Essays on Education Page 4

The ability to prioritize and multicast enables these tasks to be accomplished efficiently and successfully. Home life has many tasks; taking care of the dogs, daily maintenance and fixing up the house. My handling the multiple tasks of home life allows my wife flexibility in her work schedule. When working in a team environment at…

Harold Garfinkel is a sociologist who had recently passed away in the year 2011. He was born in October of 1917 on the Eastern coast of the United States in New Jersey. Garfinkel’s interest in the study of human behaviors did not come to be until sometime shortly after his college years. Harold Garfinkel was…

A detailed person can be defined as that person who is gifted in reducing the complexity of issues by coming up with clearly interpreted and manageable solutions. Such people can create order out of a messy situation and are often very specific, analytical, organized and will rarely overlook such details as statistics, punctuation outcome or…

In his essay, Mike Rose recounts his upbringing and observations of his mother and uncle performing blue collar work with great skill and ingenuity. He also shares personal experiences of working as a teacher after college, before embarking on a study exploring the cognitive aspects of blue collar work. Although there are undoubtedly exceptional individuals…

Last spring, in the writing class I teach at USC, my students and I discussed Turnitin.com a website at which many high school students and college undergraduates are now required to vet their work. In the digital age, copying others’ research is as simple as hitting Ctrl-C. To ensure that students resist temptation, Turnitin .com…

It helps to identify learner’s current levels of ability and their need for support in functional skills and personal and social skills. This is the time where will get to learn my learner, every learner has to start somewhere. Initial assessment it provides a chance to assess my learner’s current knowledge and experience and will…

Rakesh Sharma has lived with his family in Fremont for 17 years, and currently serves on the Planning Commission. Rakesh is a product of public education with doctorate degree in Clinical Biochemistry from Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College. In 1977, Rakesh and his wife, Ranjana (a Family Physician) left for Japan where he worked at the…

One of the most important dilemmas that educators face is dealing with the relationship between theory and practice. To top it all, teachers have to look upon multifarious theoretical traditions on which they could source their creativity in innovating new programs in teacher education or critiquing ongoing programs. In fact, there are a range of…

Knowledge and Wisdom only have two things in common, both requirea brain and are very hard to obtain. Although knowledge and wisdom seemalike, and are often used interchangeably, they are really very different. When a knowledgeable person enters a room, she tries not to makeherself too noticed, although she does want everyone to acknowledge thatshe…

“Hieroglyphics” is a short story written by Scots writer Anne Donavan. The story is humorous but also portrays a serious message about dyslexia and the struggle the main character Mary has coping with this learning difficulty whilst dealing with an unsupportive family, lack of educational support and a continuous loss of friends. The writer conveys…