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When I first started to teach my first lesson on comparing and contrasting the students immediately began to understand comparing. They knew to “find the similarities” between the two arctic animals. I would talk with the students and first model what I wanted them to do. I believe this helped the students to understand what it means to compare/contrast between two things. The students also understood how to contrast. After I modeled contrasting to the students they knew to “look for the…

Portfilo Assignment About ME: I am currently in grade 11 at Harold M. Brathwaite Secondary School. The courses that I am currently taking are Learning Strategies, Math, College English and the Literacy Course. The extra-curricular activities that I joined in grade ten are Counting On You throughout the school year and winter break so that I could prepare for the Ontario Secondary Literacy Test but after that, I quit since I had a lot of exams/tests coming up after that. When I grow up I want to…

and achievable. Kyriacou has an essential teaching skills list where he states a few points that are very important to enable a good teach. The first one he has is planning and preparation, these are the skills required in selecting the correct educational aims and learning outcomes that are intended for the lesson. (Kyriacou, 2007) With this statement and looking back over the course of the module with our tutor, setting clear and achievable learning outcomes and transferring them into the…

The purpose of the self-reflection journal is looking back at something that happened to you; how did you analyze the event or idea; what is the consequence or what it means to you and your ongoing progress as a learner. Self-reflection is exclusive component in life that helps us to understanding better of whom we are as individual, and what makes us to be what we are. In the relation to the Kim’s game exercise, I was quiet and contemplative in the beginning. As it was demonstrated visually I…

This chapter consists of two major sections. The first part is finding and discussion of the students' experience of gender equality issues. The second part is the gender equality issues in the United States during the 1950s. The finding part presents the data gained from the instruments employed. The objectives of this study are to find out the gender equality issues portrayed in the movie Mona Lisa Smile and to explore gender equality issues experienced by Sampoerna University's students. The…

The role of ICT in education is to empower the technology into present educational activities to keep pace with the changing scenario of education in the world and to make our teaching and learning process more effective and interesting. ICT brings active learning, collaborative and creative aspect to the educational system. Education can be broadly divided in two categories - Formal and Non-formal. Formal education relates to the education…

Have you ever experienced anything that made you grow up faster than you should have? Have you ever been forced to do something that changed the way you live and think? Or you’ve even tried to hide something you strongly believed in because other people's perspective on you might change? This happens a lot in today's society but it also happened to Marjane Satrapi. Marjane tells her story through her novel, Persepolis, and it shows how things in the world can drastically change someone’s…

In our modern world, knowledge is power and everyone seeks power. Many people spend their entire lives trying to gain knowledge as they believe it to be the most important quality that is obtainable. Absolute knowledge is naturally sought after by every person on the planet, because we, as humans, are curious by nature. However, it is dangerous to search for absolute knowledge, because one might discover things that they do not want to, one might become obsessed with the neverending chase for…

Assignment 2 Reflection Introduction: The question that rises in one’s mind is who is good teacher? Is a teacher the one who can create a powerful long lasting influence on the students, and directly affects what they learn, how much they learn and the way they interact with the world around them, looking at the degree of the teachers influence we must understand what teachers should do to promote positive results in the lives of students since teaching is a complex task ,some may view…

“What can I do for you?” Dr. Moi poses after asking everyone at the table for their name, major, and why they are interested in a Scandinavian course. With an infectious energy and enthusiasm for the topics, she suggests we begin with Fear and Trembling, venture to Ibsen (who she wrote a book about, Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism), and end with a general discussion of Norway. Dr. Hedman asks, “do you know of a particular part of Fear and Trembling that gets students interested in the…