...ISBN: 0-536-29980-3 Introduction to Teaching: Becoming a Professional, Second Edition, by Donald Kauchak and Paul Eggen Published by Prentice-Hall/Merrill. Copyright © 2005 by Pearson Education, Inc. Instruction in American Classrooms T ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ he reason you’re taking this and other courses in your teacher preparation program is to help you understand American schools, how they attempt to promote student learning, and what teachers can do to contribute to that process. Over the past 25 years a continually expanding body of research has provided educators with a great deal of information about the relationships between teaching and learning. In this chapter we describe this research as we try to answer the following questions: How do effective teachers plan for instruction? What kinds of personal characteristics do effective teachers possess? What kinds of instructional strategies do effective teachers use? How do effective teachers manage their classrooms to create productive learning environments? How do effective teachers assess their students? On what theories of learning do effective teachers base their instruction? Let’s begin by looking at a teacher’s thinking as she plans for her next week’s math instruction. “What are you doing?” Jim Barton asked his wife, Shirley, as he saw her hard at work on a Saturday afternoon cutting and drawing on cardboard pieces. “Working on a unit on equivalent fractions and adding fractions with unlike denominators. . . . What...
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...Assess Leslie's teaching using the effective teaching characteristics outlined in Figure 11.1. Your Answer: Ms. Leslie was teaching a teaching a group of students, the student had a problem understanding the English class work. Ms. Leslie wrote on the board two type of sentences one was correct and the other was wrong. As a class Ms. Leslie had each student to explain the sentences, once everyone was finish. As a group they discuss the sentences. When Ms. Leslie explain the difference of the sentences the class as a whole understood the lesson better. Teacher planning, teaching strategies, and assessing learning are the three dimensions for which the most evidence exists. Leslie was well planned. She had her examples (actually, an example and a non-example) prepared on transparencies and ready to be displayed. And she made arrangements to have a second overhead in her room, so she could display the two transparencies at the same time. She was well planned. Leslie used effective teaching strategies. She was well organized, her language was clear, and she questioned effectively, particularly in the area of equitable distribution. She used high-quality examples and she developed her lesson with high levels of interaction. She provided effective feedback during the course of the lesson. Leslie's assessment was aligned with her learning objective and her learning activity. We don't have direct evidence for her personal characteristics or classroom management. However...
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...AED 201 Week 9 Final Project Professional Development Plan Get Tutorial by Clicking on the link below or Copy Paste Link in Your Browser https://hwguiders.com/downloads/aed-201-week-9-final-project-professional-development-plan/ For More Courses and Exams use this form ( http://hwguiders.com/contact-us/ ) Feel Free to Search your Class through Our Product Categories or From Our Search Bar (http://hwguiders.com/ ) AED 201 Week 9 Final Project Professional Development Plan Final Project: Professional Development Plan Resources: Introduction to Teaching, Appendix A, and INTASC principles at http://cte.jhu.edu/pds/resources/intasc_principles.htm Review the guidelines in Appendix A. Use Appendix A to help you create a Professional Development Plan—a component that may be added to your professional portfolio. Write a 2,100- to 2,500-word paper composed in Microsoft© Word, include answers to the following questions: What are your goals in the next 5 years? In the next 10 or more years? What steps are necessary to get you to your goals? What obstacles might you foresee and how will you overcome them? What is one principle from the INTASC Principles Web site (http://cte.jhu.edu/pds/resources/intasc_principles.htm ) that you feel you must improve the most to be effective in the education profession? What existing professional development programs might you pursue to address the need to improve in this area? What professional development programs might...
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...Socioeconomic Status and Student Achievement AED/201 May 16, 2012 Mark Pittrof The school that I have investigated is ............. The district is .............. schools. I searched for the socioeconomic status at the school website and the district website and could not find the information I was looking for. The socioeconomic status that I researched and could find was from Campbell county website. The last time it was updated was 2005, Family income at this time was per capita personal income $27,979, Median Household income $53,050. In 2007 last update 27,446 were employed and 866 where unemployed. I even spoke to the principal at ................. elementary and she was unsure where I could find this information. The information that I found for student achievement tests for ............ is in 2010-2011. School population is 665 this testing year and the school made AYP status. In 2009-2010 out of 100 students 85 passed the all testing. This is the only information that I could find on the schools website. For Leesville alone there was no information provided for actual student achievement scores. I did find in an article from 2010 scores where down county wide over 22 percent. Of course there is a hope that testing scores would be high and they should. But I am sure there are a lot of factors to this decline. The main program that was found that address the needs of students having low socioeconomic status in the Campbell county school district is they are...
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...TermPaperWarehouse.com - Free Term Papers, Essays and Research Documents The Research Paper Factory JoinSearchBrowseSaved Papers Home Page » Social Issues Teaching as a Professional Career In: Social Issues Teaching as a Professional Career Teaching as a Professional Career Listra Long AED/201 02/09/2012 Terry Houlton The factors that define teaching as a professional career begins here being the most important roles; Caring professional of which teachers are most caring people who cares about the students and their environment on a daily basis, they make themselves available to the students showing empathy to their situation. Caring teachers shows their ability and help the students with their behavior and to obtain better grades, guide their emotions and help them to improve intellectually. More so students who receive support from their teachers improve achieve better in the classroom and school work and becomes more responsible and comfortable with their social environment which is both valued by teachers and students. When a teacher does not care about a student it affects their mind and makes them want to leave school. Creator of productive learning environment is an environment that is orderly and focuses on learning. Students feel safe in the schools and classrooms where learning is productive. The students feel safe emotionally and physically with the everyday routine of the school. Being an Ambassador is when the teachers represent the school...
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...Teaching as a Professional Career Listra Long AED/201 02/09/2012 Terry Houlton The factors that define teaching as a professional career begins here being the most important roles; Caring professional of which teachers are most caring people who cares about the students and their environment on a daily basis, they make themselves available to the students showing empathy to their situation. Caring teachers shows their ability and help the students with their behavior and to obtain better grades, guide their emotions and help them to improve intellectually. More so students who receive support from their teachers improve achieve better in the classroom and school work and becomes more responsible and comfortable with their social environment which is both valued by teachers and students. When a teacher does not care about a student it affects their mind and makes them want to leave school. Creator of productive learning environment is an environment that is orderly and focuses on learning. Students feel safe in the schools and classrooms where learning is productive. The students feel safe emotionally and physically with the everyday routine of the school. Being an Ambassador is when the teachers represent the school and they are visible to the public and parents. The teachers are the link to the school and parents , the parents assess the students through the teachers, and the teachers are always being scrutinized and at that the parents regard the safety of the...
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...Managing a Daily Teaching Schedule Part 2 Tammy Dyke AED/201 August 26, 2011 Julie Gruber Managing a Daily Teaching Schedule Part 2 The teaching profession is like any other profession because there is just not enough time in the school day. Teachers need to use time management techniques to make the best of the time allotted for each class. Today the discussion explains how teachers may use time effectively. The discussion explains three time management techniques. The three time management techniques to be discussed are schedule solid blocks of teaching time, use time more efficiently, and effective transitions. The effect the three time management techniques have on the teachers’ daily schedule is explained. The discussion explains the ways the three techniques helps improve teachers’ success. The discussion also explains the ways each of the three improves success levels and reduces teachers stress levels. The first time management technique is teachers need to schedule solid blocks of teaching time (Shalaway, 2005). For example, hang a do not disturb sign on door to ensure there is no classroom interruptions’. Teachers may also speak with the principle to help schedule pull-out programs around teaching time. Teachers may talk to parents and ask if all doctors’ appointments could be scheduled after school to ensure students do not miss important classroom instruction time. The key is to maximize instructional time to ensure daily schedule is kept. Teachers’ success...
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...Rights and Responsibilities of Educators and Students Fairleana Taylor AED/201 August 14, 2011 Breeanna Becker Rights and Responsibilities of Educators and Students Axia College Material Appendix C Rights and Responsibilities of Educators and Students Perform a search in the University Library databases and locate four school-related court cases (with outcomes decided), two which involve educators as defendants and two which involve students as defendants. Fill in the table below. When you give your informed opinion, state and discuss whether you agree or disagree with the outcome. Base your opinion on legal and ethical standards as discussed in Ch. 9 of the text. If you do not agree with the outcome, explain what would have been just. Base your explanation upon the rights and responsibilities of those involved. Cite your sources in APA format below the table. Name and Date of Case | Brief Overview of Case and Outcome | Your Informed Opinion | Case 1: Educator as DefendantName of Case: Engel V. VitaleApproximate Date(s): 1962 | The New York School System began their day with a prayer. The school having a prayer every morning was challenged in court as being unconstitutional and in violation of the First Amendment under the Constitution. The Supreme Court agreed, because schools are government ran and the government cannot sponsor religious activities. | I agree with this decision because the schools cannon be promoting any religiousactivities. Some students...
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...Socioeconomic Status and Student Achievement D’Juan McPherson AED 201 March 8, 2011 Audrey E. Lane Socioeconomic Status and Student Achievement The school that I want to teach at and is investigating is Adamsville Elementary and it is located in Atlanta, Georgia. Adamsville Elementary is a public school that starts at kindergarten and end at 5th grade. This elementary school surrounding community is city and large territory inside an urbanized area and inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. There are 16,216 (2.73 people per house) and the median household income for students who attend Adamsville Elementary is $36,349. Out of 413 students only 377 students receives free lunches and 19 students are students who receives reduced-price lunches. A majority of parents who children attend this school graduated from high school with a diploma and a third of them graduated from college with degrees. A majority of the parents work in the sales, education, and transportation department. Most children who attend this school come from a single parent household and 9.4% come from a married household. What I see when I am looking at the students performances on the standardize tests is not all that good or that bad. The way to determine how these students do on these standardize tests is to look at it by the grade levels and the subjects. First graders who attend Adamsville elementary school scored way below the state and district average on the language arts...
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...Characteristics of At-Risk Students: Latchkey Children Tiffany Tham AED 201 Linda Rosiak Axia College, University of Phoenix June 13, 2010 Children who go home to an empty house without parental supervision are called Latchkey Children. These children are usually left alone until one or both parents arrive home from work. Latchkey children are often told by parents not to open doors for strangers or step outside. A list of emergency contacts is usually left in a place where the children can see in case of an emergency. Parents usually provide a snack for the children to come home to while they wait for their parents’ to come home and make dinner. Some parents even cook dinner the night before so the child can just reheat and eat. I was not a Latchkey child, but many of my friends were. Many of them would walk home to an empty house every day; some of them would have food prepared for them; and some would have to do it themselves. At our age I never realized that my friends would be categorized as at risk students because they went home to no one. The programmed I researched is called the START program. The Start program helps children with anything from homework to tutoring, as well as reading, literacy, math and recreational activities. START also provides extended daycare needs to those students who need them. Each school’s extended program varies but all provides similar activities for students. Start also offers programs through community partners. The START program...
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...Characteristics of At-Risk Students AED/201 June 1, 2014 Annise York Characteristics of At-Risk Students The category of at-risk students I have chosen to write about is the risk of drugs and alcohol with students. It seems that students may be more at risk of having a problem with or using drugs and alcohol if they are a child of low socioeconomic status, in poverty, have family instability, and/or academic problems at school. Studies have shown that after an almost twenty year drop in the amount of drugs and alcohol being used by students, they are both on the rise again. Some people may think that this is just a problem for major cities but this could not be further from the truth. This problem is actually most acute in rural areas. I actually have seen this first hand in the town where I come from. I graduated high school in 1995 and most of my friends were taking drugs and drinking alcohol on a regular basis throughout all of my high school years. I never did drugs but did drink alcohol with them on the weekends, and although this never turned into a problem for me, I shouldn’t have been drinking that young and bad things could have happened because of it. Some people say that teens may be getting mixed messages, with parents and other’s telling these students that it is bad for you but seeing a lot of it glorified through media. Just trying drugs can turn into a big problem because it can turn into drug dependency, dropping out of school, poor health, suicide...
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...Mentoring vs. Induction Programs 1 Mentoring versus Induction Program Andrea Tubbs AED/201 Breanna Becker June 13, 2010 Mentoring vs. Induction Programs 2 One of the main factors new teachers leave after a few years of teaching is socialization. With all the training and along with additional tools new teachers get before entering into the classroom. They’re faced with so many obstacles as new teachers, that’s why it’s so good to have programs like mentoring and induction programs to help on this journey during the first couple years of teaching. Mentoring Programs are programs organized by experienced or veteran teachers, whose job is to help the new or beginning teacher. Their responsibility is to offer advice, guidance, and support for them to take back to the classroom. Induction programs are programs that are established to first year teachers that provide workshops, internships and the oppourinty for teachers to observe their future peers in the classroom to see how it’s done. These tools will provide aide to them, to use when facing adversity, challenges or any difficult situation that will arise in the classroom. The purpose of the mentoring program is to give personal and long-term individual support to the new teachers. New teachers are assigned to a mentor who will offer guidance and support to them during their first year experience. Even though mentoring is part of induction process it’s not induction. On the other hand induction...
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...Characteristics of At-Risk Children AED/201 LaShaun Cummings July 28, 2013 In the United States many students face many problems or terrible conditions in their lives at home, school and in life in general. These problems and conditions can affect students in such a big way when it comes to schoolwork or academic success. Many schools nationwide have set up programs or assistance to help these students succeed despite the problem or condition they are forced to face. Not all students may encounter a problem in school, but some encounter multiple problems. The types of problems and conditions include changing families, poverty, violence, abuse of alcohol and/or drugs, suicide, and child abuse. These are serious problems that many students face in today’s world, which can seriously affect academic success. Students who face one or more of these problems is said to be “at-risk” for academic failure (Axia College, 2005). The characteristics of students placed at-risk are a low SES, inner city, male, transient, minority, non-native English speaker, and divorced families (Axia College, 2005). The only way a school, district, or state can do something about the at-risk students is to assist the needs of these students as much as possible. Many schools, districts, and states have set up special programs for at-risk students, including anything from afterschool programs to housing assistance. Usually the programs assist one of the characteristics of at-risk students to assist...
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...Investment Opportunities in Automotive Sector in RAK -A Sector Study on Automotive Sector in UAE with Regional Perspective Photograph: Ashok Leyland’s Bus Assembly plant in RAKIA Industrial Park in Ras Al Khaimah (UAE) December 2009 Contents Executive Summary Introduction The Changing Nature of Global Manufacturing The Changing Nature of Supply Chain Global Automotive Production & Major Players Automotive Production in the Middle East GCC Automotive Sector GCC Economic Outlook-Macro-economic Indicators GCC Macro-economic Indicators GCC Auto Industry SWOT Outlook for GCC Automotive Sector GCC Competitive edge Vehicle Assembly in GCC GCC Source of imports GCC Highlights-Foreign trade in Automotive sector UAE Automotive Sector UAE Auto Industry SWOT UAE Economic SWOT UAE Business Environment SWOT UAE Automotive Sector trade Automotive Manufacturing in UAE Low cost and Luxury car market in UAE Used Car Market in UAE After- sales Business in UAE Car Rental Market in UAE Rationale for setting up projects in RAK Identified Projects UAE Auto Industry Forecast Scenario Automotive Products & Free Trade Agreements About Ras Al Khaimah About RAK Investment Authority References Annexure I II III IV V-A V-B VI-A VI-B VII VIII IX X World Motor Vehicle Production By Country And Type In 2008 World Ranking of Vehicle Manufacturers In 2008 UAE Imports & Re-exports of Vehicles in value term List of Automobile Component Manufacturers in GCC UAE Trade figures on components 2006-1008 In...
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...College Credit Through Advanced Standing Produced by the Office of Academic Services This manual is accurate as of the date of publication. As new information becomes available, it will be posted to the online version, available through the Academic Services web site, www.nvcc.edu/aboutnova/directories--offices/administrative-offices/academic/index.html. Revised June 2012 Table of Contents INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................... 3 PURPOSE .................................................................................................................................3 TYPES OF ADVANCED STANDING ...................................................................................................3 GENERAL PROCEDURES ...............................................................................................................4 EVALUATION RESPONSIBILITIES .....................................................................................................5 SECTION 1—CREDITS FROM POST-SECONDARY INSTITUTIONS ........................................ 7 GENERAL CONDITIONS ................................................................................................................7 GENERAL EDUCATION TRANSFER CREDIT FOR STUDENTS WITH PREVIOUS DEGREES ..................................9 EVALUATION OF INTERNATIONAL TRANSCRIPTS .....................................................................
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