Marketing Plan Essay

In the past month, I have been traveling to Williams Middle School in Florence, South Carolina to observe a dance educator and Coker alumni, Ashley Lesage. After the opportunity of observing twice, there were a few things I agreed with and did not agree with as far as the students and teaching methods. September 15, 2016 was my first time observing in Ms. Lesage’s classroom. One of the first things I noticed amongst the students were their clothing attire. In a dance studio, usually an observer…

I believe the strengths of my lesson were keeping the students on task and including all students in the lesson. I kept students on task by explaining my expectations and showing enthusiasm before the lesson. This made the students aware of their behaviors and became engaged because they sensed my enthusiasm. I grabbed their attention by doing a small version of Simon Says. For example, I said, “If you are ready to learn, touch the sky.” I did 3 of these at a time and reminded the students to…

Prompt 1: The Feiman-Nemser article discusses why new teachers need mentor teachers. What are Feiman-Nemser’s primary reasons for advocating mentoring programs for new teachers, and do you agree with her ideas? Why or why not? New teachers often find themselves overwhelmed with unforeseen demands of the classroom. In the article “Beyond Solo Teaching”, Feiman-Nemser discuss some of the challenges a first-year teacher may face and the importance of assigning a mentor teacher. I agree with…

Almost, seven-week are going to be complete since we started the PEP course. Many new skills were introduced such as independent learning, reference writing and discussion in class & teamwork while, many were know to us like listening, speaking. The best skill I learned during PEP is discussions with others in class & work together as a team. In PEP we often get tasks in which we need to discuss in groups and work in the team. The best example for this is case study we got in first five weeks.…

Students with low incidence disabilities will benefit from direct instruction as a method of teaching. In reading, one expectation for these students is to be able to compare and contrast themes from passages that have been read. Direct instruction is one way this skill can be taught. One of the first goals of direct teaching is to keep the students interested in the topic being taught. Because focusing on assignments can be difficult for these students, this technique will assist these…

“Caliban, would you like for me to start teaching you some magic?” Sycorax inquired. “I would love to!” Caliban responded gleefully. Over the next couple days, Sycorax began to teach her son magic. Caliban found it very entertaining and really like learning the spells. He also enjoyed spending some quality time with his mother. Caliban was able to learn the basics quite quickly. He learned to move objects, create light, confuse animals and people, and many more. Just as Caliban was beginning…

improve my instructional focus by connecting creative ideas with founded credible resources to increase student engagement. Rationale: I want to improve my teaching by looking for credible resources and implementing these new ideas in future lesson plans. Right now in our lessons we tend to do the same thing each week for opening and closings, so I would like to use some of my new ideas in the lessons so it can be more engaging. In these sections we play Chickionary, Boggle, Hangman, and Word…

Two ways that I could share my personal cultural background with my students include displaying a personal presentation about me; the presentation could be completed on a PowerPoint, movie maker, etc. the presentation would include pictures and stories about my family, how/where I grew up, my religion, hobbies, and other aspects of my life that define me as an individual. The second way I could share my personal cultural background with students would be to display the historical importance of…

The lessons and professional performance that I observed at Carson- Valley was very good. The teachers in the classroom dressed in a professional matter. They also talked and approached the children in a respectful manner. The teachers spoke and helped children in the classroom. The lessons I observed in the classroom when the teacher was teaching the children how to write their name. She would have a piece of paper with the child’s name on it in a tracing form. She would lay all the paper on…

The observation #4 was done in the afternoon class. I walked in during large group circle time activities. I saw children were sitting on the floor. The head teacher sat in the front of the classroom, and other teacher sat in the back row. The teacher started group conversation by checking in how children were doing and talking about the day, weather, and activities. She then read a story. When she finished reading, the children started to sing The Five Little Pumpkin. “Do you want to do…