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Does Focussing on the Engagement of Teachers Produce Better Engagement of Students?
(2016-05)
Educational research pertaining to engagement has traditionally been student-focused. There are many techniques (when implemented properly) that are proven to increase the engagement levels of students to their learning, ...
Self-Esteem and Its Effect on Bullying Behaviour
(2015-12)
The issue of bullying has been one that has gained a lot of attention in the recent years. With technology allowing for continued harassment among teens, not limited to the school grounds, bullying appears to continue to ...
An Investigation into Parental Attitudes about Sexuality and Children with Intellectual Disabilities
(2016-02-16)
People with intellectual disabilities (id) living in Canada traditionally experience unique challenges and roadblocks as they seek to explore their sexuality. Often, they have a difficult time forming and maintaining ...
Leadership Seven - Impacting Student Behavior and School Culture
(2015-06)
This paper presents a description of the development of a Leadership Seven Course at Hatzic Middle Secondary. Through research it considers literature pertaining to effective principles and practices of effective leadership ...
School Connectedness: Contextualizing Issues in Extracurricular School Based Sports
(2016-03)
This capstone project reviewed research literature exploring current trends in youth sports participation. The three issues of ‘specialization’, ‘hyper-competitiveness and exclusionary team forming’, and ‘the influence of ...
Increasing the Teaching Profession’s Collaborative Capacity: A Proposal of Organizational Change to Reduce Stress Experienced by Teachers
(2015-06-01)
The stress experienced by teachers is an internationally recognized problem that has resulted in high rates of attrition in the profession. The purpose of this research is to argue that stress experienced by teachers can ...
How to Create Engagement in the Online Classroom
(2015-07)
Considering the low completion rates at Fraser Valley Distance Education School, which are as low as 40 percent in secondary courses, there needs to be an attempt to engage students in order to promote their understanding ...
Nature as Healer and Teacher - The Importance of Reconnecting Children to the Earth for Physical and Emotional Wellbeing
(2015-12)
Current research indicates that many children exhibit symptoms of nature deficit disorder (NDD), a condition that describes the growing gap between children and the time they spend in nature (Louv, 2008). NDD may be related ...
A Fine Balance: Social Emotional Learning and Academic Rigour in Schools
(2015-11)
In recent decades, there has been a push towards academic rigour in schools in the form of standardized testing, school ratings, and holding teachers accountable to deliver an unprecedented number of prescribed learning ...
The Effects of High School Flex Blocks on Students and Teachers
(2016-02)
Alberta Education’s (2010) Inspiring Education and high school redesign incorporate flexible learning environments into the restructure of education. This Capstone paper explores current research on flexible learning ...