Driver's education

My experience at Wedgewood was more impactful than I could have ever imagined. The teacher that I shadowed was none other than the astounding, Debbie Alt. Ms. Alt showed me what it truly means to care about students. She reminded me so much of the effective educators in the Robert L. Fried’s book, “Passionate Teacher”. For my content instruction I focused on the high-leverage practice number ten :Engaging in strategic relationship-building conversations with students. I worked closely with six…

This method allows students to openly discuss their own opinions and their own observations about certain characters in society. These characters would be characters they personally admire, chosen on their own, and their decisions and analysis would be their own opinion. Engaging in a discussion in the classroom will allow students to see the differences of opinions, and will challenge the path these students chose. This method also ensures that the “powers of learners are directed and…

Teaching is a skill. It must be learned. However, when learning this skill people have different ways that work best for teaching this skill. For me, when teaching science I believe it is best taught thought guided inquiry. When teaching with the guided inquiry model, it allows students to investigate the teachers question while using their own designs and selected procedures. Guided inquiry is a different way of thinking. Students in elementary school now are taught science a different…

nationwide scale. While this has worked many times in the past, it has never worked and continues to fail when dealing with the national education. Students and their educational needs simply span too broad of a spectrum for the federal government to satisfy each individual 's needs with one blanket statement. As Andrew Smarick, a former official of the education department, said, "The department is essential admitting that the federal government doesn’t know what 's best for the vast majority…

Well respected and esteemed 26th president, Abraham Lincoln, once said, “the philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.” The experiences and education an individual receives during their youth through schooling is an essential part of how one can prosper and succeed in future society. Such experiences and knowledge sets the key foundation to enable an individual to be more informed and open-minded about numerous aspects and parts of life.…

Literacy circles were an idea I had never heard of before this class. I knew that there were book clubs or book discussions but I had never seen this used in a classroom before. Now I love the idea. There are so many good things that this kind of project brings out for students. One great thing about the literacy circles are that everyone has a role and is actively engaged. With only four or five students every student will have to talk at least once especially to share with the group what…

This is a letter sent by a Native American father to an American teacher that his Native American son attends to, about his son’s learning capabilities. Lake’s son’s name is Wind Wolf, and he had learned his beginning education back in his reservation with his parents. They taught him how many feathers are on the tail of a perfectly balanced eagle, the migration of more than forty birds, and that there are thirteen full moons in a year (77). The teacher’s have begun to…

waiting period to get tenure. In my opinion I believe that the tenure in teachers should not remain the same as the policy that the teachers have now. In the article “Would Ending Tenure Help Schools?” the author says that: Like most so-called education “reforms,” eradicating teacher tenure is a fix…

Introduction into this book and videos covers how we need to set long term goals, but before doing so we need to ask ourselves some questions. Before we can set those goals we should seek to know Christ. This can be done by reading the four gospels and seeing what Jesus did, what we can learn from him, and how does it relate to us? Jesus’ last commandment was to go and make disciples, and while principles never change, our methods have to change in order to reach the current generation, and each…

Board of Education has a requirement that every student take standardized tests at the end of each school year. These sets of tests are commonly called “EOI.” EOI stands for End of Instruction test that are supposed to determine the level of knowledge gain on the corresponding academic level on a yearly basis. Also the test is a means for the state to determine if the school’s curriculum is providing the student the required principles and knowledge as directed by the Board of Education.…