Teaching Practice Essay

students who have a hard time keeping up and I might use if I were to do notes (“7 Inclusion in the 21st-century classroom: Differentiating with technology”, 2015) Most the teachers would use pictures or graphs to help explain a concept, but if I were teaching any of these classes I would offer video examples or do more active learning because differentiated learning is more effective (Hobgood, B., & Ormsby, L., n.d.). It seemed that all the classes I observed just copied notes, took tests, and…

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…

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,…

provide students with the opportunity to engage in writing. At the end of my lesson, students were asked to According to, “Powerful students, powerful words: writing and learning in a poetry workshop,” Annotating my lesson plan and recording my teaching helped me in the long run because as previously stated, I was able to see how other teachers are raising the bar in their own classrooms. At my school, I am rarely given the opportunity to see other teachers teach. While I know there are great…

Today I observed the class learn about domain and range of a graph. The teacher first began class with a bell ringer. The teacher discussed the answers to the bell ringer with the students. Next the teacher reviewed homework with the students. The students asked any questions they had on the assigned problems. Next the teacher assigned the students an activity on domain and range. The students completed the activity and turned it in. The teacher discussed the activity after all students had…

management, and assessment. For Mr. Sweat, classroom management is the most important aspect of the classroom and his decisions reflect this. On February 26th, Mr. Sweat starts the day by playing soothing music before class and during independent practice. This is a normal occurrence in Mr. Sweat’s sixth grade math classroom. The students seem to enjoy the music and they have come to expect it. For Mr. Sweat, his decision to play music is part of…

The lesson is made for the students to become food detectives and use all of their five senses to determine what unlabeled foods are what. The lesson starts off with the students watching videos of each of the five senses to understand them better. Once all of the videos are watched, the students assemble in to groups and work on their observations of the different foods through their five senses. After their chart of observations, they have the chance to play a fun and interactive five senses…