Essays on Pedagogy

VARK Analysis Paper The VARK Questionnaire: A guide to learning styles is a calibration of 16-questions (learning scenarios’) and answers (preferred learning styles). At the end of the examination the VARK questionnaire reveals the individual’s learning styles, which is scored between four parts: visual, aural, read/write, and kinesthetic. Each learning style is as different as…

The teacher comments on the knowledge, skills and values embedded in the assessment standards. Learner performance is recorded as a mark along with an indication of Loss & Ass’s being addressed. These records act as an evidence of the learner achievement, which helps the coacher to do the judgment about the learner’s competence against the…

High achievement scores usually indicate a mastery of grade-level material, and the readiness for advanced instruction. Low achievement scores can indicate the need for remediation or repeating a course grade. Before there used to be only four subject areas namely: English (30 percent) Mathematics (30 percent )Science, (30 percent) and Haskell-Hagiographer, Santayana at Sabina (10…

                              Modifications plan. The learning experiences provided by the teacher are what determine the achievement of particular lesson objectives and the long term goals of a particular curriculum unit. As such therefore there is dire need of constant modifications of these learning experiences so as to make the learning process more meaningful and also to…

Robert Gagne and Leslie Briggs came up with different types of instructional prescriptions based on different situation needs. Gagne came up with a theory of how learning occurs while Briggs came up with many instructional development prescriptions and procedures. According to Gagne, learning can be organized in form of hierarchy such as complexity, response generation,…

Many teams have been able to do great work at ease, while other teams struggled and had to grow together. There was a team that had four eager students that wanted to learn and do their best. At the start of their college career, they worked together at ease. Classes started to get harder, and…

Teacher presence is an important facet of all areas of curriculum. Quality interactions between teacher and child form the foundation for a successful and effective early childhood program. This essay will discuss the use of scaffolding as one of the strategies of intentional teaching, and its importance in facilitating children’s play. It will explore various…

My name is Mark, I am fourteen years old and I received my Junior Black Belt in November 2008. Since receiving my Black Belt there have been many changes in my life. In November 2009 my mom and I moved to Jobstown, New Jersey. This is about thirty minutes away from the Medford Amerikick studio….

When tuning-in to group care it would be useful to first of all, provide a definition for what is meant by the term ‘group care’. Ward (2007:13) describes group care as “a place that people attend for some form of organised and purposeful social work help on either a daily or a residential basis”. Group…

Each pair had a tenement about where a plane would be if you looked at where the sound was coming from. The children had to tell me which of the statement were true. Some of the children understood the task and answered correctly. To make sure they were not guessing I asked them why they…