wounded 15 college campus around the untied States have been the target of shootings with tragic results. Since The Virginia Tec shooting, emergency emals and text messages alerts have been put in place to help keep students safe who are not in the classroom with the shooter, however it doesn’t help those who are taken by surprise (Burnette). Utah already has in place a law to allow students to carry weapons on college campuses if the have a concealed weapon permit. Texas has a bill pending that allow
pressure of increasing numbers of students and demographic changes, demands for accountability, reconsideration of the social and economic role of education. This report will explain the education system in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), and the effects and influential factors of technology on the Saudi Educational System. Finally, this report attempts
are teaching. There are many contextual factors one must consider before planning lessons and units because each student brings his/her own experiences into a classroom that shape not only who they are, but how they learn as well. In this essay, I will describe the following contextual factors related to my class: environmental, classroom, and students. I will also discuss the instructional implications these factors will have on the development of my unit. Community, District, School factors Acton
At this age of globalization, there has emerged a need for an international language to be spoken and used as a means for international communication. People of the world nowadays consider English language learning as an important asset to raise their knowledge in different branches of science and technology. Hence, a desire to learn English and communicate through this language is a pervasive phenomenon. Moreover, since English is the most dominant second/foreign language in non-English speaking
Personal Statement I am a very enthusiastic learner and a good communicator with a strong zeal to contribute and make a real difference to young people’s lives and society in general through teaching. I am seeking the position of a primary teacher in a school that will provide me with the opportunity to develop my skills and knowledge as a teacher and achieve a real difference to children’s lives through teaching. I have an excellent rapport, communication skills and ability to mix with children
has been implemented in the classroom for decades now. It was implemented in the social studies classrooms with diverse populations primarily as means of fostering positive student interaction. Cooperative learning was first viewed in the United States as an approach to facilitate racial integration (Dotson, 2011). What makes a cooperative learning a great methodology in teaching social studies and are there any issues when implementing it in the social studies classroom? What is the definition of
CRITICAL REVIEWS ON CORPUS • Corpus Linguistics in Critical Discourse Analysis: A Case Study on News Reports of the 2011 Libyan Civil War1-Sibo Chen School of Communication, Simon Fraser University This paper reports a comparative analysis of the news coverage of the 2011 Libyan civil war in two national media. The 2011 Libyan civil war attracted wide attention and was extensively covered by various media around the world. However, news discourse regarding the war was constructed differently across
social justice in return. In 2006, they led a campaign under the name of “Close the gap” initiative which is still running till now. One of its aims is to close the health gap through implementing the human rights which is based on the social justice report in 2005. Through this campaign, the Aboriginal people, their representative with the governmental support set a health equality plan to help in achieving a better health services (Robinson, Eickelkamp & Katx, 2008). The “National Apology” is another
Think of a seven year old child walking into a classroom. Normally a pretty happy student, he participates in the classroom and focuses on his work. But, on this day the child comes in very moody, unhappy, doesn't really want to do anything, and seems hurt by something. The teacher asks the child what is wrong but the child gives no reply. Thinking that he may be sick the teacher takes the student to the nurse. While the nurse examines the child she lifts up his shirt to find red marks and purple
1. Introduction The history of English language teaching is perhaps as old as the language itself and hence the history of language teaching methodologies. Gebhard (1990) mentions that there is no one method which can be said to be perfect for ally teaching context and situations. This suggests that language teaching involves a blend of different approaches which are underpinned in theoretical perspectives, for instance, the Audio-lingual Method can trace its theoretical foundations in both structuralism