...simple reason: I want to teach. Specifically, I want to teach middle school social studies or history. What thrills me about teaching is the constant challenge of finding better ways to motivate students and make learning relevant to their lives. I want to teach middle school because it is a challenging age. Middle school students are trying to figure out their roles in the world and are facing many pressures from peers, society, and their parents to conform in different ways. I want to be a supportive mentor for children at that difficult point in their lives. I want middle school to be a pleasant experience instead of the bad memory it is for many people. This is much the same thing that motivates me to teach history: I hated history classes when I was in middle school. History seemed so irrelevant, all about dead white men. When I went to college, I started learning that there are many histories to be told and many are left out. For example, I learned about the history of racism in the United States and suddenly I was able to more fully understand my position of privilege as a white person in this society. I started to history as a way of framing the...
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...term (Personal) Individual Education and learning Plan represents both the continuous procedure and the associated certification that shows the training of a special student with special and / or additional needs through explaining, saving, tracking, examining and analyzing the student’s education program, support needs and learning results. The key elements of the IEP procedure and the primary elements of the IEP papers (the product) are essential to the potency of person academic planning. State-wide reliability is required. The purpose of IEP From state-wide assessment there was unanimous agreement that the primary purpose for creating (Personal Education) IEP and learning Plans is to provide a structure and guide for the kid's learning system, which is targeted upon the person child and is applicable to the common educational setting system. The IEP has certain meetings that are held to meet and set goals for this education process. Roles and responsibilities of the principal. As the educational leader, the principal is responsible for guaranteeing that all appropriate Federal and State regulations are complied with so that students with problems receive a free appropriate public knowledge in the least limited environment and have access to the age/grade appropriate common knowledge program and all program options available at the institution. The principal must manage and make sure the execution of all (Personalized) Individual Education Programs (IEPs) for each student...
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...U.S. is known as the place of opportunities and education is the biggest way to accomplish one's dreams, but when someone moves to the U.S. from another country, not being fluent in English can be a huge barrier to being able to accomplish what one wants, and being successful in the educational system. Therefore, the people who control the education system have set specific standards in order to teach students who are learning the English language. The set standard for students who don't speak English is supposed to help them to learn English and keep up with the subjects that the other students who speak English are learning and are being tested on. The idea of that is great and should promote both content retention, and the development of the English...
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...should be placed in regular classrooms full time. It refers to the movement that all students with disabilities, regardless of type or severity, are educated full time in a general education classroom and program. This method would allow disabled children to make friends with “normal” children and be given the opportunity to learn in a stimulating environment, where they can get the “real world” education that they will need to be able to fit into society and flourish as productive members. Under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, students with special needs are entitled to a full, free, public education in regular educational programs and settings. The inclusion classroom would provide exactly that, a setting for these students to interact with their peers of all ability levels, thus most accurately mirroring the real world outside of school. At current most schools in the United States do not use the method of full inclusion. The current trend in education is to use either mainstreaming or what is considered the least restrictive environment (Feldman 273). Mainstreaming refers to the practice of educating students with special needs in regular classes during specific time periods based on their skills. This means regular education classes are combined with special education classes. Least Restrictive Environment refers to the concept that children with disabilities should be educated to the maximum extent possible with children who are not disabled while meeting...
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...children with special needs in our communities in Ghana today, who like any other children, must have the opportunity to go to school. The term special needs or children with special needs refers to individual learners whose needs arise from physical, emotional, sensory, behavioural and intellectual conditions that have a long-term adverse effect on their ability to access the regular education facilities. This includes individuals with various disabilities such the mentally retarded, the hearing and visually impaired, and the learning disabled individuals. In the olden days, children with special needs had their education mainly in the few segregated special schools spread across the country. However, owing to the fast growing number of individuals with disability, it is now common to find a good number of them in the regular schools in the various communities. The result was that educationists began exploring various educational arrangements including mainstreaming, integration and inclusion that could bring together both disabled and non-disabled individuals in the same classroom to pursue the same school curriculum. Inclusive education is a concept that allows pupils with special needs to be placed in the regular or mainstream classes to be taught by mainstream teachers. Inclusion, which is the most current perspective in education, is the combination of pupils with and without disabilities in one classroom. Thus pupils with special needs are...
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...Abstract Prior studies have shown that students with disabilities have a difficult time with social interaction with their peers when inclusive education has been applied in a classroom. Social participation plays a large role in the emotional development of students. Interaction is often necessary to function in the educational environment. The experiment presented in this paper conducted by Koster et al. (2009) was designed to test the hypothesis that the Social Participation Questionnaire (SPQ) is able to distinguish between students with and without disabilities. The questionnaire, developed in 2008 by Koster et al. (as cited in Koster et al., 2009), was designed “for teachers to assess the social participation of pupils with special needs in regular primary education” (Koster, 2009, p. 213). Keywords: social participation, inclusive education, Testing the Discriminating Power of a Social Participation Questionnaire Research has shown that students with special needs have difficulty creating peer-to-peer relationships in classrooms where inclusion is applied. The Social Participation Questionnaire (SPQ) was designed to determine the social interaction of students with special needs that have been placed in regular classes. The SPQ has four key themes: “friendships/relationships,” “contacts/interactions,” “pupil’s social self-perception” and “acceptance by classmates” (Koster et al., 2009). The experiment conducted by Koster et al. was designed to “test the discriminating...
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...Inclusive Education Inclusive Education is a learning environment where children with and without disabilities are taught together, as equals. This approach is different to more traditional approaches to the education of children with disabilities, such as the SPED model used in the Philippines, that involve segregating CWDs into separate classes or even separate schools. Inclusive Education is recognized by teachers, families and policy makers to be a more beneficial way of ensuring that children with and without disabilities achieve their full educational potential. The LCD Philippines Foundation Inclusive Education program was initiated in 2005 in response to a perceived need for a remodification of the current educational system for CWDs in the Philippines. Working in partnership with the Department of Education, other national NGOs and 19 Community Support Groups (made up of volunteer parents and volunteer organisations), amongst other partners, the program involves creating awareness among stakeholders; improving access to Inclusive Education in schools and communities through providing accessible features, equipment and appropriate teacher training; adopting an holistic approach to address the needs of CWDs through comprehensive health management and rehabilitation interventions (including a program developed by one of our CHIIPS Interns – ICARE) and research and data gathering. In addition the Inclusive Education in collaboration with the Economic Empowerment programme...
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...Resume Guide for Teachers This packet is intended to serve as a starting point for creating or improving your teaching resume. Included in this packet are best practices that the Career Center have researched and found to be true. Information and sample resumes within this packet are not intended to be taken verbatim. Constructing a teaching resume is an art, not a science. Make your personal resume unique and stand out by making it represent you. The resources this packet highlights are available to all students; take advantage of the Career Center and the services it provides you. What to Expect Teaching Resume Aesthetics, Content & Editing…………..………………………..Page 3 Three necessary components of a great teaching resume are detailed Key Elements of a Successful Teacher Resume……………………………………...Page 4 Mandatory vs. optional elements in a successful teaching resume Poor Teaching Resume Example……………………………………………………..Page 5 Details common mistakes of a teaching resume Transferable Skills & Action Verbs…………………………………………………....Page 6 A comprehensive list of transferable skills and action verbs that have potential in a teaching resume Constructing a Proper Achievement Statement (bullet point)………………………Page 7 Creating a bullet point stress you out? Here is a fool proof way to construct a proper achievement statement. Buzz Words……………………………………………………………………………..Page 7 Answer the question, “What are buzz words and how should they be used in a resume” Teaching...
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...Henry Ford once said, “Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is a progress; working together is success”. From here, the concept of inclusive education, including students with and without learning disabilities as peers in the same classroom, originated. The aim of this type of education is to get students with learning disabilities involved in the society. Teachers and fellow students will also provide help for students with disabilities; in this way, students with learning disabilities will be motivated to study as they feel that they are a part of a group instead of being isolated in special places. Thus, they will achieve higher grades. Moreover, they will be greatly engaged in the society as they are building bridges with their...
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...1. For the consumption and class issue, please review any two articles in the section to show how the state’s social engineering projects created classes in contemporary China. a. State Meets Capital: the Making and Unmaking of a New Chinese Working Class by Ngai Pun b. Creating an Urban Middle Class: Social Engineering in Beijing by Luigi Tomba Before explaining how the state’s social engineering projects created classes in contemporary China, I will provide a definition of class. According to Fred Chiu in Pun’s work, the term “class” exists because individuals join together to form an identity. Classes are created in contemporary China through modernization and creating job opportunities. Traditionally, during the Mao era, urban planners tried to design cities that had diversity and not segregated to prevent inequality. It was to emphasize and support the principles of Communism. Also, the usage of temporary workers in the Mao era was not common. According to Tomba, the way the government distributes is still part of the segregation today. The government has been giving easier access to those that work for the government housing of their choice. Also, the commercialization of housing is another reason. However, it started to change when plants starting to grow in cities like Shenzhen. According to Pun, open-door policies and economic reform encouraged the introduction of foreign capital. Shenzhen was chosen by Guangdong provincial government as an experimental model...
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...as a successful method of changing certain contradictions. It would involve changing those factors that lead children to being recruited in the first place. Reintegration procedures must assist exchild soldiers in creating a new groundwork for their lives. Providing ways in which children can restore relationships with their families and communities is vital. This is because child soldiers have been raised far from their parents and have been denied the opportunity for physical, emotional and intellectual development. New reintegrationprogramsmustbe setup andexistingonesmustbe strengthened topromotehealthandnutrition,aswellaspsychosocialwellnessandeducation. Such programsmusttake into accountthe unique circumstances generated by violent conflict. These include children and their families forced to flee their homes, being displaced within their countries or traveling across borders as refugees. Special attention must be given to those who are most at risk in a conflict, yet oftenforgotten. Children and women aremost likelyto be sexually humiliated, raped and forced into prostitution. Therefore, demobilization and reintegration programs must be sensitively designed so as to appropriately respond to the needs of vulnerable populations, particularly girl soldiers. The specialrequirementsofadolescentswhoareintheprocessofformingidentities and ideologiesmust also be attendedto.In 2004,WorldVision set up a Child Mothers Centre in Uganda. The institute is aimed at fulfilling the physical...
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...of higher and secondary education is one of the largest in America. Just the California Community Colleges System (CCC) serving 2, 6 million students representing nearly 25 percent of the nation’s community college student population. California State University (CSU) and University of California (UC) are serving more 700 000 students. Another 360,000 students attend private colleges and universities. Despite these impressive figures, and the constant growth of graduates, the education system does not meet the needs of California's economy. According to the report of meeting California’s Need for College Graduates of Hans Johnson, an associate director of research at the Public Policy Institute of California and Ria Senguptawith, the project manager of the Expanding College Opportunities initiative at Stanford University and a former research associate at PPIC, contributions from Patrick Murphy, “ If current trends persist, California will have one million fewer college graduates than it needs in 2025—only 35 percent of working-age adults will have a college degree in an economy that would otherwise require 41 percent of workers to have”. If legislators and educators leaders don't act quickly, the future will look grim for the state in the years to come. In this situation sufficient education spending is a necessary condition for increasing the number of graduates. Extra money invested in education will allow creating additional classes and courses, increasing...
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...Music in General Education By: Kiersten Jackson English/101 Essay Writing Music in General Education There has been a large amount of debate about music in a general education setting. Many people think it is a waste of time and resources, while others state children benefit greatly from music. More often as of late, we are losing out on the virtues that music education teaches. There have been many studies that state there are links between music education and math (Graziano, Peterson & Shaw, 1999), music and standardized testing (CBSNR, 2001), as well as music and special education (MENC, 2002).However, research has determined that music is important in the lives of children, has many benefits and plays a larger role in general education. Music education has been noticed for quite some time as a form of expression and a universal language of sorts, thus expressing the importance of music in the lives of children. In recent history, music’s importance in cognitive development and impact on education in other courses has emphasized the need to continue music as part of a general education curriculum. Music helps with listening and language skills. Through music, children learn to hear different sounds, beats and melodies. The many different tones and beats help with speech and hearing development. If you have a beat to sing words to, it makes reading poems and rhymes much easier for some students. Music encourages movement and activity. Most children, even...
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...gap in the MARTA services is funding. MARTA receives funding by one-cent sales tax collected in the city of Atlanta and the surrounding counties (Mariano, 2010). The lack of funds has equated to less police presence in recent years, less education, and cuts in areas of keeping the population safe. MARTA is a large contributor economically to Atlanta and surrounding areas and has “nearly $4 billion public investment that should provide the basis for a coordinated regional mass transit system” (MARTA, 2009). Despite this large investment, in 2009, MARTA had to release over 700 employees and cut services in order to meet the budget. The limitation comes from lack of funding by the state, despite how much revenue...
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...as Joe and Magwitch provide an insight into the education and the crime and justice systems of Victorian England, along the importance of social class and wealth. Whilst, Estella and Miss Havisham provide an insight into the position of women and the inequality of power between the genders. Throughout the novel Pip encounters a range of people and undergoes various experiences. It is through these people and experiences that Pip learns numerous lessons in life. Pips main learning-catalysts are Magwitch, Joe, Miss Havisham and Estella. Education was an important cultural aspect of the Victorian era. Education allowed wider access to employment, and respect; for one could not become a gentleman and part of the upper-class without an education. Yet access to education was greatly determined to one’s position in society. Those in the upper class were given a higher priority to receive education than those in the lower class. Therefore it was very difficult for one to advance within society. This provides Dickens with the opportunity to gently satirize the class system of this era and to provide a Marxist view on the inequality of wealth and power. Dickens presents numerous characters, all from different social classes with different levels of education. Through the characters Joe and Drummle, Dickens is able to compare their levels of education and their social classes to convey the unequal provision of education within the society....
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