Category: Education 2143

  • The Value of the Knowledge Attained Through a Liberal Arts Education

    Liberal Arts education represents a unique sphere of knowledge involving the best achievements of painting and literature, music, and philosophy. A liberal arts setting includes a college or a university: a given campus, administration, faculty, students, curriculum, written and unwritten rules of conduct which apply in every quarter of the campus, exams, parties, political and…

  • Education, Training and Employment for Young People From the Horn of Africa

    Introduction For a variety of reasons, Australia has welcomed, even encouraged immigration from war-torn nations since early in the last century. The country provided the incentive of permanent settlement and therefore seemed welcome to the early waves of immigrants fleeing the Russian Revolution, World War I and in 1938, Jews who were proven right in…

  • Creation of Successful Presentation

    Table of Contents Introduction Requirements and donts Secrets to winning sales presentation Identifying needs of international audience Practical tips References Introduction Presentation is an important part for companies and individuals in selling themselves or their products and services. This paper looks at some professional advice on how to carryout a successful presentation. Requirements and donts…

  • The Legal Position of Free Appropriate Public Education

    In 2004 the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act was enacted to cater to children with disabilities. Under IDEA a free appropriate public education consists of educational instruction specially designed to meet the unique needs of children with disabilities supported by such services that are necessary to permit the child to benefit from those instructions. In…

  • Lesson Plan Issues: Term Definition

    Sounds are the bases for the further word formation and sentence compiling. Accordingly, at the K-3 level, sounds, i. e. phonics, should be studied first of all. To start the lesson, it is necessary to define the approach used. For my class, I will use the word-building approach. Thus, introducing one of the phonics elements,…

  • Extra Support for English Language Learners

    Introduction From looking and examining the results of the programs participants it can be seen that there is obvious progress in the students performance. From a series of tests that assesses students on how well they listen, speak, comprehend and write in English it is seen that from a total of twelve participants eight students…

  • Cheating in College and Its Forms

    Table of Contents Introduction Cheating in college Conclusion References Introduction College cheating is as old as organized learning. Since organized learning was introduced, students started cheating in order to acquire their grades for what they have learned. This tradition has been on the increase over the years and currently, it has taken a higher level…

  • Writing Class for a Chinese English Learner

    The analysis of the necessary writing activities is considered to be a complicated process influencing the level of language knowledge obtained by a student. Taking into account the fact that the native language of the student under consideration is Chinese, one should stick to the methods and strategies being suitable for foreigners. Low level of…

  • Reflections on Improving the Craft of Writing

    Creativity and the flair for writing are considered as natural traits, and the generally accepted notion is that writers are born and not made. To a certain extent, this is true; the ability to write is an inherent quality in an individual and one cannot expect all humans to be blessed with this talent. On…

  • Metacognitive Strategies in Reading Comprehension

    Table of Contents Metacognition Comprehension and Metacognition Conceptual Framework Strategies Outlined Constructivism Theory Genres Strategy Training Models Zenith-downward identity-parameter Recommendations References Metacognition Metacognition is basically an individuals thoughtful vis-à-vis ones personal cognitive modus operandi and products or anything associated to them. According to Walker B (1978), metacognition integrates the full of zip examination and resultant…