Learning

Having an incurable learning disability can be a significant setback to overcome. With the proper help and support, dealing with a learning disability can transition from a terrifying challenge to a small road bump. Late in my high school years I was diagnosed dyslexic. After being tested for dyslexia, I discovered my writing voice my junior year of high school when a teacher taught me proper techniques to overcome dyslexia. Learning I had dyslexia at an older age was challenging. During a routine

For my service learning hours, I decided to assistant coach at Four Corners Charter Upper School. When I took on this task, being tremendously excited to work with the girls there and give back to this school. My role consisted of being the assistant coach to my sister Amanda Ramirez, helping her to guide and train the girls to learn the sport of lacrosse. Having experience in coaching high school girl’s lacrosse, I came in with drills and strategies to be the most effective assistant coach. The

principal, to divulge and share his vision for the school. He did not. Mr. Newson did not display many of the Envisioner traits in my first year. My Envisioner exemplars are David Novak, CEO YUM! Brands and Peter Cohen, President and CEO Sylvan Learning. Each delivered on all of the 10 Traits of Highly Effective Principals promulgated by Elaine McEwan. David exhibited Envisioner skills such as the hedgehog concept by focusing on multi-branding. Peter

Recently I took a service learning trip to Cambodia with my school, where we traveled with a non-profit organization named No Barriers USA and a non-governmental organization called Sustainable Schools International. On the trip I was able to learn so many interesting things about the culture, history, economic issues, and small NGOs working in the country to improve education. It is very important to me to learn about other countries and people, especially the ones who need help the most. My mother

Introduction: In an online eLearning environment, learning contents are provided in a variety of formats including written text, images, graphs, charts, tables, audio, videos, animations etc. Most of the time the contents are mixed to suit the learners need. There are number of online learning sites available that provides learning contents to variety of purposes including educational content and skill improvement learning contents. Various intelligent tutoring systems are available that addresses

discussing parts of the topic, not directly in the curriculum. "Teach to the test" is critical because it focuses on essential content and skills, eliminates time-wasting activities that don't produce learning gains, and motivates students to excel. Each time this "AP learning" occurs the students are learning about actual life and wasting valuable time they could be using to teach these crucial exams. Teachers are paid an average of $45,850 a year, while a new report by the Washington-based Brown Center

I have experience in both learning from the traditional classroom and learning from the online setting. I can easily identify the differences between these two types of learning environments. The two main differences can be divided by two categories which are flexibility and class discussions (Bethel University, n.d.) ?There is far less flexibility in a traditional classroom (Bethel University, n.d.). As a formal student of a traditional classroom learning environment, I had to physically

I think of teaching as a process of mutual learning. I feel strongly that students are best served by an educator who respects and builds on the diverse abilities they bring with them to the classroom. As a teacher, I am not the gate-keeper to knowledge, but a facilitator and participant in the learning process. To that end, my main goal in a classroom is establishing a safe space for open communication. Through writing exercises, close readings, class discussion, and group projects, I want to

I must admit that I have always looked at this type of course as being a complete waste of time. After taking the Learning Connections Inventory, I've discovered that I'm a Dynamic Learner according to the results of the questionnaire. It's totally shed some light on the how, what, when and why of my success and failures in my educational as well as personal and professional life. In the Sequence category, I scored a 16. I was actually surprised by this score being as high as it was. I'm not a

Secret of Learning Things: How Learning Might Interest People At the end of article “How to Make It in College, Now That You’re Here,” the writer Brain O’Keeney mentions, “Going to college can be an exciting time. You do learn. And when you learn things, the world becomes a more interesting place” (690). Sometimes, deciding in how to learn things or understand points is uninteresting, but there are lots of ways that help people to refresh their brain, and to make learning interest. Learning can be exciting