Axia College Material Appendix D The President’s Challenge: Adult Fitness Test How Fit Are You? The President’s Challenge: Adult Fitness Test is located at www.adultfitnesstest.org. Click on the Take the Adult Fitness Test: Are You Ready? Start Here button to complete the fitness test. Next‚ click on Enter Your Data Online Here on the left-hand side of the screen. After completing the Adult Fitness Test‚ keep the window open‚ scroll to the bottom of the page‚ and review the information under
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Older adults often work with their spouses who need to be cared for due to long term illnesses up until their death‚ as well as grandchildren and foster children. Many older people take care of their grandchildren because their own children have to go to work or because they have been granted custody due to abuse or incarceration of their children. Many older people who have been given the responsibility of raising another child so late in their life are faced with additional health issues‚ psychological
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British Journal of Visual Impairment http://jvi.sagepub.com/ The hands and reading : What deafblind adult readers tell us Cynthia L. Ingraham and Jean F. Andrews British Journal of Visual Impairment 2010 28: 130 DOI: 10.1177/0264619609359416 The online version of this article can be found at: http://jvi.sagepub.com/content/28/2/130 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com Additional services and information for British Journal of Visual Impairment can be found at: Email Alerts:
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Chapter 1 Question 1 Why is English a ‘Global Language’? English is a ‘Global Language’ because it is one of the most widely spoken and written languages‚ carrying influence due to music‚ cinema‚ general broadcasting‚ science and the internet. Also‚ due to the requirement in many fields and occupations‚ English is become more important on a global scale. Question 2 How has the ‘Communicative Approach’ made learning English less artificial and more like the real world? The ‘Communicative Approach’
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Summary More and more adults are returning to school to either further their education or to start fresh in a new course of study. With the challenges of work‚ kids‚ home life‚ and school work; the adult learner has many challenges that they face almost every day. Just as extensive research goes into learning about how children learn‚ research has also been put in place as to how the adult learns. Both of the articles “Revisiting Adult Learning Theory through the Lens of an Adult Learner” by Londell
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Application of Adult Learning Theory 1. Adults have a need to know why they should learn something. Adults spend a considerable amount of time and energy exploring what the benefits are of them learning something and the costs of them not learning something before they are willing to invest time in learning it. It is seldom convincing for them to be told by someone (even the boss) that it would be good for them. Training should be based on valid needs of the intended audience. All information
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Adult Literacy Program Monica Friday Mrs. M. Kelly EDU362: Adult Learning & Instruction April 26‚ 2012 I chose to write about adult literacy. This is a very serious subject that affects more people that we realize. Literacy is the ability to read‚ write‚ compute‚ and use technology at a level that enables an individual to reach his or her full potential as a parent‚ employee‚ and community member. There are many programs that helps can assist with literacy. One program is the National
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More than 200‚000 children are prosecuted in adult courts each year. All 50 states can prosecute a child‚ under the age of 16 years old‚ as an adult (Young & Gainsborough‚ 2000). Between 1992 and 1997‚ forty two states and the District of Columbia enacted legislation to enable juvenile offenders to be transferred to adult prisons (Young & Gainsborough‚ 2000). Missouri and Indiana lowered the minimum age for transfer to an adult facility from 16 years of age to the incredibly young age of ten (Flesch
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children in adult prisons‚ but that is unacceptable. Juvenile criminals should not receive the same punishment as adults because they have a higher chance of getting raped or killed‚ they are still too immature‚ and they are more likely to commit a crime again. If juveniles get sent to adult prisons they have a higher chance of getting raped or being killed. “Juveniles sent to adult prisons are 7.7 times more likely to commit suicide and 5 times more likely to be raped”(Hanson‚ 47). Some adults in prison
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Children of all ages desire the love and support of adults. Infants are very curious and are able to learn a lot on their own just by exploring. However I feel having an interested and engaged adult is still needed in order for an infant to learn. The interference of an adult only encourage the child’s development. Well a child is playing adults have many opportunities to support their learning. For example‚ if an infant is playing with a car an adult can be their supporting the child’s learning by
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