Overview The documentary Boys of Baraka, produced and directed by Heidi Ewing, and Rachel Grady is about 20 at risk boys from Baltimore, Maryland, who were selected to spend 2 years at a boarding school in Kenya, East Africa. The Baraka school is intended to change the attitude and behavior of their students, and give them specialized instruction to meet their educational needs. By removing them from their negative environment, it allowed them to focus on their education and themselves. The goals of the Baraka school are to get their students accepted into good high schools, and get a chance at better opportunities.…
Case Study Journal Three The case study focuses on Shady Grove Preschool assists a diversified multicultural suburban neighborhood, and the ages of the children ranging from infants, toddlers, and preschool. It assists people from lower to upper middle class families, and I will attempt to solve Mrs. Winger’s and Mrs. Ramirez’s problems. Mrs. Winger, a White woman, feels that the preschool should be learning computer skills, and the school is not challenging the children enough in the days of digital technology; nevertheless, she does not need the children to become pressured. According to Broderick and Blewitt, (2014) Piaget, Piaget inspired teachers to design the demonstration of learning opportunities sensibly, being perceptive to children’s present level of operations in presenting tasks and permitting children to vigorously discover…
Significant discoveries can be provocative and challenging that enables individuals to embark on a confronting journey to rediscover meaning, or a new aspect for the first time. A sense of curiosity and necessity is needed for a discovery to be transformative. An individual must first develop the ideology of being open-minded, strengthening an individual to overcome challenges, perceiving society, self and others differently. Michael Gow’s play Away explores the aspect of the necessity of physically going ‘away’ in order to develop and open-mind set.…
In “An Empirical Examination of Toddler Development in Inclusive Childcare,” Aubyn Stahmer and Cynthia Carter look at typically developing toddlers placed in an inclusive classroom. There is an increasing number of families who are utilizing early childhood education and childcare services. The number of children with disabilities receiving early intervention has also increased drastically. There has been a push within early intervention to have inclusive classrooms where children with disabilities are education alongside the typically developing children, using the as peer models. Unfortunately, the research on this topic is pretty minimal in comparison to the research that has been conducted for children with disabilities in inclusive classrooms.…
The article talks about how “she” in the past didn’t really think she could teach well. Ut after meeting with a fellow teacher it seems as she has decided to work out of her normal range, to ty and better herself as teacher. “Lasting change in teacher practice is difficult because it expects that teachers challenge and reconstruct deeply embedded practices and beliefs (Borko & Putnam, 1996; Pennington, 2005). For Grace, a third-grade teacher, practitioner research with the Triad Teacher Researchers (TTR) provided a space for her to change beliefs and practices about being a teacher” (Vetter, 2012). Teachers I think can teach if they feel they have the support of fellow administration or teachers.…
Elementary school is the cornerstone of a child’s development. Elementary school is where a child starts to understand the concepts of responsibility, determination, and success which manifest themselves in the guise of the end of year report card. The articles written by Erica Ehm and Cayla Hochberg convey two opposing sides of the recent TDSB union disputes. These articles are in disagreement about who is responsible for the lack of report cards given out to the children. I find the latter article by Cayla Hochberg to be the most convincing.…
According to the United States Census, “In 2016 there were 40.6 million people in poverty” This is a lot of impoverished people living in a country that most people may consider the wealthiest nation on Earth. This is due to the issue of income inequality, and is well illustrated in the book “Dream Hoarders” by Richard V. Reeves. The book discusses income inequality in America, mainly between the upper and lower middle class. It discusses that the Middle class itself is divided on income issues.…
My zeal for undertaking the Modular Master’s Degree program at Arcadia University is to develop my skills and expand my knowledge of educating children in preparation for a career as an educator. My interest in teaching began four years ago after completing my undergraduate degree in Public Health and has since developed after my first motherhood experience. My commitment to pursuing a career as an educator was established during my maternity leave, where I had time to reflect on going back to school. I was mostly inspired by my family’s ardor for education and by the encouragement of the executive director at my job who wishes to mentor me into the leadership world of Early Childhood…
Getting the attention of kindergarteners can be hard sometimes, one way to grab their short attention is by telling them a secret. VanNess starts one of her first writing lessons by telling her students a secret and that secret is that “kindergarteners can write!” (574) When she tells her students they can write, she sees faces light up all around her. VanNess starts out the lessons with something simple and gives some examples of ways to use the word I. She models with the students and once they start to get comfortable with the word she releases them to do it on their own.…
07/16/2016 Tina Baker 214 N Mondel Drive Gilbert Az. 5233 tinambaker1@gmail.com 208-830-6200 Dear Senator John McCain, I have been a teacher in an Early Education environment located in Arizona for the past four years. I have been teaching in Early Education for many years starting in Iowa, two years in Idaho and now in Arizona. I had no formal education beyond High School up until three years ago when I began slowly working towards my Associates degree in Early Education.…
My Field Experience: Connections to Educational Psychology My first day at Wood’s Mill was October, 13 I didn’t know what to expect. I was a bit nervous because I had not done my homework on the facility and simply chose it because of the location. When I drove up and saw that it was in a mobile home, I prejudged. I met Ms. Notice the Lead Instructor who placed me in a class with people ranging in ages from 17 to well over 50 years of age.…
Really, this deals with just about everyone who grew up in the United States because most people have had some type of experience with the education systems. Whether it was being in school before, being in school now, teaching school, or being an administrator, most people have had some experience with education. Throughout the article Moore talks about his past and his experiences. That left this article very vulnerable to extreme bias. It somewhat seems like this article was built on the bias of Moore since most of it is his views and experiences.…
News has spread throughout the school that his year there will be no more junior or senior lot due to the amount of arguing last year over students parking in the wrong lot due to scarcity of parking spots for juniors, seniors, and teachers. Thus, this year Mr. Hills and Dr. Noonan have been working closely to determine what the best plan is so that teachers and students may park their car. Last year there were the unused trailers located near Leesburg pike and Route 7, which took away a few parking spots from the nine to eleven teachers that parked back there and students that parked in the junior lot. The classrooms that were taught in the trailers and were some of the classes that partnered with The Northern Virginia Center were moved…
Mr. Butch, I am going to be completely blunt with you, and I hope you don't take it the wrong way. I have heard comments about "some families in our area just don;t value education" and "we provide a good education for those who take advantage of it" for years, and it gets me twisted to no end. We have other local districts, with similar demographics and socioeconomics, but seem to consistently outperform Octorara. Pequea Valley HS is a perfect example of a school that has a similar population but has maintained or improved performance. In my opinon, pointing the finger and parents and students is playing the blame game and does nothing but make struggling students feel less than.…
Career goals for the next five to ten years My career goal for the next five to ten years is already in progress. A year and a half ago, I began my new career with the Division of Child Development in Early Education (DCDEE) within the health and human services department. By utilizing my first steps in obtaining my ultimate professional SMART goals, I planned by the age of 36 years of old, I would transition from my non-profit career within technical assistance and quality enhancement to consultation and enforcing minimum licensing standards at the DCDEE. I always envisioned my career ladder after my nine years service of technical assistance and training, to become a licensing consultant for the State of North Carolina.…