change behavior. Frist, the teacher must draw attention to the behavior they want to happen. Second, the teacher must repetitively through
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the specific needs of our children. I have a passion for helping children be successful in all aspects of life. I sincerely want to make an encouraging impact on the future of the youth. I believe that all children can learn through differentiation and many assessment implements. I will bring a helpful attitude and give my greatest effort to inspire my students on a daily basis. The technology that our teachers have access to today is totally astonishing and I have had great experiences using several
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essay that I chose to write about is "The Most Important Qualities of an Outstanding Educator." When I look back at my educational career and think about the experiences that I have had in school, and the interactions I have had with teachers, I am always brought back to a moment that I had with a specific teacher. The teacher was not a teacher that made certain I had all of my work done, or just participated in class, but this teacher had qualities that inspired me to be a teacher today
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all honestly, I wish I had started this assignment at the very beginning of my pursuit in education. I would have a lot more books logged on Kudos. I have a clearer understanding of how important it is to saturate my classroom with books. Before I had a very basic or general plan for a small classroom library. After reading so many books this semester, I am able to recognize a number of themes with a little more ease that are present in a lot of the books. Throughout the summer, I want to continue
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For my volunteer hours, I went to Pentz Elementary School. I was in a grade 4 classroom for the school day. I chose this specific place to volunteer because I want to be an elementary school teacher when I grow up. Also, this was the elementary school I went to for Grade 5 and 6. I feel being a teacher is related to the human services because it involves a lot of helping others, understanding human interaction, and many more reasons. While I was at Pentz, I fulfilled a variety of tasks including
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professionals to detect when it is appropriate to use each type of power in different situations. Every person could need a different kind of power, depending on what they are in need of and the relationship we have with them. In the helping profession you will have many situations where you have power over, power for, and power with people. In many cases the relationship I plan on having is power for and power with, although as I want to be a teacher I will also have power over simply because I will be in a
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As a first year teacher applying for a job there are multiple things that I would be interested in. First off the fact that I am a professional teacher would be satisfying to me and secondly being involved with children throughout the day. I want to make sure as a teacher that I will be doing my job but at the same time be a great influence in my students’ life. My philosophy as a teacher is developing relationships with the students and my colleagues will allow all of us to excel and it will make
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it is, but he is completely mistaken when it comes to the benefits because it helps in developing characters and social skills for future generations. ''Do we really need school?'' Gatto asked. Monday through Friday, we wake up at 7 o'clock, get ready and go to school. We stay there for at least 5 hours. Always looking forward to Friday and summer breaks because that means no school, and always looking forward to the weekend. We repeat all this for 12 years. I asked a student who has just finished
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being said, I do think it is important to follow these outlines. When following these outlines it is important that teachers do not focus on the assessment. Teachers’ should be focused on the students’ learning and how they are retaining the information. While learning to teach I have watched a few teachers shut down students’ questions, these questions were shut down because the question was not going to be tested. Throughout the school year
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children. I chose this career because I’ve wanted to be a teacher since 4th grade. It is important to understand the education or training requirements,skills or talents needed, salary and benefits offered, and the duties for a particular career when making the decision to be a teacher. If I was to go to school to become an elementary school teacher I would work in a public school. Most of the work consists outside of the home, in the office and in the school. An elementary school teacher mostly works
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couple kids running and playing on the playground equipment, while most of the kids are watch the kick ball game. Its the teachers against the class who beat all the other classes. The kids are in the outfield and the teachers are up to kick. When it comes to the kids against the teachers. The teachers don't take it easy. One of the teachers who are good at playing kick ball is up. He standing with his back hunched over waiting for the old rubber ball to slowly skip across the old concrete. Im in outfield
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exactly the same as itself. There are many different factors that can significantly influence an individual’s character, values, and beliefs. However, I think the most important one is the living circumstance surround a person. The living circumstance is a very huge topic, so I separate it into three parts. The first thing I want to emphasize is when and where was the person born and lived. There is an old Chinese saying says,” Different areas create different people.” It is obvious that different
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important. In my point of view I believe that free time is more important in a childs life. Free time for children is very important in their life. It can develop creativity and a strong sense of self. When children are allowed more free time they find what interests them the most. I believe that children have more fun when they dont have organized activities because I see my neice everyday and she gets to play how ever she wants and enjoys it. There are times when we have asked her if she wanted
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but, what do I really think is important? What values do I want to support, instil and nurture (Stonehouse, 1991) in the children that I teach? I have spent the past couple of days searching through my textbooks for anything remotely related to the word philosophy, scanning through endless pages on the internet and locked in endless conversations and debate with my peers and colleagues, just to wind up with my thoughts in even more of a tangle then when I started. But then tonight, as I sat down and
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April 15, 2015 Ethnic Studies 4040 Dr. Pao Lee Reflection Paper #2 I would like to discuss chapter six, Education Attainment of Immigrant and Non-Immigrant Young Blacks by Xue Lan Rong and Frank Brown. According to the authors, children from families with low socioeconomic status are more likely to experience difficulties in school and attain lower levels of overall academic achievement than middle-class or upper-class families. I definitely agree, because families who are well off financially can
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that becoming educated provided him a deeper understanding of what American society is truly like, a country filled with potential, scholarly, hard-working students. Unfortunately, schools in this country sometimes think that students that do not meet up to today’s competitive standards should be thrown off to remedial classrooms, where little to no learning is achieved. On the surface, remedial classroom placement’s purpose is to teach children the fundamentals of writing correct sentences. This results
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that standardized tests affect everyone, principals, teachers, students,
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Teaching: • How does a teacher best support high quality learning? By first having minimum student-teacher gap, and avail the chance to completely understand the psyche of students by getting to know them properly. • What metaphors, heuristics, or guidelines should teachers follow? A teacher should come up with such activities and teaching methodologies that encourages a student to come forth and participate more and we well aware of what is happening in the classroom. Teachers should have a daily
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27 February 2015 National Honor Society Acceptance A character trait that I have possessed during my high school career and still possess today is trustworthiness. There are examples where I have shown trustworthiness such as babysitting, my job as a childcare provider at my church, being a teammate on the basketball team and on the track team and teachers trust me throughout the school. My first example is babysitting. When parents leave me with their child that is a big responsibility in itself
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Growing up in school when things go tough or it was hard to focus I remember my teachers saying “Don’t you want to be successful? You have to do your work!” I always said yes I do and would go back to work but I don’t know that I ever really considered what the teacher meant by the word success, or for that matter, what I thought success meant to myself. In adolescence it seems like the American ideology is thrust upon us that success means making lots of money. We go to school so we can get an education
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Meyer, During our time in this school and chapter you have taught us so many things. You are not only a teacher, but also a mentor and friend. We have all had our ups and downs and you have always been there to encourage us. We all remember those times when even though we were having a good time and laughing, we still walked out of the room at the end of the day with more knowledge than what we came in with. You have a love for learning which you have passed on to us with vigor and you have inspired
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the way I interact with literature. When I was young, I was always told “treat others the way you would like to be treated” also known as, the golden rule. I believe that everyone in the world is created equal, no matter what race, ethnicity, or religion; we all should receive the same amount of respect for one another. This is a good rule to live by because it can be applied to many real life situations and remains relevant today. Over the course of 15 years, I’ve learned that what I was taught
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Foundations of Child Development. LETTER 2 Dear Parents of KinderCare’s Children, My name is Victoria Barnes and I have worked in the Early Childhood Education field for over 6 years. Currently I have been employed here at Auburn’s KinderCare since September of 2013. My responsibility to KinderCare is of a Program Supervisor and Assistant Infant teacher. This letter has been prepared for you in order to better help you understand our foundation of Early Childhood Development. With
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said this to me when I was upset because of events that happened the day before. She taught me that not everything is as bad as they seem and you should never hold grudges. This really affected me during my middle school years. Sixth through eighth grade was probably the worst times of my life but I still have some awesome memories to hold on to forever. In middle school you are still trying to figure out who you really are and it could be tough at times. Throughout middle school I have been given
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a doctor. I was in a Christian school until 5th grade. That was when I started middle school. Du to a financial crisis in the family, I wasn’t able to go to a Catholic middle school. However, in 7th grade, my parents somehow arranged for me to go to a Catholic middle school. I was very grateful because spending one year in a public middle school was just horrible. I would like to be a doctor. I have decided to go to a medical collage after I graduate high school. While I was growing up, my parents
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our mind many times about what we want to do when we “grow” up. Maybe it is not so much growing up but more of what we want to do with the rest of our lives. Making this decision can be very hard for some of us. Personally I have a passion for art, I love it and I am pretty good at it. Along with art I also live teaching younger children how to do different art related things. Becoming an elementary school art teacher is what I want to do after high school. I always loved to draw and make different
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Annie isn’t Just a Story I was thirteen years old when I found out my aunt had offered to foster two new children. In the past month, she has officially adopted them. I never really understood how rough life was for the kids in the foster system until my mom told me the story of Khloe and Aliya and how they came into the foster care system. They have the same mom, but different dads. All three of the parents had been doing drugs and formed an unsafe environment. The Department of Social Services
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management. To run an effective classroom, the teacher should have a well developed classroom management plan that should be utilized at all times. A well thought out classroom management plan will not only be a major contributor to your own success as a teacher but it will also help promote your students ability to learn in the classroom. A classroom management plan should be a tool that is not always set in stone but something should be revised when necessary to get the most out
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Diary of Anne Frank and seen her as a teacher. Anne Frank has been a teacher by showing the world how she overcame her problems. She has helped me to improve to know others. The most important lesson Anne Frank has taught me is to always be optimistic in any situation. Anne Frank has coached the world her solutions and themes. Anne Frank is known to be a teacher to the world from many examples from her book. For example, “It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because
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academic success in the classroom. Everyone has different learning abilities and styles and it is important to recognize and address them. Not everyone works well in groups or alone. I feel the children should have a choice in the beginning of the year until the teacher or para observes and makes note of what works best. I would also explain to the children that sitting next to your best friend isn't always a good choice and can be distracting. Students in wheel chairs need extra room to move around
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