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Essay Instructions: I would like your help in reviewing the article "Should I ask for help? The role of motivation and attitudes in adloescents' help seeking in math class" (this article will be email to you). The requirement for the review are as follows:
1) is the problem clearly stated?
2) does the problem have a theoretical rationale and is it convencing and why?
3) how significant is the problem?
4) is there a review of the literature? if so, is it relevant?
5) how clearly are the hypotheses stated?
6) are operational definitions provided?
7) is the procedure ( or method) used to attack and answer the problem fully and completely described?
8) are there any probable sources of error that might influence the results of the study? if so, have they been controlled?
9) were statistical techniques used to analyze the data? if so, were they appropriate?
10) how clearly are the results presented?
11) any suggestion for developing further research on the topic.
You may group the questions and answer in short essay form.
Thanks.


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Essay Instructions: Field Experience Project Paper: Vygotksy's theory of scaffling. If you can think of a different topic, such as learning styles, class room management or someother topic to go along with my notes feel free to do so.

1. Define/discuss the subject related to the psychology of adolescence that you are working with: Example: Scaffling in a classroom. What is it you want to know? How dows this topic relate to the adolescents that you are observing?

2. Give a bsic explanationor synopsis of the research that's been done, with some basic conclusions. Make usre you cite esearchers and authors where appropriate.

3. What do you expect to see or hear in the classroom in realation to the topic you're working on and in relation to #2. (kind of like hypothesizing)

4. Describe who you are studying. Approxiamte age range, gender, race how many, what schoo? Central R-III Junior HIgh School, Park HIlls, 7th and 8th grade math classes. Boys and girs mostly white, a few Latino's and one special child (No Child Left Behind) About 23 in each class.

5. Analyze what you have seen and heard relative to your topic and report your findings. How do your findings relate to your "hypothes'? Was it correct or different and how? How do your finding relate to the research you've learned?

6. What are your conclusions? Page 5. State what you say, conclusion restate your thesis.

I also need an outiline of this paper.

If you feel you can not do this paper, please let me know.
HERE ARE MY NOTES FROM THE CLASSES:
PERIOD I, PREALGEBRA. looking around the room there is chalk board on 3 walls. In the corner of one wall are calculators. On one board is what they will be doing everyday for the week. The sets are in straight rows facing the front with the teachers desk in the front. Before he takes attendance they have bell ringers (problems to work on and hand in on Friday, they have bell ringers everyday), then he collects the homework, then he takes row.
He uses the side board to write probems on the board and discusses them with the students. He refers to the book when writing the problems on the board. He explains the work in language appropriate for this age group. There is a lot of class participation. After covering the material he assigns homework, while student's are working on homework he answers their questions and walks around the room to help them with their homework. There is one special student in the class and a teacher's aide takes notes for him. He leaves the classroom and comes back. He doesn't participate much in class and sits in the back. Students help each other. The teacher uses humor in his class room. When the bell rings he reminds them to have their homework first thing in the morning and that he is available before and after school for tutoring.
PERIOD II BASIC MATH This a small class with only 3 boys in it. First thing the teacher tells them is to get their calculators. She lets them use their calculators for basic math skills. They do their bell ringers and hand them in . She collects their homework and takes attendance.

She also has 3 chalk boards. One with information on it for the weeks lessons, too. Her class room is set up where her desk is at the side and the students face forward. She uses an overhead projecter for the problems for the bell ringers. She writes problems on the board and the class participates in figuring out the answers. After lecture time she hands out a worksheet for them to do. She shows the class the proper way to use a protractor. They are having a test the next day and the worksheet is for the test review. If they had in the worksheet they will get 5 bonus points. She allow the students to work with a partner and to use their calculators. She walks around and helps the students if they have questions. She does not have any special students in her class room and they are all white children.

PERIOD IS IN THE SAME ROOM AS PERIOD ONE AND THE SAME TEACHER TOO. He uses more discipline with this class. Bellringer are being worked on and homework collected from the day before and attendance is taken.
There are 2 studednts with broken hands and he has the lecture notes alreay printed off for them. He tells them a story about breaking his arm. There is one student taking a test while he is lecturing. He is a multitasker. He uses comparisons to explain meabolim. Eample of similar-kids same shpe but taller. Congruent-identical twins.
This class doesn't talk as much. He left the notes from the first hour class on the board, and tells the class to take notes. There is another special student he doesn't takes notes, lays head on desk, but does answer a question. The teacher refers to book when exanmple is on the board.
With this class he does the first part of the homework together. He asks the students in this class more questions individually than the other class. He helps this class a lot more on homework. He lets this class work with a partner. He said if they use a calculater they must show what they typed into the calculator. He did howerver take less time for lecture.

FOURTH PERIOD: Basic Math class again in the same room as period II. The bell rings and bell ringers are done and the overhead projector is used for the bell ringers. The material from the last class is on the board. This class is a little more talkative she has to tell them to quit done quit a bit. She shows them how to use protractors too. There is a lot of class paraticipation. Has everyone do the problems instead of one person answering like the first hour class did. They use calculators for simple math skills. Ther was a student sitting in the back all alone and she has her move up. She shows the students in this class 2 different ways to come up with the same answer. She didn't do this in the first class. There was a lot of talking between students. She goes through the material faster than the other class. In this class she went over homework answers from the day before. She hands them out their worksheets and has them get into pars. This calss gets louder thean the last. Bell rings and they are out of there.
PERIOD SIX, IN SAME CLASS ROOM AS FIRST PERIOD. PREALGEBRA: The first 20 minutes is silent reading time, the whole school has this because they want the children to read better. Not alot of reading got done though. He collected homework after silent reading period and took attendance. Old knowledge used to realate to new material. Talks louder in this class. Explains the topic a little bit different in this class. Uses similis' like the Farley tiwn. Kids did very bad on the last quiz so he is going to reteach that information later during the third quarter. 50% made F's. Assigns homework and walks around toom a lot helping students. We not allowed to have a partner. He draws more examples on the board in this class. Helped this class more on their homework, class not as noisy.

Again if you think of a different topic that would go with my notes feel free to use it. And if you tin you can not do this paper, please let me know and I will cancel my order.

Essay Instructions: Answer the following assignments in two separate files:
After researching two different articles on Differentiated Instruction, write a two page essay to include the following aspects:
Why is differentiated instruction necessary in the math class?
How can a teacher differentiate instruction?

Do not forget to include the articles? title, author, site, etc.

In addition, write five sample questions that would be appropriate in a math classroom. Explain the reasons for choosing each. Please include how each question type is differentiated for the students.

Essay Instructions: 12 pt font, New Times Roman, One page, single spaced. Talk about and comment on these various things.

Comment on personal education:
Taking Accounting classes
Taking Economic classes
Math classes

Career Goals:
Becoming a CPA for a big Accounting firm
Getting my Masters in Accounting
Becoming more business oriented by getting internships across country
Being more sociable and people savvy
Going on to expand my knowledge of Accounting by getting a degree in Criminology and studying
criminal Accounting

Student Activities:
Working for the yearbook as a photographer
Starting a conflict management and peer mediation group at my high school
Doing volunteer work throughout my community

Work Responsibilities:
Worked retail/sales to become more talkative and open
Worked at the Blackwell Hotel which is in conjuction with the Fisher College of Business
which I got to meet many professors and graduate students from the College while being a server for a sandwhich shop called Grab 'n' Go
Worked under my Aunt who is a distinguished business woman who taught me a lot about the business world. She owns a business that helps women start off their careers by investing in their own businesses.