Ms. Burford believes that no teacher can identify to only one teaching style, and every teacher should have multiple methods at their disposal, therefore Ms. Burford would be considered idiosyncratic. She varies her teaching styles in order to ensure that each and every one of her students are able to understand the lesson so that they can be academically successful. Ms. Burford changes up her activities day to day so that she is able to meet all of her students different learning styles. Ms. Burford identifies as an essentialist, a perennialist, and an epistemologist. She believes that she needs to teach the essential things as well as teach the content and topics that have withstood the test of time. Ms. Burford has a set lesson plan that …show more content…
As she is teaching, she makes sure to challenge the students to answer questions like “How do we know what we know?”, “How do we know that this is right?”, and “Can someone tell me how we got this answer?”, etc. My role in the classroom has not changed up too much, but I have been getting more involved in the class and pulling more groups. Ms. Burford allows me to read problems aloud to the class. My duties are essentially the same as last semester, though they do seem to be progressing. The students are very respectful towards me, and they treat me as if I am another teacher in the room. The recent fear of school shootings has changed both the school and individual classrooms. The doors must be locked at all times and the door may only be opened if the teaches gives the students permission to do so. The teachers and administrators are required to have their school IDs on them at all times. In Ms. Burford’s class particularly, I haven’t notice more students “telling on each other” than usual. The was one instance where I was reading their Freedom Writers journal to grade them on punctuation and grammar, and one student wrote that he was going to tell on another kids if he didn’t stop making a particular