Education is a dynamic instrument of change. Education, in every human community, is an indispensable instrument for human progress, empowerment and effecting national development. It is seen as the best legacy a country can give her citizens. Education is also as essential tool for achieving sustainability. According to Osahon (2001), the school as an institution is primarily established for instruction and learning purposes. Within the ambit of education, educational goals, personnel, curriculum
1.1 Background to the Study In Malaysia, education is one of the six National Key Result Areas (NKRA) identified by the government. The NKRA represents a combination of critical short-term and long-term priorities set by the government to further enhance the development of the country. The Malaysian government is now more focused on aspects which provide the biggest impact on student performance such as school stewardship and the quality of teachers, in addition to the teaching processes in the classroom
INTRODUCTION Science Education In this technological age, science subdues and even drives societies with its ideas and products and it is very likely that the impact of science and technology on people’s lives will persist to exist and increase in the coming years. Through science, the way people think shifts to a more critical approach. Frequently, science has been recognized to be of great significance because of its connection to technology, which, in a government perspective, is a priority area
diversity means the differences between teachers and students. These reasons for differences may be the culture, gender, age, personality, ethnicity etc. We find our classrooms are populated with gifted students, students with culturally diverse, and students with learning disabilities. The diversity variables focus on my analysis are the age group, culture, gender and language. Identifying how different students learn and their learning patterns is a way in which teachers can meet the learning needs of diverse
service , as a solution, school districts inforced the P.E. curriculum because in the desire of building a stronger military, the army required 4 years of physical education. In consequence, congress passed laws that required school districts to adopt different physical education programs, in order to make a stronger youth (“Physical Education” 10-12). Eventually, the rigors of P.E. decreased, due to the end of the war and the beginning of the industrialization era. Society evolved as technology did,
Coble & Murray (1984) found that the most effective teachers were motivated self-actualizers themselves and by implication also the most effective school managers, enhancing the ability of their learners to become self-actualizers as well. Thus, if the education sector could have majority of the high self-actualized preservice and in-service teachers who can more easily and freely give of themselves to humanity more effectively than the average person’s then this could generate effective human resources
comprehensive advice and clear procedures for how teachers and other school staff can integrate and incorporate the framework to help them improve and advance their professional
mathematics teachers have difficulty filling this void while meeting prescribed time frame for units and benchmarks. For this reason, I want to explore the topic: Constructivism: How does constructivism impact the teaching and learning of mathematics in four middle schools in the Greenville School District? As a mathematics teacher, one must consider diversity within the classroom because students acquire knowledge and skills at different times and in different ways. Several teachers are slaves to
attitudes of teachers toward their profession were unfavorable, due to various factors operating within the school organization. Mentioned that among these were the existence of public discrediting for teachers and their profession and the incidence of undemocratic administration and supervision. Good performance of teachers depends on the quality or type of leadership style of school administrators. Horing and Loeb (2010) argue that the importance of school leaders hiring and assigning teachers to classrooms
Children’s Academic Achievement Parents’ involvement in school is one of the most effective and key factor in child education. It creates collaboration between parents and school committee for the betterment of students and the organization. If they both work together on student performance the organization automatically goes toward the development. Therefore, Students show good academic performance when their parents participate in their school events, develop a contributing relationship with educators,