Demographics My observation took place at Clinton Middle School in Anderson County, Tennessee. CMS serves 651 students Grades 6 through 8. 38% of the students are from families that are economically disadvantaged and 15% of the students have disabilities. 92 % of students are White, 6% are Black and 2% are Hispanic. The class I observed was a Comprehensive Development Class. At Clinton Middle School the Special Education staff provide a continuum of services to students with disabilities. Their
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Date: ______________________ Grade: 8-__ Teacher: __________________ I. Unit: Reading - Short Story “Seventh Grade” II. Sub-Topic: Elements of the short story III. Key Concepts: • Character = Person performing the action in a work of fiction. • Protagonist = Character who is clearly central to the story and takes part of all the major events. • Setting = The time and location in which a story takes place. • Plot = How the author arranges events
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The Educator as Assessor EDAHOD5 UNISA Assignment 1 by Student number 30557623 Question 1: Assessment instrument 1 Strategies for Assessment Learners, in pairs, have to prepare and deliver an oral presentation of any genre and topic, as agreed upon with the educator. The length of delivery should not exceed 10 minutes. The following assessment rubric will be used by the other learners in the class to assess the presentation. 1a. Subject/learning area 1b. Lesson topic to be assessed 1c. Grade
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the world of Glee relating to whiteness (Carol & Henry , 2010). The dominant ideology of race more specifically white race, became embedded in everyday cultural practices. Dubrofsky’s article focuses too heavily on the downplay of racism between characters and racist tropes and neglects the exposure and affects of whiteness viewers will unintentionally observe. The idea of assimilation and integration is illustrated in various ways where whiteness is used as a platform to gain acceptance, produce
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forced to deal with the reality of life in South Central, Los Angeles. Singleton uses this setting to illustrate the obstacles facing these young black men who unavoidably encounter violence all around them. Singleton refrains from portraying his characters as inner-city misfits but instead he characterizes them as average American teenagers who are caught in a situation in which they have no control.
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Spotlight on English curriculum which offers ESL textbooks from grades K-8. B. Intended Audience The intended audience for Santillana’s Spotlight on English textbook are ELL students who are entering Kindergarten. The textbook is intended for use with all six of the levels of language proficiency (Entering, Beginning, Developing, Expanding, Bridging and Reaching) as described by WIDA however, this textbook breaks each proficiency level down into three main categories listed as
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with facts and figures, encompassing various subjects ranging from English to Mathematics. All of these require students to learn, memorise, understand and to be tested. Besides grades and examinations, the school also encompasses a wider curriculum including character moulding, citizenship building and personality development. Indeed, I think the school does prepare us for life. Firstly, the school teaches us self-discipline. We learn to keep to a schedule and to adhere to the timetable. We also
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“Character education is the way the teacher talks, the behaviours that are modeled, the conduct that is tolerated, the deeds that are encouraged, and the expectations that are transmitted” (Creasy, 2008,p. 3). Even though character education has not been explicitly taught within the school, students are still receiving character education on different platforms throughout the school day such as, learning to play together and that hurting a friend isn’t kind. Schools have always taught students
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and tested. Attached you will find the information I gathered. As I go through the Collections to update the tests and curriculum, I will create something similar for each Collection. You will notice that the document has some blank boxes. I can't fill in those boxes until I do all of the Collections and determine what standards are being tested for each strand of the curriculum. It looks like there is a lot of author purpose in Collection 2, but the questions are not worded the same as those in
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Curriculum Map Subjects 2nd Grade English Language Arts State Learning Objectives Reading-Students will be able to use relationships between letters, sounds and spelling patterns. They will understand how to distinguish features of a sentence. Example: Capitalization and punctuation. Students will be able to make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure of plays, dramas. Writing-Students will be able to use elements in the writing process. Such as planning
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