Educational Tour Essay

Chapter 3 discusses the teacher’s role in the classroom and learning process. The book focuses on how the students can reflect and communicate in the classroom. In my opinion, reflection and communication are the keys to student success. I think it is important for students to reflect on mathematics in order to gain an understanding of not only how to problem-solve, but also understand why they are problem-solving and how it applies to everyday life. I also think that communication is important…

There are different ways to respond to conflict, there are those who learn from hardship, and those who use their experiences to achieve a greater purpose. There are others who avoid struggle and live with a sense of uncertainty. Additionally, there are those who face conflict and are unable to change their predicament, however they find a way to survive and learn from the past. People react to conflict in a variety of ways, all of which have a direct impact on their lives. In Curious Incident…

the state of individuals and the democratic state. Within the democratic theory, the authority is shared between the students, the parents and the state. Amy Gutmann says, “The democratic virtue, too simple stated, is that we can publicly debate educational problems in a way much more likely to increase our understanding of education and each other…” (11). When the different parties can have a deliberation about an issue, everyone will have the opportunity to state what they believe is right.…

The documentary White Teachers/Diverse Classrooms was an informational video about how white teachers can become better at connecting with their students that come from other cultures. Based off of the book White Teachers/Diverse Classrooms, edited by Julie Landsman and Chance W. Lewis, this documentary shares the voices of parents, teachers, students, and administrators. As well as hearing from different perspectives, the documentary also provides important numbers and information regarding…

Tyler promotes Community and Education Ralph Tyler, Jerome Bruner, and John Dewey, were three of the leading educational psychologists who are responsible for transforming the public education curriculum. Their educational philosophies, theories, research, and strategies were the foundation of American Schools. Their developments are dated, however, years later, they are still relevant, insightful and rational to our present public education curriculum. Title I of the Elementary and Secondary…

People will always tell you to read to help you to improve, whether it be your teachers or your parents. Nowadays, kids and teens are always on their electronic devices and you can’t tell if they are really reading or just messing around. The article “Reading Literature Makes Us Smarter and Nicer” by Annie Murphy Paul argues that reading can help us improve our minds. She argues that “deep reading” is something we have to protect like a historical painting or a historical building, because it…

Skilled Helper Model Nichole Clinton Gwynedd Mercy University Skilled Helper Model The skilled helper model is a three-stage model that was created by Gerard Egan. This model focuses on helping people to solve their problems as well as develop different opportunities (Cheek, 2006). There are three questions that the skilled helper model helps to address, “what is going on?”, “What do I want instead?”, and “How might I get what I want?” (Cheek, 2006). There are three parts to each of the…

Lesson 8: PACING LEARNING TASK MATERIALS AND SOURCES 40 minutes Research 22. Civic Footprint Worksheet SUPPORTING QUESTION CQ: Can maps be storytellers? OBJECTIVE FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT Students will be able to identify different roles that individuals, groups and government play in the community in order to draft a letter to a community official about a social issue. This summarization strategy enables students to take a large selection of text and reduce it to the main points for more…

Grade 9 Cornerstone: A Depiction of Juxtaposition Cornerstone Two English 1, Unit 2 Grade 9 Lesson Topic: Finding the best juxtaposition Day # 1 Overview of lesson sequence (note: the bolded portion is included in this lesson): Students will brainstorm examples of juxtaposition in the text and record them on Handout 1.1. They will rank them and write a rationale statement that justifies their ranking using evidence from the text. Finally, they will choose the juxtaposition they ranked number…

After this semester’s learning, I’m proud to say that have a much more comprehensive and systematic understanding about persuasion and persuasive communication. To be honestly, I’m always considered to be quite persuasive. Since I was a kid, I knew how to motivate people by telling them “you can do it and the problem is easy”, aka addressing self-efficacy and response-efficacy. However, it never occurred to me that solution information and threat information are of equal weight in persuasions;…