Comprehensive school

nervousness. Kids really pick up on that – I had one student respond in his feedback for the Tuesday lesson with this advice: “Don’t be stressed. Your [sic] a great teacher.” I need to take his advice. • Get more large-group teaching experience in a school setting with middle schoolers. I love working with middle schoolers – they are so much fun and have so much to offer! That being said, for both of my 8th grade placements this year, my mentors have noted that I need to build confidence when…

unit. Being that my mentor teacher is the one giving me my job, I feel more inclined to perform just about anything she asks. With that type of mentality, I dedicated myself to becoming anything that I teacher needed me to be. I face challenges at school in a more internalized way now. Instead of showing how freaked out I am, I swallow my fears and step up to perform what is asked of me. I do not always successfully complete what is asked for, but I do feel that this semester has made…

In this course there were many things that I did not expect to learn, but now that I know them, I will use them in the future. The new tools allow me to improve my writing in more ways than one. Free writing before I actually start the essay help me to get all my thoughts on the paper so that I would not forget or just to organize my thoughts. My favorite thing that we learned about was liberal education. It was a reoccurring theme that actually helped to make me think about all the problems and…

I never in my wildest dreams would have imagined myself being an ESL teacher. That was never the plan. But Guatemala changed me in ways that are indescribable. It was there that I found that teaching English as a Second Language is my passion. I am now starting on the journey of becoming a degree certified ESL teacher. I dream of continuing to teach ESL abroad and in the United States. First I fell in love with Guatemala, then I fell in love with Javier. I had decided before I met Javier that I…

It is very popular in school systems today to separate students by skill level allowing the students that struggle to fall behind and limits their social interaction with other students. Activity based education breaks down these barriers and engages all students to work together…

The career I have decided on is an Elementary School Teacher. I prefer this career because I feel that I can immensely influence children 's life by pursuing this career. I want to be able to help out kid 's at a young age so they can get in the habit of studying and enjoying school. Another reason is that when I was in elementary school, there was a teacher who made the class so much fun that I truly enjoyed going to school. I want to be able to accommodate children with that experience too.…

in the car. Walking into church, you say bye to your mom as you hear the faint sounds of your Sunday school class singing, “He’s got the whole world in his hands”, praising God for creating us. Then comes the question of who is this God, creator of all? The saver of animals through Noah’s Ark, the one we should live for because he created us, the lover of both good and evil. What does Sunday school teach us? To look up to the faithful Abraham, the pure hearted David, and the obedient Esther. A…

Boston Globe newspaper has an article by Martin Scanlan and Rebecca Lowenhaupt, professors at Boston College’s Lynch School of Education, that considered the opportunity gap and how it coincides with the achievement gap. Their view is that if we focus on resolving the opportunity gap issue, and the achievement gap will fix itself. They say, “We can build educational equity in our school communities by turning attention away from bemoaning achievement gaps to focusing on eliminating opportunity…

In Toni Cade Bambara 's short story, "The Lesson" Toni tackles a lot of recoil injustice but what she talks about the most is economical injustice. In the story Bambara try’s to make a connection between poverty and education and how that relates to her own life. Bambara shows how poverty and education are connected together by taking us two main characters to show us what going on Sylvia and miss more are a student and a teacher. Sylvia is a poor student who lives in the ghetto Harlem with her…

I teach Sunday school to children in the ages of 5-12 to keep the children 's excited about learning. I integrate fun with learning the Sunday school lessons so that my students will be eager to learn and have fun while doing it. Teaching in Oklahoma City at Faith Outreach Independent Baptist Church and have been in this role for 3 years. Because of a lifelong passion for teaching children is the reason why I teach Sunday school. When I was a child and people would ask me what I want to do when…