Claiming an Education Essay

Identification and justification of the strategies used to implement key aspects of personalised learning There are a number of strategies that can be used in schools to ensure that key aspects of personalised learning take place. A key aspect of personalised learning is high quality teaching and learning in Foreign Languages such as Spanish. One strategy is ‘direct teaching’ (DfES 2007, Moore 2009; Muijs and Reynolds 2011) which can be used to implement high quality teaching and learning.…

could be authentically human while another prevents them from doing so. He also believed that full humanity required an act of fellowship and solidarity not isolation and individualism. He wrote a very powerful essay called The “Banking” Concept of Education” which was first published in Portuguese in 1968. Freire wrote, the students are not called to know, but to memorize the contents narrated by the teacher. Nor do the students practice an act of cognition, since the object towards which that…

days of writing on chalkboards, students sitting in straight rows, and teacher directed lessons via textbooks and lectures are outdated. However, I believe student achievement is still the top priority in classrooms today. Society, along with education has changed over the years at a rapid pace. Today, schools must promote new ways of teaching and learning to prepare students for twenty first century skills. Teaching my students how to learn for themselves is important. In addition, twenty…

The education of students in the K-12 grade levels has evolved over the past several years. In today’s classrooms across most of the United States the Common Core State Standards are in place. If these standards are not in place there are others like them adopted. While there have always been standards in place it seems as in recent years that these standards are more public because of different pieces of technology. With the implementation of the CCSS or similar standards testing has also…

Mrs. Sandra has many things to consider. First, she must recognize the people involved. She must see the consequences for herself, her students, the parents of her students, and her boss. Next, she must identify what the main issues are. These would be what to teach the children, should technology be that present in the classroom, what will happen to her students based on her decision, and could she lose her job for making a decision her boss disagrees with. She must weigh the answers to all of…

I believe that in order to have a successful classroom, a teacher must implement a variety of classroom management strategies to ensure that from September until June every single student gets the best education that he/she deserves. Even before the students arrive, one of the first things a teacher needs to do is make the classroom a warm, welcoming and safe place for each individual student. I want to make sure that from the first moment the students enter the classroom until the last moment…

1. What technology-related training/professional development do you receive from your school and/or the school district? Explain at least three different Professional Activities, what was taught, was it effective for future use? This year we had professional development into a new program called Mastery Connect. We had a one day training in the computer lab of our school. The air conditioning was not working so we had to try to learn this program in a 90 degree building. Although, the program…

My education experience My education experience has been kind of like a roller-coaster. I went to public school majority of my life but I was privately schooled from sixth grade to my freshman year and the transformation from private to public was so different. In my private school there were only like twenty to twenty-five kids in all and we all knew each other so I would get in trouble a lot for talking and was even moved around because that’s all I would do, but we had to learn to be able…

The Ron Clark is the type of teacher new teachers hope to become one day. His story gives great examples of ways to make sure that no students is overlooked or left behind. He goes above and beyond what most people see as a teacher’s job. He did not work 8-4 and walk away. He spent time actively working to find techniques to engage his students in ways that would make learning fun for them. He also spent time outside of class working with them on their studies. Students don’t always learn…

I. Summary of the case Oprah Winfrey vowed that she would build a boarding school for the girls living in South Africa; girls who are disadvantaged. She wanted to use education as a tool to improve their social lives and to train strong leaders who would be a lead South Africa in the future. She spent $40 million on a school, where classes were small, the teachers were excellent, and there were modern facilities provided. Oprah’s efforts were appreciated, however, there was also a lot of…