography lists 24 sources.
Filename: PGukgft.rtf

Gifted And Talented Education Programs
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This 6 page paper investigates the history of gifted and talented education programs and explains the changes that have evolved in identifying GATE students. Controversies surrounding the program are also discussed. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: Gtep.wps

Gilyard/Language Competence & Teaching English
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A 5 page research paper that summarizes and analyzes three chapters from Keith Gilyard's Voices of the Self: A Study of Language Competence. The writer argues that this text provides a useful tool to those students contemplating careers in education as English teachers, particularly in regards to students who are white. This is because Gilyard, as an African American English teacher, draws on his personal experience to discuss aspects of the problem of transmitting language skills in Standard English to African American students. This examination of Gilyard's text profiles the conclusions and themes presented in three representative chapters. No additional sources cited.
Filename: khgilyad.rtf

Graded v. Nongraded Classrooms
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A 15 page research paper that presents the suggested framework for a proposed study on performance of student in nongraded classrooms as compared to student in graded classrooms on standardized tests. The writer offers extensive background material and a broad literature review as well as suggestions for methodology. Bibliography lists 30 sources.
Filename: khgvng.rtf

Grammar – What Teachers Need to Know
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A 30 page research paper that examines how grammar has traditionally been taught and argues in favor of a shift in paradigm that favors teaching within the context of writing and reading. The writer offers an examination of the current body of literature on this topic – with particular emphasis on the work of Constance Weaver, Department of English at Western Michigan University, author of Teaching Grammar in Context. Bibliography lists 28 sources.
Filename: khgammar.wps

Grant Proposal/Alternative Program to Suspension
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A 16 page research paper that presents a hypothetical grant proposal to start an alternative program to out-of-school suspension in the Palm Beach County School District in Florida. The writer discusses why suspension and zero tolerance policies have not worked to correct disciplinary problems; reviews literature on alternative programs; and recommends the RALLY program designed by Noam, Warner and Dyken (2001). Budgetary considerations and evaluation processes are also discussed. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
Filename: khzerono.rtf

GROUPTHINK AND THE TEACHER
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This 3-page paper discusses groupthink and its position in the standard academic organization. The paper discusses how groupthink manifests itself in the classroom, and how it could be avoided. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: MTgrotea.rtf

Guiding Children's Reading in Content Area Instruction
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A 5 page research paper that discusses the topic of using reading strategies to guide students' comprehension of content instruction. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: khreadct.rtf

Gustavson's "A Preface To History" (Teaching) / Analytical Reflections
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A 12 page paper discussing and analyzing Carl Gustavson's classic text on how history has been mis-taught, and how it could be taught more effectively to increase our understanding and retention of it. Gustavson's contention is that most people have been taught history illogically. Rather than seeing the subject as simply the earlier stage of development of a current situation, they plunge in and begin trying to tie names to dates to places to events, without any frame of reference or particular goals in mind (other than passing the course!). No other sources cited.
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Haas Dyson/Writing Superheroes
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A 3 page research paper that discusses Haas Dyson’s studies of young children, which encompasses the “social and ideological processes” that underlie “children’s use of media symbols—especially the superhero—as material for constructing textual and social worlds” (Hass Dyson 3). In her text she shows the ways in which popular culture is an omnipresent element in a second grade classroom that aids children in linking “literacy, identity and their relations and representation of self” both within the school environment and the broader context of their communities (“Popular Culture”). Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: khhasdy.rtf

Hans Magnus Enzensberger’s “The Number Devil”
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This 3 page report discusses Enzensberger’s The Number Devil (1998) which is a “mathematically minded fantasy. In it, the adventures of 12-year-old Robert with the enigmatic “Number Devil” leads him to reach certain understandings about mathematical concepts that no teacher had ever demonstrated for him. Bibliography lists only one source.
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Head Start Program Research Proposal
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A 63 page paper that presents a research proposal project. Includes abstract. Chapter 1 includes: introduction, background, problem statement, purpose, definitions, hypothesis, research questions. Chapter 2 is the literature review, which is subdivided into the historical and legal background of Head Start and Early Head Start, including the program's mission, goals and outcome exceptions, and a report of research conducted over the years. Research studies that support and do not support the program are reported. The writer also points to the contradictions not only between research studies but also in the interpretation of the same data by different "experts." The writer also points to the expectations in terms of the original purpose of the program and he disparity between these. Chapter 3 is the Methods section and begins with comments and recommendations from the Head Start Bureau regarding research projects. The population to be studied is identified, assessment process, demographics to be considered. The results section comments on what the researcher might want to do. The Discussion section provides a hypothetical discussion of the study's results. Data are included. Bibliography lists 29 sources.
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Health & PE/Differentiated Instruction
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A 4 page research paper that discusses differentiated instruction in general and then focuses on applying these principles to health and physical education classrooms. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Health Education Teaching Strategies
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In this 3 page paper, the writer offers an overview of the 'seven by seven' health education curriculum in Hawaii, an introduction to the Personal, Social and Health Education program in the United Kingdom and provides an example using a nutrition unit. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: PGhlteg.rtf

Helping The Shy Student
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This 4 page paper provides only the briefest of introductions to the shy student. The majority of this essay is an outline of numerous strategies and tips for teachers to help the shy student learn and gain skills. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: PGshy.rtf

High School Dropouts/North Toledo, OH
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An 8 page research paper that examines the problem of high school dropouts in North Toledo, Ohio. This evaluation of this problem attempts to outline the dimensions of the problem using demographic statistics and then discusses how the problem has thus far been addressed by public school and city officials as well as proposed solutions that have been presented in related literature. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: khntol.rtf

High School Language Arts Advance Organizer Lesson
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An 8 page paper. The writer provides an overview of the theory underlying advance organizers, including the purpose and elements of this model. An advance organizer is then presented for a language arts high school class. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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High School Lesson Plan Analysis
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A 6 page paper that uses a student-provided lesson plan as the catalyst for the paper. The first section is a list of strategies the teacher used during the lesson. The rest of the paper responds to specific questions: what constructivist ideas are included in the lesson; what socio-cultural elements are included; and what information processing techniques were used. Each is discussed with specific examples from the lesson plan. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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High School Principal Leadership
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A 15 page paper. What makes an effective high school principal? This is the primary focus on this essay. The high school principalship is an extremely complex and diverse job and it is one that fewer administrators are willing to take. The writer discusses the different roles of the principal and the characteristics and activities of effective principals. Examples and case studies are included. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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High School Scheduling
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A 13 page paper that reviews 13 journal articles about high school scheduling. The emphasis is on block scheduling. Some articles report results of studies comparing outcomes of block and traditional scheduling, others discuss issues of concern. Statistical data included. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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High School Students: Reasoning
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5 pages in length. The ability to understand is based within a foundation of several elements that work in a synchronistic fashion, with one of those facets being the aptitude for reasoning. Richard Stiggins has long been the point person with regard to how and why humans reason, often pointing to several types of reasoning as the basis upon which people can ultimately draw educated conclusions. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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High Stakes Testing
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A 6 page research paper that discusses the effects of high stakes testing on student instruction and performance. A brief literature review looks at several published studies in order to determine what is know about the effects of high-stakes testing. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: khefhst.rtf

High Stakes Testing/Time for Change
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A 10 page research paper that examines the ramifications of high-stakes testing on the American educational system. The standards movement has taken hold and has become the dominant paradigm in the American educational landscape. Furthermore, through such various state-mandated legislated standards, as well as the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), high-stakes testing has become not only the dominant philosophy, but a legalistic requirement. Nevertheless, various experts in the field of education argue that the foundational philosophy behind high-stake testing is fundamentally flawed, and should be changed in order for the educational goals of the NCLB to be achieved. This examination of the issues involved in this debate look at the ramifications of high stakes testing both from the viewpoint of education theory and also from a legalistic standpoint. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Higher Education Classroom Management
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A 5 page paper that focuses on classroom management in college classrooms. Contrary to what many college instructors, especially new instructors, believe, a classroom discipline or management plan must be developed. This essay offers ideas and suggestions for developing such a plan. Glasser's work is cited in terms of choice theory, drive theory and classroom meetings. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Hinchey on Critical Theory
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A 5 page book review on Patricia H. Hinchey's text Finding Freedom in the Classroom: A Practical Introduction to Critical Theory. The writer summarizes the author's argument, describes principal themes, discusses these themes and their implications for education and offers a positive endorsement of the book. The writer feels that Hinchey's purpose in writing this text is to help teachers see the need to switch from a positivist to a constructivist view of education. No additional sources cited.
Filename: khhinch.rtf

Hispanics in the California Classroom
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A 5 page paper that considers the problems, issues and situations that occur as California classrooms become increasingly bilingual, and also provides an overview of techniques to improve student outcomes. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: Hispaniced.rtf

HISTORICAL CURRICUMS – US AND UK EDUCATIONS
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This 5-page paper focuses on history curricula and its importance. The paper discusses the curriculum in both the U.S. and UK and discusses potential changes. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: MTcurhis.rtf

History Of Educational Psychology - Emergence Of Cognitive Psychology
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A 3 page outline of a future paper that provides a brief introduction and then, continues as an outline with headings and subheadings and sometimes includes full sentences and that leads up to the emergency of cognitive pyshcology. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: PGhstedp.RTF

History/Education & Educational Psychology
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A 5 page research paper that offers an overview of the historical foundations of education, psychology and how they combine in educational psychology. The writer gives a brief sketch of the men and concepts that makeup this history. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: khedpsy.rtf