With the benefits of cross-curricular instruction in mind, teachers can create links across the curriculum to provide students an interdisciplinary instruction. Savage (2012) and Reson and Gandy (2014) suggested ways teachers can create cross-curricular links. Savage (2012) observed and interviewed four teachers in his pedagogical study. The teachers worked within their own subject areas and did not collaborate with other teachers to establish any cross-curricular themes. These four teachers were
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This experience observing Ms. Brodsky at Hernando Elementary School has been one I will never forget. I learned, practiced, and discovered more about being an educator than I ever thought I would. I genuinely believe that I was meant to be apart of this classroom and this environment. Throughout the year, I gained confidence and skills that are essential as an educator. Every lesson, every project, and every child taught me something new. Whether it was how to engage students in a particular lesson
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the Dover and Country Club Estates community, as well as serving the hundreds to thousands of tenets over the years as a Maintenance Technician/Supervisor. My career here has enabled me to place my two sons in college. One that recently just began school to become a medical doctor at UCLA. While my second son is in his final
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“These tests are too crude to be used, and should be abandoned.” That’s what the creator of standardized tests Alfred Binet stated about the tests after seeing how they affect people. Standardized tests have shown little learning progress of the last couple years, they do not show what is actually important in a person, and they unfairly rank teachers. Over the past few years standardized tests have shown little learning progress. Even though standardized tests claim to study the way students
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According to Avery’s (2014) dissertation, School district professional learning: Teachers' perceptions of instructional leadership, teacher practice, and student learning, evaluates a school district’s model of professional development that is specifically geared towards improving school administrators' instructional leadership skills and teacher practices with the intention of positively impacting student learning. The model for professional development used was a formative assessment of administrator
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EVENT(S)/BEHAVIOR(S): In the Marshalltown Community District, there are a couple different types of assessments that are used to assess language learners. A student that is new to the country will take the TELPA assessment, which is required by the state. This test needs to be taken within thirty days from the beginning of the year, fourteen days after the start of the year. Another assessment that is given annually is called ELPA21, which is a new assessment for the Marshalltown District.
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In his book Why Teach? In Defense of a Real Education, Mark Edmundson constructs an argument about the paradoxical consumer culture surrounding education, involving three major parties: universities, students, and teachers. The Virginian professor takes a stance on the problems that he has both experienced in his own classroom and observed on campuses, and he approaches each problem in turn, making significant claims, which are assigned appropriate blames. It is clear that the purpose of his essay
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In consultation with my mentor teacher, we looked at an ELA concept that students are expected to learn in third grade. The concept that we looked at was students responding appropriately to a text question. My cooperative teacher explained to me how important this concept is for her third graders because for the state test, they will be required to read articles and respond to the text questions using evidence to support their answer. My teacher spends most of her class days practicing how to appropriately
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What Freire Has to Say about Education and My Reflection on What He Says In debates of the author Paulo Freire, one controversial issue has been that the critique of the traditional education system should not be authenticated into being viewed as fundamental academic success. On one hand, Freire argues that the “banking concept” reinforces a lack of critical thinking and knowledge ownership of students which reinforces oppression. On the other hand, many teachers use this type of educational process
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The two that I would consider adopting to use in my own program if I was in charge of curriculum development would have to be RIE (Respectful Infant Educarer) and the multi-generational program. The reason why I would consider these two options is because I believe that both ways would benefit the children. I found each of the programs very unique in their own way and that both not only teach the students, but the professionals as well. Both programs would definitely help with the children’s social/language
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