...SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF HEALTH SCIENCE, MANAGEMENT AND PEDAGOGY MPA 504 Reflection Paper on How to Become a Better Public Servant (Teacher) Ria P. Pachica Dr. Angelina C. Villareal (Student-Iloilo Group) (Professor) Introduction I come to education later in life and with a passion. I did not expect that I would have a second career. I volunteered in a kindergarten class for a few hours a week to be generous to the community. Quickly, I discovered that I was the one receiving the gift. The children were extraordinary; exciting, challenging, and loving. Her teachers and the other teachers I met at her school were extraordinary as well. Their caring, professionalism, and openheartedness moved and inspired me. Reasons for Wanting to Become a Teacher I believe that teaching is an essential and noble profession. Next to parents, teachers are the most important foundational element in our society. Everything important begins in childhood, especially knowledge, self-knowledge, resilience, and character. Proper preparation is fundamental to living a full, rewarding life. Without self-knowledge, children may follow wrong paths and end up far from their true callings; lost, sad, and unfulfilled. Without resilience, the storms and challenges of life can turn children from their highest path, leaving them far from who they might have been. Finally, character is the intangible force that raises society as a whole, minimizes...
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...Joanna Antonopoulos Love hate relationship. That’s how I would describe my relationship with science. I can’t recall the first in class science experiment I did in school, but towards the end of 5th grade, I ran against other 5th graders in a science fair and the objective was to build your own experiment and use the scientific method. Well, I decided to do an experiment on what water can conduct electricity so I took 3 different types of water: such as: distilled, tap, and undistalled water. With those 3 different waters, I put the lightbulb wires in the water and only the distilled water was able to conduct electricity. I wish the schools I went to, payed more attention to science rather than art. I feel like it would have been...
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...and driven in such an atmosphere that’s professional and not a very hostile environment. The children come to school and yearn their education in many different aspects to grow abroad. Each day that the children show up to school I yearn to greet them ,encourage them, and direct them towards the zenith of every vowel, color, letter, book, and playful object that helps them develop to the next level in their education. Furthermore, I love the way the teachers focus and implement the skills that STARRS State exam guidelines have to help the children reach and learn every area of their souls’ intelligence to work diligently. The Children themselves demonstrate that they love their books. Coloring, taking field trips to engage in feeling solids and playing different centers that visualize what they’ll want to grow up to be. These techniques help the children develop and enable to gain confidence while they’re working indecently and individually on their own tasks in the classroom. As a volunteer, I enjoy leading education and watching the teachers care deeply about the importance of the cycle of education with the newest implemented STARRS CURRICULUMN. Moreover, I believe what’s...
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...day on Halloween night he was dressed as a vampire and he loved Halloween better than Christmas. He walked into the school, everybody was high fiving him, but when arrived at his class his best friend said something about him to the other bullies that bullied him when he came to this school. He said I’m just friends with him because he’s very good at maths and science and I just copy every single time, and from that day he has been upset and moved to America....
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...Question; Argue whether teachers should be evaluated based on student performance Introduction Fairtest 2013 studies clearly present several reasons why teacher evaluations should not solely rest on student test scores. Haertel (2012 p.4) informs that the role of the teacher in school is only critical in the boundaries of the institution and that learning that also takes place out of the school matters even more. Teacher evaluations based on student performance has key measurement errors when results of one year show big scores by a teacher and subsequent years present a different story. Another error forwarded by the author is fade out which suggest that even if students benefit from highly evaluated teachers the effects fades out once they join other classes or graduates to different institutions of higher learning. Most important is the implementation challenge which paints the bigger picture, that the evaluation method may not be practically adapted in a system as it would mean the teachers with the highest scores remain working while the rest are left out of the program (pp.6-7). Thesis Education program logistics and Individual student love of education evaluations are better variables compared to teacher evaluation based on overall student performance. Following the November 20, 2013 article in the New York Times campaigning to recruit top students to become teachers more questions than answers in regard to educationist evaluation based on student performance...
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...ad, Inquiries in Science, I have is from a magazine called “Science Teacher”. The magazine cover uses bright colors that stands out to a person. The magazine also uses many different Jib Fowles Advertising’s Fifteen Basic Appeals. This magazine will be for teacher in the science department. The magazine is sponsored by the National Science Teachers Association. The magazine is based on going green and giving teacher’s newer concepts. The purpose of this ad is to help students and teachers become better informed about science. Advertising Description This ad is for the Carolina Biological Supply Company. It advertises a program that makes science concepts easy to understand. The background is white with teachers and students saying their comments or thoughts in bubbles. There are three African Americans, two Caucasian people, and one Asian person. There are more females than males in this ad. All together there are five females and two males. All of the people are in the ad are smiling, doing projects, or teaching. All of their comments are positive comments and positive reactions. A quote from one of the people says, “Now this is what science should be like.” The background of the ad is white with black bold letters. The pictures are in square boxes at the top middle of the page. The bold black words are towards the bottom of the page, right under the pictures. The title of the reading is “What students and teachers are saying about Inquiries in Science.” They also have...
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...Researches UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH WORK THE EFFECT OF BROKEN HOMES ON SCIENCE EDUCATION STUDENTS (A case study of some selected secondary school in Sokoto south local government) BY MUSTAPHA ABDULHAMID 0711404245 BEING A PROJECT SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE AWARD OF BACHELOR’S DEGREE IN SCIENCE EDUCATION, EDUCATION CHEMISTRY, DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION, FACULTY OF EDUCATION AND EXTENSION SERVICES USMANU DANFODIYO UNIVERSITY, SOKOTO. DECEMBER, 2011 . TABLE OF CONTENTS TITLE PAGE. i APPROVAL PAGE. ii DEDICATION.. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. iv TABLE OF CONTENTS. vii CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY. 2 1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM… 4 1.3 RESEARCH QUESTIONS. 5 1.4 RESEARCH HYPOTHESES. 6 1.5 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY. 6 1.6 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY. 7 1.7 SCOPE AND DELIMITATION OF THE STUDY. 8 CHAPTER TWO REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 2.0 INTRODUCTION.. 9 2.1 CONCEPT OF HOME, SCIENCE STUDENTS AND EDUCATION.. 10 2.2 IMPORTANCE OF THE HOME. 13 2.3 NEEDS OF SCIENCE STUDENTS AS CHILDREN.. 15 2.4 THE ROLE OF HOME IN SCIENCE STUDENTS EDUCATION.. 18 2.5 BROKEN HOMES. 19 2.6 INFLUENCE OF BROKEN HOME ON ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF SCIENCESTUDENTS 20 2.7 CONCLUSION.. 24 CHAPTER THREE RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 3.1 INTRODUCTION.. 25 3.2 RESEARCH DESIGN.. 25 3.3 POPULATION OF THE STUDY. 26 3.4 SAMPLE AND SAMPLING TECHNIQUES. 28 3.5 INSTRUMENTATION.. 28 3.5.1 VALIDITY OF INSTRUMENT. 29 3.5.2 RELIABILITY OF INSTUMENT. 29 3.6 METHOD OF...
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...Throughout my life I have been influenced in my leading style by many amazing leaders who I one day aspire to be like. The main influence on my leadership has been my mother, who is a teacher and an amazingly invested leader. She is dedicated to the growth of the people she leads and teaches them to be advocates for themselves and gives them room to learn to develop their own ideas. She is a firm believer in the idea of stewardship, and cares about and gets to know the students she leads. I have also been influenced by several of my science teacher throughout the years, not only to pursue a science career, but also to grow my leadership skills through finding my passion, looking to the future, and learning from my mistakes and growing from...
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...made for science and science education in the developing world, a case for optimal support for science and education even in the poorest and the least-developed of the countries of the world. Science teachers experience various constraints, such as lack of time, equipment, pedagogical content knowledge, and pedagogical skills in implementing reform-based teaching strategies (Crawford, 1999, 2000; Roehrig & Luft, 2004, 2006). One way to overcome...
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...Running head: Administrator and Teacher Interview Administrator and Teacher Interview Administration and Teacher Interview I remember sitting in 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...
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...absolutely love to be given the chance to represent our school, and possibly parish and state. To know my school and its staff have faith in me, has increased my strong determination. I come from a diverse family background. I’m lucky in the sense that I have two families; though different and don’t always agree, they come together to form one big family. There are few things I hold in higher regard than my family. Without their support, I think it’s safe to say that I’d be lost. I’m the second oldest of seven siblings. I take great pride in being a role model for my sisters and brothers. I would say I’m a prime example of a hands-on big sibling. I hope and pray that every kid that every kid has awesome family support like me. One of my biggest passions is dance. I’m currently a member of our member of our LMMS Golden Blues Dance...
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...Information System A Thesis Proposal Presented to College of Information Technology and Engineering Araullo University - PHINMA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Information Technology by: Cariñoso, John Joseph Bartolome, Neil Albert Eugenio, Arvin N. Facunla, Boustros S. Ms. Evelyn Juliano Thesis Adviser 1.0 Introduction 1.1 Background of the Study Basic Education is the college preparatory unit of the university. It is composed of the Pre-School, Grade School and High School levels. It provides school age children and youth with the necessary skills, knowledge and attitudes to make it to the tertiary level of education. It also offers a curriculum following the K to 12 Basic Education Program. English, Mathematics, and Science are prioritized in order for the students to become competent individuals relevant to the needs of the country. Educational trips are integrated into the curriculum to provide an empirical manner of learning and to open a channel where the students can apply what they have learned in the classrooms. At the PHINMA Basic Education Program, we are developing not just mastery, but the love to learn; not just hard work, but the love to excel; not just responsibility, but the love for life and all things living; students who will succeed in whatever they do, wherever they are and wherever they go. Students are, thus encouraged to join clubs and social groups for extracurricular activities...
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...Instructional: I would give her more challenging to books to read in her freeTime, and maybe more advanced homework. I would also encourage her to be kind to others, and to ignore children who were negative to her. I would maybe try some self- esteem building activities so that she wasn’t so sensitive.Results of Mentor Teacher Discussions: My mentor/teacher suggested that I encourage Maria to continue to do all the things she loves in school, but place her in more group activities to help with being over sensitive. | AshleySix-year-old Ashley is the youngest of 5 children. She is very shy and clings to her older sister each day when she brings her into the first grade classroom. Ashley is curious; her favorite part of school is doing science experiments. She reads at a primer level but enjoys having people read to her. Cultural (anti-bias) and Instructional Strategies: * Cultural: Work on transitional techniques when being dropped off such as redirection to an enjoyed area of play. I could also try to introduce Ashley to a classroom buddy to walk to class with so that her sister doesn’t have to walk her. * Instructional: I would still encourage Ashley to do science activities, but I would also have her explore books on her own. I would place books in the classroom library that met her reading level, as well as other students. I would suggest that her...
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...Activity 1: Introducing the author 1) Description of activity: The teacher will have all of Eric Carle’s books displayed in a reading corner of the room. The teacher will ask “What is an author?” The students will think, pair, and share. The teacher will explain that they will be learning about an author named Eric Carle. The teacher will ask “What is your favorite book by Eric Carle and why?” The teacher will display a KWL chart on the smart board and ask students what do they already know about Eric Carle and the teacher will record the answers. Next, the teacher will ask “What do you want to learn about him?” The students will turn and talk again and the teacher will record their answers. The teacher will use this throughout the author...
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...development and will be willing to pay to have their children attend the best facilities. Through specialized training of the staff and innovative learning systems, Heavenly Daycare is cutting edge in terms of child development. This curriculum, coupled with a custom designed facility and a low teacher: student ratio ensures a top shelf service for the children and the parents. We emphasize in offering high quality services to our customers. Business Description and Vision Mission Statement: Heavenly Daycare mission is to provide top level childcare. We exist to attract and maintain customers. Close personal attention to each child is essential to providing a quality experience for all children; therefore adequate personnel will be hired to ensure each child has the proper supervision in our care. Our services will exceed the expectations of our customers. Company Vision: Heavenly Daycare will offer childcare services for infants to five years of age from 5am to 11pm. The children will be exposed to a wide range of activities including arts and crafts, socialization, and general learning. Heavenly Daycare will be priced out of some customers’ budget, but will offer low student to teacher ratio and well trained staff. Heavenly Daycare will be located in a recently purchased and converted home that is now solely a childcare center. Objectives: * To create a service based operation whose primary goal is to exceed customer's expectations. * The utilization of Heavenly Daycare...
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