It felt like a race against time. I was pivoting around my bedroom at the speed of light. I had a million different thoughts running through my head. “I need my socks and basketball shoes for practice. I packed my student council shirt.…
Doing clinical observations are very important because it gives a change to see student and teacher interactions first hand and get to see how well a student is responding. During my observations at Biddeford Intermediate School, I got the change to shadow an Ed. Teach in a life skills room. This was a great opportunity for me because it was a chance to see another kind of intervention done in the special education department. I have done many observations with an occupational therapist, and they have always been in lighting and very educational, but to visit a life skills room gave me more perspective on the special education department as a whole.…
Classroom Culture I attended Gary A. Knox, which is an elementary school to observe a classroom on their culture. In their student handbook it says that the students are expected to be respectful, responsible, and safe to the rules. If they are to break the rules they will be held accountable for their behavior. They want their students to be trustworthy, loyal, honest, and have integrity.…
Being a member of the Appalachia Volunteers of Boston College has been one of my most defining experiences in the past 2 and a half years. The Appalachia Volunteers Program is a yearlong program than includes weekly Sunday night meetings based on the program’s mission “to love, learn, and serve” and culminates in a weeklong service trips to the Appalachian region and beyond. Through both the meetings and my experiences on these service trips I have gained new perspectives and learned more about myself than I had ever thought possible and I will be forever grateful for that. Love is all around. The Appalachia Volunteers Program introduced me to the concept of agape, and showed me this unconditional, selfless love first hand.…
The classroom setting is for, four-year-old preschool aged children. The idea behind the preschool comes from Piaget’s theory that children learn by a process of adaptation, assimilation, and then accommodation. During the first step, they interpret new stimulation in ways that fit with what they already know. As the new information assimilates, the existing knowledge modifies and creates a better match. Lastly, the child’s understanding gradually changes from the interaction with the environment.…
Throughout five semesters of Leadership Byrnes, I have done quite a lot of community service. From volunteering at Ashlan Village, The Carpenter’s Table, Middle Tyger, Duncan Elementary, Reidville Elementary, and many others, I’ve learned a lot and I’ve seen a lot. The feeling you get after doing any type of community service is something you can explain, but you cannot truly understand how it makes you feel until you have done it. I believe the most meaningful community service that I have done, would be volunteering at The Carpenter’s Table. The Carpenter’s Table is a non-profit organization that allows people to get food for their family.…
Dialogic Pedagogy: Teaching the Grieving Process in the Classroom Essential Questions Does literature reflect different psychological aspects? Why should we read about grief and death? How can reading literature about the grieving process offer insight to our understanding? How does the grieving process relate to psychological criticism? How can readers use information in texts to provide a deeper understanding of the grieving process?…
I am writing to you not only to save the grades of my peers, but to save your time in the catastrophic event of grading our papers. As a student of your class, I speak out of personal experience when I say that my class and I are not ready to write an essay on the chapter we have just read. If my class were to complete an essay, it would result in many deficiencies and miserable students. Additionally, these miserable students would also have furious guardians.…
James Baldwin’s “A Talk to Teachers” was first delivered October 16, 1963, as “The Negro Child- His Self-Image.” The speech was first published in The Saturday Review, December 21, 1963, and was later reprinted in The Price of the Ticket, Collected Non-Fiction 1948-1985, Saint Martins 1985. Baldwin presented the speech to ask New York’s schoolteachers for help during the civil rights movement. At this time, the country’s curriculum was from the view of the white race, and Baldwin wanted the NYC schoolteachers to acknowledge what was going on.…
Within my English co-taught classroom, I differentiate through 5 different ways. One differentiation I do is placed the students based on reading levels. I have done Fountas and Pinnell running records in order to place my students in groups. This is important because during stations groups the students are placed with their groups (What is Benchmark Assessment System (BAS) and how is BAS used?). A second differentiation, I do is the way I co-teach with my co-teacher.…
Through my high school, Multicultural Club, we have a partnership with Habitat for Humanity in helping them rebuilt neighborhoods. I have participated in my junior and senior year in high school to help Habitat for Humanity in joining hands building a home for a warming family. As well as, painting, cleaning, and organizing a welcome home moment for the Lor family—who was the family that we helped out with Habitat for Humanity. Additional, after graduating from high school, I still help out with the Multicultural Club in participating in building a neighborhood in hands with Habitat for Humanity, once more. I plan to help out more in the future, and is excited in joining hands with Habitat for Humanity.…
Middle school is such an interesting time and it can be pretty confusing for a young lady. As a parent, there are so many things you can do to be supportive, loving and attentive during these times when hormones are raging and emotions are flying. Consider these tips to relate to your teenage daughter in the midst of the middle school years. 1. Conversations…
While attending the College of Coastal Georgia I have worked very hard to balance my time between class, school, work and extracurricular activities. My first year at the college I was a Freshman Senator in the student Government Association, a member of the Seaswell’s Literary Magazine, and a member of the Urban Gaming club. I’ve always tried to be involved in volunteer services in the community, so I continued to help out with the Satilla River Clean-up, which I had done throughout high school as well. I also volunteered for, and continue to each year, the Jekyll Island Beach clean-up and the Brantley County Relay for Life. I was a member of the Center of Academic Success, and through the program visited Sapelo Island’s Gullah festival and…
The parish school is an independent school that serves children of 18 months to 12 years of age that have difficulties in the areas of language, communication, and/or learning. At this school I had the opportunity to observe two classrooms. The age range for the first classroom is 2-3 years of age. In this classroom, the teacher who is a Speech Language Pathologist (SLP), was conducting a fun activity. It consisted of showing the class pictures of different animals, and as she was showing them, she produced the animal sound that corresponded to each animal.…
The game was also challenging for me as well as fun and interesting. Just like you mentioned we want to win the game so it kept pushing us to try harder. Great idea from GCU to implement the game as a way of studying. Before taking this class I had heard of the either/or and the Is/ Ought but to be honest I did not know they were considered to be fallacies. This class is teaching so much about fallacies and how a lot of us use them in our daily conversations with other without even realizing it.…