Underachievement

ADHD stands for Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. It is almost the same thing as ADD, except you’re hyper, and you move a lot. Treatment with medication can help, but it cannot be cured. It can either last through your childhood years and slowly fade, or it can be lifelong. ADHD can cause troubles in many places. ADHD is more serious than some people might think. This illness mostly affects children and young adults. This illness is among three million Americans today. Even if there is

The symptoms of ADHD can vary amongst the individual or age. Research indicates the core childhood symptoms shift with developmental ages. Symptoms in children may manifest as early as infancy. Children will have difficult temperaments, negative moods, high activity levels, and irregular sleeping and eating habits. Toddler age children will begin to demonstrate more behavioral problems, over activity difficulty toileting and over impulsivity. A preschool student may exhibit poor concentration, high

Cause and effect of teen pregnancy Teenagers suffering health problems is high Many teenagers will try to hide the pregnancy from their parents and teachers, in doing this they do not get the initial medical attention required during the first months of pregnancy. It is estimated that 33% of teenage pregnancy fail to receive necessary prenatal care. The lack of prenatal care leads to increased risk of anemia, miscarriage, and high blood pressure to the teenager. Many teenagers will hide their

Steele focuses her argument around high achieving, motivated black student’s underachievement rooted in stereotype threat. She argues that students that are of equal intelligent level underperform due to subtle but powerful impacts of stereotypes, and that colleges can lessen these impacts by addressing the issue through creation of identity

This portfolio seeks to critically reflect on my engagement with the Teach First Leadership Development Program (TFLDP) and how the Continuous Professional Development (CPD) offered as part of the program has influenced my current and future classroom practice. The TFLDP is the official title given to the training program that all Teach First participants are expected to complete. The program is two years in duration, throughout which, participants are offered various forms CPD, all of which falls

Immigration in the modern world can be a tricky subject at times which this article brings into light. In his article, Donn Pittis, goes over the pros and possible problems that come with Canada’s large influx of accepting new refugees to the country. The idea of having to much of good thing is a bad thing come into play a lot while talking about immigration. The article covers how for one the refugees not only help boost and stabilize our economy but also add diversity, creativity, and innovation

In this article, psychologists Claude Steele, Joshua Aronson, and Steven Spencer prove to us about the existent stereotypic threat against African Americans or women that widens that achievement gap which people ignore or tend to think that it does not exist anymore. Many studies have been done where students have not performed well due to stereotypic pressure put onto them by educators and classmates. Steele and Aronson did a study where they give Black and White students the GRE and told them that

Statement of the problem Britz & Batalova, (2013), reported that the United States (U.S.) has seen an increase in the number of immigrants between 2013 and 2014 by 1 million, or 2.5%. According to the American Community Survey (ACS) data, there are 42.4 million, or 13.3% immigrant living in the U.S. as of 2014. In the same report it was noted that 63.2 million of U.S. households speak a language other than English at home. The U.S. public school system has the challenge to educate this large number

lower self-concept and experience more anxiety and isolation, as they progress through school. They also feel more confident if academics situations, as opposed to social ones (p.13). Colangelo points out that gifted students are not except from underachievement, suicide, or delinquency (p.13). Gifted minority

success at school.” (Macionis. J, Plummer.K, 2008) Social class is not the only inequality in Britain’s schooling. Sociologists have also found a link between gender and academic success. Until the late 1980’s there was high concern about the underachievement of girls. Societies had been structured to consider schooling more important for males than for females. Although the gap in gender