...Personalised learning…. Is it a Myth? Personalised learning, thinking skills and the importance to teach for 21st Century learning. The Reality. * Are these achievable in everyday classroom settings? * Are they compatible with the curriculum? * Are we ready and willing to change? * Do schools really want to embrace all that they mean? * Are we perhaps just paying lip service to the ideas, but not ready to completely implement the concepts? * Do we need to? The presentation was based upon Yvonne’s own experiences as a head teacher, moving a school from traditional learning towards the 21st century approach and as a classroom practitioner faced with the challenge of applying the theory of personalised learning into practice at the same time as ensuring students are prepared for and achieve in traditional exams. Note: The report below highlights the key points of discussion and debate between a few educators some of whom attend the Keynote (Wednesday 23rd at Lincoln Community School, afternoon session) It was argued that there were certain phrases that become almost “dead” in the mind of teachers. They represent big ideas and processes that we probably haven’t mastered and pay lip service to - “Personalised learning” and “Independent learning”. The evidence and misconception of the majority of colleagues over the two terms above was rife. Some dismissed the term “personalised learning” stating that there was no doubt some benefit to the power...
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...Maria Montessori as an Educational Giant Erika Jo Hellbusch ED 200 – 03 (Online) November 08, 2013 Abstract Maria Montessori was a woman who worked hard to gain her education. Her ideas set the foundation for many private education programs seen today. After struggling to gain and education of her own, Maria took what she learned about educating those with mental disabilities and began to apply it to mainstream students. She opened her own small school where she implemented these strategies and it evolved into the Montessori education system used in many private schools. While these strategies aren’t used as often in public schools, there are teachers that apply them within their classrooms whether they mean to or not. Key words: Maria Montessori, private education, Montessori education system Maria Montessori worked very hard to gain her education and helped shape the face of many private education programs seen today. After learning how to work with mentally disabled children, Maria decided to use what she had discovered and apply it to teaching mainstream students. Her ideas evolved into the Montessori education system and are seen in many private schools today. Maria was born on August 31, 1870 to well-educated parents. Her father, Alessandro Montessori, was an official of the Ministry of Finance and her mother was the great-niece of the Italian geologist and paleontologist Antonio Stoppani. Because of her father’s work, her family moved around a little...
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...Student Diversity and Classroom Management Grand Canyon University- EDU 450 October 20, 2013 In today’s classrooms teachers have a lot of diversity to deal with while trying to teach. When it comes to diversity in the class it varies from cultural, mental socio-economic, physical differences. Educators today have to be able to meet all the needs of the students within the class. Teachers need to have knowledge of all the different types of diversity. All of the diversities within the classroom can present several challenges upon the teacher when it comes to discipline. When it comes to maintaining order in the classroom it can be a difficult thing for new teachers it they do not have a lot of assistants. Over the years students have become defiant and teachers are unprepared to deal with the issues. If teachers do not have control of the classroom it can lead to poor classroom management. This paper will discuss five classroom management strategies that will promote critical thinking and gain the students attention within the classroom. The five strategies will include Canter’s Behavior Management Cycle, Win-Win Discipline, Kounin’s Lesson Management, B. F. Skinner’s Discipline through Shaping Behavior and William Glasser’s Discipline Guide by Choice. Using the Canter’s Behavior Management Cycle in the class can help teachers keep the class in order and control. The Canters can be an assertive discipline approach when it comes to teachers using this management...
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...In a classroom setting, discipline and management are two key components for classroom success. The term classroom management is often used interchangeably with the term classroom discipline. However, the two ideas are very different in their application. Management and discipline are two halves of the same coin, they are intrinsicly connected to each other, but they have their own individual properties, with their own look and feel. Classroom management deals with how things in a class are done. Classroom management is the sole responsibility of the teacher. It encompasses all of the teacher’s interactions with students, classroom environment, rules and procedures, instructional strategies and development of engaging work. In a well managed classroom, the teacher implements policies and develops routines that stabilize and direct the flow of a class. Effective teachers manage their classes so that students spend their time more productively. Elements of classroom management vary. No two classes are alike. However the foundational elements a teacher takes into account before students ever set foot in the build can lend to better classroom management. Things such as classroom layout and organization.A neat and organized classroom tells your students you mean business and you expect them to keep the classroom organized as well. Deciding how to divide up classroom time is another important aspect to classroom management.Lunch, recess, breaks, down-time between lessons and activities...
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...Brittany Mobley Ms. Amy Warren ENGL 1101 20 March 2012 My college major and why writing about this topic will be beneficial to me: My major is Early Childhood Education. After I graduate I want to eventually open my own daycare center but before that I will probably get some teaching done first. Researching about the most effective teaching methods will help me run a more beneficial daycare center in the future. My purpose: The purpose of my final research paper is to educate my audience of what the most effective teaching method(s) are. I want my reader to know what the benefits are for children whose daycare teachers use the Montessori teaching method. I will prove to them that the Montessori teaching methods are very beneficial to infant-toddler and primary students and that it should be one of the leading methods used. My working thesis and any assumptions: Childcare providers for children ages 0-4 should follow the Montessori teaching method because teaching methods used in children’s early ages has a long term impact on them. My approach to the subject of my paper: In the structure of my paper I will first define what a childcare/daycare is, what is actually considered to be a daycare. After I will tell about different types of teaching methods used and what some outcomes from previous studies have shown about different ones. I will then prove why the Montessori teaching method is the best one to use for children ages 0-4 and show the benefits that children will have...
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...presented by a lawyer to a jury. Include the most important points from your paper you want your reader to remember. Do not introduce any new ideas or topics in your conclusion. If you feel the need to add more content, go back and add that information to the body of your text. Happy writing! References Knowles, Ph. D., Malcolm S., Burlington. The Adult Learner: The Definitive Classic In Adult Education and Human Resource Development. 2011 Elsevier Science Forrest III, Stephen Paul & Peterson, Tim. It’s Called Andragogy. Academy of Management Learning & Education. Mar 2006, Vol. 5 Issue 1, p113-122. 10p. 1 Diagram, 1 Chart. DOI: 10.5465 Hiemstra, R., & Sisco, B. Individualizing Instruction: Moving From Pedagogy to Andragogy. At: http://www-distance.syr.edu/andraggy.html. 1990 Jossey-Bass Reischmann, Jost. Andragogy: History, Meaning, Context, Function....
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...Education Evolution Education is and always has been under continuous reform. Throughout history, the change of the educational system can be seen through numerous defining moments. Quality education is always the common goal but the approach has never been the same at achieving that goal. The government involvement, curriculum, and pedagogy have all been questioned over time. The common school movement began the step towards public school systems, Horace Mann and John Dewey brought new approaches towards curriculum, and the Nation at Risk report used government involvement to the highest degree in its time to reform education. The Common School Movement is responsible for creating the public school system structure we still use today. The idea behind the common school movement was to educate the general public in order to lower poverty rates and teach immigrant children the American ways (Hunt, 2002). In addition, the common school advocates suggested that while money may be spent on educating the poor, the benefits of educated moral citizens would pay off (Hunt, 2002). The common school movement was advocating education to be available for a growing diverse population in America. Hunt (2002), explains that prior to the common school, education was privately governed and was only for the wealthy. The movement advocated state and local involvement of the schools as well as public funding in order to provide free education (Webb, Metha, & Jordan, 2010). A structured...
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...Maria Montessori Shadaya Cox University of Scranton Abstract This paper is about Maria Montessori and all she did to expand Early Childhood Education. She opened the world’s eyes to education for both normal and mentally deficient people. She paved the way for women in a male dominant world. She was also the first woman in Rome to get her medical degree at the University of Rome. Maria Montessori was an Italian woman born in 1870. She was born during "a time of extreme repression of women in Italy as elsewhere" (Bloom, Martin. "Primary Prevention and Early Childhood Education: An Historical Norte on Maria Montessori." ProQuest Education Journals (n.d.): n. pag. Print.). Maria was "a woman who wanted to shape her own destiny and life" (Peltzman, Barbara Ruth. "The Montessori Method. The Origins of an Educational Innovation." (n.d.): n. pag. Print.). She is known for being the first woman to receive a medical degree from the University of Rome. Initially, she was not admitted to the school because of her gender. Her own father was against the idea of hew pursuing a male dominant career path. Nonetheless, he still escorted her to and from classes each day, as it was ill advised for attractive young girls to be seen alone in public. Montessori drew on the writings of Jean Jacques Rousseau. Rousseau was a "Swiss educator who worked with culturally deprived children" (Bloom, Martin. "Primary Prevention and Early Childhood Education: An Historical Norte on Maria Montessori." ProQuest...
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...In today’s world, children (students) suffer from a host of emotional, mental and physical challenges that effect their behaviour and ability to learn. This is sometimes complimented with their role models encouraging them to treat themselves and others with disrespect. These challenges require abundant reserves of patience. I believe two of the biggest attributes a teacher should have is the ability to show respect towards the students. In his book ‘Pedagogy of the Oppressed,’ Paulo Freire explained that respect and humility foster a condition of trust and communication between the teacher (who also learns) and the learner (who also teaches) (pg23)....
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...In the 21st Century, learning skills and innovation have become fundamental requirements for all learners. Educators and teachers should pay more attention on improving their own abilities and skills in teaching processes and learning management in order for students to possess life-long knowledge and skills. Students should be active learners, and the teacher should play a role as a learning facilitator. Teachers should focus on designing effective teaching techniques in order to encourage student participating in classroom activities, asking students what they have learned and what they would like to learn more. These methods are similar to the concept of education in Singapore, “Teach Less, Learn More” (Panich, 2012). The student-centered...
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...When it comes to teaching a class and being a teacher, is not only about teaching the students from textbooks. Teaching a class goes way past just the textbooks. Often when we hear the word “education”, we think that children are going to school and being lectured by a teacher who has power over them and the classroom. Parents leaving their children at school, expecting the best for them, that they will be receiving the fullest potential of education they can ever receive. As well as parents and children relying on the teacher with their full knowledge that the children will be learning at the kid's pace. Unlikely, that is not the case. There are many ways a teacher can help their students, and they would, but they are very limited due to standards that they have to follow. Often teachers are more worried if they don't teach the standards, than developing the child’s different ways of learning and building up the child's creativity. Michel de Montaigne author of “Of the Education of Children,” and Ken Robinson, author of Creative Schools both authors advocate, in encouraging activities where students come up with their own answers, Independent learning, and student learning styles. When it comes to teachers encouraging activities where students come up with their own answers, it demonstrates how a student can incorporate their own ideas and it's allowing them to practice their social skills. Students have the right to share their own ideas/answers it’s a way of them learning...
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...AS1 – Self-assessment plan. Critically reflect on and systematically plan for subject knowledge development for the appropriate phase. Priorities Actions When and Resources Success Criteria Phonics - To develop confidence in regards to the teaching of phonics. 1. Use different types of media to inform my understanding of phonics. (YouTube) 2. Observe phonics teaching in KS1. 3. Obtain phonics teaching policy and review the phonics scheme that the school uses to teach phonics. 4. Read DfE core criteria key features for an effective systematic synthetic phonics teaching programme. 5. Identify key phonics vocabulary in NC. 6. Read academic and practitioner literature on effective phonics teaching. 1. Every weekend use the internet to observe phonics teaching. 2. Observe 1 lesson each week in placement 1. Arrange weekly. 3. During the first week ask KS1 or EYFS coordinator for the policy and scheme. 4. Obtain a copy online and print off. Review this weekly before each observation. 5. Obtain phase lists from KS1 coordinator during week 1. 6. Library search 22.09.15 Complete all actions in SE1 before SE2 in KS1. Score an average of ‘confident’ in phonics RPD self-assessment audit by the end of SE2. Fully understand and be able to explain the meaning of key phonics vocabulary. (179) Teaching Writing – Transcription, composition, vocabulary, grammar and punctuation (SPAG). 1. Create my own SPAG test. Allow a profile child to attempt the test. 2...
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...Nilar Aye 1. 11. 2015 Visual aids and their usefulness for different levels Teaching is a challenging job, whether you are teaching for a private school or tutoring a single child. There are many methods, approaches and strategies to follow to have an effective lesson. Fortunately, there are many aids and accessories available to make the teachers’ job easier. Teaching aids are materials used by teachers to supplement classroom instruction or stimulate the interest of students. They are crucial for all different types of classes especially with young learners and second language learners. Though some cost money, others are available for free or easily manufactured from household items or on our computers. Teaching aids could be audio aids and visual aids. Using audio aids, such as cassette, recorder, tapes and CDs, is beneficial for engaging auditory learners. Visual aids include power point slides, flashcards, overhead projectors, Videos and DVDs, blackboards or whiteboards, active boards, puppets, phonemic charts, realia, worksheets, textbooks, and many more. Most importantly, teacher is also one of the teaching aids. The use of power point slides in classroom is beneficial as they keep you on task and helps you focus on the key points so that you meet the objectives of the lesson. Even though it takes time to prepare the slides they definitely motives students to be more interested and active. On the other hand, a computer is needed as well as a projector. Thus, it might...
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...A student is a bank according to his exaggeration and the teacher is the depositor. These are the concepts that lead the human beings becoming overloaded. Students are just asked to get used to with the world as it is and this simply means that they remain submissive, unhesitating, and subservient to commanding roles. One of the good points that he points out is that the main reason for traditional concept for not being in effect is for the reason that there is no teacher-student exchange of ideas and the innovative mind is repressed. Freire criticized this model of education because he supposed it made students into lifeless objects to be act on behalf of the teacher. In log-term this will result in the students uncomplaining and adapting to the world put down on to them. The goal of ‘banking education’ according to him is actually to break down the people in the interior of the existing establishment and thus they are oppressed by teachers who are influencing them to accept the oppressor. Freire tells an important characteristic when clearing up the greater significances of the banking type educational model. He claims that creativeness is killed along with exchange of ideas through banking. The teacher is the only one who narrates knowledge for the students to commit to memory, limiting their skills by filling up the contents in their mind while having complete lack of knowledge in that topic. In actual they should learn but the topics are being hard-pressed onto them and...
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... Another factor that influences the appointment of teachers in school is the local interest groups seeking to appoint their preferred teachers in the vacant constituency. Since the teacher appointed has the favor of the local interest group by his side, it opens the system to malpractices such as rent seeking. The teacher thus displays high levels of absenteeism. The lack of a proper supervisory system makes this malpractice easy to carry out. Especially in the primary schools and in rural areas, the teachers appointed are heavily influenced by the political parties. (Memon, Joubish and Khurram 2010) The example of the indifference of authority of the teachers can be seen when in Sindh teacher were asked to visit biometric verification centers. The purpose was to confirm whether they were employed and to digitize their employment data. Some people that presented themselves had been out of country when they were supposed to be teaching and employed here. Other resorted to use of violence to protect their misdeeds. In the PPP stronghold of Larkana, the teachers boldly destroyed all the computers and servers in the center. The entire system in Karachi thus had to be constructed from scratch again. The boldness of the teacher is a clear indication of them having a strong political backing. Thus comes the interference of political interest groups in the downfall of the education system of Pakistan. (Naviwala 2016) The Unnecessary dependence on English Language In the Pakistani...
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