Educational psychology

The newspaper article I chose was Preschool’s Hidden Values May be in Combating Poverty. This article was very interesting to read because it talked a lot about how some parents feel that preschool is not necessary. It also shows facts and numbers on children who graduate and attend college depending on if they had gone to preschool or not. This article also explains how some neighborhoods offer head start preschool and some parents chose not to send their children which is their choice but my…

In this lesson we will review how to choose and assessment tool for your students, how to administer and interpret a running record and how to analyze a class set of data. By the end of this lesson you should be able to use assessments and running records to better understand the readers in your classroom. Choosing the Right Assessment Tool: When choosing the right assessment tool for your students you must keep in mind where they are in the reading process. For emergent readers, children who…

In the book Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes and the movie are both about a boy named Charlie Gordon has a learning disability, so his IQ is lower than other people. He attends a school for adults who also have learning disabilities. Charlie gets a surgery that can triple his IQ. The movie and book have many differences. In the book the movie takes place in the 60s but in the movie it takes place in the 80s. Another difference is in the book Charlie wrote progress reports to show his…

adopting appropriate educational discourses to foster appreciation, respect for, and inclusion of, diverse learners) to lead to reforms in society. The social reconstructionist goals of the Melbourne Declaration are reflected in the Australian Curriculum in both the general capabilities…

In the beginning of his article, Steve Nelson compares the standardized test known as the Common Core to a Lego kit. As an art education major, a Lego kit sounds enjoyable compared to teaching the common core, but Mr. Nelson states that these kits instruct the user to create a certain object. The Common Core is supposed to evaluate students just like if a teacher were to hand out a Lego kit, ask the kids to make the same exact object, and evaluate each student that way. One clear problem pops up…

In the first article "What reading does for the mind" Anne E. claims that reading makes you a smarter person, the more you read the more you get better and overcome other forms of knowledge that had been transformed in development of the cognitive abilities. The more you read the more you increase and enrich your vocabulary more than talking or listening. Reading is the base of learning a language. The research " Teaching Reading Is Rocket Science" shows that a child who does not learn the…

The way Kaplan University would help me with my current and future goals is often a great education, and a “powerful resources and technology that will help me turn my academic achievement into real career accomplishment” (Kaplan University , 2015). I believe that Kaplan is the best place for me to continue my education. Kaplan University Career Services can assist me in obtaining my career goals by “provides comprehensive career planning to alumni and students at all levels of study”. They…

Jorge Palacios ITIS-2211-265 Education Most of us at a young age are taught that reading is a chore, which is given to us by the American education system. The system is better known as the common core, it is steadily ruining the love and passion children, teens, and young adults could develop for writing and reading literature. It all takes back to around the ages of five, or possibly younger if parents are determined, children are unwilling forced to read whatever the “states” curriculum…

Before actually watching the video “Responding to Literature, “In writing this paper, I thought this was a good quote from the narrator as he said, “I see my role in two ways. One is as a reader, and second responding just like the kids while having a watchful ear on how their reading and thinking are going and how they are growing through the story and learning. [While] I'm helping kids make connections, at the same time I want to be involved in that reading and thinking process myself in a…

The Journal article, “What Makes a Great Maker-Space?” introduces ideas and strategies to incorporate learning labs and STEAM labs into the schools. The term makerspaces is used to describe an environment where students have the freedoms to explore ideas and problem solve with and without the use of technology. A high school math teacher named Casey Shea was approached about an education project where spaces were designed to promote thinking and creativity. The makerspace does not need to be…