due to their nature, writing classes are often boring for the students and teachers find it so challenging and still the least rewarding. for sometime now studies that focus on the processes a learner enguges in when constructing meaning are best valued among researchers. seen in this light , collaboration is a useful too/for reinforcing student language abilities and a good vehicle for increas...

Providing quality education means to respond to the diversity in the classroom. The teacher is a key figure in responding to the various educational needs presented by students. Specifically, special education professionals are of great importance as they are the ones who lend their support to regular classroom teachers and offer specialized educational assistance to students who require it. Th...

T he number of women earning bachelor’s degrees in computer science (CS) peaked at 15 126 in 1986 but plunged to 7063 by 1995. Since then, the number has increased slightly to 10 474 in 2000 [18, tab. 222]. Yet, a survey of incoming freshman in 2002 revealed that only 3.2 percent of women planned to major in CS, compared to 14.6 percent of men [17, p. 2-6]. Although a growing number of women ea...

Two developing strands of a multidisciplinary literature provided an impetus for this paper: 1) the emergence of new regionalism, new urbanism, and smart codes that inform urban planning and design principles and practices for environmental sustainability, and 2) the diffusion of telecommunication and multi-media technologies that facilitate implementation of pedagogic principles in the “classr...

A primary aim of the Chicago School Readiness Project was to improve teachers’ emotionally supportive classroom practices in Head Start-funded preschool settings. Using a clustered randomized controlled trial (RCT) design, the Chicago School Readiness Project randomly assigned a treatment versus control condition to 18 Head Start sites, which included 35 classrooms led by 94 teachers who served...