Browsing Education Senior Individualized Projects by Title
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Learning Occurs in All Environments
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Learning to Give Up Literature: Student Teaching at Byron Center High School
(1992)Byron Center is a small rural town (population 1200) south of Grand Rapids. Most of the residents are agricultural workers, industrial workers (Herman Miller and Steelcase are major employers), or own small businesses in ... -
Learning to Teach
(1979)The author describes her experience as a high school Mathematics student teacher. -
Lessons Taught and Learned at University Liggett School
(1992)What follows is an account of my first experience in the teaching profession. Overall, I can say it was positive. I have not changed my mind about pursuing teaching as a career, and I learned more than I ever thought ... -
Lighting the Fire
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Lisa: A Case Study of an At-Risk Student
(1998)In the United States, we are confronted with the fact that not all students get a good education in our public schools. We see statistics and personal accounts of students falling through the cracks in the schools. These ... -
Literacy in Amazonian Peru
(2008)The author worked in the rural community of San Pedro for a summer as an elementary school teacher. She reflects on the unequal distribution of literacy education throughout the country, especially in the Amazon region. ... -
A Look at How Active-Learning Techniques Authenticate the Learning Experience for Students in a High School Economics Classroom
(2003)This paper addresses the serious problem of non-authentic learning that takes place in a secondary economics classroom. Most economics classes are taught with a lecture-based approach, leaving students to take notes and ... -
A Look at Inclusion . . . : A Student Teaching SIP
(2000)The rush for inclusion in the public school system has caused many controversies and conflicting beliefs and practices over the recent years. Over the 1999-00 school year, I was given the opportunity to learn and teach ... -
A Look at Learning
(1999)While student teaching, I wanted to expose myself to as many realities of the teaching world as possible. In addition to fostering the development of my personal teaching competencies, I marveled at the reality in which ... -
A Look at Westover Senior High School with a Focus on Eric Dodson
(1983)Nobody ever said teaching was going to be easy. It certainly is anything but easy. Teaching, though, is rewarding, not economically but emotionally. During my internship I had the opportunity to teach on three ... -
Looking Closer into Risk Analysis: An Effective Laboratory Safety manual for High School Teachers
(2000)Looking Closer into Risk Analysis is the theme of this chemistry manual. Risk analysis is the mechanism that allows high school instructors to look at health and safety factors from all sides before performing and ... -
Making Successful Non-Profit Organizations : My Internship at the Owen Group LTD Development and Management Counsel
(2004)The author reflects and analyzes her experience, during Winter Quarter 2004, as an intern at The Owen Group LTD. Through analysis of the structure and purpose of this non-profit management and development counsel, she ... -
Math Education: Struggling as the Means and Not the End to Teaching Mathematics
(2010)This paper focuses on the combination of learning and teaching mathematics. Specifically, the research investigates whether individuals who struggle with mathematics may later be effective mathematics teachers and, ... -
Mathematics Through the Museum: An Effective Means for Teaching Math
(1985)Attempts to classify the institution called "museum" have been numerous. Dillon Ripley, the Secretary of the Smithsonian, has called the museum "an enigma". After a three month internship at OMSI (Oregon Museum of ... -
A Mediocre Student? Reflections on my student teaching experience
(1991)I did my student-teaching at Niles Senior High School in Niles, Michigan, the same high school I graduated from four years ago. My supervising teacher, Edward Kelly, was my favorite teacher in high school, a man dedicated ... -
"Michelle": A Case Study Relating to my Student Teaching Experience
(1991)I spent my student teaching internship at the Chicago Public High School for Metropolitan Studies, more popularly known as "Metro High." The school is located in Chicago's "river north" area, a few blocks from Michigan ... -
Milwood Middle School: A Case Study
(1995)