score high enough influence curriculum and instruction in a negative manner. Teachers begin to take shortcuts and focus teaching on what will be on the annual state assessment; this can create some large gaps in a student’s educational foundation. A CAP is focused on increasing student learning and how the school can make the goal a reality. The ideal CAP would focus on increasing student learning and improving teacher practice. This plan needs to be designed to meet the needs of all stakeholders
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success, in and out of the classroom. Not only does my educational philosophy encompass these views but so do the philosophies of my five interviewees. Interviews and Reflection I feel privileged and honored to have had the chance to contact a few teachers that have impacted me in a very positive way. Throughout my interviews I was able to speak with an Intervention Specialist who has been teaching moderate to severe developmental disabilities for four years. Her enthusiasm and positive energy carries
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feedback” I refer to a gentle, complex, and creative response to a paper that helps you create a better writing, provided by a caring and helpful teacher. When I state “bad feedback” I refer to a harsh and non-productive response that only drags you down making you feel that your work isn’t good enough and will never be. My purpose is to encourage teachers to give away a productive and helpful feedback in order to secure the writing development of the student as well as making sure he knows his paper
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hinders the ability for teachers to teach and that students need to learn in an environment of freedom. This ultimately allows students the opportunity to engage in “right learning.” Freire believes that the current education system is too structured and limits teachers on what they are allowed to teach. Teachers are given a particular curriculum that they are supposed to abide by, which is not always in the best interest of the students. Freire (1998) indicates, “Such teachers inhabit an idealized
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The Ideal Person Cameron Bonner REL 133 March 20, 2014 Gregg R. Johnson, Ed. D. The Ideal Person An ideal Person according to Confucius was one who had the ability to focus on the reality of the world and be empowered to provide guidelines as to how people ought to live their lives. His main goal was that everyone was in a position to carry themselves with dignity, good moral character, grace, and be well spoken. The Ideal person in regard to the way he was described by Confucius could be
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visual, and hands-on experiences. • “Classroom management is largely keeping children busily engaged in completing important work.” i. The management of a classroom is one of the things that I worry about when becoming a teacher. It is important to remember as a teacher that if the information you are presenting is engaging, then the classroom will be under
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easier to learn, the information will stick in their brain when they are learning, if they are more awake. Schooling should be the most important thing to kids nowadays because it all depends on what the future is going to look like. If I could plan my ideal school, I would start school later in the morning, keep a long summer vacation, and teach career based- information. People go to school so we can learn how to make decisions when we get older to get jobs and have a family. We go to school to go
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manner and selfactualisation (De Carvalho 1991). Rogers (1959): the role of humanistic teachers is to organise the classrooms so that students will “wish to learn, want to grow, seek to find out, hope to master, and desire to create”. Open classrooms: humanistic education ideology taken into the classroom vs. traditional classrooms Traditional classroom Teacher-centred (teachers responsible for the learning) Teacher tell students what to do Fixed curriculum and no connection between the subjects Open
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Read-aloud's introduce skills and strategies that help students become more effective readers and writers. As an effective teacher, I want to develop my questioning skills. I want my students and I to get the most out of a read-aloud lesson. With my help, I want my students to make connections that correlate with the readings. It is important for students to develop critical thinking and listening skills. All while gaining an appreciation for reading at the same time. I want my students to gain an
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When I was in kindergarten I had my life seemingly planned out. I was going to be a teacher Monday through Friday, work at a pizzeria on weekends, and work at a local jewelry shop, Lu’s, during the summer. Now that I’ve grown up a bit, I’ve realized how incredibly impractical this employment path would be. My dream job has changed exactly twice in my life. Once in middle school, where it went from teacher to lawyer, and once this year from lawyer to linguist. I don’t have an idea of where exactly
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