Dear , It’s that time of the year: Kappa Kappa Gamma is looking for our 2017–2018 Field Representative Team! As you know, Field Representatives are a crucial part of our organization. We are looking for the best and the brightest Kappas to join the team. Do you know someone who would make a great Field Representative?…
• It is helpful to develop rubrics that provide both students and teachers an explicit listing of assessed areas and to connect student score to assignment requirement. • Offer specific feedback to students on their success in completing assignments or on areas of continued practice if the student struggles with the content. • Return student work with feedback promptly. This provides a checkpoint for you and your students on their progress and on missing assignments.…
Performing ethnographic fieldwork can be challenging, especially when it comes to building rapport with your subjects. Often times the subjects of the research may feel intimidated, judged or like they won’t be understood when being interviewed. In order to get the best results from their research, fieldworkers need to make sure their subjects feel comfortable in sharing all aspects of their life in regards to what they are studying. Anne Fadiman and Joshua Reno both work to build relationships with the people they study through participant observation to gain trust and get an inside look into their social and cultural worlds.…
Fieldwork challenges are salient in both of Mendoza (2008) and Peterson (2011), as both of them have worked with the youth and in classroom setting, and deconstructed presuppositions that both had or encountered. What is interesting, and perhaps related to my situation, is that Mendoza was categorized as doing “auto-ethnography”, which is in my case critical, and thus not showcasing my optionality will be detrimental to my research. Starting with a surface deconstruction of the sign system used to differentiate different groups, and then moving on to elaborate proved to be beneficial in facilitating not just the understanding of the complexities but in offering a two faced theoretical frameworks in presenting these peculiarities pertaining…
My field is education, specifically, birth through kindergarten and elementary education. Education has had a number of issues in the past; some of them still exist today. To narrow my focus, I looked at a number of articles, online magazines, and electronic journals. These included topics such preschool to kindergarten transitions, teacher assistants and driver’s education classes, being a teacher in your mid-career, school shootings, and using technology in the classroom. The vast majorities of these sources are from the ProQuest database and range from articles, magazines, scholarly journals, to Professional journals.…
Throughout much of the research I did regarding the diversity within Harrisonburg High School, I found that many of the numbers accurately depicted what I saw during my first Field Experience. Harrisonburg High School as well as Harrisonburg city in general, are very diverse areas and are home to a plethora of different people with various backgrounds. The graphs above are just a small portion of the great variety of people who attend Harrisonburg High School. The first graph illustrates the different ethnicity groups the students of Harrisonburg High are a part of. The data was collected by the school district and only includes six subgroups, one of which has a population of zero (Hawaiian).…
However, I took the challenge and sign up for this class. I can honestly say I did okay. Even though my grades for my essays were really not bad, I still feel that insecurity that I could have done better or it’s just hard for me to give myself credit. Mr. Dutt, my instructor, has given us the right amount of homework. I felt it was a smooth process to achieve the assignments at my best.…
At Minnehaha Academy the week before spring break is devoted Cultural Field Experience, where students choose a community service assignment that interests them and will lend a new perspective. In my sophomore year I spent two weeks exploring Austria, Germany, and Italy and learning about the history, culture, and art of each Western European country. A variety of practical lessons also presented themselves throughout my travels. Navigating the winding streets of Italy taught me to rely on all my resources and be confident in my decisions.…
My experience with the Domestic Abuse Council of Volusia County is one that I will remember forever. I begin my field experience in January not knowing what to expect nor what would be expected of me. I knew that this experience would help me to evolve professionally, however, I did not know that it would help me to evolve in a social setting. During my time with the Domestic Abuse Council (DAC), I received the opportunity to meet great employees, numerous courageous survivors, and very bright children. It was not an expectation of mine that the survivors would enter into the shelter and leave the shelter so frequently.…
The first word that comes to my mind when thinking about elderly people is knowledge. This is because they are already full of experiences and most of the time they want to give advice to younger ones. On my first fieldwork observation, I had the opportunity to participate in a SNF. What I liked was that most of the patients were willing to complete therapy and always had something to talk about. My goal for this course is get to know more in deep this population and how to provide the best service for them.…
Field Experience Paper In the school district, that I am interning for this semester, no longer does FCAT or FAIR testing. Instead, they have replaced the test which is now called FSA. FSA is the same test as FCAT and FAIR test. The only difference is that the questions have been worded differently according to some of the teachers here that I work with.…
According to the course text, here are many strengths and weakness of field research. These strengths and weakness include: validity, reliability, and generalizability. Conducting field studies of behavior is more appropriate than trying to measure behavior through surveys. For example, the counts of seatbelts use or theft by shoppers obtain through observation are not subject to the effects of social desirability that we may expect in survey questions about those specific behaviors. Next, flexibility is another advantage of field research.…
On September 22, 2016, I completed my field placement observation in a middle school classroom located at The Day School. The heterogeneous group of students that made up the classroom have significant cognitive weaknesses in general learning abilities, functional communication, fine and gross motor skills, social skills, self-care, sensory, and physical development. In addition to their intellectual disabilities, many students in the classroom suffered with health care problems, including eating problems, growth impairments, and respiratory disorders. During my visit, the teacher and paraprofessionals provided support to the students with health care needs. These responsibilities included toileting assistance and diapering, food preparation,…
In all, we should decide what the students should know, show them how to learn the material, and then have them practice several times before assessing. Firstly, the first theme being an effective teacher is relevant to my life because that is my goal as an educator. My goal is to create a positive atmosphere in my classroom. I hope to create an environment that my students feel safe, welcomed, and excited to learn.…
So the question has been risen- what makes teacher a good teacher? What are the required qualities he or she should have? To take care about well being of the whole class, to be flexible, to have a drive, to provide motivation?…