In “Gate A-4, Shihab Nye conveys the theme that every individual is connected to one or another someway, even though one might not know it at first, you have to let down your barriers to truly find connections. Every person has many talents, and certain things that make up who they are as a person. When the old woman in the gate shares her cookies with all the women, she unites everyone together. Nye writes, “She had pulled out a sack of homemade mamool cookies-little powdered sugar crumbly mounds stuffed with dates and nuts- out of her bag--and was offering them all to the women at the gate. To my amazement, not a single woman declined one.…
Nevada Community School District (early kindergarten) 1. Describe the skills or attributes you believe are necessary to be an outstanding teacher. The most important ability is being able to understand and adapt to the individual needs of each for of the students in the classroom. As an educator, it is crucial to develop a bond with each child and understand the student’s family, cultural background, and interests.…
Instead, they should be listening to the lesson and thinking of ways to help these people. 3. Next time we teach this content we need to remember to… a. Think about classroom management, especially pertaining to the location we are teaching the lesson. b. Plan for prompting questions and connections to make. It was a little difficult to come up with some on the spot, when students were struggling with particular things.…
Another behavioral strategy evident in the video is overlapping or the teacher’s ability to attend to more than one situation at a time. As an illustration, the educator in the video was not only able to pay attention to the small group she was working with, but was also able to monitor other students at different workstations. This is another imperative strategy that I can implement into my teaching since I not only need to be aware of students, but effectively deal with them as well. Lesson smoothness and momentum are also behavioral techniques identified by Kounin. In the video, the teacher smoothly transitioned from one activity to the next while maintaining momentum.…
Demonstrating Flexibility and Responsiveness. “The teacher adjusts instruction based on the needs of the students and in response to ‘teachable moments’ (West Virginia Department of Education, 2010).” In order to demonstrate flexibility and responsiveness a proficient teacher will make minor adjustments to lessons and be able to continue instruction effortlessly. One way that I will be able to demonstrate this element is during an instructional activity that is not working. This becomes apparent when students are unfamiliar with an incident that I am founding an explanation on.…
These five domains consist of physical, cognitive, language, emotional, and social learning. My lesson plans start with objectives in mind when meeting all these developmental domains. My goal is to create activities that encourage a child to identify what the lesson involves, discuss openly the child’s perspective, deduce the content of the lesson, and apply the knowledge learned. I also believe that all children need the opportunity to make their own choices, even the choice to participate in learning. With this in mind, planning activities to keep the children engaged is of great importance to me.…
I applied strategies, such as the following: scaffold instruction, manipulatives, Piaget’s Stages of Development, and chunking the lesson. From my own personal experience of having a specific learning disability, I have the ability to be more empathic towards working with students with disabilities and apply my pedagogy knowledge of evidenced-based strategies. If I didn’t apply both my experience of having a disability and pedagogy to the lesson, I would be an effective teacher candidate to the students, resulting students to not have a meaningful learning experience. I had the lesson incorporate more student interaction and engagement by having the students ask peer questions: “How many more students like ______ over ___________?” Both Mrs. Corcoran and I have found that when students are more engaged in the lesson, that it increase the amount of material they are learning, increases classroom participation, and decreases student errors.…
Karen Arnold, principal of Pittsburgh Fulton PreK-5, hopes to instill the best in her students. During her brief tenure as principal, Arnold has worked to ensure that the academic environment and learning community at Fulton--the only partial French magnet program in Pittsburgh Public Schools--continues to grow and change to support students. Arnold takes pride in establishing regular routines that improve the learning of all students. She believes that with flexible approaches to education and learning, she and her staff can not only meet the needs of her community, but effectively impact the lives of many.…
During the adolescences period, the brain and physical development in teens undergo various and drastic changes, these changes impact their behavioral, emotional and social skills. The adolescent character, Juno MacGuff, from the independent comedy film, Juno, demonstrate how crucial adolescent years are. The film shares the story of sixteen years old Juno, who experienced various obstacles as she goes through high school as a pregnant teenager. In addition, the film also demonstrates how imperative it is for middle and high school students to have effective teachers that can help them develop a healthy identity and motivate them to overcome challenges. As well as teachers that can establish a positive learning environment that will encourage…
Domain three focuses on the actual instruction on the class, what and how the teacher is teaching. Domain three has five sub-components, which are: “communicating with students, using questioning and discussion techniques, engaging students in learning, using assessment in instruction, and demonstrating flexibility and responsiveness.” Each of these sub-domains are broken down further into components, to better explain the sub-domains further. Domain three explains how to use the preparation Domains one and two into the action that is demonstrated in Domain three.…
There may be academically gifted students or students with learning disabilities. Since there can be a huge spectrum, it is important to understand how changing a lesson for each type of learning style can impact a student and their ability to retain new information. This type of alteration is known as Differentiated Instruction. Case studies, research, and classroom accounts…
What are some ways that teachers or directors adapt instruction or services appropriately for diverse students? What did you (or others) do to promote student success? Draw on your service reflections as you think about diverse learners as defined above. 3/4 – 1 page 25 pts. Possible Figuring out how to make adjustments for your students can present as challenging sometimes, but how do you know how you make adjustments that would be the most beneficial for your students?…
Teachers may have to face a lot of distractions in classroom daily. They may have to deal with different behavior of a students and the different atmosphere in a classroom. But good teachers always remain committed to their profession and try to solve the problem that they will encounter. Being a teacher, you need to be flexible enough to face all the challenges in a classroom.…
Introduction For any teacher to be successful in profession of teaching, one of the fundamental qualities has been the ability to understand the factors that may impact the process of teaching-learning. In this respect, the understanding of the contextual factors which may affect the learner’s ability to learn, is crucial. It is worthwhile to note that these contextual factors are never fixed and hence they keep on changing from class to class, therefore the teacher should have capability to analyze and understand the specific needs of a learner or a class. Broadly, the contextual factors are viewed under two categories.…
In order to have an effective lesson plan there has to be five components. These components are explicit instruction, teacher modeling, guided practice, independent practice, and monitoring progress. During explicit instruction the teacher clearly…