...technologies with ease. Adept at lesson planning and classroom management, able to create fun learning stations for hands on learning. I have a huge passion for the arts, and enjoy spending a great deal of time on arts and crafts, teaching the students through coloring, and painting. Music is also a large part of my teaching; I love to teach my class using rhymes and songs to help grasp a concept or lesson. 2. I am currently a preschool teacher, and what preschool teaching has taught me, is that hands on learning is the best kind. Creating lesson plans that allow you to get down to the child’s level is key. I found it important to switch to a new lesson or activity every 15 minutes, so that your students can easily stay on topic. I very much enjoy the age 4-8, I feel a child does the most growing academically within these years, learning to read, count, do math and write. My teaching philosophy is to present curriculum in a way that catching the interest of the student. A teacher must know and understand how every single student learns, and be able to adjust their curriculum and teaching style to meet every child’s needs. 3. My most notable and personal achievement is going back to school and getting my degree in Psychology. I have two young children, and I work fulltime, going to school was very difficult. It meant long nights, early mornings, and time away from my family. I finished my degree this year, and have continued to further my education in Elementary Education. I am still...
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...the Principles Office one day during recess unsure of why she would want to meet with me. My knees were knocking, my palms were damp, and you could sense the amount of fear that was present in my body. As Ms. Bagakowski called me into her office she reassured me that this was a friendly visit and not one of discipline. She wanted to ask if I would be okay with moving into a different class because I was struggling in my current class. As I look back now on the experience I understand more of the reasons behind the switch and I also understand the role that both my Teacher and the Principle play in the school. The assignment this week was to interview both an Administrator and a Teacher and compare and contract their roles in the education system. I like that you used a personal example. When I went into Ms. Vance’s office I was quickly reminded of the fear I felt waiting for Ms. Bagakowski. Ms. Vance is the Director for Madison Christian Children’s Center in Phoenix, Arizona. As I began the interview Ms. Vance expressed her passion for children and how she became the director of Madison Christian Children’s Center. It wasn’t until she was mother that she really found her true calling to be a Teacher. She ran her own daycare from him and after her children were old enough to attend Preschool she went to work as a Preschool Assistant Teacher which soon after became a Preschool Teacher. Her love for child and her desire to impact the future generation became her mission...
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...Language Barriers in NC Pre-K Classrooms How to Overcome Language Barriers in NC Pre-K Classrooms FCS 711- Research and Inquiry in Family and Consumer Science Dr. Rosa Purcell Meisha Conrad April 28, 2014 Introduction Being a teacher at a Head Start/ Early Head Start program I have experienced the language barriers between teachers and students from different ethnic groups. I can say it is not easy when you and your students cannot communicate. Dealing with the situation makes you question yourself and how you can fix the language barriers in your own classroom and also the school. What can teachers do to overcome the language barrier in our classrooms with our Latino children? What are some activities, lessons, games, and etc., that we can do to make a connection and also help them learn? There are many ways I think we can put a stop to the language barriers in school. We may not be able to completely fix the problem but there are ways and things we can do to make our Latino children and parents feel welcome and comfortable when they walk into the schools. Communication is an important part of teaching because the children have to be able to understand the message that the teacher is trying to convey. Children also have to be able to communicate with each other. There are a number of factors in the classroom and many of these factors exist...
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...Running head: YouTube in the Classroom YouTube in the Classroom: Helpful Tips and Student Perceptions Brandice Fillmore University of Houston- Victoria- EDUC 6310 YouTube in the Classroom- Helpful Tips and Student Perceptions In the YouTube article aptly titled YouTube in the Classroom: Helpful Tips and Student Perceptions: Authors Fleek, Beckham, Sterns, and Hussey clearly defined the rise of the popularity of YouTube in the classroom because of the dominance it has in the classroom. The significant research question is how much of a phenomenon YouTube truly is in the classroom. This particularly study is very pertinent due to the fact of the relevance YouTube has in the classrooms across America. The method of using the students brought it all into full focus because women and men naturally learn differently. The visual stimulation is more apparent in men than women and usage of YouTube aptly displays it. The blended learning theory forces us all see the special importance of YouTube. Garrison and Kanuka (2004) define blended learning as, “thoughtful integration of classroom face-to-face learning experience with online experiences. It is the true blending of technology in the rarest form. Some students learn better during the process such as blending learning. The method of using the female and male students from an urban gave the study the depth it sorely needed. The professor dealing with them face-to-face made the study very interesting due to the rate of...
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...happy life must a family of three people. Now he can still cherish his memory of the day when his baby girl was born. It was not long before this Hunan migrant family was full of confidence to start a new life in the metropolis of Guangzhou. All of sudden, the problem came here. Kindergarten crunch, a phenomenon happens in big Chinese cities where the scarcities of preschool places trigger record fees and has parents scrambling. The crunch first happened in a few state-owned kindergartens, and then on to many more private kindergartens, now some cottage nurseries are overcrowded. And it costs more to send a child to kindergarten today than it does to put him or her through state college. No More Children are allowed For Liu Bo, a migrant worker who runs a sidewalk snack booth in Chisha Village, Haizhu district, Guangzhou. And Yangyang, his three-years-old girl at the preschool age, there isn’t a suitable kindergarten for them in the village. “Not until my wife went to pick up our child from kindergarten and found worms and pebbles in their food twice,” Liu, cradling his girl, said. “I sent my child to the Chi Sha Kindergarten nearby, which was started by private organizers. The next day I took her home.” As a village inside a city, Chisha, not so long ago became an inhabitation where the majority of the “residents” were migrant workers. Thousands of those workers pour into the megacity to pursue a better life, better medical care, and, a solid education. ...
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...Eligibility in to the Head Start program requires that family’s income be at or below federal poverty level based on family size (Head, 4). Families with children who have disabilities, individual education plans, transitioning from Early Head Start to Head Start, and children who are homeless or in foster care have first priority (Head, 5). The demographics of the families Head Start services are (Head,...
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...Classroom Management: Special Needs Students Managing a special education classroom means consistency and routines from the start. By Harry K. Wong, Rosemary T. Wong * Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Robin Barlak, a special education teacher in Parma, Ohio, works with preschool children who have a variety of disabilities: autism, speech and language delays, ADHD, severe behavior issues, and physical and developmental handicaps. Yet despite the added challenges of working with this group of children, “the school year got off to a great start,” says Barlak. “My students quickly became very familiar with the procedures and routines. No stress for them and no stress for me.” The Need for Structure More than any other group, special education students at any grade level need structure. To create a caring atmosphere, a safe environment, and a positive learning climate, Barlak teaches her students procedures beginning on the first day of school, and she reinforces them daily. She works with a teaching assistant, three nurses, and five therapists. They function as a team, ensuring that every child can say, “I like coming to school because everyone knows what to do. No one yells at me, and I like to learn.” Structure for the Day Robin establishes consistency in the routine of the classroom with a schedule for all to follow. The many people assisting the students rely on this schedule to maximize their time with the students. 8:20–9:15 a.m. – Free Play Students work on developmentally...
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...center to follow. Whether it is a school system or childcare center administrators and teachers must work together to teach from the curriculums formed so children can learn. How the role of the administrator in program and curriculum planning is different from that of the teacher. Education administrators organize and manage the administration, support systems and activities that facilitate the effective running of an educational institution (AGCAS 2012). For an example, in a childcare center the administrators are the owners, directors, and whatever program that accredited the daycare center through the state. School systems have administrators also. The board of education votes on the school super intendant who schedule meetings to plan a curriculum for the school system to teach by. The school super intendant hires administrators such as principals, and assistant principles to make sure the teachers in the schools are teaching by the curriculum. The teachers are...
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...Child Care Center Feasibility Study Mariposa County November 2009 Prepared by Chevon Kothari, Jill Harry, and Megan Rogers, Consultants, for the Mariposa County Local Child Care Planning Council "Promoting and supporting a community-wide effort that results in a child care system that meets the needs of our children." Table of Contents LCP Mission and Goals -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------iv Age Ranges Defined ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- v Local Child Care Planning Council Member List -----------------------------------------------------vi Introduction ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1 Section I: Community Information ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 Mariposa County Profile ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 Nature of the Child Care Industry ------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 Existing Child Care Options in Mariposa County ------------------------------------------------ 6 Section II: Survey Data -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9 Summary of the 2009 Child Care Needs Assessment --------------------------------------------- 9 Child Care Needs Survey Results -------------------------------------------------------------------...
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...Introduction Article # 28 of the universal Declaration of Human Rights Charter explicitly states that education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages of every child www.un.org. Therefore countries are by law bound to provide education to their citizens and even foreigners on conditions set out by their sovereign constitutions. Large sums of money are pumped into education to meet the targets of conventions which countries are signatory to, in line with universal education for all. Education for all is not the same thing as quality education for all (World Education Forum, 2000). The implication that can be drawn from the afore stated words is that, although countries are in pursuit of Education for All goals, they experience problems like low quality of teachers and high teacher pupil ratio which impede upon the quality and standards of their education systems especially at the level of primary, junior and secondary schools. It is thus the intent of this essay to focus specifically on the public concern about the declining quality of Primary School Leaving Examinations in Botswana with distinctive attention on the use of John Dewey’s philosophical trends to transform and improve the quality and standard of our education. This will be done in a pragmatic manner as maybe espoused by the head of department responsible for quality and standards in the ministry of education. Although the transformative philosophical approach discussed herein, focuses on...
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... empower their staff, and engage the community. Within the school district, the emotional intelligence that the employees need to consider is relationship management with building cultural diversity among...
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...some form of communication constantly throughout the day, it is important that each person is aware of the signals that are being sent out, verbally and nonverbally, to coworkers, superiors, clients, customers, etc. According to Donald Baack, “Communication may be defined as transmitting, receiving, and processing information. Information consists of any item that evokes or has meaning” (2012, Chap 1). It is important for employees in all organizations to have the ability to communicate effectively and to get the message across clearly, limiting the possibility of misunderstanding. Communication competency consists of knowledge or awareness of different communication elements, such as interpersonal communication skills and soft skills, management communication skills, communication barriers, and listening styles. The communication competence in a workplace is important at all levels of an organization and the higher the overall competence level the better the working environment. Interpersonal Communication Skills “Interpersonal communication takes place between individuals or one individual with a small set of other people” (Baack, 2012, Chap 1). Everyone has communicates daily with other people, some people are better at this communication than other people are. It is important in an organization that employees and employer have the ability to communicate effectively, because “…communication takes the form of the glue that holds a business together” (Baack, 2012, Chap...
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...Christina St.Marthe Grand Canyon University EDU 313n Educational Psychology April 15, 2014 I am currently employed on a kindergarten prep classroom. I will be concentrating on groups of ability, culture, and special education students. While all of the students in the class are the same age, their learning abilities, physical abilities and cultural differences have an impact on how they understand and digest the materials being taught. Knowing the abilities and understanding each of their needs will help me teach each student in a group and individually effectively. There are many factors that affect the success of culturally diverse students. A school's atmosphere and overall outlook toward diversity, connection to the community, and curriculum that males students feel like they are learning something about their culture all have a role in how comfortable students of different cultures feel. The most important relationship between individuals is between student and teacher and this relationships is the most important relationship that is needed. “Effective teachers of culturally diverse students acknowledge both individual and cultural differences enthusiastically and identify these differences in a positive manner. This positive identification creates a basis for the development of effective communication and instructional strategies. Social skills such as respect and cross-cultural understanding can be modeled, taught, prompted, and reinforced by the teacher...
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...2014 | UPDATED: JULY 14, 2015 * ------------------------------------------------- 8.1KSHARES * ------------------------------------------------- * ------------------------------------------------- * ------------------------------------------------- * ------------------------------------------------- I strive to teach my high school students the value of criticism, especially when it comes to improving their writing. To do so, I model how criticism continues to help me become a better writer. Earlier this year, for example, I shared a draft of one of my education feature articles, which included detailed feedback from an editor at a prominent media company. I asked my classes for advice on how to address several edits, dealing with sources, transitions, terminology, and structure. A few days later, I directed my budding writers to the much-improved final draft. This easy but worthwhile activity helped more of my students feel comfortable receiving criticism, and not view it as an affront. As a result, they improved their writing by taking the time and care to consider and respond to reader insight. I want my students to feel secure in the knowledge that nobody is beyond criticism (even their teacher), and that the bigger challenge is developing the good sense to acknowledge and successfully respond to feedback. Along those lines, I also offer the suggestions below about teaching writing: 1. Writers are the Best Writing Teachers To teach effective...
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...Penny Driver EDU-250 January 25th, 2013 Alison Atkins My Personal Classroom Management Plan This is the plan that I have created for my Center and I believe that it meets the criteria of this class. I believe that developmentally appropriate program must be developed focusing on the following beliefs. That our staff will be committed to providing active hands on type of learning atmosphere. In fulfilling our commitment to the children enrolled, we attempt to implement and educational program with the following philosophy. We believe that children learn best when allowed to be actively involved in the classroom. We provide three-dimensional learning experiences that encourage busy involvement opposed to inactive two-dimension instruction. A child enrolled in our program will enjoy the time they spend in their classrooms. His/hers experiences will be fun and rewarding-fostering in a positive attitude toward school and learning. Children are encouraged to be themselves. They begin at their own individual level of development and progress at their own rate. They feel free to investigate and arrive at conclusions without fear of making a mistake. We believe the program should offer opportunities for exposure to a large variety of learning. Activities range from total class involvement to tailored individual projects. The child is an active, talkative explorer interacting with peers and teachers. The learning process is enhanced by interest centers consisting...
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