they used rate my professor they came to her said “with nervous sympathy that my ranking on that site "is pretty bad" and that I probably shouldn 't look at it.” The students don’t understand how much preparation the teacher went through to get the lesson for the day ready for her students. This causes the teacher to second guess themselves. After a teacher does their best for so long and then being told that they’re a bad teacher causes them to not want to try as hard anymore, because they were…
The Piano Lesson the fictional character’s represent the African American society at the time, and the larger problems they faced. Examples of social deterioration by Whites and reforms to introduce political inferiority are found throughout the book. August Wilson’s play, The Piano Lesson, exemplifies a lack of…
The Lesson by Tony Cade Bambara is a coming of age story set in Harlem, New York in the late 1950’s. Barbara’s focus is to approach inequality and wealth through the perspective of the main character. Sylvia, the main character, is a young African American girl growing up in disproportionate circumstances. In the beginning Sylvia is arrogant and blind of her poverty; however, in the end Sylvia exhibits a change of mentality and realizes how unequal life in the slums is. Sylvia is a know-it-all…
Description of Flipped Lesson In 2008, Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams stumbled onto an idea to use teacher-created videos and interactive lessons, to give students access to instruction at home, in advance of class time. Bergman and Sams’ classroom became a place to work through problems, advance concepts, and engage in collaborative learning. (Tucker, 2012) This once one of the first documented flipped classroom model. The goals of this flipped classroom lesson is to introduce and teach…
Life is about change and learning. In the book The Outsiders Ponyboy Curtis learns many lessons about his friends, family and, life itself. So in this essay we’re going to closer examine three lessoned Ponyboy learned and what had happened to have him learn these lessons. One lesson Ponyboy Curtis learned was that not everything is how it seems. Ponyboy learns this lesson when Johnny kills Bob. What happened was after Johnny kills Bob and once they get home after running away Cherry and Ponyboy…
Life Lessons Madison L Ford Life Lessons During my College English class, we had the opportunity to read The Last Lecture. In this book Randy Pausch tells about his life, and how he got to where he was. He faced many struggles in life, but with those struggles, he found out that everything he experienced happened for a reason. Throughout life we face many trials, but through those trails we earn life lessons. Think, then Speak The first life lesson that has a big impact on my life is “Always…
This essay will reflect my philosophical approach to teaching through the analysis of a listening lesson that I have planned. This essay will be analysed according to my philosophical view on teaching, the three CAPS mentioned teaching approaches and the methods/techniques used in my teaching process. My teaching philosophy is constructed out of critical rationalism and partially out of Ubuntuism. According to Higgs & Smith (2015: 26 – 31) critical rationalism is a philosophy that fosters…
My definition of literacy was being capable to read. That is some part of it but literacy is also part of growing up because it still carried in my routinely life. I 'm a sophomore in college now and I still feel like my literacy is still growing and evolving. One of my earliest memories I could relate to was as a teenager I had a teacher named Mr.Jago and he made interested in becoming literate. He made me experience growth in the classroom and learn moral values to embrace being creative with…
1. I would use Morgan Brady’s Textbook Connection in my classroom, which is a name activity. This identifies the origin of each student’s name, then children color the origin on the map and children discuss the culture of their names. I enjoy this activity because students are engaged and they learn each student has their own culture. 2. I would use Serena Browns Textbook Connection in my classroom, which is creating a student portfolio. I chose this connection because it is a long term record…
to plan my own lessons and interact with the children on a weekly basis where they would take the material taught to and expand these ideas. The children were taught a new item or learned about a new experience for each mini lesson that I taught. The basic lesson planned for the children that occurred every morning would subsume explaining the weather, days of the week, months of the year and the alphabet. Each child was chosen weekly to be the helper in this exercise. This lesson was planned…