Education: Recent submissions
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The Arts in Common Core: Strategies to Teach Common Core Standards Using the Performing Arts
(2016-04-01)There are many benefits of integrating dramatic activities and learning opportunities into the everyday life of one’s classroom, both academically and socially. Creative drama and imaginative activities provide students ... -
Gender Differences In Science Education: How gender has impacted the face of science in the United States
(2015-04-01)Historically, there existed a large achievement gap between male and female students in STEM fields in the United States. While this gap has drastically decreased, there are still areas of inequity. Recent data show that ... -
Behavioral Factors Influencing Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Study of Fourth Grade Behaviors
(2012-04-01)“Let me see if Philip can Be a little gentleman Let me see, if he is able to sit still for once at table; thus Papa bade Phil behave; And Mamma look’d very grave. But fidgety Phil, He won’t sit still, He wriggles and ... -
He Came To Consult With The People: Montana And Woodrow Wilson's 1919 Treaty Of Versailles Ratification Tour
(2010-04-01)At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, 1918, the fighting that had raged across Europe, destroying millions of lives and devastating a continent, ceased with the signing of an armistice. Life ... -
Sudden Cardiac Arrest: The Silent Killer
(2007-04-01)The sudden death of young athletes is unexpected and disturbing to all involved (Courson & Drezner, 2006). Recently, there was a local, young, active male who was a victim of this genetic heart flaw. Sudden cardiac death ... -
Anton Makarenko in American Education
(2005-04-01)Anton Makarenko, one of the predominant Soviet educational theorists of the 1930s, developed a unique system of education designed to reeducate the juvenile delinquents who plagued the Soviet Union following the Bolshevik ... -
“I Wish I Would Have Known: A Guide to Study Abroad”
(2004-04-01)Where should I go, Mexico or Spain? When I began a year long journey with lifelong results, that was the first question I asked myself. I knew, before I was even a student at Carroll College, that I would spend a year of ... -
Personality And Psychological Assessment In Athletes: A Comparison Of Four Varsity Sports
(2003-04-01)The purpose of this study was to investigate differences in personality types among athletes and how personality plays a role in sport participation and selection. In this investigation of male and female varsity athletes, ... -
Direct and Indirect Instruction: Two Essential Components Used to Teach Reading in an Interdisciplinary Unit Plan
(1998-04-01)This purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the effectiveness of teaching directly and indirectly in order to help students develop reading skills and the motivation to read throughout life. Through the means of a review ... -
You say you want a revolution: Integrating rock 'n' roll music into the social studies classroom
(1997-04-01)Among the many challenges that faces the social studies teacher is finding new and exciting ways to demonstrate historical events. This paper will examine using popular music, particularly rock 'n' roll music, to assist ... -
Learning Modalities: Significance And Application
(1996-04-01)People are unique in many ways, including the way they learn. Teachers who teach through modality strengths take advantage of individual learning styles to increase the rate of learning by providing information through the ... -
Whispers From The Bardo
(1994-04-01)I had no goals for this collection. In early meetings, I made statements like "I want to experiment with as many different approaches as possible," and "I want to examine the nature of storytelling," and all sorts of equally ... -
Oral Presentation Of Literature K-8: Values And Practices
(1992-04-01)I first became aware of the benefits of reading aloud to students as a teacher’s aide in a high school resource room. There, on numerous occasions, I was amazed by the positive effects of oral presentation of literature. ... -
The Learning Disabled and Computer-Assisted-lnstruction
(1987-04-01)Not all children can learn at the same rate or through the same methods. Everyone, whether adult or child, male or female, has areas in which they are gifted, average, and deficient. In one way or another, individuals learn ... -
Self-Concepts Of Gifted Children Grades Five Through Nine
(1987-04-01)As our society changes, the need for persons who have the intelligence and abilities to meet the requirements of the ever-expanding world in which we live increases. It is with this need in mind that gifted children have ... -
Exotic Animals From A To Z: A Picture Dictionary For Mentally Retarded Junior High and High School Students
(1984-04-01)The purpose of this animal picture dictionary is to teach and develop in the educably mentally retarded student the skills of alphabetizing, recalling facts, defining terms, finding the main idea and msxingiinferences. ... -
The Role Of Western Art In Lewis And Clark County Fifth Grade Classrooms And The Instructional Potential Of The Art Of Tucker Smith
(1984-04-01)The purpose of this project was three-fold. The first was to determine the extent to which Western art is used in fifth grade classrooms in Lewis and Clark County. The second was to determine the possibility of expanded ... -
The Touch Of A Hand: The Importance Of Touch In The Elementary School
(1982-04-01)There is much more to the Elementary School classroom than simply the fundamental skills of reading, writing and arithmetic for it is within these rooms that children grow and develop. Many lives are influenced within the ... -
Dysmenorrhea: The Effect Of Daily, Regular Strenuous Physical Exercise On Women Between The Ages Of Seventeen and Twenty-Two
(1981-04-01)I. Introduction: In 1934 a female "Voice of Experience" gave the following advice to young readers: Girls should not exercise, play tennis or wear high-heeled shoes during their periods; such activity can cause a prolapsed ... -
Comparison Of Departmental Performances Of Motor Skills
(1979-04-01)30 students performed in four motor skill tests, 1) Spatial halations, 2) O’Connor Tweezer Dexterity, 3) Bilateral Transfer and 4) Movement Time, For the purpose of experimentation I chose ten students from each area of ...