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- 131: The John Scopes Trial
- ... John Scopes Trial July of 1925 saw the most celebrated American battle between creation and evolution: the Scopes “Monkey” Trial. The defendant, John T. Scopes was found guilty of violating a Tennessee law forbidding the teaching of evolution in public schools. Although the penalty was small (a $100 fine paid by someone else), the ramifications were anything but. The verdict would later be overturned in a higher court, and evolution became standard teaching in classrooms across America. This ruling was a huge win for science and the separation of church and state, and a crushing blow to the fundamentalist movement. The Scopes “Monkey” Trial, having been called “the ... old precedent of geocentricism. This was looked upon as an act of heresy, and Galileo was nearly burned at the stake. Thus, when a schoolteacher in the south decided to stray from the norm by teaching a new and controversial theory of evolution, it was no surprise that there was considerable backlash from religious groups. The supporters of literal interpretation of the Bible were alarmed at Darwin’s theories because ...
- 132: Dyslexia
- ... law 94- 142, called, “educational bill or rights”, ensures “free appropriate education for all students with special needs” (Weger, 13). Now, there are many other federal laws that require schools to test for learning disabilities. Teaching someone with dyslexia is quite different from teaching someone without a learning disability. Some people think that dyslexics are dumb or stupid because they have a difficult time with reading and writing. But, the largest group of exceptional children have learning disabilities. Many ... put in special education classes. Kindergarten and first grade are the best times to help teach a child to overcome their learning disability because they have not developed a solid routine for learning yet. When teaching a child with dyslexia you should always go by a schedule, do the same thing at the same time every day, so it will eventually become a routine. When choosing activities the teacher should ...
- 133: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- ... of education was to teach men, women and children to think for themselves instead of excepting other people's opinions as their own. She felt that learning centers at the turn of the century were teaching females with masculine content and philosophy. Gilman maintained that the educational philosophy needed to be changed because it was still too narrow in thinking since masculine traits were defined as human while female traits were ... educated to think like men. Once education was feminized, she believed that women could place an emphasis on social responsibility and specialized knowledge, which would develop them to their full potential. Gilman said that by teaching women to dedicate their lives to the common good that it would free them from the daily household routines and help them to recognize their connection and contribution to the world around them and become ... the needs of its young. In Herland, another of her works, she said that children should start their education in infancy. Well-trained professionals should teach this education since motherhood was not a guarantee of teaching abilities. Throughout her long career as a feminist writer and lecturer, Gilman was never comfortable with labels. "I was not a reformer but a philosopher," she wrote in her autobiography. "I worked for various ...
- 134: Comparison of To Kill A Mockingbird With the Dewey Decimal System
- ... education. This is clear when Scout says, “What Jem called the Dewey Decimal System was school wide by the end of my first year, so I had no chance to compare it to any other teaching technique, I could only look around me” (Lee 37). Dewey’s educational philosophy was the new way students were to be taught in the Maycomb schools. It stressed the hands on experiential method of teaching. Jem easily confused John Dewey’s new way of teaching with Melvil Dewey’s classification system because it was the Dewey Decimal System that he was familiar with since he was such an avid reader. Scout mentioned in the book that Jem read every ...
- 135: The Need for Federal Government Involvement in Education Reform
- ... S HAPPENING OUT THERE? There are two major movements in recent years whose focus is to enhance the education of future generations. The "Standards" movement focuses on educational content and raising the standards of traditional teaching and measurement means and methods. The "Outcome Based Education" (OBE) movement is exploring new ways of designing education and changing the way we measure the effectiveness of education by focusing on results or outcomes. STANDARDS ... The key is to custom fit the schools to each student's learning style and abilities. The resulting schools will be vastly different from the ones recent generations attended. Yearly and daily schedules will change, teaching responsibilities will change, classroom activities will change, the evaluation of student performance will change, and most importantly, our perception of what it means to be an educated person will change. Common Arguments in Favor of ... Fosters more authentic forms of assessment (i.e., students write to show they know how to use English well, or complete math problems to demonstrate their ability to solve problems). * Encourages decision making regarding curriculum, teaching methods, school structure and management at each school or district level. Common Arguments Against Outcome-Based Education * Conflicts with admission requirements and practices of most colleges and universities, which rely on credit hours and ...
- 136: Significance of Dewey Decimal System With To Kill a Mockingbird
- ... education. This is clear when Scout says, “What Jem called the Dewey Decimal System was school wide by the end of my first year, so I had no chance to compare it to any other teaching technique, I could only look around me” (Lee 37). Dewey’s educational philosophy was the new way students were to be taught in the Maycomb schools. It stressed the hands on experiential method of teaching. Jem easily confused John Dewey’s new way of teaching with Melvil Dewey’s classification system because it was the Dewey Decimal System that he was familiar with since he was such an avid reader. Scout mentioned in the book that Jem read every ...
- 137: Dyslexia
- ... other relatives have dyslexia that means that there is a chance that your own child could have it. Unlike what most people think, dyslexia is not to be blamed on the parent for negligence in teaching reading and writing. Dyslexia is not any ones fault it simply occurs when the barrier in the language center of you brain cracks. In some experiments done by the University of Montreal, they are comparing ... world but the children still need all the language and speech classes that they can fit in their schedule. Children usually find the ability to read very boring and unimportant. -What we need to be teaching them is how much the skilled reader is important to the world around them and that they cannot do many things without being able to read. They also need to learn that they should treasure ... Peter Gow, a respected educator from Buffalo. From its beginning the mission of the school has been to remedial dyslexic young men. The primary redemption of print language difficulties involved predictable, sequential and multi-sensory teaching. Peter Gow and his friend and colleague, Dr. Samuel T. Oration, understood that the English language code could be taught to bright young men who seemed to learn language differently. He devised an approach ...
- 138: Things People Forget In The He
- ... initially. Due to sex related information available to children through mass media, the education board has deemed it necessary to evaluate and change sexual education. The course work has evolved drastically from the idea of teaching merely about sexual reproduction and focusing on abstinence. Rather, now it is important to deal with sex-related topics in the media through more sophisticated and comprehensive programs, deemed necessary to institute in the public ... there are 1 in 6 chances, one swift blow. In addition, cases exist of Russian Roulette players who are uneventful in killing themselves, yet do serious damage to their brain, causing them to be quadriplegic. Teaching the dangers about sex is not an easy task. No easier is learning to accept consequences, but these must be taught during adolescence for it to be better embedded within one s thoughts. In addition, danger regarding sex coincides with the risks one takes when the decision to consummate a relationship is made. Teaching youth about the risk of pregnancy and the likelihood of contracting one of a vast array of diseases that range from completely curable with little discomfort, to long, drawn out, and debilitating incurable diseases ...
- 139: Why Sex Education Should Be Taught In Schools
- ... anyone except, perhaps, the parents. It is important that parents give sex information but, school need to reinforce what the parents teach to make sure that the information is correct. Most people who are against teaching sex education in schools have the opinion that, ³Sex education encourage students to become sexually active at younger ages.² But, ³The World Health Organization has reviewed 35 scientifically controlled studies in the U.S. and ... parties. Dorothy W. Baruch found that, Childish Imagining usually changes sexual ideas a lot more that getting facts. This is how many teens get most of their information about sex. The most important thing when teaching sex education is have accurate information that is taught to them so, they can make their own decision with correct information when the have to make that choice. The best to get this information is ... 1979 found that, only one to three percent of parents did not give their children permission to attend the schools sex education class. Sex education is best when taught in schools. Because, schools have professional teaching the information and get their information from surveys and reports. Teens do not always get along with their parents and will not take the advise evening if it is right information. And the teens ...
- 140: The Writings of Pat Conroy
- ... some readers (Pumphrey 1). It was nominated for the Robert Kennedy Book Award in 1981. It was made into a movie in 1983 (Disc. Auth. 3). After Conroy graduated The Citadel in 1967, he started teaching English at various local high schools. In 1969, he was hired at a small school off the coast teaching underprivileged black children. The Water is Wide is the story of his battles with illiteracy and the school board (Burns 1). It also tells about his graduation from college and being filled with liberalism and ... who had brought me down. But when I began to cool off I realized I had played a major part in my own downfall." (Locher 114) He was fired when he was accused of unorthodox teaching (Burns 1). The book was published in 1972. He stayed in the local community saying, "I do not want to be accused of nailing people to the wall in the book and then fleeing" ( ...
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