Critical pedagogy

The evaluation of an object without the visual concept can be difficult for some people, since they experience the internal process where frustration, anxiety and boredom are a barrier from concentration. The assignment that we did consisted in bringing to class an unfamiliar object in a bag so anyone could see it in order to describe the object in details without the visual concept. We exchange the object with someone else who did not know what the object was. My partner gave me her object…

What do you consider to be your greatest strengths as an educator? My greatest strengths as an educator are flexibility, communication, creativity and lesson planning. As a teacher it is often necessary to use multiple approaches in regards to planning, delivering instruction, and managing relationships with other teachers and staff. How do you help your students develop good attitudes toward learning? I help my students develop good attitudes toward learning by making the lesson interesting…

On Thursday, October 19, I attended an event hosted by the John Dewey Society “Teacher as a Writer and Writer as a Teacher”. The guest speaker was Dr. Carol. Dr. Carol is a Professor at St. John’s University. He told us a little bit about his life and his career, before he became a teacher he was in the military. Dr. Carol spoke about some important points when becoming an educator. He stressed that it was important that we create a journal and document our daily life as an educator. This…

Rosalind Franklin was a British chemist, who discovered the structure of DNA. Rosalind was born in London England in 1920. Growing up, she was the second born of five children, and both her mother and father were involved with a lot of social events, and they had high standard in society. Her Father, Ellis Author Franklin, had wanted to become a scientist, but was not able to receive the education because World War I. rid him of that opportunity. Like her father, she was attracted to science,…

4. Point out any information you are learning in class that reinforces or challenges what you know from your service experience. What did you observe at your ASL site that reinforced or changed the knowledge acquired in the classroom? What is a positive/powerful observation you made at your ASL site? What is one circumstance/situation you would change if you had been the supervisor at your site? During the adapted sports night there were a variety of things that I recognized and learned. One…

He mentions that reflection in an inherent part of action research (Norton, 2009, p. 28). Likewise, Burns establishes that action research “involves taking a self-reflective, critical, and systematic approach to exploring practitioners’ teaching context (Burns, 2010, p. 2). On these grounds, I can argue that action research is linked to qualitative research since the researcher is part of the inquiry process –due to the relevance…

She then got back to the lecture and on her powerpoint it asked “Why do teachers plan?.” One student raises her hand and answers “to be prepared”. Another student says “to have an objective or purpose.” After getting students opinions, the professor shares the answer “If teacher wasn’t there, substitutes or principals would want to look at it. Second is for yourself, then you know what you did last year. If lesson worked well, you can use next year or maybe even tweak it to fit. You also can use…

When I become a teacher I plan on teaching 3rd and 4th grade if I’m lucky! 3rd and 4th grade students are probably more tech savvy than I will be and by the time I become a teacher technology is going to be a huge part of education whether I want it to or not. With technology advancing at the rate it is teaching will soon become a breeze. Teachers will be able to do most everything with technology and find to be a good thing and a bad thing. When I think of technology, I instantly think of…

Mrs. Goff, a first grade teacher at Tuscarora Elementary School and a member of the Berkley County First Grade Leadership Team, presented a professional development on OneNote in the ballroom at Shepherd University. OneNote is an app that comes with Microsoft word or it can be accessed through getting online with a Microsoft account. OneNote serves multiple purposes, holding lesson plans, seating charts, substitute notes, and grades all without having to use a single piece of paper. When the…

Growing up, since the age of 8, I have always wanted to be a dental hygienist. It wasn’t something I felt passionate about, but I kind of liked teeth and my mother said I should do it, so I went for it. I got straight A’s in the classes for the dental hygiene program and did not get into the program. I decided that it wasn’t meant to be and I should be doing something that I personally chose to do. Being a teacher was something I always thought about, but public speaking was my greatest fear, so…