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Problem-based Learning (PBL) is a student-centeredinstructional approach that initiates learning bypresenting students with an ill-structured, real-lifeproblematic scenario from which they have to identifythe real problem. The scenario is structured aroundthe curriculum, which students acquire as they solvethe problem using their learning styles and multipleintelligences.In this research, the author found that manySeventh-day Adventist teachers are unaware of PBL andembrace a teacher-centered teaching philosophy. However, they do appear willing to learn about thisstudent-centered teaching method and to implement itin their classrooms despite perceived barriers.They indicate that they do not expect support fromtheir school systems, parents,and colleagues, aspreconditions to successful adoption.It appears that the major barriers to PBL adoptionare reflective of the teaching philosophy of theschool systems, parents, and teachers. If thesebarriers are addressed, it is likely to increase thepossibility that successful adoption of PBL will takeplace. ... Read more

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Educators Need This Book!
Tired of struggling with unmotivated students? Too much to do for too many students and too little time to do it in?Let your students assume more responsibility for their learning.This book offers invaluable information on research supporting the benefits of problem-based learning to help students in K12 schools become responsible and successful learners. It also describes characteristics of teachers who would best utilize this method and the support they may expect from parents, administrators, and other stakeholders.It is a must read for those anxious to move students from being underachievers to becoming achievers.
This book could very well become the education guidebook for Christian schools and for home schools; cites experiential principles of learning by doing. ... Read more

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Jeb Bush campaigned for governor on a clear and bracing set of education reforms in 1998. Having won office, he immediately pursued a dual-track strategy of education reform: standards and accountability for public schools, and choice options for dissatisfied parents.

Florida lawmakers followed these reforms with additional measures, including
instruction-based reforms; the curtailing of “social promotion,” which advances students to higher grades regardless of academic achievement; merit pay for teachers; and additional choice measures.

This study examines the 10-year impact of these reforms and finds remarkable improvement in Florida’s test scores.

Between 1992 and 1998, Florida’s already-low fourth-grade National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading scores were declining. In 1999, when these reforms were enacted, nearly half of Florida fourth-graders scored “below basic” on the NAEP reading test, meaning that they could not read at a basic level. But by 2007, less than a
decade after the education reforms took effect, 70 percent of Florida’s fourth-graders scored basic or above. Florida’s Hispanic students now have the second-highest statewide reading scores in the nation, and African-Americans score fourth-highest, when compared with their peers.

In fact, the average Florida Hispanic student’s score is higher than the overall average score for all students in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia. Florida Hispanic students eligible for a free or reduced- price lunch under federal poverty guidelines also outscore the statewide averages of some of these states, including Arizona.

Florida’s African-American students outscored two statewide averages for all students in 2007 and were within striking distance of several more. Florida’s success proves that demography is not destiny in K-12 education, with the right set of reforms.

In the pages that follow, we examine Florida’s reforms and suggest ways to emulate and improve upon them in other states. ... Read more

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet. ... Read more

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A retrospective review of a childhood favorite.
An incredibly well-told, coming-of-age story of a young boy and his pet fawn set in the Florida swamps.Sensitive, but with harsh realism in the mix, the story is told through the eyes of Jody, the main character and his famiily.You are transported back into the pre-tourist impacted Florida of the mid-1930s.This is a must-read for anyone who is or ever was a pre-teen struggling with mixed emotions about life.This book won the 1938 Pulitzer and has just been re-issued in a 50th anniversary edition.

A book of raging adventure
A boy and his dad gose hunting for a giant bear because the bear keeps harassing this town. The young boy wants a pet that he could play with and tell his secrets too and he gets a fawn in which he calls flag.In the story the young boy has to make lots of decisons. ... Read more

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Set of 12 Booklets, chapter 1 - 12 ... Read more

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Medical schools exist as part of a complex educational and health care system with affiliations to universities, teaching hospitals, out-patient clinics, students and communities. In addition to the education and training of its students, should the medical school be charged with any responsibility for understanding and meeting the health care needs of the population of its "community"? In December 1990, The Royal Society of Medicine Foundation Inc and the Josiah Macy Jr Foundation sponsored a conference on medical education in Canada, the UK, the USA and Australia to discuss that question. An international panel of authorities examined how medical schools in the four countries could profit from each other's experience in organizing medical education so that faculty and students recognize more fully their responsibility for understanding and meeting the health needs of the community. ... Read more