Essays on Cooperative Learning

English and Literature Teaching Routines

English and Literature Teaching Routines

Scenario

I have selected stage 3 and 4 to focus on the class scenario at Leafy Hills. These grades have students from age six to nine. Leafy Hills is located in a regional area, and its students live in semi-suburban situations. The school comprises of Aboriginal students that have PLSs as well as learners from low SES. The class I will be teaching has twenty-eight students where nineteen are boys, and nine are girls across two grade levels. It is recorded that twenty-two students are from low SES backgrounds thus have been poorly prepared for ...

Introduction

Dual language programs involve teaching students through two languages. Teachers ensure that they introduce bilingual programs whereby all native speakers benefit from a second language instruction. Teachers also use two-way immersion programs whereby one half of the students are native while the other half is constitutes speakers of English (Wayne and Virginia, 2012). This paper is meant to persuade school administrators to adopt dual language programs so that they improve learning among students from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds. I argue that dual language program promotes academic achievement and multicultural competence for all students. Discussion focuses on aspects such ...

Technology is the advancement of methods and tools that are used to achieve a particular goal. In a classroom, the advancement can be anything past a pencil, paper or chalkboard. The use of technology in teaching enables a student to deepen the learning experience. The tools of IT used in education are such as tablets, presentation software, conferencing tools and others (Bach, Shirley, Haynes and Jennifer 13). The IT tools used more is the internet. The Internet is used to both manage and motivate the classroom. It pushes students by making the process of expedite of information easier. It ...

Methods

Quantitative methodology will be used in this work, - for this is one of the best ways to conduct such social experiments. Quantitative studies involve the conducting of various surveys based on the use of structured closed-ended questions that are answered by a large number of respondents. The main objective of quantitative research is to obtain numerical evaluation of market condition or reactions of the respondents on some event. For this experiment to be carried out, 60 fourth grade students from Skyland Elementary School at the beginning of the 2016 school year will be taken.

Description of the research design

The necessity of group ...

Vygotsky’s theory of cognitive development emphasizes the significance of language and social experience. Within this theory, human cognition is viewed as a social process, and language is referred to as a basis of more sophisticated cognitive processes (Berk, 2012, p. 275). Within Vygotsky’s framework, such phenomena as private speech, intersubjectivity, scaffolding, guided participation, reciprocal teaching and cooperative learning have gained much support. Therefore, it is of extreme importance for an efficacious teacher to consider these approaches to learning while teaching youth. First of all, private speech, according to Vygotsky, is used for self-guidance. Through the zone of ...