Teaching Practice Essay

In 99 Ideas and Activities for Teaching English Learners with the SIOP Model, MaryEllen Vogt and Jana Echevarria offer research-based and verified techniques for putting together SIOP lessons. These ideas and activities are aimed at promoting differentiated instruction in the classroom and include new approaches to lesson planning and activities as well as numerous familiar, time-tested ideas that simply serve to remind teachers of the tools and methodologies they have at their disposal. While…

standard testing that they will have to complete. This should not be the only goal, and teachers should not strictly teach to the test and leave no room for deviation. However, it is important to keep this in mind when teaching lessons to children, and they should be given some practice in the problem solving strategies that they will need to complete such assessments. Overall I believe that a combination of skills must be used in order to provide effective instruction, and one must have…

The day started out like any other classroom day, however the day would quickly turned. During my observation on September 25, I learned how crucial it is for a special education teacher to be a quick problem solver. Though the class size seems small, each student has a variety of personal needs. These needs must me met and addressed to the best of the special education teacher’s ability, and the teacher must be able to justify it. Justifying can be challenging, whether it is in an IEP, a…

competition for the All Stars that would be held in San Jose. I live in San Francisco which isn’t that far away from San Jose, however, I have never been. We’re not All Stars though, why was that lady mentioning the competition to our coach? After practice had officially started we had a little group…

it as a teaching taught in school but in reality it's in our daily life. Our sociocultural teachings have many theories which are social practice, multiliteracies, and critical literacy. I created a gallery in which I listed some significant events categorized under the three main topics social practices, multiliteracies, and critical literacies. The gallery images…

the fairytale Little Red Riding Hood as a medium to teach the students the importance of following instruction given by authority figures and the consequences of disobeying them. This lesson was part of the topics regarding the Civic Ideals and Practices, which is one of the inquires developed in second grade. In this particular classroom, the teacher has a Differentiated Instructional pedagogical approach. An instance of this, was the way she introduced lesson main topic, during the reading…

some practices. When he did show up to practices, to me, something seemed a bit off. Terry became less talkative and distant from his teammates. It was very uncharacteristic of him. I tried asking him how he was doing and if anything was bothering him. He denied anything was wrong. A couple weeks later Terry showed up to practice with some unusually placed purple and blue bruises on his upper right arm. Red flags immediately went off in my mind. I knew something was going on. After practice I…

In the video the Power of Two they define co- teaching as two teachers actively engaged in a single heterogeneous groups of students in the same setting, where both teachers are held accountable. The video also explains that co-teaching consist of a 5 part framework; one component of this framework is classroom practice. Classroom practice consists of six different co-teaching strategies, each strategy has its advantages and disadvantages and as co-teachers it’s our job to decide the appropriate…

1) Describe what was taught in this virtual lesson. What teaching methods did you observe? How effective were these activities and methods in teaching the TEKS identified at the beginning of the video? What was taught was poetry and their sound devices. The students went over the vocabulary because you assigned several kids to look up that information on the dictionary. Then you read some poems to give examples of each word in the vocabulary. I know that if you had the students you would have…

by the name of teaching coach explained that the students would calculate how many rulers it would take to measure the entire football field (Teaching Coach, 2009). I do think this assessment is reasonable because it provides students with the application of what they learned by going outside and actually measuring the football field. As far as the materials, Teacher Coach stated that the students would use about one hundred yardsticks and rulers for this particular lesson (Teaching Coach,…