Proposal for Research Into New Teacher Preparedness
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A 14 page paper presenting a proposal for researching the question of whether new teachers are as prepared for the classroom as were new teachers of 20 years ago. That new teachers are relatively unprepared for today's classroom is fairly obvious. The question is why? Is it their grasp of subject matter, ability to effectively manage a classroom, efficacy regarding the associated but non-teaching duties of the teaching position, or is it that the old system of teaching children simply is not effective in today's society? Indications point to the inability of old methods to meet the needs of today. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
Filename: Teacher.wps

A Working Assessment For Third Grade
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This nine-page-paper presents a model assessment measure for the third grade. It opens with a discussion about various learning and education theories including Howard Gardener's Multiple Intelligence theories and Jean Piaget's developed theory of cognitive abilities. It moves into a detailed outline of the assessment tools to be used including descriptions of the tests in each academic area. It closes with the percentage requirements for grade promotion and several suggestions about what to do if there are deficits found. Bibliography lists six sources.
Filename: CWtestin.wps

Educational Assessment / Benefits From Assessment Informing Educator Decision-Making
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This 10 page paper provides an overview of the current perspectives on educational assessment, especially as they respond to the constructs of Gerald Haigh's claim that educational assessment must inform educator process. This paper considers the nature of Haigh's assertion that if assessment doesn't inform planning, then it is pointless. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: Assesedu.wps

Educational Assessment and Ethics
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An 11 page paper that provides an analytical overview of three articles on educational assessment and then determines their impact on the issue of ethics in relation to this process. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: Stuass.wps

Math Education / Alternative Assessment
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A 7 page paper that discusses the concept of alternative assessment of mathematics. The concept of alternative assessment is the result of concern about what traditional paper and pencil tests really assess. Several alternative assessment techniques are explained, including examples from teachers about what types of assessments they are using in their elementary or secondary classrooms. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: PGaltasses.wps

AIDS Education
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9 page presentation of an educational program designed by the writer to teach adolescents how to protect themselves from HIV/AIDS. Includes comprehensive test continuing multiple choice, true/false, matching and short-answer essays to test student's knowledge. Rationales are provided for each of the questions to explain how each of them tests to ensure that students have achieved one of five program goals by correctly answering them. Useful for those studying curriculum/instruction and classroom teaching. Bibliography contains 5 sources.
Filename: Aidsedu.wps

Promoting AIDS Awareness In Schools
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A 10 page research paper discussing AIDS / HIV awareness education in public schools in America. Several programs are cited, including the American Red Cross program and a multi-media interactive program that is free to all. Bibliography includes 10 references.
Filename: Aidsschl.wps

An Internet Based Academic Activity for School Age Children
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This 3 page paper involves a look at academic web sites, particularly designed for teachers, and reviews one of the activities found. The activity chosen is related to science and involves concepts related to the size and function of the human brain. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: SA418Big.rtf

Strategic Plan for Pedagogical Improvement
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AThis 10 page paper considers a case where a primary school has gone through a pedagogy audit and the school is performing poorly in area of student learning. There has been a structure and leadership change put into place to improve the organizational culture of school. The next stage is to develop a strategy for improvement, this strategy is contained in the paper, which looks at who issues, who the stakeholders are, the goals and then the strategy to be adopted including looking at both the environment and teaching models that are used. The bibliography cites 12 sources.
Filename: TEpedimp.rtf

'Multi-Age' Or 'Ungraded' Classrooms / How They Compare?
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A 10 page paper on the evolving organization of schools,which has come full circle in the way in which students are moved through the educational system. Starting with nineteenth century 'common schools' that did not separate children by age, through the introduction of graded schools in the mid-1800s which resulted in 'ungraded classrooms' for non-achieving students, the writer covers the twentieth century equivalent of these separate but unequal classes in 'special education' arrangements.for students not matching the lockstep of an age-graded system. Most recently, inclusive, multi-age classrooms and non-graded schools embody the philosophy that all children can learn--at their own pace and in their own way, with the help and example of peers of all ages. Bibliography lists 24 references.
Filename: Multiage.wps

“Hooked on Phonics” -- A Product Designed to Take TeachingReading Back to Basics
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This 14 page report discusses the reading program “Hooked on Phonics” that is used to help children in learning to read and write. Proponents of the program believe that it is vitally important to understand that a great number of the children who appear to be unable to understand a concept or a set of directions are actually having problems recognizing actual words. As a result of having to direct their focus so carefully and devote so much attention to slowly and carefully figuring out the words, they focus less attention on what the text means. Children who recognize words more readily can focus more attention on meaning. That recognition can be enhanced through understanding the relationship that exists between sounds and letters in an alphabetic code. Phonics then establishes the basis for that process of decoding words. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
Filename: BWphonic.doc

“Like Letters in Running Water”: A Critical Review of the Curriculum Philosophies of Mary Aswell Doll
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A 4 page review of the contentions presented by this author in “Like Letters in Running Water: A Mythopoetics of Curriculum” regarding the curriculum value of fiction. This paper contends that Doll is correct in identifying fiction as a conduit to student understanding of historical circumstances and relationships. Analyzes this contention using primarily the writings of feminist author Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Concludes that while a student might recoil if only given historical detail as it is presented in the common curriculum, when provided these same messages in a fictional format they are able to forge a connection between history and reality. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: PPedCurr.rtf

“Summary and Commentary on Article on the Constructivist Model of Maths Teaching”
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A six page paper which summarises Constructivistic Math Instruction for Diverse Learners, by Mercer, Jordan and Miller (1996) and gives a commentary on the educational strategies described in the article. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: JLmathsconstruct.wps

“Teacher Certification Tests”
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A paper which looks at various aspects of teacher certification, in terms of the nature and scope of the tests, the ways in which they are implemented on a national level, and the extent to which the tests provide a valid assessment of teacher capability in the classroom. Bibliography lists 9 sources
Filename: JLteachcert.wps

“The Dollar a Year Principal”
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A five page paper which looks at John Dunworth’s account of the way in which he structured a failing elementary school, and the implications which his practices have for the education system as a whole. Bibliography lists 1 source
Filename: JLSchools.rtf