young children has always been a passion of mine. I remember going with my mom to her school where she taught Pre- K on my days off of school and being so excited to engage and work with the students. Watching them learn new things and seeing how excited they get when they are able to do something helped me to realize that I wanted to be the person to help them achieve their goals. My primary focus is the elementary grades since I enjoy their innocence and willingness to try new things even…
Since elementary school, my favorite teachers have always been social science teachers. I have always loved my United States History teachers because they actually cared about whether the students in their classes learned. I also really loved my AP Psychology teacher because it was a class I was really interested in and she taught the material very well. I think my favorite teachers have been teachers that are not only interested in the subject they are teaching, but that care about students…
It’s important to be passionate about the line of work that one performs. Selecting a job solely because of its pay and benefits isn’t a good way to live life. Dave Isay’s book, entitled Callings, touches upon many people’s stories of finding a profession about which they are enthusiastic. However, some of the interviews throughout Dave Isay’s Callings stand out to me. A few of the stories within the novel present ideas that I agree with, whereas other interviews offer insight with which I…
that has been developed is the concept of a job. A job is no longer a worthwhile, fruitful, enjoyable task in which one is paid for, now the vision that remains of a job is a crude sustained paid position of regular employment. Capitalism fuels peoples’ beliefs in the existentiality of jobs within our society. Employment for a company or individual and salaries and debt are all a direct cause of the industrial revolution. Many Americans have shared their job experiences and have come to a…
Imagine a student who wanted to go to her dream college. She spent nearly every waking second of her high school career doing homework, and sleep was placed on the back-burner in order to have more time to study for tests such as the ACT and SAT. Fortunately, she is accepted into her dream college; however, she receives no grants and only $2,000 in loans. Her parents, an elementary school teacher and high school headmaster, are required to pay the additional costs of college – $58,000, nearly…
4. There are many aspects of the Expectancy-Value Theory. The higher expectancy and value someone has, the higher amount of motivation they have. Usually when someone has a high motivation level, they are rewarded with a better outcome than they ever thought they could have. When it comes to expectancy, there are: the perceived difficulty level, instructional quality, the amount of resources that available, and someone’s past experience. Value is made up of cost, utility, importance, and…
When I was in elementary school, my teachers would ask us what we wanted to be when we grew up. The usual answer was a doctor, lawyer, police or firefighter. When I spoke up and said what I wanted my future profession to be was a flight attendant. Their reaction was always the same. They would look at me and ask me where I got that from. I would then explain that the sky was open and beautiful and airplanes seem to glade through the sky. The airplane could take me a lot of places. As a…
learning and how school fails. Each of these topics led to the next and it showcased the problem from the beginning. In terms of themes in the book, Holt proceeds to state them in the first couple of pages when he proclaims “Most children in school fail…because they are afraid, bored and confused. That simple sentence sets up the majority of the book and answer the question of the book straightforward. The first theme he talks about is fear and how many children are afraid of school, but also…
interview. My senior year of high school I cadet taught at an elementary school. I was in a general education classroom that year but I was also introduced to students with special needs. There was one boy who had mild autism and I learned a whole lot from him just from working together for a few minutes each day. Since the assignment was to interview a special education teacher I emailed the teacher I cadet taught for and asked if she knew any special education teacher that would want to be…
I spent 3rd and 4th grade in Mamaroneck Avenue School before moving to another school district. My previous teacher, Ms. Formoso, decided that I no longer needed ESL. Third grade was my first year immersed in a monolingual classroom. I remember learning various things from my third grade teacher, Ms. Levine. I learned about the different stages of an essay. I also learned how to write cursive. Ms. Levine taught us how to…