Gifted Learners as Global Citizens: Global Education as a Framework for Gifted Education Curriculum

Global education and gifted education share a common goal. The aim of both is to prepare learners to gain the knowledge and skills to successfully interact to the best of their ability in an increasingly globalized society. While providing an educational framework with a global perspective is beneficial for all students, it can provide a framework for developing an effective curriculum that meets the distinctive needs of gifted learners. A comparison between global education and gifted education reveals commonalities. They share educational, philosophical, and, psychological connections and when addressed within the framework of curriculum development, each compliments the other. When curriculum and educational strategies acknowledge this relationship, all students are provided an opportunity to reach their individual potential and gain the competencies to become effective global citizens

Is teaching history reasonable, worthwhile, and beneficial in the elementary grades?

The literature review paper provided reassures the reader that in fact it is beneficial and most importantly, vital to teach historical knowledge to students. Through extensive research, multiple studies confirmed the importance of history instruction in the elementary classroom accompanied with worthwhile, meaningful lessons that allow the students to truly analyze, explore, and internalize the material. In attempt to provide a quality education for all American students, we must take the following steps: implementing and analyzing more research in regards to history instruction in the elementary classroom; ensure that all educators have an adequate wealth of background knowledge in the area of history; and create and implement a specific national curriculum for all grade levels. When these recommendations are implemented, all American students will hold a plethora of background knowledge that they can apply as they pursue their lifelong dreams and aspirations

Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) increases in plasma and colon tissue prior to estrus and circulating levels change with increasing age in reproductively competent Wistar rats

There is a well-documented association between cyclic changes to food intake and the changing ovarian hormone levels of the reproductive cycle in female mammals. Limited research on appetite-controlling gastrointestinal peptides has taken place in females, simply because regular reproductive changes in steroid hormones present additional experimental factors to account for. This study focussed directly on the roles that gastrointestinal-secreted peptides may have in these reported, naturally occurring, changes to food intake during the rodent estrous cycle and aimed to determine whether peripheral changes occurred in the anorexigenic (appetite-reducing) hormones peptide-YY (PYY) and glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) in female Wistar rats (32-44 weeks of age). Total forms of each peptide were measured in matched fed and fasted plasma and descending colon tissue samples for each animal during the dark (feeding) phase. PYY concentrations did not significantly change between defined cycle stages, in either plasma or tissue samples. GLP-1 concentrations in fed plasma and descending colon tissue were significantly increased during proestrus, just prior to a significant reduction in fasted stomach contents at estrus, suggesting increased satiety and reduced food intake at this stage of the cycle. Increased proestrus GLP-1 concentrations could contribute to the reported reduction in food intake during estrus and may also have biological importance in providing the optimal nutritional and metabolic environment for gametes at the potential point of conception. Additional analysis of the findings demonstrated significant interactions of ovarian cycle stage and fed/fasted status with age on GLP-1, but not PYY plasma concentrations. Slightly older females had reduced fed plasma GLP-1 suggesting that a relaxation of regulatory control of this incretin hormone may also take place with increasing age in reproductively competent females

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A Study to Determine the Number of Students Continuing in a Hotel Career after Completing a Vocational Education Course in Hotel Operations

The following goals were used to direct this study: 1. Determine if students who completed the hotel/motel operations course continued in the hotel industry; 2. Determine if students who completed the hotel/motel operations course continued to further their education in the hospitality industry; 3. Determine if the hotel/motel operations class is a valuable course to the Virginia Beach community under the philosophy of outcome-based education

Introduction: Rethinking Spain From Across the Seas

For much of the twentieth century, critical studies of Peninsular Spanish Literature largely followed a generational paradigm that stressed the peculiarities of Spanish history and texts written by Spanish men in the Castilian language, thereby circumscribing the literary within the boundaries of a specific form of national identity..

A comparison of non-verbal God concept in United Methodists

The goal of this project was to examine how a person\u27s perception of God changes as a function of age within a Piagetian framework. After 88 United Methodist Sunday School attenders drew a picture of God, the drawings were analyzed in terms of the themes they communicated and the effort put forth. It has been concluded that the subjects did not stay entirely within the Piagetian framework. Furthermore, differences were evident between the United Methodist\u27s perceptions and those of the Free Methodists and Wesleyans in that the United Methodists failed to draw pictures with strong Biblical themes, or abstract ideas

Excitation Spectrum and Thermodynamic Properties of the Ising-Heisenberg Linear Ferromagnet

New analytic results are presented for the low-T thermodynamics of the Ising-Heisenberg linear ferromagnetic in a magnetic field H0. For small H0 the thermodynamic functions show unexpected and interesting structure as a function of H0 and the anisotropy Δ. The thermal and magnetic energy gaps have singularities, not necessarily at the same Δ−H0 location, as changes occur in the type of excitation dominating the low-T behavior. The results may relate to quantum solitons in the linear ferromagnet