Career as Elementary School Teacher Essay

Summer ending school is near. Knowing a year ago a new chapter of my life was opening up called high school. I was just like you excited to be a freshman, but also nervous to what my high school experience would be like. During summer I took a week long course called College & careers 101. Which got you to know Topeka West better. It gave you good information on how to be successful during High School and beyond. We got to learn great organization skills. Good studying skills. How to take good…

my experiences in elementary school. One of them is how I enjoyed the holidays because I was able to be creative and draw, paint, color, cut, and paste the holiday 's activities, which falls under my Spatial Intelligence. I also recall being able to understand better things if they were in a graph or in pictures. Moreover, in the Logic/Math intelligence I realize that I was a child that wanted to learn new things and I had curiosity of many other things. In my elementary school years I…

they have to attend kindergarten. Hence wishing that children did not need to know how to use technology until they are in middle school. Despite all the dreaming and wishing we must all face the inevitable truth that our world is constantly changing and we must all adjust. Children are now required to have a higher level of knowledge upon beginning elementary school. Thus, it is essentially required for children to attend preschool or an early start program before kindergarten. Enrolling them…

environment teachers work in. I have always wanted to be a teacher since I was very young. I would always teach my siblings and we would pretend I was there teacher and they were my students. I would also volunteer at my local elementary schools; being in that environment and interacting with the children. That helped me make the decision that teaching is what I always wanted to do that was my vocation. I have strived to be my best at what I do, my family, volunteering, and my teachers have made…

of scheduled science instructional time. I chose this question because, as a teacher of fourth graders, I am responsible to prepare them for the state science test each spring. However, within the daily schedule, that we are required to follow, there is not an assigned time for science instruction. Question: Will providing a structured science time of 30 minutes four times a week within the daily schedule of the school day raise science scores of fourth graders on the state test? By providing a…

book to me she would ask me questions about it, like what I think was going to happen next and what she thought was going to happen next. Throughout elementary and middle school I was told to read slowly and carefully to make sure I don 't miss any words and also to make sure I 'm understanding what I am reading. In elementary school I was never a good reader, I would stumble over words and sometimes, when we were reading…

From starting at my elementary school John F. Peeler all the way to graduating Mountain View College it has been a journey for me. Many events in my adolescent life have molded the student I am today and the person I plan to be in the future. Higher education has improved my life because I lacked it as a young man when I committed awful deeds through peer pressure. Many losses have happened in my life that I couldn’t control which contributed to not knowing myself, however going through certain…

learning at the middle school level. Having a vast knowledge about middle school philosophy, development of adolescents, role of family and community, and role of the educator are important factors in understanding middle school education. Knowing not only these factors but also how they impact students is crucial for effective learning to take place at the middle school level. When examining the middle school philosophy and history, we can learn where middle schools started and…

unless it was mom, dad, my brother, grandparents, or any close family. When it came to preschool, I preferred to just sit back and observe until it came to story time. I loved story time. This passion for story time continued into my early elementary school years also. Since I had always had the passion to be able to read, and be read to, I was pretty natural when it came to actually being taught how to read. We always had “guided reading time” which is when we would be put into reading groups…

assessment especially in schools have been debased ad related to economic gains which would be one of the things I would love to advocate a change for. Assessment should employ a holistic approach as opposed to what obtains presently. Much emphasis is laid on test scores and funds with little or no recourse to the importance of assessment in effective teaching. The pronounced emphasis laid on test scores have an adverse effect on other components of testing e.g. grading. Most schools grading…