The University of California recently completed a study that examined the achievement of students in the U.S. educational system who have English as a second language. These English-learning (EL) children number more than one in three students in the primary grades. The majority of these students in California are in English-only classrooms where instruction is [...]
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Why Do Muscles Get Bigger? – A Simple Science Lesson
January 3rd, 2011 
admin We all are in the gym trying to accomplish one thing: bigger muscles. That is the reason we are lifting weights and putting ourselves through so much pain and work. While many people know how to get their muscles to grow, many do not know why do muscles get bigger. There is a simple science [...]
Applying Skinners Operant Conditioning to the Classroom
December 31st, 2010 admin Skinner’s operant conditioning can be used by teachers to help their students learn many types of complex skills and behaviors. For example, the behavior I plan on teaching the child is to write the capital letter ‘A,’ from the Virginia Standards of Learning. This would be a beginning skill that the student would just be [...]