Education: Learning By Communism? Through Freire's " The Banking Concept of Education," we see the effects this concept has on it's students and also we see the effects that the alternate concept, problem-posing has. The 'banking' concept allows the studen...

School uniforms are sets of clothing created by the school and are compulsory for all students. Although there are some negatives to the idea of school uniforms, such as the loss of individuality and a lack of range and choice, but these are far outweighed by the advantages. Uniforms allow students ...

Good Teacher Essay Teachers have the very important responsibility of shaping the lives of young, impressionable children. With this responsibility comes great pride and joy. Therefore all teachers should strive for what can be considered to be a "good teacher." A good teacher can be d...

College Teachers That Don't Care About two semesters ago, I had a teacher at Modesto Junior College that went by the book and didn't make it interesting for the students to learn. I'm not much of a book person and it was very hard to pass that class. I eventually had to drop the c...

There is no best way to learn. Everyone learns differently, and because of this, the best way to learn is the way you learn. A learning style is a certain way that the mind receives and processes new information. There are many different approaches to learning, but the three main styles are visual, ...

Whose Standard? Teaching Standard English How would you feel if you thought every thing that you said was wrong, getting put down and discouraged by others? Most likely you would stop talking and blame yourself for doing those things that were incorrect. Growing up, I had a teacher that would mak...

Richard Rodriguez and Paolo Friere write of education as the core factor in one's life. They feel that education itself lends people to either "achieve" greatness or fall into the majority of "bankers." "The Achievement of Desire" by Rodriguez and "The Banking...

"Educating Hearts and Minds" was replaced by "True to You" last year at Archbishop Watterson High School. The former slogan represented the main goal of Watterson High, to educate the hearts of students through Holy Cross values and to educate the minds of students to a level tha...

The Writer At Work Creating Confidence in a General English Class Scene: A general English classroom. Grade 10. The room, a traditional classroom with yellow lighti...

I believe the purposes of education are necessary for the child to live a successful life. Not only do children learn mathematics, science, history, or english at school, they also learn the social economics and the development of speaking. Everything taught in school will someday benefit the chil...

Standardized tests are exams developed by a government or an association of professional educators; the purpose of theses standardized tests are to supposedly determine whether students of any discipline are grasping the required aspects of a subject field based on a set of data. Recently the admin...

Do you know anything about the learning styles of Whole Language and Phonics? Whole Language envoles the full process of reading, writing and speaking. Phonics is more like a game, where you match sounds with letters and that is supposed to make learning fun. There is a lot of Web sites filled wi...

The Effects of Using Poetry as a Tool to Increase Phonemic Awarenessand Reading Achievement in a Third Grade ClassroomChapter 1: IntroductionToday many children are having difficulty learning to read. Some parents are complaining about public schools not doing their job. On standardized tests, th...

We all learn in different ways, children seem to talk among each other in different ways and different tones. Over the years we have many things to share or talk about with our friends, within time we learn how to talk to each other differently. Male and females talk or share different parts of thei...

"The Arts: They Should Not Be Forgotten"In the words of Harold M. Williams in "Don't Ignore The Arts", he discusses the lack of arts education in today's schools. He states that "the arts are a part of the foundation and framework of a culture" (190). He argues that if our schools do not include ...

School uniforms can encourage equalityEquality can be discussed globally, but it can also be practiced and implemented locally. In every high school across America, we can practice equality in various forms. One of those forms of equality-our treatment of one another-can be expressed in our behavio...

Ian Adelstein. That's what the nurse typed on my birth certificate, as instructed by my parents on a somewhat chilly day in February of 1980. With a bit of arrogance, I might add that the Thirteenth of February will be remembered for this insignificant act when one day my name will join the ranks o...

Cooperative learning can be defined as the participation of students in small group activities that promote positive interaction. I think that students in cooperative learning groups tend to have higher academic test scores, greater self-esteem, and greater comprehension of the skills they are study...

Cooperative learning can be defined as the participation of students in small group activities that promote positive interaction. I think that students in cooperative learning groups tend to have higher academic test scores, greater self-esteem, and greater comprehension of the skills they are study...

As our country moves into the twenty-first century, it must closely evaluate its current system of doing things. Where better to start looking than at its future, today's students? However, an evaluation of today's students would probably not be positive. This is because students fear of fa...

PERSONAL LEARNING STYLEINTRODUCITONLearning styles tell us a lot about ourselves. It is helpful to be aware of one's own learning style for the purposes of learning and teaching. Understanding learning styles is important because everyone has different ways of learning. To gain rapport with a perso...