Teaching Philosophy Essay

The Early learning lab is part of the FACS 304 course that allows college students to learn and understand the teaching process within a classroom setting. The lab allows students the opportunity to bond with children and observe the emerging developmental skills that children are acquiring during Early Childhood. I have established a variety of close bonds with three of the children. I enjoy all the children equally, because each child has a different personality that makes them special. The…

Even though verbal scaffolding shows a beneficial form of teaching students that can be applied in the classroom, it may take time because of the differentiation in each student. Some teachers may not be able to create two to five different lesson plans and teach them effectively in their groups. It may also come…

The diverse teaching strategies in the classroom are constantly changing. The teacher strategies are usually based off what the students are feeling. There are never lectures in the classroom. Each student has a teacher of his or her own to work with throughout the whole day. In my opinion, there is no teacher-directed discussion. When a teacher is working with a student, the teacher does the work with the student. The teachers in the classroom do not really ask questions unless they are do…

Reflection In this book, Mr. Lim Song Guan quoted that the highest aspiration of a good leader should be a good teacher. Therefore, in the first part he talks about his experience with the leaders he works with and the way they inspired him through their teachings. He shared pointers on how a good leader should exhibit. Examples are walking the ground and appreciating the works that they produced by always providing positive comments first, then guide them the ways to improve on. Leaders should…

The teacher will instruct the students that they are going to become detectives. Detectives are people who solve mysteries. We will be solving the case of the missing teacher. The teacher will then show the students the book Miss Nelson has gone missing by Harry Allard and James Marshall. Ask the students what they think might happen in the book. Show the students the title and author’s name on the book. “Class, Class, we are going to start reading our book and learn about our case. As we read…

The Review Aisha Sharif Throughout the course of my personal project, I have tried to achieve all of my learning objectives I made in the beginning of this project. Below, I will explain how I did and talk about the project in general. What went well? Why did it go well? I felt like the actual researching and gathering information on the function of the camera went really well because I learned so much from that. I had lots of fun playing around with my camera and that really helped me get…

Retreat Reflection 1) I found that retreat was a chance for us as students to have a day where we remove focus from our busy school lives and try to refocus, thinking about others around us and social justice. I found that retreat did enable us to do this because we were able to remove distractions like our school work, and the activities we completed helped us to really think about our society and what we see occurring there. 2) From the Global Village activity, we completed prior to retreat,…

can do them, we learn by doing them.” Aristotle summed up well what the reflections that follow are about. The Cambridge CELTA (Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults) course introduces many important lessons. However, the most significant ones are learnt by putting the theory into practice in the classroom: 1. My teaching strengths To build a good rapport with the students I am learning to establish a fine relationship with them by listening well, keeping eye contact and by being…

particularly in performing academic tasks such verbal and non-verbal learning, this with the determination to proclaim better results in classroom participation and in the overall learning of all content areas. Some suggestions to be more effective when teaching EL’s could be as…

separated into closed off practices and open ones. In Cathy Davidson's essay, “Project Classroom Makeover,” Davidson talks about the need for the American school system’s old method and new method to be merged together in order to implement a new teaching method. In the essays the old way of thinking is challenged and a new way is introduced. In both situations one ideal model cannot completely replace the other and instead, the new and old models should be combined. This is the way to creating…