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Educational Approach in Constructivism and Behaviorism

Educational practices are incredibly diverse not only around the world, but even within a given school. What some might view as the best approach to educating children, others might see as a mediocre attempt to do so.

The video “Pre-school in Three Different Cultures” illustrates this diversity in educational styles to the viewer. The documentary consists of the filming of three different pre-schools in different countries during the span of a normal day. The summaries of the day’s activities given in the video for each of the pre-schools let the viewer analyze both the social and academic aspects of the children’s experience throughout the day. The pre-schools included in the video are Komatsudani from Japan, Dong-feng from China, and St.Timothy from the U.S. (Hawaii). The following paper will shed light on what is known as constructivism and behaviorism, and describe which one of the schools falls under each category.

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Ways To Find Additional Financial Aid

Financial aid is everywhere. It comes in many forms and with many different types of strings attached. If you do not have trust fund or unlimited amounts of personal resources, then you are going to have to explore different ways of funding your education.

The Internet is a great resource for finding financial aid opportunities. Any search engine will direct you to millions of web sites that deal with financing your college education. Finding funding opportunities that apply to you will take some time. Be patient. Go about your search with a sense of sustained interest. This is your future we’re talking about. You need to be in control of it. Using the Internet is the most basic way to start seeking out financial aid opportunities.

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Teaching Studies

At this point in my teaching practice I feel that I am ready to discuss matters relating to effective delivery of lessons. I have worked particularly closely at this aspect of teaching and will bring to light my very own thoughts, experiences and future goals that I have managed to set myself. The most important of all these is the fact that I feel that changes can be made in terms of becoming a better teacher or at least I understand that there is a need for evaluating oneself and learning from the evaluation lessons which cannot be learned through theory alone.

The very first lesson I learned in becoming an effective teacher is that children learn better when they are interested, motivated and can clearly see what the teacher is presenting to them. This is also stressed in the 2004 Qualifying to teach handbook. The standards S3.3.3 also stresses the importance of promoting active and independent learning and that children should take some responsibility to manage their own learning.

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