Classification Essay on Teachers

My career as a teacher started when I was accepted as an inter teacher for Breakthrough Collaborative, Sacramento the summer of 2013. The first two weeks of the program were an intensive training program that taught me many of the tools I use today inside my classroom. During these two weeks, each department also worked closely with our department head who showed us our curriculum. Since all of us were either still in high school or part way through college, we were lucky to receive daily lesson…

these requirements it is not hard work. School meets these requirements being that it is challenging to both students and teachers, requires the dedication of students and teachers, and it is mandatory to attend for both. School is challenging in that students need long hours of study to learn concepts and teachers need to review concepts and grade student work. Students and teachers must focus wholly and earnestly to…

Teacher Insurance One day during the week of July 2015, our Golden Apple class had a debate over the pros and cons of teacher tenure. Tenure for teachers is like insurance on the job. This debate took place in a classroom on St. Xavier University’s campus in one of the building. Several Golden Apple students and I participated in this debate, there had been about 20 or more of us in this classroom and as I cannot remember everything every person in the room said, I can recall some very…

ceiling, telling Kozol, “This would not happen to white children” (p. 4). In truth, parents of minority parents are thought of as people who can be discounted, and their children are not considered valuable. Teachers at these schools are not valued either; they are paid grossly less than teachers at more successful, predominantly white schools. Plus, even though there is such a big gap between successful and unsuccessful schools, all students are tested the same way in standardized tests, and…

1. In general, how successful was the lesson? Did the students learn what you intended for them to learn? How do you know? I feel that the lesson went extremely well, the students paid attention and even used the new strategy that was taught in their daily work. My class loves to participate in Math and continues to build their strategy library daily. Student did learn from the lesson, they learned how to double their factors and half them and still come up with the same answer. Some students…

concept, understand it and use the information to excel in their classes. As Baldwin mentions in “A Talk to Teachers” (1963) “The purpose of education, finally, is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself”. The students just observing shows that they are grasping the concept and would later on perceive it in their own way. The kids taking down notes of what the teacher is saying would not help them…

I conducted an interview with first grade teacher Brandi Lawson at Lyon Elementary in the Republic School District. She was my son’s first grade elementary grade teacher my son is now in third grade. . Mrs. Lawson has been teaching for fifteen years. She graduated from Missouri State University with her degree in early childhood education. 1.) What is your philosophy of teaching? What is your most important function as a teacher? a. “It’s too hard to say that there is one important function.…

In The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter, a narrative memoir, Little Tree describes his life and the adventures he takes with his family. The book starts off with the death of his father, and ultimately his mother. Little tree finds himself in the middle of a family argument over who is going to take care of him. In all the chaos of conversation, Granpa walks over and simply places his hand on Little Tree’s head. This simple gesture was the beginning of a lifelong journey of learning…

graduate of University of Nevada she states, “Indigenous peoples are spoken for, not spoken with, in regard to their dreams for the education of their children” (p. 123). Jane McCarthy and Helene Johnson tell about their experiences as an outside teacher teaching on the Navajo Nation. The schools on native nations need to ask what the outstanding educational pedagogies are for the native students and how to implement those practices into the classroom instruction. The Accelerated School Project…

In today’s day and age, individuals or corporations with a lot of money generally have a lot of power in the government. This is because, in the government, money is synonymous with power. Corporations and wealthy individuals have recently started expanding their influence to encompass the education system. With people that don’t know what they are talking about in positions of power, the education system is slowly crumbling, as the needs of the school and the needs of the students grow ever…