...The first year as a teacher is difficult and there will be many obstacles along the way, both for the teacher and the students. That being said, there are a few important tips that every first year teacher should focus on to increase their chances of success. Every first year teacher should seriously focus on classroom management, time management, a strong support system, organization, and attitude. By focusing on these important characteristics, the success of a first year teacher is greatly improved. First year teachers need to realize that classroom management is incredibly important. As a teacher, having control of your classroom is essential to ensuring that your students receive optimal learning in a structured environment. This also ensures that the students are paying attention and being respectful of their teacher. Although the students' voices should be heard and not ignored, the teacher must have the ultimate authority and respect. Time management is also incredibly important to master. As a first year teacher, making sure you take the time to plan accordingly and account for your entire day before the day starts will go a long way. First year teachers must be adaptable and understand that things aren’t always going to go how they plan it. Having back up work, like games, on hand can be incredibly helpful when your plans go askew to keep your students busy. Although there is a lot to teach your students and cover in one day, don't burn them out with constant...
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...the school will feel unmanageable without guidance. It is vital leaders wishing to implement systematic change have a clear vision, direction and a process for this change to take place. Without having a vision, change is likely not going to happen. Change involves stakeholders, their visions, and the leader’s visionary skills for change to occur. Change lead by efficient leaders is inevitable and important for progress in schools and without change unproductivity occurs. Stakeholders need to be involved in the decision-making about change because it creates a trusting and supportive environment conducive to change (Gurr, Drysdale, & Mulford, 2006). Module 7 lecture (2012) states there are steps to follow for applying change so it is successful. First, you need to diagnose the need for change. Why is change necessary. Next, collect data. Then communicate to staff and stakeholders the possibility of problems associated with change. Listen to all viewpoints. Examine the data for understanding the consequences of change. Synthesize the data to form direction and develop goals. Apply the change process in clear, measureable objectives. Lastly,...
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...shows how I have progressed has a college reader and writer. Before this class I had trouble even understanding how to write a thesis and now I think I can definitely write a college level thesis. I have progressed to know how to incorporate my evidence into my concise and focused thesis statement. For example in the self assessment essay my thesis was, “Due to transferring to many schools over my first two years of college, I feel like I have had the opportunity to build up many habits of mind from Framework for Success in Post-Secondary Writing, especially in flexibility, openness and persistence but still can develop in metacognition and creativity in order to become a more successful college writer.” This showed that I could adapt a thesis to the assignment and it was focused and used my sources. At this point in the semester, a strength I have is the ability to connect source evidence with my thesis. I am able to develop my focused thesis around source-based evidence. For example in the college learning essay I was able to use my interview with my friend who was an elementary teacher to help develop my thesis about how teaching has changed due to technology. I also think another strength I have is organizing my paper in a proper order. In the three essays in this portfolio I organized the essays with a focused thesis, introduction, body paragraphs and an organized conclusion. A challenge I have is using signal phrases to introduce my source-based evidence. I have worked on...
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...“You’re going to be helping out at the elementary school this summer. You’re going to be a teacher assistant for summer school”. When I was first informed of how I was going to be spending the summer before my sixth grade year, I did not leap for joy. I did not think about how wonderful this opportunity would be for me to gain valuable experience necessary to prepare me for a career in teaching. Instead, I worried over how early I had to get up and how much of my time I was giving up to this endeavor. “It’ll be good for you”, my mom finished with strongly after I had had ample time to register what this meant for me; two weeks in a classroom for four hours a day, five days a week. How my mom thought this would be good for me I didn’t know, but I soon learned. I learned in those two weeks how much I enjoy kids and watching them grow based on the knowledge I gave them. I...
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...Education was a broad overview of many topics teachers talk about and deal with and the situations that will come about when in the field of teaching. It is a high demanding field with very high intrinsic rewards because you are educator of the future of our great nation to compete against other countries, and possibly other planets. Teaching is a very important profession for our nation’s success. The most important question you can ask yourself is, “Do I want to be a teacher?” There are a lot of rewards and challenges. The two types of awards expressed in chapter one were intrinsic and extrinsic rewards. More often than not, teachers are most often to experience intrinsic rewards since there are not many monetary benefits for being a teacher. Intrinsic rewards that teachers may receive are successful students in their field of study, increasing students to pursue the field of study that the teacher teaches in, or just the connection you get from their students. Some extrinsic rewards that teachers look for are job security and long vacations. Classroom activities should be multidimensional, simultaneous, immediate, unpredictable, and public. The teacher should not just be a teacher, but also a friend, coworker, and sometimes even a parent. Some problems will come up at the same time so the teacher also needs to be able to deal with multiple problems at once. Also those problems should be dealt with immediately. A lot of what the teacher will deal with will be completely unpredictable...
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...I stated m caee in an The Challenges Facing Beginning Teachers New teachers bring varying backgrounds, motivations, experiences, and preparation levels to their initial teaching experience. Their view of the profession and their role in it is shaped by these motivations, as well as by the context in which they begin their work. This chapter explores the commitments that new teachers bring to their roles and the challenges they face. It sets forth the need for the development of a comprehensive induction program to help all new teachers become fully committed and more effective in the classroom. A CASE OF BEGINNING TEACHING Anna was a first-year teacher in an urban school. Although Business was her undergraduate major, she found her initial foray into the business world to be very unsatisfying. She wanted a career that would allow her to make a contribution to society. She heard about the need for teachers— particularly for math teachers—in her area. Not being quite sure what she needed to do to become eligible to work in a teaching capacity, she attended a recruitment fair put on by the local school district. There she heard about the program that would allow her to begin teaching while she completed work on a teaching credential through a district-led or a university-led alternative certification program. 1 Bartell 01.qxd 7/21/04 5:45 PM Page 1 After taking a test that measured her “basic skills” (reading, math, and writing), she was sent on some interviews at several middle...
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...Advisor to peer teacher is a fundamental importance in the development of a new teacher and the continued success of new and veteran teacher. As a new teacher, my school district MANDATES any new teacher to be assigned a peer teacher mentor for a period of one year. Throughout this process, the mentor and mentee teacher must meet twice a week. The teacher mentor receives a weeklong of specialized training that prepares them to be a successful mentor. The mentor program was successful for me. The teacher I was assigned to was passionate about her job and we shared similar teaching styles and philosophies to teaching. She had been teaching for approximately 12 years after having come from the business industry into teacher, so automatically...
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...Better Mentoring, Better Teachers Three Factors That Help Ensure Successful Programs By Dara Barlin Article review By Jennifer Hyder In the March issue of the education Week Barlin gives three factors that will promote a successful mentoring program. The article was written based on data received from many years of helping schools and distract develop programs for beginning teachers. The data showed three critical factors that will ensure the success of the program. Those factors were finding the right mentor, Aligning instructional-support efforts and Partnering with principals. The first factor is finding the right mentor. Barlin points out that first and for most a good mentor has to first be good and effective teacher. The problem is that many schools and distracts are not equip or have the proper structure to asses who is highly effective or strong in student outcome. In those schools that can the problem them becomes willingness to pull that teacher out of the classroom to mentor. Aligning instructional-support efforts is the next key factor in a successful program. Barlin makes a connection with aligning instructional support with that of a communal tree. Everyone want to water it, in hopes to see it thrive but if there is not proper coordination then the tree will drown. Here the new teacher is the tree and the those willing to help water the tree are the literacy and math coaches, university supervisors, data specialists, special education counselors...
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...1 Elementary Education COM/150 8 November 2009 2 Elementary Education School year 2007-2008, there were approximately 22,434 out of 450,000 students dropped out of high school a 5% dropout rate in the state of North Carolina (North Carolina Board of Education 2009). This rate was entirely too high and we as parents, teachers, educators, and a community need to work to combat this unacceptable rate. We have to start early to stress the importance of education to our children and go the extra mile(s) to assist them and instill in them that they can succeed no matter the odds. Education starts at elementary level; if it is not fostered at that level then graduating from high school is almost an impossible goal to attain. Lake Rim Elementary school is in Fayetteville, NC and was established in March 2000, the school has a student count of 661 students (North Carolina K-12 website 2009). Lake Rim elementary has met the annual adequate yearly progress from 2001-2005, from 2005-2007 they did not meet annual yearly progress but met attendance target (Lake Rim Elementary School website 2009). In 2007-2008 the school met high growth and attendance target. Teacher to student ratio is 1:14 (Lake Rim Elementary School website 2009) and the state of North Carolina is 1:15 (North Carolina K-12 website 2009) and there are 98 students in kindergarten at Lake Rim Elementary School (Lake Rim Elementary School website 2009). The...
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...immersion into the education field began around 1978. Every Saturday, I would help my mother load up her car with musical instruments of all sorts, and head on over to the Community Center in one of the toughest neighborhoods in Philadelphia. Despite the grime and crime ridden neighborhood that the Center was located, on the inside, one would never know of the issues that existed on the outside. There, I met my first group of children with disabilities, children with Down’s Syndrome. My mom came here every Saturday to teach these students who were from the local orphanage, music. My job was to pass out the instruments and help where needed. The funny thing about my experience when I look back is that I NEVER saw those kids as being “different” I mean I noticed that they had mongoloid features and stubby fingers but they laughed and acted as silly as I did. I didn’t know it then, but that is when I got the “teaching bug.” They say it takes a special person to teach special education, and that is very true. My first classroom experiences may have made the toughest teacher quit. I’ve been spat at, had feces thrown on me, food tossed at me just to mention a few, but none of those incidences broke my spirit because I believed that I could, along with the help of my paraprofessionals, turn these students around. No, it wasn’t easy and I went home many a night crying and calling my mom asking her how she did it and telling her that maybe I was wrong and not up for the challenge of...
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...in the America over the next five years. However, there are many differences in education between China and America. In fact, it is hard to be successful in American college. How the Chinese student to be successful, and what are the differences in education between two countries? I think there are three differences in education between China and America ways of studying was learning, and using different languages. First, there is a different way to study between China and America. In China, students study very hard every day because they have lots of homework. However, there is not much homework in the America. Chinese's teacher thinks homework is the good way to studying, but American student doesn’t have lots of homework. Chinese's teacher always gives a student some question out of the book because this is good for the GAO KAO exam. Chinese's student buy textbook each year, and it is cost more money. In America, the teacher wants to the student read book, and never give the student much homework. If you finish the lesson’s homework, it would be enough for exam. If you read the book, you will be easy past the exam. American teacher also don’t give extra homework because they know it is enough lesson for the student today. If Chinese student wants to be successful at an American college, they should study hard and read the book well. Second, there are two difference ways to learning between China and America. Chinese's teacher would like letting the student remember...
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...the Adolescent Literacy Crisis,” that a two-year college education is almost necessary for a person to get a decent paying job (2016b). Recently, reading and writing professionally have become part of the job requirements and many young adults graduating from high school fail to have the literacy skills required to fulfill these requirements. As someone who has had difficulty in the past with professional reading and writing, and as...
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...education degree attainment was based on many factors beyond the institution where the program originated, the primary category assessed by the Student Right to Know Act (SRK). Conducting their study over a six-year period, with the help of the NSC database and its 93 million student records, the researchers found that demographics, pervious academic ability, social integration, financial contribution, and gender all strongly affected student persistence. The singular focus of assessing degree attainment based solely on the originating institution was thusly challenged. The data supported a similar finding by the Higher Education Research Institute whose 2005 study indicated race, gender and type of learning institution were all contributing factors for degree attainment (Astin & Oseguera, 2005). Evaluating collective data, it appears multiple factors must be assessed to determine graduation attainment for students in higher learning institutes. Evaluating a singular factor for degree attainment offers a controlled viewpoint for a pervasive issue. Tellez, K. (2011). A case study of a career in education that began with “Teach for America,” Teaching Education, 22(1), 15-38. doi: 10.1080/10476210.2010.541238. Researcher Tellez set out with a hypothesis that teacher pre-service was not necessarily a determining factor for how much...
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... | Table of Contents ________________________________________________________________________ Executive Summary 2 What is the No Child Left Behind Act? 3 What are the repercussions of not following this Act? 3 How the Act affects Teachers? 4 How the Act affects higher personnel? 5 The positive of the Act 8 Executive summary During Bush’s first term, he passed an education law to implement new, tougher testing standards as well as requirements for accountability on the states. Basically each year students have to improve better than last year’s students ultimately making the goal of 100% passing of the standardize tests a reality. This law is called the No child Left Behind Act. Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) is how the U.S. Department of Education determines the performance of every public school and school district in the country academically according to results on the standardized tests. K-3 teachers must teach all children to read. These teachers must learn how to assess children and how to use assessment results to plan effective instruction. Principals must redesign their schools, implement research-based curricula, ensure that teachers are trained in research-based instructional methods, and provide core reading knowledge to...
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...Why Did I Enroll in College I often ask myself why. Why did you decide to go to college? Well first off, I have just started my family. So therefore, I am going to need to get my future set straight in order to support this family. What better way than to enroll in college? In this essay I will briefly explain why I enrolled in college. Also, the qualities I need to use in order to be successful in college. Qualities that I am going to use will definitely give me nothing but the best, and me personally I strive for the best. While in college I would love to gain the most out of it. The last thing I plan on talking about is certain obstacles I will have to overcome in order to be successful in receiving my degree. Why did I enroll in college? My reasons for enrolling in college are pretty simple. First things first, I really want to work towards getting my degree and become a teacher. I have wanted to be a teacher all my life. Honestly I don’t know what made me want to become a teacher, but it has stuck with me since I first decided what I wanted to be. I have the up-most respect for teachers, due to the fact that they put up with so much from students. So I believe I need to put forth the effort and take over for someone who is ready to get out of the teaching life. Another reason I decided to enroll in college, I really want to experience new things. This is a never ending issue; I am the type of person who constantly wants to experience something new. I joined the military...
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