Running Header: Why Would I Be A Teacher Why Would I Be A Teacher Licia Wheeler Grand Canyon University: EDU 130 Exploring Education as a Profession September 11, 2012 Introduction Teachers have a noble and rewarding profession. It allows them to change lives of eager children. Becoming a teacher provides opportunity to spend time with young children and watch their minds blossom into great minds. Teachers give students the tools of basic learning
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that students are meeting challenging State academic achievement and content standards and increasing achievement overall, but especially for the disadvantaged Meeting the educational needs of low-achieving children in our Nation's highest-poverty schools, limited English proficient children, migratory children, children with disabilities, Indian children, neglected or delinquent children, and young children in need of reading assistance. Ensuring that high-quality academic assessments, accountability
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area. Presently, I plan to pursue a minor related to this area. Concurrently, I am interested in early intervention specifically related to learning disabilities. I have had the opportunity to act as the Assessment Coordinator for the Children’s School Success project for the last academic year. This grant measures the effects of a curriculum in Head Start programs in West Virginia and has allowed me access to data measuring the effects of early intervention. This experience has reaffirmed my passion
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make the best of any situation no matter how bad it looks. * How will your life experiences prove to be beneficial as you begin your degree program? (Group memberships are limited to clubs, athletic organizations, religious organizations, schools, family, cultures, and ethnicity.) 1. When I started continuing my education, I was inducted to PHI Theta Kappa the first semester I felt that I could accomplish anything that I set my mind to. 2. I feel that the way I
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Running head: PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT IN Parental Involvement in Classroom Management Reflection Paper Landon Hayes Grand Canyon University: EDU-536 June 5, 2012 Parental Involvement in Classroom Management Reflection Paper It is so important for parents to be actively engaged in their child’s education. The earlier those parents become involved in their child’s education the more powerful it will be in the long run. Communication is the key element for positive parental involvement
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Assessing and Planning Skills: Direct Assistance to Teachers The dynamic responsibilities of a supervisor demand a diverse skill set in order to effectively envision, communicate, plan, achieve, and reflect on the progress, or lack of, toward the school’s vision or mission statement. A pivotal component of this progression is a supervisor’s ability to effectively empower teachers and staff in their professional development by effectively evaluating the needs, styles, and preferences of the staff
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change their career path several times. I have always truly known that teaching was my calling, yet for years I have floundered from one unfulfilling position to the next. My decision in the summer of 2011 to partake in the adventure of returning to school has turned out to be a most rewarding one indeed. As with every new page turned I am continuing to find that one good decision leads to many other opportunities and new decisions to be made. When you begin to see a productive future ahead, foundational
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cords. In reading an article by Erika Peirce, this writer felt like she was reading parts of the last eight years of her life. Peirce stated, “I never once had a class in multicultural education or diversity. I did my student teaching in a rural high school and taught students who were culturally a lot like me” (Pierce, 2005, P. 48), this writer too has worked and live in a small rural area and had not had a multicultural education class on diversity.
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Each One Teach One. We had to analyse the teaching methods of EOTO teachers and in various municipal and government aided schools. We understood the organisational structure of EOTO and the working pattern of the organisation. WE also had a look at their financial statements and spoke to their COO about the various problems faced by her In operating EOTO. We visited two schools which were located in Dadar and Sion and observed the teaching pattern of the teachers and also learning style of the children
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John Holt is the advocate of homeschooling who initiated his home schooling movement in 1970s.He wrote 11 books and a magazine “Growing without school” that have homeschooling as their central theme. He is regarded as the father of homeschooling movement. Throughout his life, he strived to instill the idea of self-driven learning among the masses. He strived for abolishing compulsory education and stood determined by his idea that most learning requires no teacher. John Holt’s movement against schooling
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