According to Tannen (1992), there are fundamental differences between male's and female's communication method, which is "genderlects", as a takeoff on language dialects. However, gendered perceptions of teachers might be related to differences in teaching styles. Lacey, Saleh, and Gorman (1998) originated male teachers' styles to be more dominant and strict, whereas female's styles were more relaxed and unfasten toward students and their ideas. Ratings were made of differences affecting the ...
Introduction The ability to learn is one of the successes in the knowledge society. Burns (1995) idea about learning is that learning is a relatively permanent change in behaviour with behaviour including both observable activity and internal processes such as thinking, attitudes and emotions. Burns also considers that learning might not manifest itself in observable behaviour until sometime after an educational program has taken place. Teachers adopt a lot of teaching strategies in order to ...
This main objective of this article is to examine the relationship between independent variables and knowledge transfer in relation in Malaysian community colleges. Empirical research is used to determine perceptions of students on the relationship. In addition to that, the impact of parental involvement on the above relationship was studied. The variables used based on previous related knowledge transfer study. The results of multi regression and hierarchical analysis supported the hypothese...
Parental Involvement is critically important in a childs education. Research has shown that parents positive involvement with their childrens schooling is associated with many encouraging outcomes. There are many parents who want to be involved in their childs day to day activities, but many circumstances enable this opportunity. Despite their best intentions to support their children, there are many barriers that prohibit the support. John Wherry (2009) discusses ways to overcome barriers th...
Nationally, there is an expectation that all students, by the end of high school, will be college and career ready, and diverse learners to include English Language Learners and students with disabilities, as well as those who are educated in urban settings are no exception. As schools prepare students to meet this expectation, they must provide them with not only the social consciousness, attitudes, and beliefs needed to be successful in post-secondary education and employment, but also the ...
Cooperative learning benefits all students, from the higher academic level to the lower academic level. This paper will go over all the benefits of cooperative learning for English Language Learners (ELL). Benefits include learning from their peers, learning academic vocabulary, and developing cognitive language skills. This paper will also go over the benefits of cooperative learning for students how are not English Language Learners. Cooperative learning also benefits peer relationships whi...
The most distinctive feature of modern society is science based technology. The changes that occur as a result of the impact of its are called as modernization. This modernization has affected teaching .learning in many ways. Modern teaching learning is giving importance to students activity. It is called student centered approach. In a traditional society the aim of teaching learning acquisition of knowledge. But in modern society the main aim of teaching learning is not only acquisition of ...
Introduction Motivation is something that causes a person to act in a certain way which, mostly deals with the behaviour of that person. What is the role of motivation in classroom life of the children? Why do children choose to work on one task and not another? Why do some children dropout even before they really start? Why do some children exhibit less energy on pursuit of the task? The answer is lack of motivation. Who is responsible for this? It is really frustrating and pity to know that...
Globalisation affects the country's culture and economy development. There is impact of globalisation for children and families in both developed and developing countries. There are positive and negative implications for globalisations. In the developing countries, such as Africa, children were not supposed to view themselves as individuals - on your own and without the constant intimate presence of others - is the worst kind of punishment. (Penn, 2004) In this way, children may not be able t...
It cannot be taken away that the family is the most important institution in rearing and educating a child. The family provides not only the most fundamental support but it also provides the lifelong connection for which the child belongs. Its importance has been repeatedly stressed in numerous literatures but because of its commonality, it is continuously being underscored. Urie Bronfenbrenner (1979), an advocate of parent participation in the classroom, wrote "the family seems to be the mos...